Is there a difference between Holy Hour and Adoration?

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Sorry if this is a dumb question. I ask only because I called a parish one time to ask if they had Adoration and what time and the lady didn’t know what I was really talking about. All she said was that we have a holy hour. I ended up going that day but there was no exposition of the blessed sacrament only music playing in the Church and people talking on their cell phones…
 
dfp42 said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question. I ask only because I called a parish one time to ask if they had Adoration and what time and the lady didn’t know what I was really talking about. All she said was that we have a holy hour. I ended up going that day but there was no exposition of the blessed sacrament only music playing in the Church and people talking on their cell phones…
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Adoration is not required during a Holy Hour, but it really compliments the hour!
No dumb question.
 
Some churches have a Perpetual Adoration Chapel. There is an online index (that I can’t site - but google it) that will tell you what parishes in your area have one.

Otherwise there is sometimes adoration on special holy days (i.e. Good Friday), but I would think that would be published in your bulletin.
 
“I ended up going that day but there was no exposition of the blessed sacrament only music playing in the Church and people talking on their cell phones…”

Lord please help our Church.
 
The terms have become interchangeable, but are not exactly the same thing. Holy Hour is the “when” and Adoration is the “what”.

A Holy Hour before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is to remember, honor and even participate in the hour that Jesus asked Peter, and all of us by extension, to remain with him and stay awake at Gethsemane. The purpose of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is a continuation of our worship of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, but outside of the mass.

Adoration is the first thing that our Lord deserves from us. He is deserving of our adoration simply because He is.

A couple of easy reads that increased my understanding of the Eucharist and adoration both at mass and outside of it are: 7 Secrets of the Eucharist by Vinny Flynn, and Celebrating the Holy Eucharist by Francis Cardinal Arinze.
 
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Last Friday, a parishioner both received and replied to three text messages before our Lord. What can we do but pray for them?
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I’m sure there’s a lot more the just 3 text messages that go on in front of our Lord too. Yes, just pray they might not know better that we are to have reverence to him in his house. For some reason or another God allows evil to happen even in his house.
 
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I’m sure there’s a lot more the just 3 text messages that go on in front of our Lord too. Yes, just pray they might not know better that we are to have reverence to him in his house. For some reason or another God allows evil to happen even in his house.
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Such brothers and sisters are surely in need of prayer, since they cannot shut out the outside world for even one hour. I believe that the Lord places them in our midst because He knows that they need prayer, and that we need to pray for them.
 
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Such brothers and sisters are surely in need of prayer, since they cannot shut out the outside world for even one hour. I believe that the Lord places them in our midst because He knows that they need prayer, and that we need to pray for them.
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I totally agree. It’s a reminder that the world we live in is not perfect.
 
One day after Adoration I found a crossword puzzle book in the Adoration Chapel. I have tried to keep several religious texts in there since that.
 
What you might really be looking for is Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

Holy hour (as has been said before) is how long.
Adoration is what is going on.

Both of these can occur before the Tabernacle, Exposition is where the Sacrament is placed in the Monstrance and then on an altar.
 
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