If possible, when is devotion too much?

[OAO]

spending time with your family is somewhat different because that’s your state of life where God has placed you (family rather than monastic order)

You don’t think God has placed you with friends as well? You should talk to people in cenobitic orders. The Augustinian charism is friendship.

 

[Student09]

You don’t think God has placed you with friends as well? You should talk to people in cenobitic orders. The Augustinian charism is friendship.

So you’re arguing that we should not spend time worshiping God …?

I mean, no one on this thread has suggested that one should ignore one’s friends, only that God should come first. You seem to be taking snippets of what people say out of context instead of answering what they are actually saying.

What do you make of the quote,

"Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me." (Mt. 10:34-6)

Not that Jesus wants us to be at odds with our loved ones, but it may be necessary in order to follow Him.

 

[OAO]

No, that isn’t what I’m saying. I’m responding to this comment by Monica:

I mean, I agree about action… but is spending time with friends really what we’re called to? I understand helping the needy and such… but even then, we don’t have to skip ‘religious services’ to do this. Even Mother Teresa said that Mass and Adoration helped her in her ministry those things are meant to go together. Those who try to make our faith into something all about social justice or action, and downplay the worship and prayer aspect, are forgetting that we can’t do anything without grace. We need Mass and Adoration and that time with God to be better followers of His.

If I had a choice between Adoration and going for some coffee with my friends, I think it’s better to choose Adoration.

Sometimes it’s better to go to Adoration. But sometimes it isn’t.