I have a question about eucharistic adoration. Hopefully I don’t sound too silly: my church has eucharistic adoration daily after the 7am weekday mass but I cannot stay a full hour afterwards because of work, is this okay ? I would love to stay longer but I can only stay about 20 minutes if that at all. There have been a few times when I’ve had to take off just as they were setting it up if I had to be in early. I always feel a bit guilty. Do you have to stay an hour or is that only for holy hour?
God gave you a job and wants u to be on time for work so you have to leave church, even if you do no adoration at all. That’s completely ok. ‘render to Caesar what is Caesars, and render to God what is God’s.’ God, outside of keeping the commandments also wants you to keep all your duties and obligations to work which includes being at work on time.
Adoration: if you have to go to work you have to go, no problem, not even a venial sin.
Anyway: there are no rules about how long you have to stay. You can pop in to say ‘Hello Jesus,’ for a few seconds and leave if you want to. The Lord will reward your faithfulness to go to work, which you have to put first.
I also think I read somewhere that the Tabernacle, is also equal to eucharistic adoration, because Our Lord is truly present in the Communion in the tabernacle (He’s just not exposed for us to see, but the Graces He gives are the same.
Maybe on a Sunday after mass you would have more time? 30mins adoration of Taberncle or Adoration Monstrance (without a break) gives you a plenary indulgence for yourself or a soul in purgatory, but one must also receive communion, confession, and say a prayer for the Pope (within a week). A plenary indulgence wipes away ALL your purgatory and reparation owes to sin on your soul (but a person must also be detached from venial sins or mortal sins, with a true love of God, to obtain this). People do a Holy Hour (in response to Our Lord saying in Gethsemene ‘Could you not watch one hour with me?’ But of course If you have work this may not ever work out, but do not worry, pray to The Lord in the ways you can in the meantime and mind you job and fulfill your duties to those around you first of all.
Sometimes while running errands with my children if we’ll be driving in front of church we’ll stop and go to the adoration chapel. We stay about 5 minutes. I’ve taught my children to kneel down and say “Hi Jesus. I love you” (silently obviously). That’s all their attention span can handle at this point. The way I see it, any time in front of Jesus is better than no time with Jesus. I’m sure he is happy to see you no matter how long you can stay.