Hostility to Eucharistic Adoration?

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I met a Catholic who by all indications would stop Eucharistic Adoration if they could. While the person holds dissenting views (women priests, contraception ok according conscience) that does not necessarily explain the hostility to adoration as the person does believe transubstantiation (at least as far as I can tell.) Is this just something that is just this person, or is there an actually school or movement against it?

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I do not know of any movement against Eucharistic Adoration but it sounds like this person is seriously in error on a lot of subjects. If anything, I think parishes need more Eucharistic Adoration. I would like to spend an hour in Adoration myself before I head for work, but it is not available. They usually end Adoration at about 4 pm and I leave for work around 8 pm. On a couple days of the week they are expanding it to about 6 pm, I may go on those days to support the expanded times. 👍

As for the person against Eucharistic Adoration, all I can suggest is pray for that person and oppose them if they try to promote their position in your parish. I am just starting to stay for an hour of adoration after daily mass and would not want anyone to take that option away.
 
Scott from your description, he has a deep misunderstanding of several tenets of the faith, to include transubstantiation. As a teacher, this might present an opportunity to teach.
 
best advice i can give is for you to pray for this person… for whatever reason, i assume they are still attached to the church, who knows, they may be searching for some other reasons to believe… be there for them, be that reason to hold on, be the answer to their questions… just don’t give up on them… don’t be too quick to judge… they may just be going through a tough time right now and in need of someone with a stiff backbone that won’t budge on their faith… hang in there…

Peace 👍
 
Scott,

From the website ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome, the Vatican press office published a decree, dated Dec 25, signed by the major penitentiary and regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary that

“According to a decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary, during the Year of the Eucharist a plenary indulgence may be gained by participating in acts of worship and veneration of the Most Holy Sacrament, as well as by praying vespers and compline of the Divine Office before the tabernacle.”

We all should know that the Pope declared this year 2005 the Year of the Eucharist.

With these powerful proclamation, anyone who would even try to diminish Eucharistic Adoration should think twice in doing so. Stronger words could be used for such a person, but I will refrain.

For the complete report:

zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=64735.
 
You hear plenty about Catholics (including clergy) wishing to deemphasize Eucharistic adoration. Doesn’t it seem to often accompany disagreement with many other Chruch teachings/practices? The same impulse that causes them to reject beliefs that fly in the face of secular thought (re female priests, contraception, abortion) make certain mystical aspects unacceptable to them as well.

You’ll hear, “Why waste time in the chapel which you could be using in a practical way, to share Christ’s love?”

The myriad of reasons for Eucharistic adoration don’t satisfy criteria which are strictly utilitarian.
 
Scott Wadell,
Your post indicating at lest one Catholic talked against Eucharistic Adoration is the first I have heard.
  1. I think that person is Catholic in name only.
  2. If a man was Catholic (truely) he’d not have said that to anyone.
  3. On a trip to Louisianna, I drove way oit of the way to Alexandria to view the large ( 16 inches diameter) Eucharist in a permanent room for it. I have no answer for you.
  4. It could be he is angry with a proponet of Adoration.
 
Scott Waddell:
I met a Catholic who by all indications would stop Eucharistic Adoration if they could. While the person holds dissenting views (women priests, contraception ok according conscience) that does not necessarily explain the hostility to adoration as the person does believe transubstantiation (at least as far as I can tell.) Is this just something that is just this person, or is there an actually school or movement against it?

Scott
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I am going to extend something I heard from Fr. John Corapi:

No Eucharistic Adoration, no Priests, no Priests, no Eucharist, no Eucharist no power (to fight Satan.)
 
One of the problems that the Church had at some time between the early church and Pius X was that lay people seldom if ever received the eucharist. In fact it is my understanding that for some time they were in the church on Sunday, but a screen was built between them and the alter. Their only participation was to just be there and be able to see the host being elevated through an opening in the screen. They were said to run from church to church just to see the eucharist as if the sight was somehow magic. Of course today we have almost the opposite problem. I have heard howevger on at least one occasion that some priests were afraid that perpetual adoration might lead some to value that more than the celebtation of the Eucharist. I think probably not but there are some people who might be wacko enough to do that. We have perpetual adoration in our parish and as far as I can see it is a genuine supplement to the Mass and does not detract from it.
 
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