What do you do during adoration?

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I spend half of my time in prayer. The other half is spent in meditation, quietness and listening.
 
Usually I pray the Rosary. If it’s my regular Saturday 3 am chapel hour, I also pray the Office of Readings - aloud if I’m alone, silently if someone else is there. On Sundays we pray the Rosary before Mass, and then I visit the chapel after Mass for just a few minutes to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

Occasionally I’ll do some spiritual reading, and I try to give myself a few minutes at least once in a while to just sit or kneel in silence.
 
Those who have perpetual or once-weekly Adoration are blessed indeed. My little parish has only First Friday mass, Benediction, and Adoration for one hour. It’s the highlight of my month. I don’t think we’ll ever have it more frequently because so few people come, and usually only two stay for the entire hour. I asked our priest if we might ever have it once a week. He smiled, shrugged and said, “Ask.”
 
PattiDay said:
Those who have perpetual or once-weekly Adoration are blessed indeed. My little parish has only First Friday mass, Benediction, and Adoration for one hour. It’s the highlight of my month. I don’t think we’ll ever have it more frequently because so few people come, and usually only two stay for the entire hour. I asked our priest if we might ever have it once a week. He smiled, shrugged and said, “Ask.”
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Yes Indeed… Ask…

To add to you… I was blessed to be in front of the blessed sacrament for 4 days this week so far… and Its just Friday. And I forgot to talk to Him about those who wants to do the same and do not have the same chance. Next time onwards I will mention it to Him.

Thanks for giving me one more thing to talk to Him.
With prayers,
Joe
 
PattiDay said:
Those who have perpetual or once-weekly Adoration are blessed indeed. My little parish has only First Friday mass, Benediction, and Adoration for one hour. It’s the highlight of my month. I don’t think we’ll ever have it more frequently because so few people come, and usually only two stay for the entire hour. I asked our priest if we might ever have it once a week. He smiled, shrugged and said, “Ask.”
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We have Perpetual Adoration and it is a blessing indeed! We had the first Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Kentucky, but now there is one at the Cathedral and one in Louisville as well.
 
Morwenna said:
It may sound silly, but … I have been known to sing hymns (silently, in my heart) while there, too :o
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Not silly at all! I do the same thing! 😃 (Gee, I wish there was a singing smiley!)

It’s been said, “He who sings, prays twice”… Augustine, I think, and I believe that’s paraphrased.
 
I have two hours of adoration a week, and honestly I wish I had time for more. Here’s my usual routine, although I veer from it a lot. I always start by sitting quietly and just breathe deeply in His Presence and enjoy the peacefulness. I wait patiently for the people before me to leave. Then I take out my rosary, get on my knees, and pray the “Divine Love Prayer,” which consists of 9 decades of prayers to the Eucharist Heart of Jesus. OR, I’ll read through a pamphlet I have that goes through the Stations of the Cross with descriptions written by then-Cardinal Ratzinger. Then I’ll pray and talk to Jesus and thank Him for finally bringing me to Him after so many years of searching for Him. And then if I have time I’ll read whatever book I’ve brought until the hour is over, which is always too soon.
 
I usually pray whatever office is relevant to the time of day and then just sit with the Lord and feel loved.
 
These all sound wonderful. I should go to adoration more.

A question for everyone though: I have read some authors say that one should always make a spiritual communion when you visit the Blessed Sacrament. It takes a few seconds, and is the foundation of any other prayer we do at that time.

What do you think? I am considering making a habit out of this, but I haven’t memorized a spiritual communion yet.
 
If I’m in the right frame of mind, I will just sit there in complete silence, both physical and mental, and just be in the presence of Our Lord. It’s amazing really, being with him not only spiritually but in the same location in space and time. What a miracle! Otherwise, I will either pray, say the rosary, read a bit from the Bible, or just have a conversation with him.
 
I have found that if I sit quietly, I become so relaxed I often fall asleep. While this may be ok sometimes, it is probably not the best use of my time with Jesus 🙂

I have a book entitled “What Jesus Saw from the Cross,” which is my favorite Catholic book. I usually have it with me at adoration.

I haven’t been in awhile, however. This discussion reminds me I need to go back!😊
 
newyorkcatholic said:
These all sound wonderful. I should go to adoration more.

A question for everyone though: I have read some authors say that one should always make a spiritual communion when you visit the Blessed Sacrament. It takes a few seconds, and is the foundation of any other prayer we do at that time.

What do you think? I am considering making a habit out of this, but I haven’t memorized a spiritual communion yet.
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The spiritual communion prayer is GREAT 👍 Actually I read that its effects are similar to those of Communion… a nun once saw (in a vision) two vessels containing her Communions, one was gold, and one was silver… Jesus told her that the gold vessel contained her actual Eucharistic Communions, and the silver one contained her Spiritual Communions. It’s definitely a great prayer to say, not just at Adoration, but every day 🙂

God bless
 
I like to pray, ask Him for help, tell Him I am sorry, thank Him for everything, ask Him to be merciful to me and to release souls from purgatory. I sit quietly as this is what I was taught to do in reverance for His presence.

About a month ago I went into a chapel for Adoration, this older man was asleep in the pew and snoring. This chapel had a single kneeler two feet in front of the monstrance and I went there first to pray, I kept thinking, what a deal, this guy is snoring and right in front of Jesus !! I moved after a while to a pew and tried to concentrate on the Eucharist and was looking at it and thinking what is the matter with this guy? How dare he sleep in front of God!, I could never do that, I would never be so disrespectful. Then a thought struck me as if God spoke to me, how wonderful that this man was so comfortable in His presence that he could sleep deeply. I began to think that sleep is part of our human nature, part of what God designed for our bodies, I wonder what dreams he was having in His presence?
I am sure that God was watching this man with a smile and love in His heart and this man was blessed as he slept. Then i got up to leave and the guy was gone, somehow I lost track of his snoring and his even being in the room, my personal blessing.

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Divine Mercy Chaplet. Rosary. I just picked up a booklet for the stations of the cross. I also use my time to just talk to Him. Tell him how much I love him, let him know what’s going on with me, etc. And I try to wrap my head around the fact that the God of the Universe and beyond is sitting there right in front of me.
 
Sometimes I read Catholic books, but most of the time I just meditate on Jesus’ loving, forgiving Heart. I probably look silly, staring at Him as he is in the form of the Blessed Sacrament, but it doesn’t bother me. It’s so incredibly amazing to BE with Jesus, right there! If I’m alone in there, I usually talk aloud to Him. No fancy prayers or devotions - simply chatting with Him about my life and how I want His guidance or telling Him to thank a particular saint or Mary.🙂
 
I do not plan ahead. If i am visiting someone in their home, I do not se the agenda, but I bring whatever I might need, just in case.

I take my rosary, my Bible, my Catholic Prayer (abridged liturgy of the hours). I start with just staring at hte host within the monstrance, and try to empty my mind of anything but what I see. One time I sat for 90 minutes straight and did nothing but stare, then I just prayed a Rosary before I left. One time as soon as I sat down I felt compelled to read “Song of Songs” and for the first time saw nothing erotic in it - I perceived the metaphor on whole other level.

I usually end up reading some Psalms, praying a Rosary decade and a Divine Mercy Chaplet, but not in any particular order.
 
Peter_John said:
I do not plan ahead. If i am visiting someone in their home, I do not se the agenda, but I bring whatever I might need, just in case.

I take my rosary, my Bible, my Catholic Prayer (abridged liturgy of the hours). I start with just staring at hte host within the monstrance, and try to empty my mind of anything but what I see. One time I sat for 90 minutes straight and did nothing but stare, then I just prayed a Rosary before I left. One time as soon as I sat down I felt compelled to read “Song of Songs” and for the first time saw nothing erotic in it - I perceived the metaphor on whole other level.

I usually end up reading some Psalms, praying a Rosary decade and a Divine Mercy Chaplet, but not in any particular order.
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I’m like that too. It varies. The only thing I don’t do is concern myself with time. I’m usually there at least an hour easily, and seldom as long as two hours. Sometimes I pray the Eucharistic Rosary in the Adoration Chapel, sometimes I pray the Rosary before an image of Our Lady before I go into the Chapel, sometimes after. We have the full skeletal remains of two Saints where I go, St Bonosa and St Magnus, and it’s not uncommon for me to venerate the relics before I leave.

So all told, I’m actually in the Church a little over two hours, but again, seldom that long before The Most Blessed Sacrament.
 
it differs for me I just started doing a holy hour

i started out with the opening prayer that the priest did (what ever its called)

then spend some personal time in prayer

then the people at my church where I do this has a sung divine mercy chaplet (i rather do it on my own)

then from here on out I do what is in most need for me

I had a talk to write for a retreat so that took up much of my time

sometimes ill meditate over the scripture of the day or scripture from the weekend or week past that spoke to me and I want to understand it more

I say a rosery for my bishop (check it out the web ill post a link later I don’t have time to find it)

I think that’s about it.
 
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus sabaoth
pleni sunt caeli et terra in gloria tua
hosanna in excelsis
benedictus qui venit in nomine domine
hosanna in excelsis

Truly a good and fitting prayer for adoration for use in addition to ones own petitions and private confessions (not the sacrament ofc in this case).
 
At my parish we first have mass. Then we pray from a booklet called “Holy Hour”- there are four 15 minute prayers with traditional music sung in between. After that we sing Tantum Ergo during the display of the Blessed Sacrament. During that time there are so many things you can do in the presence of Jesus. I personally sit and adore…and be still.
 
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