What do you do/say during the 1-hour Eucharistic Adoration?

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I want some ideas on what to do/say during my Eucharistic Adoration. Thanks!
 
I think a good prayerbook, like this one, is a wonderful solution, whether for Holy Hours, or simply when you need to set aside some time for vocal prayer.

In fact, I couldn’t recommend the above highly enough, although I’m not sure whether it’s easy to acquire in your country.
 
I tend to divide the time up into sections along the lines of: silent meditation, personal prayer and and listening, then Divine Mercy chaplet and Rosary, then silent meditation, personal prayer and listening, then reading scripture, then silent meditation and listening.
 
Brendan_64 said:
I tend to divide the time up into sections along the lines of: silent meditation, personal prayer and and listening, then Divine Mercy chaplet and Rosary, then silent meditation, personal prayer and listening, then reading scripture, then silent meditation and listening.
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what do you mean when you said “listening”?
 
Pythagoras said:
what do you mean when you said “listening”?
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If I may answer.

If you are silent you will hear God speak to you. If we are always talking ‘to’ God in prayer we won’t hear what He has to say.

Here it is in the book of Job…This is God speaking to Job.

Job 33:31 Pay heed, Job, listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 If not, listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

God bless you…

Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.

Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

I know I’ve only used scriptures here but it is important to know that God will speak to our hearts and minds in prayer when we listen for Him. So if your in silent prayer, you will hear God. That means instead of talking to God always, we must also take time and listen to what God has to say to us and Eucharistic Adoration is a good time for that. We’ve taken one hour to tune out the trappings of the world and tune in to Jesus Christ in quiet adoration.
 
What Brendan64 said is awesome, a wonderful plan.
Sometimes I take a good spiritual book with me, and pray that the Lord will open my eyes to it’s riches.

Listening means allowing God’s Word and His intention for your life to seep into your heart and mind. Being open to His will.
 
I pray the Rosary, Office of Readings and Morning Prayer. Then personal prayer and listen.
 
Karen107 said:
If you are silent you will hear God speak to you. If we are always talking ‘to’ God in prayer we won’t hear what He has to say.
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Absolutely right.

If we do not stop and take the time to listen to what God might be telling us then how are we to know what He wants of us. The silence at Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is such a perfect opportunity just to stop and listen to God, to hear what He is telling us.

What I would also say to anyone about Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is to keep going regularly, make a personal commitment and try to keep to it. As someone said to me in my parish, “The more you go, the more you understand”.

Pythagoras, I would also say that you should find what is right for you to do at Adoration of the Eucharist and then do that. But take time to listen to God.
 
O_Lumen said:
I think a good prayerbook, like this one, is a wonderful solution, whether for Holy Hours, or simply when you need to set aside some time for vocal prayer.

In fact, I couldn’t recommend the above highly enough, although I’m not sure whether it’s easy to acquire in your country.
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Thank you for this, I just ordered one! 👍
 
First I kneel down at my pew and pray, and bask in His Presence.

Then I do the appropriate Hour from the LotH, and then sit and listen.

I finish with the Rosary, and if I have time the chaplet for the Souls in Purgatory.

Before I leave, I kneel again, and pray.
 
I begin by praying the Rosary.

Next I pray the Liturgy of the Hours for that time of day, which is Daytime Prayer for my scheduled hour.

I then do quiet interior prayer for 20 minutes.

I read. Currently I’m reading Jesus of Nazareth, Vol II, by Pope Benedict XVI.

Jim
 
I haven’t been to Adoration for quite a long time. Mostly due to schedule conflicts but partly due to laziness & apathy. My Thursdays have been freed up for the most part now and I can’t wait to get back into going.

In the past I’ve done many of the above suggestions. The thing I’d like to add is that as long as you focus the time you are there on Blessed Sacrament there really isn’t a wrong way to do Adoration.
 
I did a scheduled hour yesterday. I spent part of it kneeling in front of the monstrance in personal prayer, I spent part of it just admiring and adoring the real presence of our Lord, and part of it reading a book about Saint Francis of Assisi (the one by Chesterton.) I wanted to pray the chaplet, but there were other people in there and I am not good at praying the chaplet silently; in fact, I usually sing it. If I ever get a chance I might sign up for a late night or early morning hour or two so that I can sing the chaplet softly with it (I pray/sing it by myself, but it would be nice to be able to in the chapel.)
 
Karen107 said:
If I may answer.

If you are silent you will hear God speak to you. If we are always talking ‘to’ God in prayer we won’t hear what He has to say.

Here it is in the book of Job…This is God speaking to Job.

Job 33:31 Pay heed, Job, listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 If not, listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

God bless you…

Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.

Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

I know I’ve only used scriptures here but it is important to know that God will speak to our hearts and minds in prayer when we listen for Him. So if your in silent prayer, you will hear God. That means instead of talking to God always, we must also take time and listen to what God has to say to us and Eucharistic Adoration is a good time for that. We’ve taken one hour to tune out the trappings of the world and tune in to Jesus Christ in quiet adoration.
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Thanks. By the way if we start listening to God through silence, how can we separate God’ voice from those which are just a product of our own imagination/hallucination.
 
O_Lumen said:
I think a good prayerbook, like this one, is a wonderful solution, whether for Holy Hours, or simply when you need to set aside some time for vocal prayer.

In fact, I couldn’t recommend the above highly enough, although I’m not sure whether it’s easy to acquire in your country.
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I, too, have taken your recommendation and purchased this book. Thank you!
 
Pythagoras said:
Thanks. By the way if we start listening to God through silence, how can we separate God’ voice from those which are just a product of our own imagination/hallucination.
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You have to trust. If you are kneeling or sitting in front of the Blessed Sacrament you will know. You are there before God truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. If you open your heart and mind and trust in God, you will know.
 
I agree with Brendan! I feel Jesus Christ’s presence in the adoration chapel and Gods voice hits me like a ton of bricks and fills me with incredible peace and joy and things become clearer. I enjoy just conversing with God mostly, though I do meditative and devotional things like praying the rosary, or reading devotional books, specific prayers (like the ones found in that book link) or I read the bible especially when I have a lot going on in my mind and so these prayers help me focus in on God alone. I believe it’s called contemplative prayer where your deep in prayer and the rest of the world is tuned out and we are deep in to the mystery of God…

2724 Contemplative prayer is the simple expression of the mystery of prayer. It is a gaze of faith fixed on Jesus, an attentiveness to the Word of God, a silent love. It achieves real union with the prayer of Christ to the extent that it makes us share in his mystery.

I particularly like the scriptural prayers of the Rosary that are in my Daily Roman Missal because they are written so beautifully and really put me into the life of Christ and what Jesus means to my life. I know in the blessed Sacrament Chapel that it is not only Jesus with me but the whole trinity and the room is filled with Gods presence. God does desire us to have a relationship with Him and that is done through prayer and in learning about Him. Like Brendan said, we have to trust in Him! Jesus will reach the inner depths of our soul…:)❤️

I hope this helps…🙂 God bless.
 
Brendan_64 said:
You have to trust. If you are kneeling or sitting in front of the Blessed Sacrament you will know. You are there before God truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. If you open your heart and mind and trust in God, you will know.
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Thanks Brendan 🙂

By the way, how about during times when the Holy Eucharist is not exposed outside, like just praying to Jesus who is hidden in the Tabernacle. Can we also get the same inspiration during this time?
 
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