Timothy: I want to comment on some of the things you said (your quotes are in blue)
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Getting up and leaving the house early for work to stop by and converse with the Lord, taking time after work, even thoug you want to get home
Online adoration is not supposed to replace the real thing, is is meant for those who can’t get up and leave the house
or waking up in the middle of the night and spending an hour with Jesus knowing that we are going to be especially tired the next day, are all sacrifices for our Lord who sacrificed so much for us. I can’t imagine that God doesn’t find these sacrifices of time and effort pleasing.
If you wake up in the middle of the night you probably will not go out to an Adoration Chapel at that hour; this is exactly what live Adoration online is for.
We also can’t forget that the adoration chapel is a consecrated, sacred space
Where do you see kneelers outside of Church? They are all consecrated, sacred, holy, dedicated exclusivly to worship of God.
I never heard the kneelers were consecrated.
*I think making the sacrifice, taking the time and expending the effort to actually go and to consecrate that time exclusively to God, is pleasing to him. I also think it is important to go to that sacred place, to use that sacred language, to see that sacred furniture and sacred vessels, and to be in communion with other member’s of Christ’s body who are doing so as well, is extremely important. *
It is important to insist that Live Adoration online is not intended to substitute going to a Chapel, but only to help those who can’t go, to be able to have adoration at home.
The Israelites believed that the only place in which true worship could be offered to God was the Jerusalem temple. The temple was a holy place - where God himself dwelt with men. The opposite of
sacred is profane and the Israelites understood this. That’s why everyone was required to come to the temple three times each year.
Yes, but remember Jesus told the samaritan woman that one day we should all worship Him in spirit and in truth; that may apply to the case of people who, for some valid reason, cannot go to the church.
Its important that we get away from the profane, to a place that is sacred, a place that his holy, dedicated only to God, and to dedicate that time and effort to God in return.
-Tim-
I agree, but let me tell you that sometimes, when I finish my work really late at night (and I mean really late, like 3 o 4 am, when it would definetly not be safe to go out), and I want to spend a little time in prayer and I visit the Live Adoration web site, I turn off the lights, I lit a candle and the atmosphere of the room changes. It is all dark, except for the candle and the live image in the screen. And in the silence, in the stilness of the night, it really feels like the room becomes a sacred place.
And please don’t get me wrong, I am NOT praying to the screen, I am praying to the Lord, whose image in the screen helps me focus on Him who is above time and distance.
What do you think? Would you be willing to tray it?
Alma
Even though you’re looking at a live image of Christ, you are not physically present.