Starting Eucharistic Adoration

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Okay, here’s an interesting one for you guys.
How do you convince your parish priest to have adoration (even just once a week) in your parish, when your priest is a conservative liturgist, and thinks that Eucharistic Adoration takes away from the liturgy?
 
imacountrylass said:
Okay, here’s an interesting one for you guys.
How do you convince your parish priest to have adoration (even just once a week) in your parish, when your priest is a conservative liturgist, and thinks that Eucharistic Adoration takes away from the liturgy?
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What the? That’s different. I would make an appointment with him and maybe talk it over and offer to help with starting it.

I’m so gald our parish started doing adoration, it has been so wonderful. It’s interesting because the younger priest who is new to our parish is the one who started adoration. He is also conservative and is a liturgist. 🤷

He has made some awesome changes to the Mass. Good ones in my opinion, sorta whipping us all into shape 😃 but in a nice way. 😉
 
That’s great! I’m so happy for you guys. We need more like him.

I have thought about sitting down with my priest and talking to him about it, but I don’t know where to start, because it’s almost like I’d have to convince him why Eucharistic Adoration is important when he professes to believe in the True Presence.
I don’t know if it would help, but does anyone know any teachings on it that I could show him? And then that gets into teaching my priest, and he doesn’t take kindly to that. :confused: Maybe I just need your guys’ prayers.
Calling all prayer warriors! 🙂
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imacountrylass said:
Okay, here’s an interesting one for you guys.
How do you convince your parish priest to have adoration (even just once a week) in your parish, when your priest is a conservative liturgist, and thinks that Eucharistic Adoration takes away from the liturgy?
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He is not a conservative liturgist then. and if he thinks adoration takes away from the liturgy then he is a Liturgical Modernist.\

Lemme guess… he is over 50 years old but under 70 years old right.

Many priests have been taught that Mass and EUCHARIST is more communion and gathering of people than a Sacrifice…it is actually both but that age group was had deluded Eucharistic theological training…(in many cases that is)
 
imacountrylass said:
Okay, here’s an interesting one for you guys.
How do you convince your parish priest to have adoration (even just once a week) in your parish, when your priest is a conservative liturgist, and thinks that Eucharistic Adoration takes away from the liturgy?
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Start out with once a month EA on First Fridays and see how it goes. Dedicate the EA to vocations…

“Conservative liturgists” would typically love EA by the way…
 
THurifer2 said:
He is not a conservative liturgist then. and if he thinks adoration takes away from the liturgy then he is a Liturgical Modernist.\

Lemme guess… he is over 50 years old but under 70 years old right.

Many priests have been taught that Mass and EUCHARIST is more communion and gathering of people than a Sacrifice…it is actually both but that age group was had deluded Eucharistic theological training…(in many cases that is)
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Not knowing the priest, how is it you labeled him such?

Maybe he’s a consevative liturgist who has a issue with Eucharistic Adoration on a weekly basis?

Jim
 
Oh, actually I just found this quote from another thread from an Eastern Orthodox person.

Part of the problem is we find it [Eucharistic Ador.] a bit excessive a separation from the Eucharist and communion.

And our Priest is VERY Eastern orthodox minded. That might explain his thinking.
Yes he is about 50 y/o I think, but maybe I was too hasty in labeling him conservative. Truth be told, we don’t know what he is, since half of his ways of thinking are very conservative, and the other half are very liberal. Talk about confusion.
 
imacountrylass said:
That’s great! I’m so happy for you guys. We need more like him.

I have thought about sitting down with my priest and talking to him about it, but I don’t know where to start, because it’s almost like I’d have to convince him why Eucharistic Adoration is important when he professes to believe in the True Presence.
I don’t know if it would help, but does anyone know any teachings on it that I could show him? And then that gets into teaching my priest, and he doesn’t take kindly to that. :confused: Maybe I just need your guys’ prayers.
Calling all prayer warriors! 🙂
:knight2:
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You might want to put your thoughts together as to why it is important to you personally and why you think it would be important to others. Then when you meet with him, just speak from the heart and talk about what a great spiritual experience you think it would be. I think if were to approach him in a friendly and heartfelt manner, he might consider it. 🙂 It’s all you can really do. I hope it all works out for you.
 
imacountrylass said:
Okay, here’s an interesting one for you guys.
How do you convince your parish priest to have adoration (even just once a week) in your parish, when your priest is a conservative liturgist, and thinks that Eucharistic Adoration takes away from the liturgy?
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Approach everything, especially something like this - first, with prayer.

I am in a parish with a fair amount of Adoration opportunities (a chapel run by a religious order of sisters on our property is open from about 9:30am until 6:30am, and we have Adoration the first Sunday of the Month following the last Mass for an hour for vocations).

I once asked my pastor what I can do when I want to be in adoration, but cannot be there, such as when I am at work. He said that it is pleasing to God when we pause and consider the Blessed Sacrament closest to us at a given moment, and briefly adore Him in our hearts.

Adoration can, and should be done throughout the day as the thought comes, even at home. It is here that you should begin your prayer before attempting to discuss (or to discuss further), the matter with your pastor.

Offer some Rosaries for him daily.

As you pray for him, ask the Blessed Mother for the prudence to discover the most charitable way to bring about Adoration in your parish. She was a tabernacle to Our Lord.

I suggest that all people first approach their pastor with a request to start out with a Holy Hour at a time that is convenient for him to expose the Blessed Sacrament, and to offer Benediction. This might be following the last Mass of the weekend once monthly, but if it is a one-priest parish, he may be fatigued. Perhaps he would not mind Exposition during Confessions with Benediction following.

I strongly encourage everyone to get a Holy Hour with Exposition monthly for vocations in the parish and diocese. May all who are called, hear that call and act on the grace accordingly.

It might also help to find a group of other parishioners who also want to do Adoration and approach the pastor as a group, with love and with charity guiding your way.
 
How about a quote from the Holy Father…👍

"In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church’s supreme act of adoration.
"Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.
– Pope Benedict XVI - Sacramentum Caritatis 66

See other quotes from the same source on the same topic at adoremus.org/EucharisticAdoration.html
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Not knowing the priest, how is it you labeled him such?

Maybe he’s a consevative liturgist who has a issue with Eucharistic Adoration on a weekly basis?

Jim
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A conservative liturgist who has issues with Adoration is oxymoronic.
 
now that I have been labeled a labeler I must say…

God bless you in your desire for adoration…
 
imacountrylass said:
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Start out with once a month EA on First Fridays and see how it goes. Dedicate the EA to vocations…

Hmm…thats a thought, still don’t know, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
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In my parish we asked for about 7 years and 3 pastors and were told “no.” In retrospect the pastors simply didn’t want to be bothered. When our last pastor left we just started First Friday Eucharistic Adoration for priestly vocations. When our replacement showed-up about 3 months later he was delighted with it (we really don’t know if he knew it was new) and has been very supportive of it.

When asking him about it, I would also present a very detailed plan, complete with volunteers’ names.
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The very conservative Eastern Rite priest I know does not approve of Adoration. He says that Jesus said, “Come and eat.” not “Come and look at me.”

However, He of course recommends venerating icons.

It’s just a different type of devotion with another emphasis.

I wonder if it would help if you could supply some evidence that Adoration leads to other good things for a parish–more vocations, perhaps.

We have Adoration at our parish, and now we have ten seminarians.
 
leonie said:
Adoration leads to other good things for a parish–more vocations, perhaps.

We have Adoration at our parish, and now we have ten seminarians.
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I have heard this more than just a few times. In fact I have heard it quite often…

perhaps we are on to somthing… it seems to me that adoration plays a very big part of vocations.

Its really a no brainer
 
leonie said:
The very conservative Eastern Rite priest I know does not approve of Adoration. He says that Jesus said, “Come and eat.” not “Come and look at me.”

However, He of course recommends venerating icons.

It’s just a different type of devotion with another emphasis.

I wonder if it would help if you could supply some evidence that Adoration leads to other good things for a parish–more vocations, perhaps.

We have Adoration at our parish, and now we have ten seminarians.
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In my Eastern Catholic (Byzantine Ruthenian) parish, the Blessed Sacrament is placed in a chalice, the chalice is covered with a silk cloth and then a crown (yes, a tiny crown) is fitted to the top of the chalice.
 
If you search for Eucharist Adoration on the web, you will find that there are a couple of organizations that have very detailed plans for implementing perpetual adoration in parishes. They have lots of things that you can sent away for or print right off that talk about the benefits of adoration in parishes. Maybe it would help if you had some testimonials? We were trying to help implement this is the parish that we are leaving, and it had the backing of the pastor, but they were having a lot of trouble filling all of the hours. We started looking at these sites for things that we could put into bulletins, etc.
 
In Pope Bennedicts book (its under his baptismal name Joseph Ratzinger) Spirit of the Liturgy he has a great chapter on adoration where he attacks the notion that adoration does no good, and makes a wonderful case for adoration.
 
I think a big obstacle in some parishes is that they implement adoration and then after a few weeks no one shows up. At our parish we only have First Friday adoration and even then it ends at 11pm. It used to continue all night be people weren’t signing up - or people would sign up at 1am and the next person at 2am wouldn’t show. The other issue for many parishes (not that it’s a good reason but it is a reason) is that it cost money to keep a church open and if your parishioners can’t and won’t support the parish financially then it’s hard to spend resources for anything other than the bare necessities. And again, it’s not a good reason, it’s just a possible reason.

So I think if you want adoration then you need to commit to getting the people needed and show the pastor that the faithful in your parish will follow through with it. Unfortunately, it’s not simply a case of “if you build it they will come” . I wish it were.
 
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