I needed to read this "If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed." -St. Francis de Sales
My first experience of Adoration is what made me become Catholic. It is such a powerful experience of devotional prayer and worship, with no agenda but to adore Jesus. Love it.
I went to my parish’s Eucharistic Adoration for the first time two weeks ago and upon entering the chapel I felt the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit. The was room was entirely filled with a supernatural peace unlike I had ever experienced. I knew that I knew that Jesus was there. It was so beautiful.
Thank you Bishop Barron!! I love Eucharistic adoration! I'm a 30 something millennial converting from protestantism then being sort of none/agnostic/pantheist/whateverist to Catholicism, and other than God's Grace and stumbling on some good apologists, the two biggest factors for my growth in faith have 100% been praying the rosary daily and Eucharistic adoration. I can't receive communion yet, but 100% believe in the real presence and I love the opportunity to just be in peaceful silence with our Lord, especially since I can't take communion yet. I have gotten a lot of peace and insights and other wonderful things from this practice, besides just being able to adore Christ in another beautiful way. I also have a master's degree, so I'm not a typical "peasant rube" either (not that that should even matter anyway). I will surely continue this after I can take communion as well. I think people really need the opportunity for these sorts of more contemplative practices in our modern busy world today because we barely slow down enough to even notice God much of the time, let alone just sit and be with and converse with and listen to Him. How are we supposed to love Him and believe in Him and have Faith if we never spend any time with Him or get to know Him? I find this practice so important in that way. Plus I have seen some Catholic friends and family who sometimes seem to look outside the Church for some of these contemplative practices, particularly to New Age and Eastern traditions, not even realizing how much of these practices Catholics already have inside their own tradition and have been doing for centuries! Plus I love that this practice is returning since I read some pretty abysmal statistics recently about the number of US Catholics who don't believe in the real presence or transubstantiation, so maybe having this more widely available will help to remind people of what the Eucharist truely contains. Thank you so much for the work you do!
Nothing feels more peaceful, loving and warm than adoration in my churche's tiny adjoined chapel. It's a blessing to have perpetual adoration. If I'm going past or before mass I go visit Jesus and rest in His love. How wonderful must heaven be if this peace and joy is achievable on earth from His presence?
"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised adored and loved with grateful, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen." This prayer sinks in when conscious of the Eucharistic miracle in Lanciano.
Yes i am dumb I went to Mass every Sunday I had a huge problem and I went into the Church next to our school one day through the week when i was in grade 5 and it was empty .I was upset with God and I needed help HE replied out loud DONT WORRY .I am now coming up to seventy years of age and I have relied on the most beautiful gift we have in the Catholic Church .The Blessed Eurcharist and the Holy Spirit within the Church . The only time i have missed Mass was because the Church was closed because of the virus
My dearest friend found Christ and his moment of conversion was made real in the presence of Christ in the blessed sacrament. When I brought him to the tabernacle, I spoke of the love that is Jesus and of him there, body, blood, soul and divinity; My friend and I did not want to leave, save for our earthly obligations. May their eyes be opened, those who do not appreciate the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist,
Eucharistic adoration is where you get lost in the depth of the love, the light, the peace. The life, God is present. Where you find home. I could live there. If only, if we could, I would live there.
My real name is Maria Adoracion. My parents conceived me after my father spent 2 years doing Adoracion Nocturna (dusk-dawn Adoration) in the Philippines. I am their youngest child. I am a poor sinner, but in the Eucharist, I see God's Grace in the life He has given me and how He is still working on me. I have fallen many times, but Adoration is where I belong here on Earth and in Heaven.
I kneel down.I humble myself in front of He that Is...I believe He is there blood and body.I tremble with joy.I cry knowing that Jesus Christ is there..so very close to me.How great is He.How imenso is His love for me.Yes í feel him.Why is it so hard to believe it when he created all ..died for us so that we may live.He is everything.He created everything.He is present and gives keeps on giving all of Him to us.Glory be.Oh Lord my God..thank you .
I went to Eucharistic Adoration for the first time today and it was amazing. As soon as I opened the door it was as if Jesus were standing there waiting for me. I only stayed for a few minutes, but in that few minutes I knew I was in the presence of God. I am definately going to start going more regulary and increase my time there. And I recommend to anyone considering Eucharistic Adoration to go, Jesus is waiting for you.
Sooooooooo Beautiful the act of Communing with God. Thank You God for allowing us to Commune with you Thank You Thank You Thank You :))))))))))))))))))))))
+dim sung It's hard to not be a little complicated when talking about time and eternity. Keep in mind the perspective that - The salvific actions of Christ on earth transcend time. Just as we continually worship the same Jesus Christ from 2000 years ago we also continually participate through the mass in the same Everlasting Sacrifice of Christ that entered into time 2000 years ago. For a great explanation read this article. www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/REALLYSC.HTM
Thank you Bishop Barren for defending Eucharist Adoration. Every time I visit our Lord in the Holy Eucharist I experience love flowing into my heart, and my love, in return, grows for my God which gives me peace and joy.
Dear Father Barron. How painful he finds that attacks of atheist hostility on the Church. Peace to you, Dear Father Barron, I thank God for your brave meeting with the atheist world, thank God for you. I love listening to your talks, I am fully on the side of truth as you are, I am grateful for your lovely talks, I thank God for you. Pray for me, dear Father, that I too will find my way to speak up publicly for our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, our Father, the Holy Spirit, three in one God who we adore, worship, love, serve, gaze at "through a glass darkly" and one beautiful day without that dark glass. I love you and pray for you and thank God again for you. Keep working for God and for us and for all who watch your videos. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
1 Corinthians 13:12 My favorite verse. How beautiful. I am praying for you tonight at Adoration 177 September 28, 2018 at 7:00pm MST, Margaret and from then on, you and your intentions of Fr. Barron's bridging work in the media.
I just started with adoration eucharist and is so peaceful in there that I can’t describe, I just love the Adoration Eucharist…Thank you God for giving us so many gifts to help us get closer to you…
Thank you, Bishop Barron! I seem to always get an inspiration on what to write in my articles when I am before Our Lord at Adoration! You have inspired me to write an article on the origin of Eucharistic Adoration and the stories of many saints who have attributed a “miraculous” answer to prayer through Adoration!
Amen! Just like our wonderful Lord was with the people of His day, He is with us today as well! Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me home to the glorious Church Jesus built.
I love your intellect. I have begun my adoration practice, and I value the time I spend with Jesus. Looking to how I can value it even more. This video has helped. God bless you Bishop Barron.
Thank You Father Barron for reinforcing the practice of being in awe and admiration of The Savior God present in the church, in the tabernacle or in The Monstrance in our presence. We who are insignificant by comparison to God Most High sit and kneel before He who sits both in the church and at the right hand of God on His Majestic throne in heaven. What mere human sinner could possibly not be in awe of that incredible reality provided by God through His one True Church ? WHO IS LIKE UNTO GOD !
Eucharistic Adoration is one of the most unique, sublime, and distinctive features of shared Catholic spiritual experience which across the entire world, makes brute men fall on their knees silent like lambs to contemplate Love listening to them, and their hearts are now bent listening intently to Love. No other Church has this unique shared experience, anywhere around the world except the Catholic.
Nicely said. Not to mention it nourishes our souls and gives us enlightenment and for me peace! As sinful as I am I sit, or kneel as long as I can, in front of the Lord. Some days it is more transforming than others but if one can do it for hours then life a different thing.
Eucharistic adoration is so beautiful. God made Man became the very food for our journey. It's not enough that He loves us and took away our sin. He actually became our source of life. And sometimes we forget that. Eucharistic adoration reminds us of this fact.
Thank You Jesus for giving Yourself in the Eucharist. Jesus, King of the Creation, help me to encounter You personally in the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus, my Redeemer, You are seated at the right hand of the Father, give me Grace to have unshakable faith in Your real presence in the Eucharist. Thank You Jesus, You said it because You are the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. Amen.
I really missed the Venerable Fulton Sheen in bishop Barron's list of great intellectuals who practiced Eucharistic Adoration. Archbishop Sheen time and again insisted that everyday he spent at least one hour in front of the blessed Sacrament, and attested that that was the source of his intellectual, physical and moral strengh.
The great gift Bishop Sheen had he could relate the Bible the Church and the Sacarments and living as a Catholic in the real word .He explained Confession and the Holy Spirit so perfectly and simple as a small example
The parish i go to has a separate, but attached, Eucharist Adoration chapel. I go in there after every confession, bow with my nose on the ground, and pray to Our Lord. It's so peaceful, especially after a confession.
Pray with all your heart, soul and being. Say the Rosary for your family, world, yourself, poor souls in purgatory...end of abortion, euthanasia...sit in front of the Eucharist and then look at the Cross behind it and think of Christ's love for us and our suffering....feel his love for you.....
Eucharist is the real Living presence of Jesus Christ in the tabernacle.All human beings must adore Him as the angels in heaven keep praising Him with words Holy..Holy....Holy etc.So adoration is like God's presence in heaven. Priests are consecrated for this purpose i.e., to utter the words to transform the host into the body of Christ,so that Jesus continues to live in our midst.
tim spangler "They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead." - St. Ignatius of Antioch. Ordained as a priest in the year 69 AD by Saint Peter
I was enrolled as a registered adorar in my church for 13 years. I was there every Friday night at 11 pm for an hour. I never missed a night. We were supposed to be there with a partner but many times, for months on end, I was by myself. And a few nights, the person following me did not show up, so I stayed to keep Our Lord company. I refused to leave Him alone. It was a PRIVILEGE to just be in His presence for an hour. This is the God that created EVERYTHING that exists! He created planets and galaxies with infinite amounts of other stars and other planets and you would not want to be in that presence? But I suppose if Bruce SPringsteen was going to ask you to sit with him for an hour, you would break your neck to get there. Which one has more value? You can't SEE GOD so I suppose you don't believe He's there. But you can see Bruce so you can actually see him to believe he's there. Just sitting there is fine, if that's all you can think of doing. SOmetimes the relationship between 2 good friends is just to sit together and say nothing. Husbands and wives do it all the time. But you can pray a rosary for the Holy SOuls in Purgatory, then you can help those souls who need our prayers. You can read a passage from the Bible. Or read a book on the life of a saint, someone like Padre Pio and his miracles. Any spiritually inspired book would be good. Or simply talk to Him, as you would talk to a friend. Tell Him about your life, what is bothering you, what made you happy that day or what you want to accomplish in your life. God already knows what's happening in your life, but HE wants to hear it from your lips. Tell HIM! And sometimes I would be so tired after a day's worth of work that I would fall asleep. My friend told me, "That's when you're sleeping in Jesus' arms". These are some of the things you can do. Be creative. Jesus loves your efforts, no matter how silly or devout. For me Jesus, is very personal. I simply talk to Him.
And I suppose that the Byzantine Liturgy doesn't represent any development from the Last Supper! And friend, the Trinity is never explicitly mentioned in the New Testament, but it is indeed a development of ideas implicit in the New Testament. I'm afraid you're locking yourself into a position as indefensible as Luther's. He said sola Scriptura and you say "early Church fathers alone." But you both deny that the Spirit continues to guide the Church into all truth.
Eucharistic Adoration along with the Divine Mercy devotion after confession is extremely moving. I feel the Holy Spirit in my heart working and feel a loving spiritual fire healing me. And you know what the shocking part is? Im only 16.
Your Excellency, so much of what you have so correctly and beautifully said, can be said, just as well, of the Traditional Latin Mass. Beauty saves us. Truth saves us . Beauty and Truth save us. The Beauty of the Truth and the Truth of Beauty save us.
Well I am not educated on all those topics but I have to say that one night I was in the adoration chapel and I took a few minutes to observe the other people staring at Jesus in the Eucharist and it was one of the most surreal and beautiful few minutes of my life. I don't have words to describe what I felt as I never experienced anything similar to have words in my vocabulary to use to describe it but it was a beautiful experience
I am glad I am Roman Catholic and we have Jesus as a source and Summit of our faith. Protestants do not know what they are missing here they lacked the supernatural belief in the Eucharist.
@GlorifiedTruth The change that takes place happens at the level of substance or fundamental ontological identity. It doesn't happen at the level of appearance. That's why we call it "transsubstantiation."
But so what? Why are the "early Christians" the final criterion of truth? I stand with John Henry Newman who spoke of the development of doctrine and practice. The Mississippi is far more interesting and navigable at the mouth than at the source. So, Newman argued, Thomas Aquinas could have a far more developed and adequate understanding of the Eucharist than, say, St. Augustine. What finally matters is the Lord's promise that the Spirit would guide us into all truth.
Thanks for your comments, but I think that's too strong. After all, the Novus Ordo nourished the spiritual lives of John Paul II and Mother Teresa. And the problem isn't Vatican II, but its shaky implementation, especially in our country.
Bishop Baron, well done. I often wonder about comments whether it is about Adoration or maybe the Rosary. All the names you mentioned in the video if only we could become as educated and devoted to the faith as these people. Rather then being critical, perhaps we can through prayer grow and develop a spirituality such as Jacques Martin, Edith Stein, Teihard de Chardin, G.K. Chesterton and many more. As always, thank you for again setting the bar very high.
I was that one went against God every way I could until I heard his calling. Many study, research for truth, I swear evey once of me belong to Catholic Church, period. Say no more. No more questions. I believe Jesus is the REAL PRESENCE every time the priest holds the bread n wine for consecration. I can't wait to receive Him. I feel strange feeling I never had, never had at that point, ever mass.
O Come Holy Spirit, Living In Mary. Teach us Love, Faith and Hope. 1 Cor 12:31-13:13 “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” Jn 6:63 😇 St. Joan of Arc please pray 4us
For Catholics attending Mass, I’m not even sure we could stop Eucharistic Adoration if we were to try. Mass being the prayer of prayers, we are either in, coming to, or going from the Eucharist. The formal ritual of Eucharistic Adoration is simply the recognition of this basic truth. I suppose we can try, and maybe persist, but the Eucharist will still be there, waiting for us. All prayer leads to the Eucharistic Prayer, and then we’re never out of relation to the Eucharist. Might as well get used to it. EA is a good way to do that.
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; Matthew 11 : 25, Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
@symplythebest ...According to a good chunk of research, there is a connection between spiritual experience and heightened activity in the temporal lobes of the brain (the part that controls auditory functions, speech, visual processing and memory). So strong is this connection that spiritual experience can be induced in most people by stimulating the temporal lobes. However, there are some people who are resistant to temporal lobe stimulation, and only report things like headaches...
I would have liked to hear Fr Barron mention St Peter Julian Eymard in this video. Fr Peter Julian Eymard was a priest at the time of the French Revolution, and founded an order devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. Fr Barron's comments about Eucharistic Adoration sound very Eymardian to me.
+Tim Spangler If you reject the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, you reject Jesus. Period. Jesus says the bread is his body, who are you to tell Jesus he's wrong? If I were you I would just shut up. You are all over UA-cam mocking the Eucharist. I would not want to face Jesus if I were you. That is his body, show some respect or just shut up.
+Prancer1231 Yes, Tim! What kind of cannibal and vampire are you?!! Don't you remember, when Jesus left the Upper Room enroute to Gethsemane, He was missing a leg, a thigh and part of His breast because the Disciples had eaten them as they drank His blood? (I believe Peter preferred the white meat of the breast while John preferred the dark meat of the leg.) And remember how Caiaphas remarked how Jesus was so pale white and He explained that it was because the Disciples had drained His arteries? What's your problem, Tim? Obviously you flunked Paganism 101! HA! :-) -- Blessings, John Donahue
Catholics do worship the Eucharist at every Mass (and we are obliged to do so once a week). Some find it beneficial to do so more frequently; it is a meaningful part of their spiritual life, it brings them closer to God. So what's the problem with that? Note also that God doesn't need our adoration. This is for OUR benefit. It helps us breath in the divine life ... so we can exhale it (giving away to others).
I had to go back to the beginning of the video to ascertain if it is a Protestant or a Catholic who thought that the practice of Adoration should be abandoned. It is very sad to see that it is a Catholic priest. We should all humbly request God to give us grace to advance in our faith. He and others should see the miracles on the Eucharist. Sublime.
It was not till, what the 4th century, when the early Christians defined doctrinally that the Trinity is what God is like. I hope whoever is against the Church takes that into account when they envision the early Christians.
@GlorifiedTruth Indeed it is what Fr. Barron says. As Thomas Aquinas puts it 'the substance change, but the "accidents" remain bread and wine'. With 'substance' it is intended what somethin IS onthologically, with 'accident' it is intended the apperace of something to the 'senses'.
Thank for this. I hope to begin Eucharist Adoration this week. Where I live it seems to be available only once a week. Why cant this be every hour, every day?
Oh yeah, I definitely agree. I was saying it wasn't doctrinally defined. I was attempting to show EschatologicalChurch that he doesn't know history. Something may not be doctrinally defined doesn't mean it's not already believed or true.
@NullIsNotAnObject Was Jesus' raising of Jairus's daughter or Lazarus witchcraft? Those took place through the creative power of the divine word. The same claim is made in regard to the eucharist, which changes through the power of Jesus' word. Eating the eucharist is not cannibalism, because we are not devouring his body in its proper species but in its sacramental species.
Perhaps also, the context argument fails in so far as it assumes a temporal separation between the eucharist in the context of liturgy and tabernacle. I have found it useful to approach eucharistic adoration as being open to God's presence, by attempting myself to be present - any form of attention mediation (counting breaths, listening to a particular sound) is very helpful.
While I too believe in Eucharistic adoration ,people sometimes can get very superstitious.As Father Mcbrien pointed out sometimes after The eucharist was adored they would sing "Good Night Sweet Jesus" as they returned the Eucharist as if they were putting Christ "to Bed". Also at the chapel in my church there is a 24 hr Eucharistic Adoration program.I remember when they couldn^t find some people to worship at 2am or 3am they would say "Jesus would be Lonely",that^s carrying a bit too far
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ Thank you 💛💛🙏🙏🙏 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." Matthew 26 : 26 And he took a chalice, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you; Matthew 26 : 27 for this is my blood of thecovenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Matthew 26 : 28 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; John 6 : 53 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. John 6 : 54 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. John 6 : 55 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. John 6 : 56 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. John 6 : 57 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." John 6 : 58 This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Caper'na-um. John 6 : 59 Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" John 6 : 60 ......................................... .......... After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer walked with him. John 6 : 66
I needed to read this "If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed."
-St. Francis de Sales
My first experience of Adoration is what made me become Catholic. It is such a powerful experience of devotional prayer and worship, with no agenda but to adore Jesus. Love it.
It is the worship of Christ's real presence in the eucharist.
Notre dame
If we can't worship God, then what are we at
I went to my parish’s Eucharistic Adoration for the first time two weeks ago and upon entering the chapel I felt the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit. The was room was entirely filled with a supernatural peace unlike I had ever experienced. I knew that I knew that Jesus was there. It was so beautiful.
Thank you Bishop Barron!! I love Eucharistic adoration! I'm a 30 something millennial converting from protestantism then being sort of none/agnostic/pantheist/whateverist to Catholicism, and other than God's Grace and stumbling on some good apologists, the two biggest factors for my growth in faith have 100% been praying the rosary daily and Eucharistic adoration. I can't receive communion yet, but 100% believe in the real presence and I love the opportunity to just be in peaceful silence with our Lord, especially since I can't take communion yet. I have gotten a lot of peace and insights and other wonderful things from this practice, besides just being able to adore Christ in another beautiful way. I also have a master's degree, so I'm not a typical "peasant rube" either (not that that should even matter anyway). I will surely continue this after I can take communion as well. I think people really need the opportunity for these sorts of more contemplative practices in our modern busy world today because we barely slow down enough to even notice God much of the time, let alone just sit and be with and converse with and listen to Him. How are we supposed to love Him and believe in Him and have Faith if we never spend any time with Him or get to know Him? I find this practice so important in that way. Plus I have seen some Catholic friends and family who sometimes seem to look outside the Church for some of these contemplative practices, particularly to New Age and Eastern traditions, not even realizing how much of these practices Catholics already have inside their own tradition and have been doing for centuries! Plus I love that this practice is returning since I read some pretty abysmal statistics recently about the number of US Catholics who don't believe in the real presence or transubstantiation, so maybe having this more widely available will help to remind people of what the Eucharist truely contains. Thank you so much for the work you do!
We "receive".....not take, communion.
Amen! Welcome Home 🙏
All the blessings!!
Eucharistic Adoration is amazingly peaceful & fulfilling!
Amen
Nothing feels more peaceful, loving and warm than adoration in my churche's tiny adjoined chapel. It's a blessing to have perpetual adoration. If I'm going past or before mass I go visit Jesus and rest in His love. How wonderful must heaven be if this peace and joy is achievable on earth from His presence?
that is awesome keep it up
"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised adored and loved with grateful, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen."
This prayer sinks in when conscious of the Eucharistic miracle in Lanciano.
“We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist, the moment we do, something breaks.” St. Theresa of Calcutta
My heart aches unceasingly for this reason because I broke my heart.
@Raffzeee It's a time to commune with the Lord, and that communion always makes you hungry for the Mass.
I love Eucharistic Adoration. I just love being there in the chapel. It's quiet, peaceful and I'm in good company. It couldn't be better.
Yes i am dumb I went to Mass every Sunday I had a huge problem and I went into the Church next to our school one day through the week when i was in grade 5 and it was empty .I was upset with God and I needed help HE replied out loud DONT WORRY .I am now coming up to seventy years of age and I have relied on the most beautiful gift we have in the Catholic Church .The Blessed Eurcharist and the Holy Spirit within the Church . The only time i have missed Mass was because the Church was closed because of the virus
My dearest friend found Christ and his moment of conversion was made real in the presence of Christ in the blessed sacrament. When I brought him to the tabernacle, I spoke of the love that is Jesus and of him there, body, blood, soul and divinity; My friend and I did not want to leave, save for our earthly obligations. May their eyes be opened, those who do not appreciate the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist,
I love spending time with the Eucharist.
Eucharistic adoration is where you get lost in the depth of the love, the light, the peace. The life, God is present. Where you find home. I could live there. If only, if we could, I would live there.
Good message, even in 2023. Eucharistic adoration changes people.
I am so thankful to you, father Barron, for your teaching. This is food for the soul. God bless you.
Yes, Jesus is truly and substantially present in the Eucharist.
Rrok vukel
Eucharistic Adoration is fulfilling & i love adoring christ in the tabernacle im fill that he is really present there!
My real name is Maria Adoracion. My parents conceived me after my father spent 2 years doing Adoracion Nocturna (dusk-dawn Adoration) in the Philippines. I am their youngest child. I am a poor sinner, but in the Eucharist, I see God's Grace in the life He has given me and how He is still working on me. I have fallen many times, but Adoration is where I belong here on Earth and in Heaven.
I kneel down.I humble myself in front of He that Is...I believe He is there blood and body.I tremble with joy.I cry knowing that Jesus Christ is there..so very close to me.How great is He.How imenso is His love for me.Yes í feel him.Why is it so hard to believe it when he created all ..died for us so that we may live.He is everything.He created everything.He is present and gives keeps on giving all of Him to us.Glory be.Oh Lord my God..thank you .
O Heavenly Father, I pray, lead me to you..the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. AMEN 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
God Bless you Bishop!
Thank you Bishop Barron.
I went to Eucharistic Adoration for the first time today and it was amazing. As soon as I opened the door it was as if Jesus were standing there waiting for me. I only stayed for a few minutes, but in that few minutes I knew I was in the presence of God. I am definately going to start going more regulary and increase my time there. And I recommend to anyone considering Eucharistic Adoration to go, Jesus is waiting for you.
Sooooooooo Beautiful the act of Communing with God. Thank You God for allowing us to Commune with you Thank You Thank You Thank You :))))))))))))))))))))))
***** They either will not answer, or will provide an extremely complicated, yet totally deceptive answer.
+dim sung It's hard to not be a little complicated when talking about time and eternity. Keep in mind the perspective that - The salvific actions of Christ on earth transcend time. Just as we continually worship the same Jesus Christ from 2000 years ago we also continually participate through the mass in the same Everlasting Sacrifice of Christ that entered into time 2000 years ago. For a great explanation read this article. www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/REALLYSC.HTM
adoration gives me joy too
Thank you Bishop Barren for defending Eucharist Adoration. Every time I visit our Lord in the Holy Eucharist I experience love flowing into my heart, and my love, in return, grows for my God which gives me peace and joy.
Dear Father Barron. How painful he finds that attacks of atheist hostility on the Church. Peace to you, Dear Father Barron, I thank God for your brave meeting with the atheist world, thank God for you. I love listening to your talks, I am fully on the side of truth as you are, I am grateful for your lovely talks, I thank God for you. Pray for me, dear Father, that I too will find my way to speak up publicly for our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, our Father, the Holy Spirit, three in one God who we adore, worship, love, serve, gaze at "through a glass darkly" and one beautiful day without that dark glass. I love you and pray for you and thank God again for you. Keep working for God and for us and for all who watch your videos. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
1 Corinthians 13:12 My favorite verse. How beautiful. I am praying for you tonight at Adoration 177 September 28, 2018 at 7:00pm MST, Margaret and from then on, you and your intentions of Fr. Barron's bridging work in the media.
Holy eucharist is the most adorable place ,it is a life changing experience in our daily life
The closer I try my best to get closer to Jesus as my savior and best friend; the better life gets. Can never ever stop trying my best as a weak human
I just started with adoration eucharist and is so peaceful in there that I can’t describe, I just love the Adoration Eucharist…Thank you God for giving us so many gifts to help us get closer to you…
Thank you, Bishop Barron! I seem
to always get an inspiration on what to write in my articles when I am before Our Lord at Adoration! You have inspired me to write an article on the origin of Eucharistic Adoration and the stories of many saints who have attributed a “miraculous” answer to prayer through Adoration!
Amen! Just like our wonderful Lord was with the people of His day, He is with us today as well!
Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me home to the glorious Church Jesus built.
I love your intellect. I have begun my adoration practice, and I value the time I spend with Jesus. Looking to how I can value it even more. This video has helped. God bless you Bishop Barron.
Thank You Father Barron for reinforcing the practice of being in awe and admiration of The Savior God present in the church, in the tabernacle or in The Monstrance in our presence. We who are insignificant by comparison to God Most High sit and kneel before He who sits both in the church and at the right hand of God on His Majestic throne in heaven. What mere human sinner could possibly not be in awe of that incredible reality provided by God through His one True Church ? WHO IS LIKE UNTO GOD !
Eucharistic Adoration is one of the most unique, sublime, and distinctive features of shared Catholic spiritual experience which across the entire world, makes brute men fall on their knees silent like lambs to contemplate Love listening to them, and their hearts are now bent listening intently to Love. No other Church has this unique shared experience, anywhere around the world except the Catholic.
I've found eucharistic adoration really helpful to my own spiritual development. And thank you for mentioning my favorite saint, Saint Edith Stein.
Nicely said. Not to mention it nourishes our souls and gives us enlightenment and for me peace! As sinful as I am I sit, or kneel as long as I can, in front of the Lord. Some days it is more transforming than others but if one can do it for hours then life a different thing.
Eucharistic adoration is so beautiful. God made Man became the very food for our journey. It's not enough that He loves us and took away our sin. He actually became our source of life. And sometimes we forget that. Eucharistic adoration reminds us of this fact.
I love Adoration. I feel at peace - light and happy whenever I participate
I am blessed by the heavenly Father. Jesus Christ and the holy spirit.
Thank You Jesus for giving Yourself in the Eucharist. Jesus, King of the Creation, help me to encounter You personally in the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus, my Redeemer, You are seated at the right hand of the Father, give me Grace to have unshakable faith in Your real presence in the Eucharist. Thank You Jesus, You said it because You are the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. Amen.
Amen. I am fortunate to have a few Adoration Chapels near to my home. My favorite is at the Poor Clare's Monastery. Love spending time there.
Jesus is adorable!
Awsm!
Awsm!
The one true definition of the word.
My life changed when I started to spend time with the blessed sacrament... I don't know why I feel it more fulfilling that the mass 😳🙈
I really missed the Venerable Fulton Sheen in bishop Barron's list of great intellectuals who practiced Eucharistic Adoration. Archbishop Sheen time and again insisted that everyday he spent at least one hour in front of the blessed Sacrament, and attested that that was the source of his intellectual, physical and moral strengh.
I will pray for you. I will pray that the Lord guides you home and shows you the way.
It's idolirty
Crystal OO did you
Ewald Radavich idol a what? Idolatry ? How if that’s Jesus ?
The great gift Bishop Sheen had he could relate the Bible the Church and the Sacarments and living as a Catholic in the real word .He explained Confession and the Holy Spirit so perfectly and simple as a small example
The parish i go to has a separate, but attached, Eucharist Adoration chapel. I go in there after every confession, bow with my nose on the ground, and pray to Our Lord. It's so peaceful, especially after a confession.
Pray with all your heart, soul and being. Say the Rosary for your family, world, yourself, poor souls in purgatory...end of abortion, euthanasia...sit in front of the Eucharist and then look at the Cross behind it and think of Christ's love for us and our suffering....feel his love for you.....
Eucharist is the real Living presence of Jesus Christ in the tabernacle.All human beings must adore Him as the angels in heaven keep praising Him with words Holy..Holy....Holy etc.So adoration is like God's presence in heaven. Priests are consecrated for this purpose i.e., to utter the words to transform the host into the body of Christ,so that Jesus continues to live in our midst.
Joseph D I worship Jesus. I will NEVER worship a wafer.
The Eucharist is not a wafer. It is His body. It is HIM.
tim spangler "They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead." - St. Ignatius of Antioch. Ordained as a priest in the year 69 AD by Saint Peter
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www.ewtn.com/library/homelibr/historea.txt
History of Eucharistic Adoration at the above link.
I was enrolled as a registered adorar in my church for 13 years. I was there every Friday night at 11 pm for an hour. I never missed a night. We were supposed to be there with a partner but many times, for months on end, I was by myself. And a few nights, the person following me did not show up, so I stayed to keep Our Lord company. I refused to leave Him alone. It was a PRIVILEGE to just be in His presence for an hour. This is the God that created EVERYTHING that exists! He created planets and galaxies with infinite amounts of other stars and other planets and you would not want to be in that presence? But I suppose if Bruce SPringsteen was going to ask you to sit with him for an hour, you would break your neck to get there. Which one has more value? You can't SEE GOD so I suppose you don't believe He's there. But you can see Bruce so you can actually see him to believe he's there. Just sitting there is fine, if that's all you can think of doing. SOmetimes the relationship between 2 good friends is just to sit together and say nothing. Husbands and wives do it all the time. But you can pray a rosary for the Holy SOuls in Purgatory, then you can help those souls who need our prayers. You can read a passage from the Bible. Or read a book on the life of a saint, someone like Padre Pio and his miracles. Any spiritually inspired book would be good. Or simply talk to Him, as you would talk to a friend. Tell Him about your life, what is bothering you, what made you happy that day or what you want to accomplish in your life. God already knows what's happening in your life, but HE wants to hear it from your lips. Tell HIM! And sometimes I would be so tired after a day's worth of work that I would fall asleep. My friend told me, "That's when you're sleeping in Jesus' arms". These are some of the things you can do. Be creative. Jesus loves your efforts, no matter how silly or devout. For me Jesus, is very personal. I simply talk to Him.
Please pray that the priest in parish would want a Perpetual Adoration Chapel.
And I suppose that the Byzantine Liturgy doesn't represent any development from the Last Supper! And friend, the Trinity is never explicitly mentioned in the New Testament, but it is indeed a development of ideas implicit in the New Testament. I'm afraid you're locking yourself into a position as indefensible as Luther's. He said sola Scriptura and you say "early Church fathers alone." But you both deny that the Spirit continues to guide the Church into all truth.
This has got to be my favorite video of your yet! Awesome! My experience (experiences) at Adoration are what drew me to become Catholic. Great video!
Eucharistic Adoration along with the Divine Mercy devotion after confession is extremely moving. I feel the Holy Spirit in my heart working and feel a loving spiritual fire healing me. And you know what the shocking part is? Im only 16.
Very vital information to know, thank you so much Bishop Barron
"You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only." Jesus, in Matt. 4:10
EUCHARIST=HEART OF GOD JESUS= LOVE=DIVINE MERCY
Your Excellency, so much of what you have so correctly and beautifully said, can be said, just as well, of the Traditional Latin Mass. Beauty saves us. Truth saves us . Beauty and Truth save us. The Beauty of the Truth and the Truth of Beauty save us.
Makes all the sense in the world to me!
Well I am not educated on all those topics but I have to say that one night I was in the adoration chapel and I took a few minutes to observe the other people staring at Jesus in the Eucharist and it was one of the most surreal and beautiful few minutes of my life. I don't have words to describe what I felt as I never experienced anything similar to have words in my vocabulary to use to describe it but it was a beautiful experience
Thank you bishop! I pray you become pope!
Every Friday @10:00 pm. Next to Sunday Mass , my 2nd most important hour of the week
I am glad I am Roman Catholic and we have Jesus as a source and Summit of our faith. Protestants do not know what they are missing here they lacked the supernatural belief in the Eucharist.
Well said, as always, Bishop Barron.
@GlorifiedTruth The change that takes place happens at the level of substance or fundamental ontological identity. It doesn't happen at the level of appearance. That's why we call it "transsubstantiation."
But so what? Why are the "early Christians" the final criterion of truth? I stand with John Henry Newman who spoke of the development of doctrine and practice. The Mississippi is far more interesting and navigable at the mouth than at the source. So, Newman argued, Thomas Aquinas could have a far more developed and adequate understanding of the Eucharist than, say, St. Augustine. What finally matters is the Lord's promise that the Spirit would guide us into all truth.
Are the Church Fathers determinative in every way? Eucharistic adoration is a legitimate development from belief in the Real Presence.
Thanks for your comments, but I think that's too strong. After all, the Novus Ordo nourished the spiritual lives of John Paul II and Mother Teresa. And the problem isn't Vatican II, but its shaky implementation, especially in our country.
thank you too bishop
Bishop Baron, well done. I often wonder about comments whether it is about Adoration or maybe the Rosary. All the names you mentioned in the video if only we could become as educated and devoted to the faith as these people.
Rather then being critical, perhaps we can through prayer grow and develop a spirituality such as Jacques Martin, Edith Stein, Teihard de Chardin, G.K. Chesterton and many more. As always, thank you for again setting the bar very high.
I was that one went against God every way I could until I heard his calling. Many study, research for truth, I swear evey once of me belong to Catholic Church, period. Say no more. No more questions.
I believe Jesus is the REAL PRESENCE every time the priest holds the bread n wine for consecration. I can't wait to receive Him. I feel strange feeling I never had, never had at that point, ever mass.
Thank you for sharing 🙏
Going to my first one today, very excited
O Come Holy Spirit, Living In Mary. Teach us Love, Faith and Hope.
1 Cor 12:31-13:13
“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” Jn 6:63
😇 St. Joan of Arc please pray 4us
AMEN 🙏
Excellent, you nailed it!
Love this one
For Catholics attending Mass, I’m not even sure we could stop Eucharistic Adoration if we were to try. Mass being the prayer of prayers, we are either in, coming to, or going from the Eucharist. The formal ritual of Eucharistic Adoration is simply the recognition of this basic truth.
I suppose we can try, and maybe persist, but the Eucharist will still be there, waiting for us. All prayer leads to the Eucharistic Prayer, and then we’re never out of relation to the Eucharist. Might as well get used to it. EA is a good way to do that.
Thank you.
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;
Matthew 11 : 25, Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
Bishop Sheen did one hour adoration everyday of his adult life
Stein was just remarkable.
@symplythebest ...According to a good chunk of research, there is a connection between spiritual experience and heightened activity in the temporal lobes of the brain (the part that controls auditory functions, speech, visual processing and memory). So strong is this connection that spiritual experience can be induced in most people by stimulating the temporal lobes. However, there are some people who are resistant to temporal lobe stimulation, and only report things like headaches...
I would have liked to hear Fr Barron mention St Peter Julian Eymard in this video. Fr Peter Julian Eymard was a priest at the time of the French Revolution, and founded an order devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. Fr Barron's comments about Eucharistic Adoration sound very Eymardian to me.
I have been told that Saint John Paul the Great wrote the entire work of the Theology of the Body during Eucharistic adoration.
Matrim Cefore That explains a lot.
+Tim Spangler If you reject the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, you reject Jesus. Period. Jesus says the bread is his body, who are you to tell Jesus he's wrong? If I were you I would just shut up. You are all over UA-cam mocking the Eucharist. I would not want to face Jesus if I were you. That is his body, show some respect or just shut up.
+Prancer1231 Yes, Tim! What kind of cannibal and vampire are you?!! Don't you remember, when Jesus left the Upper Room enroute to Gethsemane, He was missing a leg, a thigh and part of His breast because the Disciples had eaten them as they drank His blood? (I believe Peter preferred the white meat of the breast while John preferred the dark meat of the leg.) And remember how Caiaphas remarked how Jesus was so pale white and He explained that it was because the Disciples had drained His arteries? What's your problem, Tim? Obviously you flunked Paganism 101! HA! :-) -- Blessings, John Donahue
Must be where the term "finger food" came from.
Matrim Cefore, they say most of his encyclicals were written in front of the Blessed sacrament
Catholics do worship the Eucharist at every Mass (and we are obliged to do so once a week). Some find it beneficial to do so more frequently; it is a meaningful part of their spiritual life, it brings them closer to God. So what's the problem with that? Note also that God doesn't need our adoration. This is for OUR benefit. It helps us breath in the divine life ... so we can exhale it (giving away to others).
I had to go back to the beginning of the video to ascertain if it is a Protestant or a Catholic who thought that the practice of Adoration should be abandoned. It is very sad to see that it is a Catholic priest. We should all humbly request God to give us grace to advance in our faith. He and others should see the miracles on the Eucharist. Sublime.
Is not required as a practising catholic.
We can make it own mind up about it.
Is God sending himself to live as a human being and to die a humiliating and painful death too far? You can never go too far for God.
It was not till, what the 4th century, when the early Christians defined doctrinally that the Trinity is what God is like. I hope whoever is against the Church takes that into account when they envision the early Christians.
@GlorifiedTruth Indeed it is what Fr. Barron says.
As Thomas Aquinas puts it 'the substance change, but the "accidents" remain bread and wine'.
With 'substance' it is intended what somethin IS onthologically, with 'accident' it is intended the apperace of something to the 'senses'.
Thank for this. I hope to begin Eucharist Adoration this week. Where I live it seems to be available only once a week. Why cant this be every hour, every day?
Oh yeah, I definitely agree. I was saying it wasn't doctrinally defined. I was attempting to show EschatologicalChurch that he doesn't know history. Something may not be doctrinally defined doesn't mean it's not already believed or true.
More Jesus is a good thing, yes?
I can't wait to join E. A in Jun.
@icimblind - It is the duty of the writer to make him/herself clear!
Sister Briege McKenna, OSC, spends no less than three hours a day before the Blessed Sacrament. She affectionately refers to it as "Son Bathing"
@NullIsNotAnObject Was Jesus' raising of Jairus's daughter or Lazarus witchcraft? Those took place through the creative power of the divine word. The same claim is made in regard to the eucharist, which changes through the power of Jesus' word. Eating the eucharist is not cannibalism, because we are not devouring his body in its proper species but in its sacramental species.
Perhaps also, the context argument fails in so far as it assumes a temporal separation between the eucharist in the context of liturgy and tabernacle. I have found it useful to approach eucharistic adoration as being open to God's presence, by attempting myself to be present - any form of attention mediation (counting breaths, listening to a particular sound) is very helpful.
history and a personal relationship with God say otherwise
While I too believe in Eucharistic adoration ,people sometimes can get very superstitious.As Father Mcbrien pointed out sometimes after The eucharist was adored they would sing "Good Night Sweet Jesus" as they returned the Eucharist as if they were putting Christ "to Bed". Also at the chapel in my church there is a 24 hr Eucharistic Adoration program.I remember when they couldn^t find some people to worship at 2am or 3am they would say "Jesus would be Lonely",that^s carrying a bit too far
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ
Thank you 💛💛🙏🙏🙏
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Matthew 26 : 26
And he took a chalice, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you;
Matthew 26 : 27
for this is my blood of thecovenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 26 : 28
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;
John 6 : 53
he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6 : 54
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6 : 55
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
John 6 : 56
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.
John 6 : 57
This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever."
John 6 : 58
This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Caper'na-um.
John 6 : 59
Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"
John 6 : 60
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After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer walked with him.
John 6 : 66