What is catholic adoration

How is this done? The monstrance is then placed on the altar of the church or chapel for exposition. In chapels where there is a tabernacle an ornate box which holds consecrated hosts with doors or shutters for lay people to open and close, no monstrance is needed. What do we actually do at Adoration?

Upon entering the chapel, we reverently genuflect or bow before His Presence, for He is our King and our God. What, or better who, is the reality of which we speak when we talk about the Real Presence? This is not a rhetorical expression nor a verse of poetry. It is an article of the undivided Roman Catholic faith.

There can be no doubt what the faithful are told when they are told to believe in this mystery. Once the words of consecration have been pronounced by a validly ordained priest, what used to be bread and wine are no longer bread and wine.

Only the appearances or, rather, only the external physical properties of the former elements, remain. There is now on the altar Jesus Christ, true God and true man, full God and full man. Does this mean that Jesus is present in the Eucharist? Is it Jesus in His divine nature? Is it Jesus in His human nature? But if Jesus in the Eucharist is really and truly present, is He there with all that makes Him not only man, but makes Him this man?

After all, when God assumed human nature, He assumed this nature as a particular single human being. The divine Person of the Son of God did not merely in some abstract sense become human.

He became a definite, historically specific human being. Thus in the Eucharist is present the Jesus of history: the one who was conceived of His mother Mary at Nazareth; who was born in a stable at Bethlehem; who lived for 30 years in Palestine; and who walked and talked and wept and slept and ate and drank; who shed real red blood on the cross and who rose from the grave, and after His resurrection had the incredulous disciples put their fingers into His pierced side.

When, then, we speak of the Real Presence we imply that part of this reality, which is Christ, is the heart of flesh and blood that every human being has and also Christ has in the glorified body He now possesses since the resurrection. Note what we are saying. We are affirming that the Sacred Heart of Jesus is not only a historical memory, as recorded by St.

John when he tells us that the sacred side of the Savior was pierced on Calvary. Nor are we saying merely that, rising from the dead, Christ is now at the right hand of His heavenly Father in body and soul and therefore also with His human heart. Adoration is a way to be present with the Lord and focus on actively listening to His word through prayer. The Eucharist, also referred to as the Blessed Sacrament, is typically kept in a tabernacle at your parish church. While it is true that you can pray to God anywhere and that He is always within you, it is especially powerful to adore Jesus in the Eucharist.

In the presence of the Eucharist, we pray to the power and sacrifice that it represents — the body of Jesus, who gave His life so that we may live. It is His body, blood, soul and divinity that is really, truly, and substantially present in the Eucharist. We adore and receive the Eucharist in communion at Mass, which is the most beautiful act of worship that we have as Catholics. We have Jesus truly present in all of the tabernacles around the world.

We can continue to adore Him in the Eucharist after Mass in a quiet time of prayer and contemplation on Who we have just received. Being in the presence of the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ gives spiritual strength and nourishment in a uniquely powerful way. During Perpetual Adoration, as we practice at St. Perpetual adoration began again at St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine on August 15, This time of personal prayer and adoration has helped community members discern what God wants for them in life.

They value the opportunity for reflection in the prayerful space that St. Clement really works hard to provide opportunities for everyone to grow in faith. There are many ways to approach prayer in the presence of the Eucharist.

You might have a personal conversation with the Lord, pray the rosary, read scripture or use our adoration resources. You might also wish to pray together as a community. They also hold a daily holy hour in the early evening, which includes a recitation of the Rosary and Evening Prayer.