How does adoration benefit you?

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I struggle to understand adoration. How does it benefit us spiritually or in any other way? Am I missing something? Some people say they listen: listen to what?
 
For me, adoration is simply quiet time I spend with God. It’s a time for pray and contemplation and worship. It’s a time for intimacy with my savior.

What do I get out of it? I stronger relationship with God.
 
I tend to go to Adoration with no expectation of how it will benefit me. It is literally “just” kneeling at the feet of Our Lord.
Sometimes I come away feeling peaceful, awed, like I’ve been given some insight. Other times it’s more difficult and I don’t feel any of those things. But it’s never wasted time - it’s enough to be there in his presence. In fact it’s a gift.
It’s become my favourite part of the week.
 
I try to go every week just spending some quiet time in prayer with God makes my week so much better. Where I am from I walk from my school to the church and there is the prettiest park on the way there with beautiful gardens it allows for prayer not only in the church but outside it that hour is my favorite part of my school week it allows me just relax and enjoy all that God created and to pray my rosary.
 
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I consider Adoration the highlight of my week. It’s just quiet time, alone with God.

Did you ever just want to just sit alone with a friend who was having a tough time? Just sitting there, comforting them in their time of hardship? Maybe with your arm around them as they are silently crying their misery out? Just to comfort them? Just to be with them?

It’s like that, only way way WAY better!

Blessings,
 
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I have a regular adoration hour each week. It is one of the best hours of the week for me. I have a bit of a routine for my hour, first of all spending time on my knees thanking God for all the blessings in my life, praying for others, and bringing my petitions to him. In this time I spend time listening also. After that I do my morning meditation and journaling. With the remaining time of the hour I’ll read mostly from the bible but sometimes from other spiritual books.

All of this brings me closer to God, a better, more intimate relationship with Jesus. It takes time to find a routine or method that works for you.
 
Let’s say, imagine if you could be transported back in time to see Jesus as a baby, sleeping in the manger. Imagine that in your mind. Not a tv show, but reality. Would you experience wonder, awe, joy, tears? The hidden God revealed in the flesh. So very small so you and I wouldn’t be scared to come up to him and smile.

Jesus in the host is a prisoner of love who makes Himself available to us today because we can’t go back in time to his baby self. The hidden God.

Maybe if you don’t really get it, it might become more precious to you as you go through your own disappointments, heartaches, losses. He is the one you go to and hang on to when it feels like the burdens of life are too heavy. He’s the one who picks you up and walks with you.

The Eastern rite proclaims at Christmas that God is with us! Indeed He is.
 
It was where He gave the gift of understanding His real presence in the Eucharist when I was going through RCIA
 
Exactly. We have a monthly day-long adoration. I am signed up for an hour. I like to start off by saying hello to the Lord, doing some praying that is of the adoration type, rather than the petitioning type. Just kneeling there and saying hello and feeling the hello in response. I’ll do about 20 to 22 minutes on my knees, and then if I am not getting up, I’m going to have great difficulty getting up. So the rest of the time I am sitting. That part is started off with a Rosary. For the time I have left, I may leaf through one of the books they have out and available, along with a little more prayer.

One of the ways that adoration benefits me is: It’s just pin-drop quiet in the chapel. It’s the quietest place in the township, I’m pretty sure. In that unaccustomed degree of peace and quiet, I can really feel in communion with Jesus, so much more than in the ordinary amount of background noise. I also enjoy praying the Rosary in this atmosphere of absolute quiet. And the peace of the chapel is just so quieting to the nerves.
 
Sorry to crash this thread… but do you consider it adoration only with the host exposed? Or is it still adoration with the host in the tabernacle?
 
I have a torn ACL which makes kneeling hard and sometimes painful. I hope Jesus understands.
 
Yes, it is adoration whether He is in the monstrance or the tabernacle! It seems to me that adoration in the monstrance, presented as it is, is like Jesus really wanting to get our attention! He just wants to pour out His blessings on us when we are there and receptive.

I remember the days when churches didn’t have to be locked, and we could just stop in and visit Jesus.
 
I am absolutely certain it benefits me.

We cannot think about being “good” unless we remain close to “goodness” itself.

Besides no better way to spend time that being with the One who we know loves us above everybody else.

Despite all of our technological advances and love for money, those things cannot help us fix the serious moral issues which we are facing.
 
So, I’m not Catholic and I go to adoration frequently. Back in February, I started having a desire to go, shortly after I learned what it was.

In the Orthodox Church, the nature of how we receive communion doesn’t make adoration like this possible. Whatever communion is consecrated is consumed the same day. We do have a reserve sacrament, but it isn’t a lot. The reserve sacrament is croutons, made of leavened bread (the lamb), with a little bit of wine (the blood) on them- and it stays in the tabernacle except when given to the sick (wherein a small particle of the crouton is moistened with wine, placed in a chalice and then given to the communicant). The tabernacle is always on the altar, which is always behind a closed curtain on the iconostasis. The only exception to this is during Lent, where it is forbidden to celebrate the full Divine Liturgy on weekdays. The priest will consecrate an extra lamb each Sunday during Lent, which is then used during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts during the week.

Anyway, just like when I take communion, the very first time I walked into an adoration chapel, I felt the unmistakeable presence of God. I feel the presence of Christ every time I go to adoration and every time I commune. You are literally in the presence of God there. It warms my heart, is the best way I can describe it. It’s not coming from me, that’s for sure. I wasn’t expecting to experience anything the first time I walked in, but there it is. Christ’s presence is real. How aren’t we benefitting from being in the presence of Christ, is the question you should be asking?
 
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When I go to Adoration, I feel surrounded by loved, its amazingly beautiful, just to be in HIS presence.

I close my eyes and know, that I’m in the presence of my King, who also loves me, He’s my best friend, whom I can confide my troubles to, besides I am allowed to sit near something so great and mighty, even though I am so small, worthless & do not merit it.

This King loves me like no other, He’s happy to see me even if I’m there for a few mins. This King fills me with something I cannot buy, I go empty but return full. I can speak to him, laugh, cry or simply say nothing at all n still HEs happy to have me visit!

If you could see Him & He was this King, wouldn’t you want to be there, up front near HIM ? Wouldn’t you want to tell everyone, He’s yr friend ? Wouldn’t you want to tell someone who has heavy burdens to go visit Him.

So when you do go, close your eyes n when you feel this greatness kneel & bow before Him, as He pours out HIS love n blesses you. Speak to Him n leave all yr troubles at His feet for I assure you He will take care of them.

I always feel engulfed by love when there, n fulfilled and at peace, when I leave, the best feeling in the whole world. Which explains why I want to visit more…

I can’t explain it any better.
 
Torn ankle ligament here, not fun is it! Sorry to hear about your ACL. I’m lucky that I’m ok with a kneeler but struggle without (eg at home).

I’ve always read that it’s about the disposition of our hearts more than what we are physically capable of doing. I hope it is anyway!
 
You are in the presence of Jesus Christ: body, blood, soul, and divinity.
 
This prayer of John Henry Newman , to be canonised two weeks today , may help , plus a link to a good article .

I place myself in the presence of Him, in whose Incarnate Presence I am before I place myself there.
I adore You, O my Saviour, present here as God and Man, in Soul and Body, in true Flesh and Blood.
I acknowledge and confess that I kneel before the Sacred Humanity, which was conceived in Mary’s womb, and lay in Mary’s bosom;
which grew up to man’s estate, and by the Sea of Galilee called the Twelve, wrought miracles, and spoke words of wisdom and peace;
which in due season hung on the cross, lay in the tomb, rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven.
I praise and bless, and give myself wholly to Him, Who is the true Bread of my soul, and my everlasting joy.

Amen.

www.newmanfriendsinternational.org

"He is not past, He is present now." - John Henry Newman on the Eucharist - International Centre of Newman Friends

Sr. Brigitte Maria Hoegemann FSO In his first term at Oxford, on Sunday, 30th November 1817, John Henry Newman walked for the first time to "the communion table" in Trinity Chapel, his college. He had not mentioned preparations for confirmation and first communion in the long weekly letters home...
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