Prayer - Eucharistic Adoration

[Indyann]

According to the link, about 1/2 page down, it says rosary, and may be other devotions, could be prayed during Eucharist Adoration.

Some readers ask if devotions may be carried out during Eucharistic adoration. The above-mentioned directory suggests in No. 165: “Gradually, the faithful should be encouraged not to do other devotional exercises during exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.”

That sounds like it is discouraged to me. As the part about the rosary is an addition.

That being said, I use “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord” by Benedict Groeschel.

 

[CatholicCajun]

I think I know the businesses that you work for! If I have a choice, I always choose to stop at that store because of the owners public display of adoration to the Blessed Mother. My boyfriend is from Sulphur and after seeing quite of few of them around the area there I asked him about it and he told me the story. How wonderful! But I digress…back to the thread. I’m going through the RCIA process right now and attend Mass everyday at 5:15 after I leave my office; didn’t make it yesterday so I attended 6:30 Mass this morning. After it had ended, the most precious little woman came up to me and told her the Holy Spirit told her to ask me about signing up for an hour in the Adoration Chapel. To prove even more that nothing happens by chance, just last week after telling my sweet grandmother I was going through RCIA (and her telling me she was so glad I was “coming home”) she said maybe one day I would be able to take her place in adoration(which she’s doen for 20 yrs now!) since she’s become too ill to continue. I think this is a direct request from God to continue my family’s adoration tradition.

Isn’t it funny how God speaks to us through others. When we opened our Houma store my husband and I had just started a deeper devotion to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, well one day a customer comes in and she does wood burning and hands him a beautiful oval piece of wood with the image of the Divine Mercy burned into it with the words Jesus I Trust in You, she had already gotten it blessed. Then we go to Market and we go to a taping of Fr. Pacwa’s show and guess what the topic is on? Divine Mercy! God is so good!! God Bless.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Please note whenever we refer to the Eucharist, we use He, not it.
The Eucharist is the real body, blood, soul and divinity of our Lord.
We should always show our highest respect.

I agree and I plan to amend my usage of the terms. However, even the Catholic Encyclopedia says “It”. But I agree, that using “He” is a better sign.

And also, does anyone know of a sort of rubrics for Adoration? Other than the vague reference earlier in this thread. Is there a document that discusses proper form during Adoration, Perpetual Adoration, Exposed Adoration, etc… ???

 

[LilyM]

Recently one of our priests said that nothing should be taken into the adoration chapel. No Rosary, no Bible. No prayer books. He said it is a time for complete focus on Jesus without being distracted by physical things taken in.

The late great John Paul 2 didn’t just read in Adoration, he WROTE a lot of his books and encyclicals in front of the Blessed Sacrament! We should all be blessed to be so ‘distracted’!

I think he’d disagree with your priest.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I agree and I plan to amend my usage of the terms. However, even the Catholic Encyclopedia says “It”. But I agree, that using “He” is a better sign.
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I asked one of the experts on EWTN about that a year or so ago. He said that Itthe Eucharist should be referred to as IT, not HE.

 

[Indyann]

I don’t see why a prayer book, bible, etc. would be a distraction. I can read prayers from my Raccolta and set it aside, meditate and concentrate on the Eucharist, and return to prayer if I feel moved to. When I am meditating or listening to Christ, I am not distracted by a book next to me in the pew. Out of curiosity though, is there a format prescribed by the Church? I don’t ever remember seeing anything official regarding adoration.

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html#Chapter%20Four

Info on Adoration starts at 165. It sounds contradictory to me though. At the beginning of the paragraph it states that scriptural reading, etc. should be done, but then, that sentence that "gradually, etc. that I quoted earlier.

Gradually, as one progresses in their spiritual devotion or gradually over a period of time? What does everyone else think?

 

[MarcoPolo]

Gradually, as one progresses in their spiritual devotion or gradually over a period of time? What does everyone else think?

Here’s what the paragraph in question says:
The faithful should be encouraged to read the Scriptures during these periods of adoration, since they afford an unrivalled source of prayer. Suitable hymns and canticles based on those of the Liturgy of the Hours and the liturgical seasons could also be encouraged, as well as periods of silent prayer and reflection. Gradually, the faithful should be encouraged not to do other devotional exercises during exposition of the Blessed Sacrament(180). Given the close relationship between Christ and Our Lady, the rosary can always be of assistance in giving prayer a Christological orientation, since it contains meditation of the Incarnation and the Redemption(181).

All but the sentence that I bolded seems to permit, even encourage, other devotions, including the Rosary. Of course that sentence ends with footnote 180 which reads:
Cf. Reply ad dubium on n. 62 of the Instruction Eucharisticum mysterium, in Notitiae 34 (1998) 133-134; concerning the Rosary, see the following note.

So who knows Latin and where can we find what this document says??