Have You Attended EUCHARISTIC ADORATION at Your Church?

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I need some help. At our church, I was told that there isn’t a big interest in Eucharistic Adoration. This was told to me by the preist and the head of the rcia program! It was said that it takes a lot of effort(a lot of work) to do it correctly. I’m sure their right. However, have any of you run into a similar problem? How do you speak to your preist about this issue?

My take on this, is that he doesn’t talk about Eucharistic Adoration and therefore many people don’t see the need or importance. We have it once a year, for which I am thankful. It’s sad that many people have no time for our Lord.

Any advice would be most grateful.

Scott
 
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super64:
Hello,
I need some help. At our church, I was told that there isn’t a big interest in Eucharistic Adoration. This was told to me by the preist and the head of the rcia program! It was said that it takes a lot of effort(a lot of work) to do it correctly. I’m sure their right. However, have any of you run into a similar problem? How do you speak to your preist about this issue?

My take on this, is that he doesn’t talk about Eucharistic Adoration and therefore many people don’t see the need or importance. We have it once a year, for which I am thankful. It’s sad that many people have no time for our Lord.

Any advice would be most grateful.

Scott
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I agree that if Eucharistic adoration was “talked up” by the priest it would help a lot. Many priests don’t realize how powerful their enthusiasm on the matter would be to others.

The parish in my neighborhood that has had Perpetual Adoration for about six years now, shared that they had been planning and praying for it for seven years! Their pastor allowed them to bring an outside speaker in, a priest (I forgot his name) who goes around to parishes where he is invited to exhort the faithful to take part in perpetual adoration. I heard him speak when he was invited back, and he was great!
 
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yes at other churches i used to belong to or nearby churches but not my current one
 
Yes, last year I was in a really good routine of going to an exercise class three times per week and after the class at the YMCA I would stop next door for Eucharistic adoration. That was great, but life “took over” and I am hoping to start doing this again. I go whenever possible.
 
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super64:
Hello,
I need some help. At our church, I was told that there isn’t a big interest in Eucharistic Adoration. This was told to me by the preist and the head of the rcia program! It was said that it takes a lot of effort(a lot of work) to do it correctly. …Any advice would be most grateful.
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Do you think possibly this might be a subtle call to you to begin the process of starting Perpetual Adoration at your church? I’m being serious.

Perpetual Adoration was started (actually reinstituted) at my parish one one single woman began the process. She has been instrumental in finding a priest to speak at all of the Masses, developing a schedule, and sitting after every Mass for weeks until nearly all slots in the schedule were filled. She has an excellent system in place with coordinators for every day, and a backup list if folks can’t make their hour.

She kicked the whole thing off with a celebration, and it’s been going great guns ever since, with weekly information in the bulletin.

It’s an enormous undertaking, but perhaps the Holy Spirit is tapping you on the shoulder…

'thann
 
Do you think possibly this might be a subtle call to you to begin the process of starting Perpetual Adoration at your church? I’m being serious.
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Thann,
Yes, I thought of that and wouldn’t mind doing it. My first thought was to leave and go to another church, but then on second thought I need to stay and effect change within our church…that whole ‘cut and run’ thing wouldn’t be good. I like the idea of having someone come and talk about Perpetual Adoration. First I need to get some info and think of a gentle way to talk to the priest.

Scott
 
At my present Parish, no.

When I lived in the Philadelphia area, there were 4 parishes within a 30 minute drive that had Perpetual Adoration. I use go go once every couple of weeks.

There are a couple of Perpetual Adoration chapels in this area and I need to get back into the practice of going to Eucharistic Adoration

PF
 
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super64:
Hello,
I need some help. At our church, I was told that there isn’t a big interest in Eucharistic Adoration. This was told to me by the preist and the head of the rcia program! It was said that it takes a lot of effort(a lot of work) to do it correctly. I’m sure their right. However, have any of you run into a similar problem? How do you speak to your preist about this issue?

My take on this, is that he doesn’t talk about Eucharistic Adoration and therefore many people don’t see the need or importance. We have it once a year, for which I am thankful. It’s sad that many people have no time for our Lord.

Any advice would be most grateful.

Scott
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Talk to others in your parish about it–if you can present a sizable enough front, as well as someone to co-ordinate things, your priest may give in. Tell him you’ll start small, say one day a month, then work on increasing if the interest is there. If he absolutely won’t do it, pray about it. Our last priest refused to allow a group to say the rosary after daily Mass in church and also refused adoration. He left a few years ago, and our current priest is a big proponent of both. Stick with it!
 
Our parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Ridgewood NJ has Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.

It is the best thing ever!!!
 
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super64:
Hello,
I need some help. At our church, I was told that there isn’t a big interest in Eucharistic Adoration. This was told to me by the preist and the head of the rcia program! It was said that it takes a lot of effort(a lot of work) to do it correctly. I’m sure their right. However, have any of you run into a similar problem? How do you speak to your preist about this issue?

My take on this, is that he doesn’t talk about Eucharistic Adoration and therefore many people don’t see the need or importance. We have it once a year, for which I am thankful. It’s sad that many people have no time for our Lord.

Any advice would be most grateful.

Scott
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you may have a priest who would be sympathetic to it, or one who is ambivilent, or one who does not wish to have it at Church. So you might want to err on the side of charity, cautiousness, and common sense.

I would suggest that you speak briefly with various parishoners, just to get a feel for what they think, and might like. You also should talk with your Knights of Columbus, if you have such a group. And don’t limit yourself to talking onloy with parishioners you know, or whom you think may be like minded; do a good survey. If you get information that people (obviously, more than two) would be interested, then try to get together with several to see if the group can come up with some ideas - occasional, 40 hours, perpetual, or some combination that you think will work; put together a plan of how you would go about it, and then ask for a meeting with the pastor; the group of you whould go. It most likely will be up to you to put it together and make it work, and that is a lot of work.

We had a priest from back East (i.e. the other side of the Rockies) come out and help us get started; he spoke at all the Masses. He, or someone like him has been out at least once since then. I don’t know how long we have been going, but I think it is 10 years or better.
 
I have began adoring in a committed holy hour when I was a candidate in RCIA. I thought that there was a lot that I still did not know about being Catholic and things that I could not participate in, but this was one thing that I could do. Now I adore in the hour before my favorite Mass time.

My parish (St. Ann, Coppell, TX) began PEA on May 28, 2005! We used to have adoration Mon-Fri during the day and evenings except it kept getting bumped from our main chapel due to weddings, funerals and the like. Finally someone invited a priest who promotes PEA to come speak to all masses and we dedicated a small chapel in our annex to PEA. Our pastor only allows men or married couples to adore from midnight until 6am for safety reasons and there is an electronic lock on the door. No one can just wander in after hours unless they know the code. Also there is a phone in a small room off the back of the chapel for safety (and to call in case someone does not show up for the next hour). One thing that I really like is that there is a glass wall dividing the chapel in half so that people with coughs or small children can still adore without being as disturbing to others.

It was surprising to us that even though we used to have trouble keeping scheduled adorers for a limited schedule that we have 100’s of people signed up to cover 24/7 now.
 
**Congratulations to **

Sacred Heart Parish (Lombard, IL) Celebrating 10 YEARS of Eucharistic Adoration…

1996-2006

50,000 Adorers before our Lord in the Eucharist in just the last 3 1/2 years!!!

Thank you to all of you who have spent time loving and adoring our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament since the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel opened on January 2, 1996, and was open for just one day a week. We would also like to offer our heartfelt gratitude to all those who, over the last 10 years, have made the commitment to be a scheduled adorer and be the guardian of our Lord so that others may also enjoy time with Him, as we made the journey to adoring Him perpetually. May Jesus continue to be praised and loved in the Most Blessed Sacrament. May God bless you and we thank you for your faithfulness to Jesus in our Chapel.

"So everyone who acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge before My Father who is in Heaven." (Mt. 10:32-33).
sacredheartlombard.org/

newevangelization.net/
 
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jc-servant:
Our pastor only allows men or married couples to adore from midnight until 6am for safety reasons and there is an electronic lock on the door. No one can just wander in after hours unless they know the code. Also there is a phone in a small room off the back of the chapel for safety (and to call in case someone does not show up for the next hour).
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The adoration chapel down the road from my house has an electronic lock on the door, so you need a key card to get in. There is also a button in the room that connects directly to the rectory and the police department in case of an emergency. There’s no limitation on when a single female could adore, however. It seems to work well, and as far as I know there haven’t been any safety concerns.
 
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