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shana buck, sfo	Sunday, 13. January 2008, 22:34
Posts: 36 Group: Members Member #115 Joined: December 5, 2007	John Sweeney Jan 13 2008, 07:57 PM Joan I accept everything you say. And I do find our description of our Perpetual Adoration a bit inaccurate! However, even 24/7 I do not believe that this woud make a compassionate God more likely to offer, say, a cure, than any other prayer. John, It isn't that this is some sort of magical thing. God isn't 'more likely' to give because of Adoration than if we are home offering a novena. But we are more likely to really pray before the Blessed Sacrament when we are alone with Him (instead of beginning a prayer, and running to the telephone, and maybe remembering to put in a load of laundry, or to drift off to how we need to balance the check book etc). We are more likely to sit quietly and listen with all our hearts when there are no outward distractions (besides the annoying ones of our imaginations). Our beloved is right there, as face to face as He can get! We are more likely to open our hearts and souls to His Will when we are alone with Him. We are more likely to respond to Graces when we are silent with Him. We need prayer, God does not. We need to Adore our God, and when we do such things, we are able to better seek, to ask, to knock - and then respond to what He desires us to do. Adoration is both private and public work. It is public, because it is in the House of God in a way that anyone can attend, and often more than one gather to Adore for an hour. It is private, because the prayer is mostly silent between the person giving Adoration and the Lord who is there to be Adored. Just as public sinners affect the community (as St Paul says in Corinthians - when mentioning that the reason so many were sick and dying were because of public sinners taking Holy Communion unworthily) the acts of public penance and public prayer bring holiness, healing and peace into a community in a more full way than when those things are absent from a parish. In the Sacred & Immaculate Hearts - shana
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