Echoes of Holy Thoughts; Private Meditations Before a First Communion

Echoes of Holy Thoughts; Private Meditations Before a First Communion. Front Cover. John Hamilton Thom. Trieste Publishing, Aug 27, - Religion -
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• In the Presence of the Lord
• Echoes of holy thoughts; private meditations before a first communion
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Adoration requires us to approach prayer not from that intellectualized place but from the place of deep mystery and faith where God is waiting for us. Despite the mystery — or maybe precisely because of it — adoration is growing in popularity and practice among American Catholics. Eucharistic adoration can become that place. Charles Borromeo, the tabernacle became a more important part of every sanctuary. In each of the parishes where he has served as pastor, Msgr.

Murphy has encouraged the establishment of the practice of adoration not just for one hour period, but seven days a week. They said they looked forward to that hour all week as a time of refreshment and peace. Adoration — when the Eucharist is exposed in a monstrance so that people may pray while looking at the Blessed Sacrament — is an extension of what happens during every Mass and comes in several forms. Some parishes may offer adoration on a particular day, for example on the first Friday of each month.

In each of these instances, parishioners sign up to sit and keep vigil, praying in front of the Eucharist for a set period of time. Additional prayer services connected to adoration include Exposition and Benediction, with Scripture readings, hymns and prayers prayed as a group, or holy hours, which can be prayed with structured prayers by a group or silently by an individual. And, of course, many people who do not have access to adoration still make visits to pray quietly before the Eucharist reserved in the tabernacle.

Daniel Clough, who lives in the Diocese of Albany, New York, recently founded the Adoration in Albany Facebook page in order to provide a complete listing of adoration times to people in the 10,square-mile diocese. The most obvious outcome to date is that people are beginning to realize that many more places offer Eucharistic adoration than they previously thought.

For Clough, adoration provides a much-needed counterbalance to the fast-moving, self-focused ways of the world. Clough said that Eucharistic adoration is what changed his life and made him grow deeper in his faith. When he was young, his mother would bring him before the tabernacle and teach him to pray there. That early foundation only grew stronger as he came to a deeper understanding of Eucharist. We do not come to know him so much intellectually as we do knowing him through love. Love can provide us with a kind of knowledge that is different than intellectual knowledge.

Anyone who has ever fallen in love can attest to this fact. It is the same with Jesus in the Eucharist. Our Lord gives us strength from his loving presence there so that we can spread that love to others. Jesus in the Eucharist is the source of charity for others.

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Celia Wolf-Devine, retired philosophy professor and author and lecturer, remembers being drawn to the Eucharist even before she became a Catholic and was told by a priest to always sit close to the tabernacle, advice she continues to follow. Wolf-Devine said there are a number of ways to work adoration into your prayer life, from a more intensive retreat at a monastery to an hour on a weekday afternoon in your parish. I start by just opening myself to the presence of the Lord.

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