What Do We Do in Adoration?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- There are many things we can do during Eucharistic Adoration, but to make the time most effective there are certain things we should do. Fr. Josh puts forth some simple guidelines you can use to help you improve your relationship with God through Adoration.
We ought to kneel before the Lord, but if kneeling starts to become painful and distracts us from focusing on God, making us focus on our pain instead, we should sit or lie prostrate. As Fr. Josh says, we want to be comfortable enough to remain focused on the Lord, but not so comfortable that our thoughts start to drift off.
Adoration is a liturgical act that can bring our hearts closer to God when done right. Listen to his voice by reading the Bible. Then share your heart.
Remember the Pirate’s Prayer: ARRR - acknowledge, relate, receive, respond. Acknowledge that you are in the presence of the Lord. Relate with the Lord through your own life. Receive the blessings he is offering to you. Then respond by making some resolution to bring God into your life as you leave Adoration.
Another helpful guide for Adoration is the Rosary, especially if you incorporate lectio divina into it as you pray. Using these five steps while praying a Rosary in Adoration is time well-spent:
Read the Scripture verses associated with each mystery
Meditate on each mystery
Pray each decade
Contemplate by simply sitting in the presence of the Lord
Resolve to invite God into your life in a deeper way as you leave Adoration.
For more great guidelines and advice on how to make Adoration a more powerful part of you life, keep an eye out for Fr. Josh’s upcoming book, Pocket Guide to Adoration.
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Communion with God, no better place to be!
“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
I love adoration during adoration I can't stop crying
I love Eucharistic Adoration. It has really helped me. It has such an enlightening effect. It has helped me understand and find solutions to my problems. I love having Adoration online 24/7. I don't have to wait. I can do it every day. HE is with us.
Does Virtual Adoration count?
Virtual adoration started during the period of COVID-19.Thru virtual adoration also blessing pours.But it is better you sit in front of live adoration,since COVID 19 is not in the world
A church in our diocese has 24/7 Eucharistic Adoration with two committed adorers for every hour around the clock! It has been going on for 27 years so far. The blessings that overflow into the church, school, parish families, youth group, etc. has been undeniable.
Ginny and Eric that’s a beautiful thing! I wish more parishes would make that available to the laity. I have a neighboring parish that offers it but I always feel like a outsider there.
Protopiper We’ve heard it took some major convincing by the original person who brought the idea of a perpetual adoration chapel to the Priest. More parishes need it for sure! Sad to hear you feel like an outsider there. Hope that changes 🙏🏼
AMEN! awesome. . . . GOD BLESS from the philippines
I desperately want to have 24/7 Adoration in our parish but I was told we can't even get enough people for that once a month! We have every Thursday 9 to 9 Adoration but it used to be 24 hours. I told the person who organizes it that the education about Eucharistic Adoration is not taught or talked about by the priest. I hope we can work at changing things! Blessings to you and your church!
Andrea Jerabek Prayers for your as you navigate the decision. Hope it works out! It’s a true blessing for our church but took a lot of convincing by the original woman who had the idea to start it (so I’m told). 🙏🏼💛
I love eucharistic adoration!!!
Eucharistic Guardian here. I did adoration yesterday, and I am going back today after mass. It's always such a wonderful way to refocus your spirituality.
this video was such good timing! I just got home from adoration ❤
Me too, I love adoration
Just what I needed today as my church resumes Adoration: thank you Father!
Stubenville Ohio. Just heard from Dr. Marshall that the Bishop took away their (students) monthly TLM. Prayers for that Bishop.
Great information! I liked what he said to be the imitation of Jesus.
This video is worth repeated viewing. It's rich in information and tools that I won't recall after one listening. I do have a great start for my next adoration in a couple days though and I hit the like button so I can grab it again later on.
I love adoration.
Thanks a lot Fr. Josh! Adoration seems like an "easy" thing on the surface but whenever I tried it for real, I got distracted or unfocused... I will try the methods you mentioned for sure :)
This video gives a good starting base for how you could pray (even if you are not Catholic).
Thank you so much Father Josh, for sharing Adoration in a more understandable way. Your mention of Lectio Divina is beautiful! I am in formation to becoming a Benedictine Oblate and I have fallen in love with the Divine Mercy Chaplet as well as Eucharistic Adoration! Many blessings to you!
Beautiful, Fr. Josh. God Bless You!
Thank you father for your insight and information. I am inspired to find a Eucharistic Adoration and do my best to create that relationship with God. Bless you.
Thank you Fr Josh that was amazingly helpful!
Thank you Father
Thank you father, very informative🙏
Thank you!
I have some chapels and my church has an hour on Saturdays.
It is the resolution part that I lack. Hard for me to carry my joy from Adoration out into world.
Thank you for this video! God bless you and your ministry.🕊
My guy Father Josh long time no see champ!
thankyou father for the info....it helps me alot!
Amen
Focus
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Is it wrong to read books at times? I’m a Protestant......but I go all the time. I’m on my way to conversion, so I like to study the early fathers in the chapel.
If God can get scourged they we can have some self control. We walk in the ways of our master. So we can kneel down for 20 minutes. Jesus said- pick up your cross and follow me.
Lack of discipline (as the issue you brought up) should be worked out without God.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
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Perpetual adoration is praying in the spirit , St Paul says pray in the spirit at all times , the act of bodily movement unto liturgy expressing adoration leaves the believer restricted unto premises .
The action of carrying out adoration is attributed to Holy Spirit working in you and through you , through beholding , and should this be the motivation unto movement of the said liturgy that would be a blessing indeed.
As our sinful nature flesh , is at war with spiritual , continual adoration cannot be achieved through learned movement of a body , unto beholding a said accident .
Faith in beholding Christ gives forth grace creating the abundance unto sin increase through no sin consciousness, in the knowledge perpetual being that of old covenant and perfection the new ref Hebrews 10 the reminder of sins imperfect sacrifice .
Being led to liturgy of any type through sin consciousness constitutes acknowledging the blood offering not availing to continued righteousness in Christ , hence adoration is robbed of its true essence and thus becomes law , therefore nullified before a holy God , although constituted as righteousness before man in of himself .
Thank you for making this video! I have been wanting to go but i wasn’t sure what to do. Also how do you approach the altar? Do you bow or kneel or both?
Just imagine Jesus appeared to you this minute. What would you do?
I typically genuflect (i.e. kneel on right knee) and make the sign of the cross when I approach the altar. Praying the holy rosary and meditating on the mysteries is a great way to spend time in adoration before the blessed sacrament. I hope this helps, the fact that your asking such questions speaks volumes about your love for our lord. God bless
Blessd Nina - bending your left knee is for the King’s and queens of the earth-your right knee is always for our Lord.
❤ About Lectio Divina:
When you think, do the thoughts not "sound" in you as your spoken words, only silently in the sense that they are not heard by the ears? When you read these thoughts of Jesus Christ in his humanity, written as text, as who's voice do they sound in you? Listen:
“I who speak to you am He.”
~John 4:26
"That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."
~John 8:24
“When you exalt the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things."
~John 8:28
“You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.”
~John 9:37
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me."
~John 10:27
"I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He."
~John 13:19
Listen and hear again with the inner ear as who's voice these thoughts of God in human form sound in you when you read them:
"I and My Father are one."
~John 10:30
Stones are parables for hard hitting painful accusing thoughts. In this parable Jesus is accused of blasphemy.
Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him.
“Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
(The part in us that knows God is great, but still does not know that God's love is so great that He would be willing to experience being but a human, appearing in the sinful flesh, undergoing all the forms of suffering we undergo, as each one of us, including painful guilt and shame, may reply as the Jews who symbolize that still unknowing part in us:)
“For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”
~John 10:30-33
God being our Life, not experiencing God is not experiencing our Life, but death, disguised as "life."
Listen again and hear as who's voice the following thoughts appearing as written words sound in you:
"Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.""
~John 5:25
If we don't believe God loves us so much, wills so much that also we have his perfect happiness, that He is now appearing in this world as every one of us, our bodies are like graves to us:
"Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice."
~John 5:28
Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
~Ephesians, 5:14
“This is the work in which we may be doing the works of Christ, for even our very believing in Christ is the work of Christ. It is this He works in us, not certainly without us.”
~St. Augustine, Homilies on John, Tractate 71 (John 14:10-14)
"I will restore you to yourself, when I shall have restored you unto Me."
~St. Augustine, Sermon 73 on the New Testament
"He rightly returns to himself, because he departed from himself. For he who returns to God restores himself to himself, and he who departs from Christ rejects himself from himself."
~St. Ambrose, Catena Aurea, Luke 15:17
"What a joy for those who, after they have suffered for the love of God, know themselves in possession of an ineffably reward, which is no other than God Himself."
~St. Augustine
"Blessed be God, for so bountifully providing for us that He even bestows on us His very Self."
~St. John of Avila, Finding Confidence in Times of Trial.
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I love adoration and talk to Jeaus every day. But my heart is broken at the lack of respect. Nodding to our LORD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST instead of genuflecting is wrong. If you meet pope Francis you must gentlest and yet a nod is good enough for Jesus
Is adoration a specific time? Or can I just go to the church?
How do I know what scripture to look at?
Call no man Father, (With religious intent,) your Father is One indeed Heaven! Matthew 23:9 The Lord Jesus Christ speaking in this passage. Like 6:46!
I dont like
Witchcraft and idolatry.
Watching this as a 16 year old in adoration, im looking to grow in my faith. So glad there are videos like this!!
May the Spirit guide you. Don’t be afraid because of your age. “Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.”
1 Timothy 4:12
You can watch videos in adoration??
@Angel Indeed, just be sure to use earbuds. There are many BEAUTIFUL videos to be found that bless & aid in Adoration. ♡
@@ABB14-11 Why do you all believe in this false Catholic religion?
Iam 16 too wahhhh 😃😃😃
Thank you father.
I’m an Adoration addict. Some times I feel like an electric charge. We don’t have an Adoration chapel but have it an hour before Mass.
Blessed you.
I miss that too.
In Adoration we have the presence of our Lord. Our Lord is happy to see us help carry his Cross and He answers our prayers as we adore him, not immediately "His timing is the best,.He is always present waiting to welcome his dear
children.
For those who can make it for Adoration, please remember us and unite us with your prayers.
Jesus Mary and Joseph, l. love you, save souls save the consecrated!!
Amen
Unite me in your prayers!!!
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I need to be an Adoration Addict
Adoration is transforming. Jesus is love and being with Him is an honor. ✝
So true..your words touched me “being with Him is an honour”....Spending time with the King of Kings is most certainly a great honour.
@@foxx2990 Aww you're very kind, thank you. Your words inspire me too! ❤
Thank you father, I'm a Catholic bit I've never really practised adoration, but I'm going to endeavour to start. Thank you
You will not be sorry...♡
Same here I’m almost 30 and will be my first time first Friday of April
God is present in the Blessed Sacrament, He welcomes you, you feel accepted, loved, healed, calmed! You can unburden all your problems to Jesus, He helps you to cope, understand.
I love adoration. It breaks my heart when I go to church or mass and people are talking before, during and after mass. No respect at all. Please pray for us to return to respecting Jesus. He is in his home the church not just in adoration chapels.
Me too😢
I agree with that! Lots of chatter, not much prep and prayer at my former Catholic Church. My new Catholic Parish is VERY respectful by comparison.
Happens in my parish, too. They pray audibly when it should be a time of quiet prayer. Some people walk out, others don't come at all, including me, because these people are a distraction.
I’m converting and there are some things that I have questions about, so I ask my spouse, try to be more mindful, understand that some people are actively trying to participate but may have questions. Thanks.
I kneel so much during prayers that I felt like my knees is immune to it…Love the adoration eucharist. I pray a lot, just praying and adore his love, blessings, sacrifice and his divine will …
The Adoration is a Paradise for me.
The best time of my day.
Great video! Father, I don’t know if you remember me, but I’m the girl at SLS who came up to you after your talk and shared my struggle with Scrupulosity (and then started crying because of it LOL I’m so embarrassed...😅). Anyways, I’m sharing this because I wanted to thank you for praying for me. That night was the big Adoration night, and by the grace of God, I finally went to confession; and let me tell you: I felt PRICELESS afterwards. But most importantly, I FINALLY RECEIVED COMMUNION AGAIN!!!😃😃😃 (For the first time in literally months). So thank you for your kindness, and for the prayers of every other person in my life, the Saints, and God for walking me through this difficult cross.💓💓 God bless. 😊
I watched yr video on confession and now this?? I'm amazed...🙏
Hey all subscribe to her channel, it's very informative on our faith.
God bless!
Sweet tooth Marie' awww 💞💞💞 you’re so kind, thank you!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience. God bless you!
Oh hey my first time encountering Jesus in adoration was at a Steubenville conference too. Great video. Adoration is so amazing.
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Adoration - such a gift ! Brilliant content on this channel as always ✅✝️❤️
THANK YOU SO MUCH for videos like this. . . hope that all catholics and non Catholics can watch this to know more about Catholicism to strengthen our FAITH in GOD and not be judged by others . . .GOD BLESS our Pope, bishops, priests, servants the catholic church and everyone. in JESUS NAME.AMEN.
God bless fr Johnson. Thank you for this video to help me understand adoration in a more relatable way. I will say a prayer for you today. AYVA
I'm a protestant studying Catholicism.
I can already tell I would be in trouble in adoration with my ADHD. Lol very short attention span, though better than it used to be.
I have the same problem. I also love Adoration. Jesus truly takes care of us. Bring your Bible and Jesus will guide you.
God bless u!
How is your studying going?
I was studying 2 years ago as well as a protestant and I became Catholic earlier this year.
"we become more like the people we hang out with"❤
You got that right ❤
Love His style, wonderful AND so useful, thanks a lot
“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:10-11, NKJV Bible)
This video just makes my heart calm. Awesome.
Very useful video. Adoration done right results in accepting and doing God's will - in every moment of our lifes. And do you know the 2 things Jesus and all the Saints have in common? *Doing God’s will and humility* . Adoration simply makes you obedient to God and humble. That's when God's mercy overloads our souls. Protect that state of you soul and "don't throw pearls in front of pigs". 😊
Thank you, Father, from another priest from the Philippines🙏🙏🙏🤝
We become affectionate in Christ’s presence and glorify God’s message in our lives,to share Our belief with others.
Adoration helps me fulfill God’s calling in my life.
"Godbless"🙏.
Enjoyed watching this video and found it very informative. I go to Adoration early in the morning and struggle with drowsiness as it is so quiet and peaceful! If I am alone then I pray/talk out loud and that helps. Lectio Divina is a great idea!
Thank you Father Johnson for this video. I was told there are prayers I should say during Adoration. Are they in your book about Adoration? Just wondering. I became Catholic when I got married nearly 40 years ago, but since my daughter married a Traditional Catholic I've learned more about this faith. And UA-cam videos have been a BIG help. Please post videos as often as you can and many thanks to you and your team who make this possible.
I am an ADORER who spends an hour or more to visit Jesus in the Chapel of Blessed Sacrament of the Adoration evert week. Started to become one in 2012-2013 after series of mindless searching and ended up visiting Jesus inside the Chapel in early morning, every Sunday. I have to thank my Dear Sr. Julie, who gifted me the chaplet of adoration and to my former colleague whom i seldom see in the church.
Come and visit Jesus, he's there waiting❤
Love this Father! Thank you and God bless!🙏🏼✝️✝️🙏🏼
I have a question. I walked down to the box that Jesus was in. The eucharist in the adoration chapel. I kissed my fingers and place my fingers on the box. The eucharist is inside the box so you cant touch it. It is protected. But I wanted to kiss my fingers and touch the box is that ok or did I do something wrong. I never want to be disrespectful. I love Jesus dearly and wanted to show my adoration for him and love him. But I don't want to do something wrong. I love him with my whole heart. I guess I'm like a kid when I get up there so I don't really know what ro do. I do know to bow or geneflect. I'm not catholic yet but becoming one and love to go adoration and be with Jesus
Wow I learned so much about Adoration! I’d only recommend to go a bit slower so we can fully think about it all
Thanks a lot for your advices, they're gonna be really helpful to me 🙏 God bless you
I miss spending time in adoration, I used to be on a list to be in the presence of Christ every Monday at 3PM. Unfortunately, my new job does not avail me to spend time before Jesus. I miss that sacred time.
Awesome video about adoration! JESUS CHRIST bless🙏
Thank you Father for explaining more about Adoration! GOD BLESS
9 "thumbs down". Lol, what is THAT about?!
Thank you Fr. Josh for that beautiful evangelization on The Adoration and the blessings of prayer. God bless you. Happy and a peaceful New Year.
Divine mercy chaplet at 3 o'clock everyday anyday at the adoration chapel #
Thanks father. I try to do It once a week. I find It difficult. I really dont know how to adore Him in adoration
Insightful and so wonderful... Let the good Lord have mercy on me and bless me with a job
I'm going through a hard time in sin. I used to go every Thursday to see Jesus in adoration but now I'm failing to go due to how ashamed I feel and also in general I'm finding harder to forget worldly things and seek the Lord. Any advice for me? Please pray for me 🙏
Try and get confession. Don't feel ashamed. That's what the devil does. He drags you into sin and put lies into your head. Then after he has you were he wants you he will come in with the second punch and tell you are not worthy and put shame and guilt on you. Jesus loves you. Go and meet him in Adoration. Speak to him about your sins and ask him for help. Anything on the external, like worldly pleasures will only give you a brief amount of happiness, like a drug, quick fix, but once you open your heart to Jesus and trust him, he will give you a peace that the world can't. God bless.
Julia Toute I hear you and I will pray for you Julia! And just remember that God’s forgiveness and love for you is unconditionally! There is nothing you can do that He cannot forgive - but you have to ask for forgiveness yourself. He is patiently waiting for you to come to Him. Take courage dear, you can do it!
go to confession asap
Surrender, acknowdge you Are in a war! How do you know Your Fighting, threatened by Your own shame, admit thé weakness in confession and surrender
Keep praying, daily, read the Bible, say the Rosary and ask Mother Mary to help you to be faithful to Christ. All of us also struggle but we keep striving for holiness. You might find fasting will help you, whether it's from one meal or the whole day if you can do it. Supplement that fasting time with prayers or works of charity.
Yay Fr.Josh thanks for this. Great advice for people that can go to adoration alone.
Thank you for this powerful message.
This was excellent. More videos from Fr. Josh please! 🙏🏼
This was great! I'm going to share this with friends. Thanks, Father Josh! 🌿🙏
Being "too ascetical" actually helps me focus on Christ more because then I'm asking him for his help, in strength and perseverance. lol
What do you guys think about sleeping during adoration? Do you guys think it is disrespectful to the Lord? I have done it a few times and I did not doze off, but intentionally closed my eyes and slept after prayer. And it was the most peaceful sleep, most of the times I am walking or just present with Jesus. But I don't do it often because I do not want want to disrespect him but I did not feel like it was wrong. Still waiting to ask my Priest friends but I don't want them to yell at me 😂
Thanks for such a great posting. Useful insight without it making the topic dull.
I can now do a better job at my church when fulfilling my adoration responsibility.
Yes....prostrating is not a from of laziness, but being one with God.
Question: Do you always have to have Benediction after Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament?
Catholicism is strange to me…a lot of relics, objects, idols, things, routines, etc. So many…I want to learn what it all means. Catholicism is very different from what I’m used to.
Is adoration supposed to be open 24/7? Every church I have been part of has 1 hour time slots for people to volunteer for 24 hours a day... The church I am attending now only allows people to go 2 days a week for a couple hours. That doesn't seem right to me, can someone clarify if there should be someone with the eucharist at all times? It feels wrong any other way but I don't know what the official rules are about leaving it alone.
Hello, Do you always have to have the Benediction that uses incense after every Exposition and
Adoration?
My pocket guide came yesterday which was a thursday and i took it to Adoration and started reading it there. So special because iam just now lesring about adoration. Thankyou father , thankyou for devoting your life to priest hood & everything you ve done in your life thus far.
Father, I have a question. Perpetual adoration on tv/ mobile/tab screen is it idolatry if i bow and worship at home or anywhere.
So timely! I was looking for help on this. Thank you so much!
This video adopts the odd fad for three-quarter views of a face, as though seeing someone talking and facing in a random direction not at the spectator is clever variety, or something.
Learning of the church before I knew what the Mass was and adoration I would cry. I know it was Jesus coming back into .. no, me coming back to Him that I could feel. Pretty sure my Guardian told me to pay attention when I saw the first holy sacrament done. Beautiful. God & Christ are real & alive.. I pray everyone can experience this beauty.
Is it not to focus on Jesus..yes though difficult but try keep doing until you get it right..this is my understanding
Rosary never leave me. Where ever I go I always have my rosary with me even in stinky business. 😂😂
I sit and sometimes that is hard with a bad lower back. I do the Rosary during the Adoration.