How often does your parish have adoration?

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I’ve seen that most parishes either have adoraton once a month or once a week…
 
My parish has adoration once a week during Lent and once a week during Advent…and almost always at a time when I am working 😦 But we did have half an hour of adoration before the Saturday Vigil during Lent this year, at our Bishop’s request, which was great as I could attend then. But generally, I think our Parish is extremely poor in this respect.
Thankfully, there is a parish a bit further away which has adoration every Friday from 12-3pm, so I try to get there as often as I can, as I don’t work Fridays 🙂
 
NO ADORATION AT ALL

It’s as sad and shameful as it gets.

There used to be a time where you could sign-up for 24-hour Adoration at least in one parish in the English Deanery.

No More, Non Existent. And I can’t figure it out totally.

Gee; I wish we had Saint John Vianney around.

It really is heartbreaking.

Seems to be an indicator of how many Catholics really (don’t) believe in the Blessed Sacrament anymore. If I had my health I’d try to organize something in my parish.
 
My parish has perpetual adoration. 🙂 It helps that my parish is large, given the number of adorers this requires.
 
Adoration takes place weekday afternoons preceded and followed daily Mass
 
In my diocese our bigger cities have at least one perpetual adoration chapel, the smaller towns usually have to have it scheduled. My hometown in particular only had it once a month, but my old college town had an adoration chapel. My seminary has it weekly, but we always have access to praying before one of the two tabernacles on campus.
 
Our parish does not have it at all. The members voted they didn’t want it.
 
I forget how luck we are at my parish until I read threads like this. We don’t have perpetual adoration, but it is pretty close.

We have adoration on Tues - Thurs from 7am - 9pm. Friday is from 7am all through the night until Saturday morning at 8 am. Sunday from 12:15pm - 9pm. So not quite all the time, but almost every day, all day long.
 
once a month on the first Thursday and at other designated times: vigil of Solemnity of Mary for peace, Holy Thursday of course, and certain other feasts
 
We have it daily. It is not perpetual since the chapel closes at night and on Sundays.

For those who do not have it and want it, remember that adoration in parishes is chiefly a lay responsibility. Get together with your friends, the parents in your children’s CCD classes, the choir, etc and find a group of people who are willing to commit to staying with Our Lord. Your pastor of course has to agree, but he is more likely to do so if he knows there is a group already committed to being there.

We started out with Adoration one day a week and enough people came and committed to coming on other days that we were able to expand it. We know have a separate chapel just for adoration so that other things (wedding rehearsals, baptisms, etc.) can go on in the church and not interrupt.
 
We have it weekly and I go every week. I wish it were more often. 😦
 
jason3477 said:
I’ve seen that most parishes either have adoraton once a month or once a week…
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Do you mean adoration of the exposed Eucharist? Or any adoration at all? My parish has the Eucharist exposed one day per month. However, the parish chapel is open 24-7 and there are frequently adorers before the tabernacle. Not all the time, but I’d say from half of the time.
 
We have it once a year -on Holy Thursday. But I find that I can spend a good bit of time in adoration just by getting to Mass a half hour or more early.

Our parish is always locked when Mass is not being held - and rightly so - but there is a church 3 or 4 miles down the road near my work that is open during the day and has access by keypad at night. It is wonderful .

There are also 2 perpetual adoration chapels in our vicinity.

What a gift!
 
Every Thursday after morning mass it is placed on the alter until 8pm.
 
But why don’t more Parishes have perpetual adoration???

Are the parishes too small or something like that?
 
Although there’s less money and less people in general where I live now (SW Idaho), there are two perpetual adoration chapels I regularly attend. Where I used to live (N. NJ), there were none in any of the nearby towns; I think my parish church and the church in the next town had started doing Benediction on the first fridays, and there was adoration on Corpus Christi. I used to go into the lower church and pray in front of the tabernacle alone, but I had to do this before 6:30, when they locked up. I think back very fondly now to those hours.
 
We have Adoration once a week, which sometimes saddens me, since I’ve often felt the need to go on a day when we weren’t having it. Luckily there are two parishes nearby with near-perpetual Adoration so when I want to go on other days, I occasionally go there.
 
The Catholic church I attend with my wife and son, has adoration twice during Holy Week. The Episcopal church I attend has adoration available every week, although few people take advantage of it, which I find discouraging. I’ve gone pretty often for the past 12 years.
 
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