How often (if ever) do you visit the tabernacle and kneel in adoration?

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A youth minister? Are you protestant? Anglican? Help me out here.
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Ok Youth Director, whatever you want to call me. Can you not call someone a Youth Minister if you’re Catholic? I asked about this once but I never got a clear answer on what would be appropriate. I would never call myself a Youth Pastor though. I thought that was more protestant than Youth Minister. 😛

Anyway, no I am a Roman Catholic.
 
Oh wait. I am posting in the Traditional Catholicism forum. I get it now. :cool:

Well I am a Youth “Director” who runs Life Teen in my parish but prefers the Latin Mass. I don’t think there was such thing as a Youth Director pre-Vatican II eh? Protestants brought that one in I think. But after being one, I believe it to be very necessary.
 
I use to be at the church at lot before Katrina - regardless of the time I was able to get in because I had a key. It was much easier to spend time in front of the Tabernacle then.
We had a church in the parish that had 24 hour adoration and I would try to do that whenever I could. The biggest church in the parish now is raising funds to build another 24 hour adoration chapel. I have a key again to the side door but don’t feel as comfortable going whenever and that is mainly because I lost the sight in my left eye last year so I’m limited in my driving so I can’t really go after work like I use to do. I now do the bulletin and keep a website updated from my home.

I do have to say that living in South Louisiana is a good place for Catholics – also have a house in Conway AR - people are nice and St. Joseph has a lot of families that go - the church is locked so you have get the key code to get in – down here most of the churches are opened during the day for people to just walk in.
 
Rv_Cain_Spencer said:
Bless, do you really struggle to pray while there is noise in the back ground? I remember having to scrub all of the pews in my parish not very long ago, I had the help of a good woman who had recently joined our church. I remember attemting to complete my rosary in my mind as I was scrubbing along, it was vertually impossible, not because there was any noise but because the work was so demanding! I just could not focus at all, it was like saying the words without any meaning. I gave up and just got on with the job.
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I do unfortunately 😦

I read once that looking at and contemplating with icons is a really good way to pray if you’re distracted, and that saying little ejaculation prayers serve a similar purpose. My favorites are: Jesus; Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner; and a few little phrases in Latin like my signature:D

These help me a lot! I just don’t want to be the mean one and go ask them to stop shouting out hellos and jokes at each other inside the church… that’s what they do.😦 It’s just inconsiderate to people who find the idea of saying a rosary before mass somewhat romantic 😛

There’s so much distraction these days 😦 God help us!
 
Rv_Cain_Spencer said:
Times as of late in my parish have shown to me that less and less people kneel before our tabernacles. Now I am not here to complain but to simply ask whether you yourself have done this recently? Have you, or do you kneel and adore?
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3-5 times/week on the average. This is fairly recent, I’ve been going to semi-daily adoration for less than 6 mos.
 
I’m new to CC and new to RCIA, which part is the Tabernacle?
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Welcome home.

The Tabernacle is the little gold box (sometimes it has a curtain or veil around it) on the side altar or behind the main altar (depending on the church) where the Most Blessed Sacrament is kept and where, in that Most Blessed Sacrament, The Lord keeps His vigil for us.
 
brotherhrolf said:
The tabernacle at my cathedral is in a side chapel. Sadly, even at my cathedral, the noise level after Mass is not conducive to visiting the Blessed Sacrament. There is a large part of me that really misses visiting the Blessed Sacrament. Am I showing my age?
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The ‘side chapel’ bothers me. In our parish people just seem to walk by it without giving it any notice at all. At our ‘cathedral’ (or as close as we can come here in WV:D) the tabernacle is on the altar, where I believe it belongs.
 
JustaServant said:
The ‘side chapel’ bothers me. In our parish people just seem to walk by it without giving it any notice at all. At our ‘cathedral’ (or as close as we can come here in WV:D) the tabernacle is on the altar, where I believe it belongs.
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St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge was one of the very first cathedrals to be renovated just after V II. The tabernacle would not be recognizable as such to a person from 1850. It is very modern and abstract. The antebellum gothic altar of the cathedral was ripped out and replaced with a monolithic slab.

Still I wish everyone would just exit quietly after Mass and head over to the parish hall for coffee and donuts. Years ago, there was a sign posted near the chapel with a quote from Habakuk to the effect that the Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth be silent before Him.
 
brotherhrolf said:
Years ago, there was a sign posted near the chapel with a quote from Habakuk to the effect that the Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth be silent before Him.
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I remember as a child having to whisper when we entered church.
In the early 1970s I remember going to a wedding at a Catholic parish. I sat with my parents, who were silent and respectful. Yet everyone else was talking loudly.
I looked up at my dad and asked “is this a Catholic Church?”
Without missing a beat, and a twinkle in his eye, my dad said “no”. 😃
Dang, I miss him.
 
=Rv Cain Spencer;6071913]Times as of late in my parish have shown to me that less and less people kneel before our tabernacles. Now I am not here to complain but to simply ask whether you yourself have done this recently? Have you, or do you kneel and adore?
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***Yes I have and yes I do as often as is possible for me. For years I did a Holy Hour daily.

Note this is not a mandatory practice, yet next to daily Mass it is many believe, the surest and shortest way to develope a powerful and personal relationship with Jesus:thumbsup:

Many cannot invision time more fruitfully spent [outside of Holy Mass].

Your first statement is pathecially commom in these present times. Further the primary reason for this are the abuse of “Extrodinary” Eucharistic ministers. The Idult [exception] granted was for limited and specified use.

Everyday, everywhere and nearly every Mass is HARDLY extrodinary; it is as evideniced by the the effects on piety and it’s distruction! … EXTREMELY ORDINARY:(

The National PEW REPORT in 2008 reported that in1970 nearly 75% of self-professed Catholics attended Sunday and Holyday Mass. In 2008 that numer had DROPPED to 23%:eek:

Actions speak so much more forceably than words… and what has happened to Catholic Piety ought not to be a surprise to anyone paying attention. If ANYONE can distribute Christ Real presence, and if EVERYONE can just take Jesus into there own hands…

Well what’s the Big deal:shrug:

For the sake of Community, we have done away with piety, Awe, Wonder, even the most simple signs of respect. This is by FAR a greater scandal than the “sex abuse” issues, as GRAVE as they are!

Without ANY DOUBT, Jesus suffers more from these ABUSES than He did in His Passion and Death:o
 
We have a small perpetual 24 hr Adoration Chapel removed from the main church. It was too costly to heat the whole church continuously for just a few people. The hours are all slotted, and most of us have the same hour (s) every week. It is common also for people to stop as they drive by, and spend a few minutes before the Blessed Sacrament. The fact that this all works in our church is amazing since it is a rural church in a small and not very populated community, and yet there is always someone there 24 hours.

After all the Masses -weekday too-, many people stay in the main church for several minutes to pray before the centre-located Tabernacle. We are very blessed (and I give thanks for this) that most of the time, the church is fairly quiet before AND after Mass. Unfortunately that tends to change during the cottage/tourist summer season.

I was in Manhattan both in August, again in mid-September, and was pleasantly surprised to find that my daughters and I could just pop into many churches as we walked around, and spend a few minutes before the Tabernacle, and in many cases, the exposed Blessed Sacrament. Truly a blessing in the hustle and bustle of NYC.
 
brotherhrolf said:
St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge was one of the very first cathedrals to be renovated just after V II. The tabernacle would not be recognizable as such to a person from 1850. It is very modern and abstract. The antebellum gothic altar of the cathedral was ripped out and replaced with a monolithic slab.

Still I wish everyone would just exit quietly after Mass and head over to the parish hall for coffee and donuts. Years ago, there was a sign posted near the chapel with a quote from Habakuk to the effect that the Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth be silent before Him.
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Amen. I would love it if parents would somehow restrain their screaming brats during Mass—and I don’t mean babes in arms. I’m talking about 5-7 year olds! :eek:
 
Before I had children I would go quite often and spend one, two, or more hours at a time. It was one of the things I looked forward to the most when my days off work came around. Now that I have two small children it is hard to find time to go and I find myself missing it often. I try to think of the time I am spending with my little ones as a way of adoring God though it isn’t the same. I look forward to sometime in the future when I might be able to spend hours in veneration again, but for now just enjoy the times I can go and try to make the most of our time at mass.

God bless.
 
PJM said:
***Yes I have and yes I do as often as is possible for me. For years I did a Holy Hour daily.

Note this is not a mandatory practice, yet next to daily Mass it is many believe, the surest and shortest way to develope a powerful and personal relationship with Jesus:thumbsup:

Many cannot invision time more fruitfully spent [outside of Holy Mass].

Your first statement is pathecially commom in these present times. Further the primary reason for this are the abuse of “Extrodinary” Eucharistic ministers. The Idult [exception] granted was for limited and specified use.

Everyday, everywhere and nearly every Mass is HARDLY extrodinary; it is as evideniced by the the effects on piety and it’s distruction! … EXTREMELY ORDINARY:(

The National PEW REPORT in 2008 reported that in1970 nearly 75% of self-professed Catholics attended Sunday and Holyday Mass. In 2008 that numer had DROPPED to 23%:eek:

Actions speak so much more forceably than words… and what has happened to Catholic Piety ought not to be a surprise to anyone paying attention. If ANYONE can distribute Christ Real presence, and if EVERYONE can just take Jesus into there own hands…

Well what’s the Big deal:shrug:

For the sake of Community, we have done away with piety, Awe, Wonder, even the most simple signs of respect. This is by FAR a greater scandal than the “sex abuse” issues, as GRAVE as they are!

Without ANY DOUBT, Jesus suffers more from these ABUSES than He did in His Passion and Death:o
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That’s really interesting…

Once I started taking COTT, to be more respectful, I could never hold the Eucharist in my hand again. It’s sort of a “Lord I am not worthy” thing.

I mean, what if some pieces are left in our hand? And we brush Him off onto the floor? I can only imagine how many little pieces of the Eucharist are scattered around our churches. That’s kind of horrifying:eek:
 
I am making a point to visit the Tabernacle for 30 min.on First Friday before the Benediction in my parish. Now that I have read these posts I think I should try to make it more frequent. Maybe I should end my daily walk with a visit to the Church, if even just to stop in and thank our Lord and say hello. There are two kneelers set up before our tabernacle and so far as I know the doors are always open. I was surprised to find an open door policy in this day.

Yes we have a lot of loud chatty people before services too. But the most trying, is one of our ushers, who even if you are kneeling with head bowed and holding a rosary he will still chat you up. I know he just means to be friendly and I try to remember that getting angry from not being able to pray just doesn’t sound right. Maybe the poor fellow is lonely. 🙂
 
Rv_Cain_Spencer said:
I often wonder though, do people realise that they may simply go up to the tabernacle before or after mass and have their own adoration time there?
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In 7 of the 8 parishes in my city, it’s a miracle if one can even find the Tabernacle.
 
Mal: I’ll relay an excerpt from a Sermon I heard a couple months ago regarding this very thing. It went something like this:

From a secular standpoint what if there were a Bank that was located an hour from your house that had a 24 hour drive thru and in order to get any sum of money you desired you could do so by simply visiting. Would you find the time to go? Do we not have that same opportunity for obtaining Grace by visiting the Blessed Sacrament in adoration? And which of the two is more valuable? Money which is only able to support you in this temporal life or God’s Eternal Grace.

Indeed - we can gain so many Graces by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Pax
 
Once I started taking COTT, to be more respectful, I could never hold the Eucharist in my hand again. It’s sort of a “Lord I am not worthy” thing.
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I mean, what if some pieces are left in our hand? And we brush Him off onto the floor? I can only imagine how many little pieces of the Eucharist are scattered around our churches. That’s kind of horrifying
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Put your mind at ease for two reasons:
  1. If the accidents of the bread (the very ability to see it and determine it has the physical properties of bread) are not there, neither is the Lord. Hence, invisible bits do not count
  2. The modern host used in parishes are made thicker than they used to be and don’t flake like that. You only then would have to worry if you receive from the host broken by the priest at the altar.
 
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