Have any Protestant attended a Eucharist Adoration?

[MrS]

Yes they all have Daily Mass. I check masstime.org and most have Daily Mass.

If you want to find a local Catholic Church in your area I know a website where you can go.

masstimes.org/dotnet/

All you need is your local zip code, state, and country.

By all means, check around. It is sad that NOT all Catholic churches have a daily Mass. In parishes where there is only one priest, too often that one priest will leave after Sunday Mass, and return for a Tuesday night Mass. They certainly deserve and have earned some “down time” each week, as we all have.

Bishop Sheen recognized this problem decades ago, and was puzzeled as to why every priest would not want to say Mass daily!!

On the up side, there are over 300,000 Masses said daily somewhere in the world… and in the “safer” areas, many Churches will offer Adoration sometimes.

Again, Bishop Sheen warned us that Adoration is NOT a devotion (like saying the rosary, reading spiritual items etc).

It is direct worship of the Lord, Himself. And its “popularity” is returning.

 

[Mannyfit75]

By all means, check around. It is sad that NOT all Catholic churches have a daily Mass. In parishes where there is only one priest, too often that one priest will leave after Sunday Mass, and return for a Tuesday night Mass. They certainly deserve and have earned some “down time” each week, as we all have.

Bishop Sheen recognized this problem decades ago, and was puzzeled as to why every priest would not want to say Mass daily!!

On the up side, there are over 300,000 Masses said daily somewhere in the world… and in the “safer” areas, many Churches will offer Adoration sometimes.

Again, Bishop Sheen warned us that Adoration is NOT a devotion (like saying the rosary, reading spiritual items etc).

It is direct worship of the Lord, Himself. And its “popularity” is returning.

That’s why I love Eucharist Adoration. I’m in training and I don’t know if they have one here on post for EA. However, once I get to my new assignment, I’m going to attend one.

 

[valient_Lucy]

I’ve not only attended, I’ve participated as a server at Eucharistic Adoration, usually referred to amongst us as Benediction. But then, I’m Anglo-Catholic, not protestant. And yes, I’m very familiar with Apostolicae Curae, and all that sad story.

GKC

I must sound ignorant, but what’s Apostolicae Curae?

 

[UndecidedOne]

What is your definition of Eucharist Adoration? I have attended three Mass’ and have enjoyed them completely. The first time was out of curiousity a few months ago, and the other two were because I found the Mass to be beautiful.

 

[GKC]

I must sound ignorant, but what’s Apostolicae Curae?

Apostolicae Curae was a Papal Bull, issued in 1896, which declared that, for technical reasons related to form and intent, Anglican priestly orders were null and void, and that therefore, Anglicans were unable to valide confect the Eucharist. That is, that when Anglicans observe Benediction, Adoration, or the Mass in general, there is no Real Presence and the bread remains only bread, the wine, wine.

It is a sad and very complicated subject, which is a hobby of mine. But all a RC needs to know of it is that the RCC has declared Anglican Orders invalid and that the Anglican Mass is not a true and valid sacrament, according to the RCC.

As an Anglican, I have a different opinion.

GKC

*Anglicanus Catholicus *

 

[Zirconia]

Any other points of protocol?

I completely agree with the previous poster; if I do get the opportunity to go (I can’t drive and there’s no church within walking distance, so going may be easier said than done…) the last thing I would want is to offend and not even know it.

If the opportunity presents itself, I would be interested in seeing what it is like…Also, I would like to deepen my relationship with God and this sounds like it could be a good approach.

Zirconia

 

[flameburns623]

I’ve been to both a Tridentine version by the Society of St Pius X and to a Novus Ordo version which included considerable amounts of Latin. Yes, it raises my hackles as a Protestant, yes it strikes me as artolatry, though I do understand that it follows logically from the theory of transubstantiation which the RCC insists upon. As the limerick suggests:

*Artolatry glorifies bread, *
*Which stands for the body that bled. *
*For your soul it’s much safer *
*To nibble the wafer *
And worship the Savior instead.

Or, as the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia explains it:
ISBE:

c) that besides the blessing of the elements, only the giving, or distribution, and the taking, or reception, of the sacramental elements are proper and essential parts of a sacramental action. A true sacramental action is complete only where these three acts concur: consecration, distribution, reception, and outside of these acts nothing that may be done with the elements possesses the nature of a sacrament or a sacramental action. Offering the consecrated wafer for adoration is no part of the sacrament, but is a form of idolatry (artolatry), because there is no sacramental union except in the act of distributing and receiving the consecrated elements. The withdrawal of the cup from the lay communicants is an unwarranted mutilation of the sacrament ([Mt 26:27](http://javascript:hWind(‘http://cf.blueletterbible.org/tools...ion=KJV&Book=Mat&Chp=26&VrsStart=27&VrsEnd=27’, ‘scrollbars=yes’, ‘resizable=yes’, ‘width=400’, ‘height=400’)); [Mr 14:23](http://javascript:hWind(‘http://cf.blueletterbible.org/tools...ion=KJV&Book=Mar&Chp=14&VrsStart=23&VrsEnd=23’, ‘scrollbars=yes’, ‘resizable=yes’, ‘width=400’, ‘height=400’))). But the grossest perversion of the sacrament, and a standing reproach to the completeness of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord is the offering up of the consecrated elements as an unbloody sacrifice for the sins of the living and the dead, which is being done in the Roman mass ([Heb 10:14](http://javascript:hWind(‘http://cf.blueletterbible.org/tools...ion=KJV&Book=Hbr&Chp=10&VrsStart=14&VrsEnd=14’, ‘scrollbars=yes’, ‘resizable=yes’, ‘width=400’, ‘height=400’)),[18](http://javascript:hWind(‘http://cf.blueletterbible.org/tools...ion=KJV&Book=Hbr&Chp=10&VrsStart=18&VrsEnd=18’, ‘scrollbars=yes’, ‘resizable=yes’, ‘width=400’, ‘height=400’))).

Source: cf.blueletterbible.org/isbe/isbe.cfm?id=5580

So, although the Eucharistic Adoration is a beautiful ceremony–just as some Shinto rites are beautiful, just as some Hindu rites are beautiful–it is not something which I see as appropriate within the Christian faith. In charity, however, I do apprehend that Catholics think they are doing Christ homage in what they are doing.

And yes: Protestants can attend Eucharistic Adoration. So long as one sits quietly–or better still, so long as one sits, kneels, and/or stands as the rubrics prescribe–one will not give offense or scandal by one’s presence.

 

[valient_Lucy]

Apostolicae Curae was a Papal Bull, issued in 1896, which declared that, for technical reasons related to form and intent, Anglican priestly orders were null and void, and that therefore, Anglicans were unable to valide confect the Eucharist. That is, that when Anglicans observe Benediction, Adoration, or the Mass in general, there is no Real Presence and the bread remains only bread, the wine, wine.

It is a sad and very complicated subject, which is a hobby of mine. But all a RC needs to know of it is that the RCC has declared Anglican Orders invalid and that the Anglican Mass is not a true and valid sacrament, according to the RCC.

As an Anglican, I have a different opinion.

GKC

*Anglicanus Catholicus *

Thank you.

 

[DJgang]

Yes, I do attend occasionally. I’m Episcopalian.

 

[DrPiano]

My boyfriend and I (both currently protestant) have been attending Eucharistic Adoration almost daily for the past 2 weeks at a Perpetual Adoration chapel. Also, in the fall, we went several times to a weekly Adoration service at a local parish. I have a lot of conflicting feelings about it really. Sometimes I think its beautiful. Sometimes I have a lot of doubts about whether Christ is really there (I understand the doctrine of the Real Presence, I just don’t feel it sometimes - and sometimes I still have a few lingering doubts from my lifetime as a protestant). Sometimes I’ve felt an incredible peace. Other times I’ve felt so “peaceful” that I fell asleep (or nearly fell asleep on a few occasions). I think we’ll continue to try to go almost daily (last week we went 6 out of 7 days).

I’ve heard several different stories on EWTN about protestants whose conversion started with regular Eucharistic Adoration. I think that might be why I avoided it for so long

 

[Harpazo]

I attended before entering the Church. There is no doubt in my mind that the time spent in Adoration only furthered my faith in the Church.

In Pax Christi
Andrew

 

[PatienceAndLove]

My husband and I attend Eucharistic Adoration at the Perpetual Adoration Chapel at our parish.
He is Protestant. He seems to have a hard time understand why I want to go, but he goes with me, because he loves me and wants to understand.
God’s working

 

[ASimpleSinner]

I once was at a Protestant seminary library to do some research and struck up a conversation with an amiable student-librarian. He was studying to become a Presbyterian minister and we started to talk about the Catholic Faith.

His sister had just married a Catholic and was in the process of entering the Church. He told me that in an effort to get to know us a little better “on the ground” when he was home for labor day he went to a Catholic Pilgramage in Uniontown PA.

Well Uniontown is the home of the annual Greek Catholic Pilgramage that a good number of us have attended and we love it. Three our four days of prayer, fellowship, liturgy, priests availiable for confession. There is nothing like it.

At any rate this fellow happened to show up during the Greek Catholic office for benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. It is called “Supplicatio” and is generally falling into disuse as Byzantine Catholics look to return to their Orthodox patrimony liturgically. That is for another thread!

At any rate, his happening there for this particular service lead him to have questions about it, and wonder why he was so very in awe of the service and the trangible experience of the Holy.

His name was Jeff. I have lost track of him over the years, but keep him in my prayers. I always thought he was “on his way”. Do keep him in your prayers.