Wondering about Adoration Service

[adrift]

We normally have Adoration in the afternoon. This week it was changed to evening. I arrived to find a screen with the word Adoration projected on it. Throughout the adoration this screen was used to show songs and prayers that were being said in between a picture of an Advent Wreath was show. At the conclusion the projection was “Thank you for coming”. The Screen was above and to the side of the exposed Eucharist.

I felt distracted by the screen however my husband felt it kept his mind on the moment.

I would like others opinions on this. I also wonder if this is licit?

 

[japhy]

I arrived to find a screen with the word Adoration projected on it. Throughout the adoration this screen was used to show songs and prayers that were being said in between a picture of an Advent Wreath was show. At the conclusion the projection was “Thank you for coming”. The Screen was above and to the side of the exposed Eucharist.

Does your parish have a screen with the word “MASS” projected on it during Mass?

I’m sure they meant it to be an aid for worship in some way, perhaps for people new to Eucharistic Adoration, but I think they could have used traditional methods. The screen would be distracting to me. “Thank you for coming” sounds awfully trite. Does the priest say that at the end of Mass?

I’m just not a fan of it…

 

[Allen537]

Seems a bit odd to me…

In Carmel,

Br. Allen

 

[FrDavid96]

Does your parish have a screen with the word “MASS” projected on it during Mass?

I’m sure they meant it to be an aid for worship in some way, perhaps for people new to Eucharistic Adoration, but I think they could have used traditional methods. The screen would be distracting to me. “Thank you for coming” sounds awfully trite. Does the priest say that at the end of Mass?

I’m just not a fan of it…

Japhy, careful what you ask. You might not like the answers,
(not to mention that they might give the rest of us indigestion).

 

[JPUSC]

We normally have Adoration in the afternoon. This week it was changed to evening. I arrived to find a screen with the word Adoration projected on it. Throughout the adoration this screen was used to show songs and prayers that were being said in between a picture of an Advent Wreath was show. At the conclusion the projection was “Thank you for coming”. The Screen was above and to the side of the exposed Eucharist.

I felt distracted by the screen however my husband felt it kept his mind on the moment.

I would like others opinions on this. I also wonder if this is licit?

I’ve seen the same thing, along with Christian rock music I was unfamiliar with and no Tantum Ergo or Resposition. Actually, one I attended recently had no priest.

I’m a little confused now as what I’ve been experiencing lately in my current diocese is new to me. Adoration doesn’t have to have Benediction?

Yes, I have seen a Mass clip on YouTube with a video countdown.

See: youtube.com/watch?v=6f52cZoQFXs

Here’s a creative take on the Consecration:
youtube.com/watch?v=5zLU-uaebnA

I suppose its appealing in a theatrical way, but I’m not sure if something like that is permissible.

 

[benedictgal]

I must apologize, but,what the OP described sounds tacky. Have we gotten to the point that everything must now be on a screen? The folks living in the time of St. Thomas Aquinas certainly didn’t need a video screen to explain to them what to do (of course, they didn’t exist at that time, but electronic devices really have no place in liturgy). They knew exactly what was happening.

 

[AJV]

We normally have Adoration in the afternoon. This week it was changed to evening. I arrived to find a screen with the word Adoration projected on it. Throughout the adoration this screen was used to show songs and prayers that were being said in between a picture of an Advent Wreath was show. At the conclusion the projection was “Thank you for coming”. The Screen was above and to the side of the exposed Eucharist.

I felt distracted by the screen however my husband felt it kept his mind on the moment.

I would like others opinions on this. I also wonder if this is licit?

At my previous parish, the screens (outside the sanctuary and on either side on the walls) were used to display songs, prayers and meditations. I used to actually find that quite helpful since they were sufficiently to the side to ignore but I could also look up and read a prayer or mediation off the screen. There wasn’t a “Thank you for coming” but there used to be constantly changing quotes on Eucharistic Adoration.