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| Eucharistic Adoration,; Perpetual Adoration Quarant Ore Holy Hours | |
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| Topic Started: Sunday, 13. January 2008, 14:12 (588 Views) | |
| Gerard | Monday, 14. January 2008, 20:58 Post #16 |
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John, You agree that prayer has spiritual effects. Do you think it has any material/physical effects? Gerry |
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| John Sweeney | Monday, 14. January 2008, 21:24 Post #17 |
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Well Gerry that depends to some extent on how widely you define those terms but if you mean, for example, does God hear a prayer for someone who is ill and then cures the person concerned then no I'm inclined to think that doesn't happen. John |
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| Derekap | Monday, 14. January 2008, 22:30 Post #18 |
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I most certainly do believe that prayers for the healing of the sick and injured can result in such healing. They may not always do so for reasons we don't understand but we must continue to trust God! |
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| Lilo | Monday, 14. January 2008, 22:45 Post #19 |
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I would hope that no one denies it - if anyone is so inclined, check your Bible. :o My own experience, close to 20 years ago, simply involved confessing to a particular priest and walking out minus the arthritis that had been tormenting me. It has never returned - and many people around his parishes can tell you of similar healing experiences. It is a gift he has - and the man has never taken personal credit for it. |
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| Lilo | Monday, 14. January 2008, 22:49 Post #20 |
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While I haven't the statistics at hand, we've been told over and over again that parishes which promote Adoration are the parishes that provide religious vocations. Locally, I'd have to agree. There's only one parish that consistently provides candidates for the seminary - the only parish that has had an Adoration chapel going for years. |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 14. January 2008, 23:03 Post #21 |
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John within my own family a baby, expected by two paediatricians to be dead within two hours, had his head X-Rayed. Between a quarter and a third of the brain cells had been destroyed. Three schools had received a message, to pray for the child. At the moment of baptism that child stirred. A few minutes after baptism he let out a big lusty yell. That child is now in a senior management job, a good father and husband, and a fit active sportsman. The consultant paediatrician said he could not take the credit, he said he had seen the hand of God at work. In the same family another person has known years of sickness. My suspicion is that God rarely intervenes in illness, but He does occasionally. Don't ask me why, I don't know. I still say the woman in your parish who attributed specific instances of good things happening to two families, as a direct result of Adoration in the parish was being presumptious. How does she know? However I do believe regular communal prayer will have a beneficial effect on the spiritual life of a parish. Prayer is the raison d'etre of a parish. Sadly some parishes are organisations in which people hold meetings, discuss iniatives, have social life (good in itself) but rarely gather for prayer other than to fulfil the Sunday obligation. Such parishes are spiritual. I know, I live in one. |
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| Gerard | Tuesday, 15. January 2008, 09:50 Post #22 |
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John, I am active in the Charismatic movement and a big aspect of this movement is praying with people. It has been my experience that prayers for spiritual requests seem to be granted more frequently and more quickly. So I know where you are coming from and, up to a point, agree. However, my experience, like the other posters, is that prayers for material things are also sometimes granted in exactly they way they are requested (sometimes otherwise). Interestingly I was going to say that Jesus himself said this:
And I was going to say that Jesus himself told us to pray for things. Its interesting the way people have connected adoration with vocations. Probably an essay in itself. But I am, here, interested in prayer in general. One could argue that this was a spiritual request but there are material outcomes. Why would Jesus tell us to pray for this unless it would have an effect? Now about healing. Again there are libraries of books on this so what can be said on a post? Not much. But we have been told to do it (Bible references later) Gerry |
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| John Sweeney | Tuesday, 15. January 2008, 20:57 Post #23 |
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I promised to shut up but felt I should acknowledge in answer to Lilo and Gerry that our speaker did indeed mention that parishes with Perpetual Adoration tended to have more vocations. John |
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| KatyA | Wednesday, 16. January 2008, 16:34 Post #24 |
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I accidentally came across this from the (now defunct) Universe Plus 8 January 2007 (the daily online version of the UK and Ireland’s best-selling Catholic newspaper) Unfortunately I am unable to link to the article, just The Universe website
Reproduced by permission of Gabriel Communications Ltd The article is rather longer, but I quoted this part as a preamble to asking if the Cardinal's exhortation to take part in a Holy Hour of prayer with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament had attracted any response outside Westminster. A regular weekly Holy Hour might be the first step to Perpetual Adoration in most, if not every, parish. Locally, I know of only one parish which holds a monthly Holy Hour. KatyA |
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| Deacon Robert | Saturday, 19. January 2008, 20:49 Post #25 |
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I received this from a Deacon friend and thought it might add to the discussion: The phenomenal growth of devotion to the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has puzzled not a few sincere people. Nocturnal Adoration societies, Perpetual Adoration groups, national associations of the faithful promoting organized visits to the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hours before the tabernacle, monthly, weekly and even daily exposition of the Eucharist in churches and chapels, in one country after another, have become commonplace. Belief in the real, physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist grew out of the teaching of the evangelists and St. Paul. They made it plain to the apostolic Church that the Eucharistic elements were literally Jesus Christ continuing His saving mission among men. The Council of Trent declared that Christ should be worshiped now in the Eucharist no less than He had been in first century Palestine. Why? Because in the Blessed Sacrament "it is the same God Whom the apostles adored in Galilee" (<Decree on the Holy Eucharist>, chapter 5). The adorableness of the Eucharistic Christ, therefore, is an article of the Catholic faith. What has become increasingly clear, however, is that Christ in the Eucharist is not only adorable but entreatable. He is not only to be adored, like Thomas did, by addressing Him as, "My Lord and my God." He is also to be asked for what we need, like the blind man who begged, "Lord, that I may see," or approached like the woman who said to herself, "If I can even touch His clothes, I shall be well again." By now countless believers have begged the Savior in the Eucharist for what they needed, and have come close to Him in the tabernacle or on the altar. Their resulting experience has profoundly deepened the Church's realization of how literally Christ spoke when He promised to be with us until the end of time. The experience has been mainly spiritual: In giving light to the mind and strength to the will, in providing graces for oneself and others, in enabling weak human nature to suffer superhuman trials, in giving ordinary people supernatural power to accomplish extraordinary deeds. Paul VI adds the final touch to his teaching. No doubt the living Savior in the Blessed Sacrament is there "full of grace and truth." But there must be a responsive faith on our part. Anyone who approaches this august Sacrament with special devotion, and endeavors to return generous love for Christ's own infinite love, will experience and fully understand--not without spiritual joy and fruit--how precious is the life hidden with Christ in God, and how great is the value of converse with Christ. For there is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more efficacious for advancing along the road of holiness (VI). The important word in that last sentence is "efficacious." Provided we approach the Real Presence with believing love, Christ will perform wonders of His grace in our lives. TOP TEN REASONS FOR WANTED TO SPEND ONE HOUR WITH JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT 10) Your hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament will repair for evils of the world and bring about peace on earth. "Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Jesus and ready to make reparation for the great evils of the world. Let your adoration never cease." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicai Cenae) 9) Each hour you spend with Jesus will deepen His Divine Peace in your heart. "Come to Me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you..." "Cast all of you anxieties upon the One who cares for you..." "My Peace is My Gift to you." (Mt 11:28; 5:7; Jn 14:17) 8) You grow spiritually with each moment you spend with Jesus! "Our essential commitment in life is to preserve and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to grow spiritually in the climate of the Holy Eucharist." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man) 7) Jesus is infinitely deserving of our unceasing thanksgiving and adoration for all He has done for our salvation. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor, glory and praise." (Rev. 5:12) 6) With transforming mercy, Jesus makes our heart one with His. "He proposes His own example to those who come to Him, that all may learn to be like Himself, gentle and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interest but those of God." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei) 5) For Peace in our country! "When My people humble themselves and seek My Presence... I will revive their land." (2Chr 7:14) 4) Each moment that you spend in His Eucharistic Presence will increase His Divine Life within you and deepen your personal relationship and friendship with Him. "I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly." "I am the Vine and you are the branches. Whoever remains in Me and I in Him shall bear much fruit because without Me, you can do nothing." (Jn 15:5) 3) When you look upon the Sacred Host, you look upon Jesus, the Son of God. "Indeed, this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the last day." (Jn 6:40) 2) The specific way that Jesus asks you to love Him in return is to spend one quiet hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. "Where your treasure is, there is your heart...." "Could you not watch one hour with Me?" (Mt 6:21; 26:40) 1) He is really there! "I myself Am the Living Bread come down from Heaven." (Jn 6:35) |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 19. January 2008, 21:25 Post #26 |
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Am I alone in thinking that frequent Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament would heighten awareness of the presence of Jesus, in our churches, would bring back reverence, and remind us the priority is to talk to Christ, not to make an infernal din talking to our human friends, within feet of people who really are trying to snatch a few minutes praying to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament? |
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| pat | Sunday, 20. January 2008, 01:59 Post #27 |
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Rose, you are not alone in that thought. I really do believe that having Adoration at our church even for a couple of hours a week has made a difference. Another church I know of has Adoration for most of the day and is blissfully quiet, even things like restocking the candles, arranging flowers are carried out in absolute silence, no chatter going on. |
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| KatyA | Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 21:36 Post #28 |
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Benedict XVI is urging a promotion of love for the Eucharist, so that there will be more adorers of the Blessed Sacrament. The Pope renewed today his call for adoration of Christ in the Eucharist when he greeted at the end of the general audience the religious sisters of the Order of Perpetual Adorers of the Most Holy Sacrament, in Rome for the beatification of their founder. Zenit |
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| KatyA | Wednesday, 11. March 2009, 18:32 Post #29 |
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VATICAN CITY, MARCH 10, 2009 MARCH 10, 2009 (Zenit.org).- In this secularized era, Catholics should follow Benedict XVI's example and recover the practice of Eucharistic adoration, says a Vatican official. Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, affirmed this to Vatican Radio, as he spoke about the plenary assembly his dicastery is holding this week. "The liturgy is, above all, adoration," he explained. "The Church is the work of God, God's action; it is recognition of what God does for men. And the adoration that the liturgy expresses, especially the Eucharist, is the acknowledgment of God, that everything comes from him, that everything that belongs to us must find him." Precisely in the present context of secularization, in which there is a tendency "to forget God, to consider him not very important for life," it is appropriate to "reaffirm that God comes first," the cardinal declared. "This is what will change the life of Christians and of the Church." When the Church "forgets that God is the center of everything, it becomes a merely human institution." Zenit |
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| KatyA | Wednesday, 10. June 2009, 08:24 Post #30 |
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Thousands of the faithful are approaching Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where the age-old tradition of the 40 Hours Devotion has been taken up in preparation for this Thursday's feast of Corpus Christi. The basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary is part of the Pope's traditional celebration of the feast of the Body of Christ; there, Benedict XVI will give the blessing with the Blessed Sacrament at the end of the procession that starts after Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. The archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major, Cardinal Bernard Law, has promoted the 40 Hours Devotion. The period of adoration began Monday morning with a solemn Mass presided over by Cardinal Law. It will end Thursday. "If we want to be salt of the earth, as Jesus tells us, we should be light of the world; then our 'yes' should be like that of Jesus," he said in his homily. "Above all in the Eucharistic mystery we encounter the 'yes' of the Lord Jesus. In his death, in his cross, we understand the infinite love that God has for us through the cross." With this love, Cardinal Law added, we "thus become the salt and light of the world." Dozens of groups and religious communities have taken an hour of adoration at the basilica. Today, ambassadors from various nations accredited to the Holy See were among the adorers. Paraguay's ambassador, Gerónimo Narváez Torres, told ZENIT: "Today is the third time that we ambassadors are praying together. This is very important because this world that is so conflictive and full of problems among nations needs the prayer of the ambassadors from distinct parts of the world." His wife, María Graciela, affirmed that even though not all of the ambassadors before the Holy See are Catholic, prayer brings them to find a "common point among all religions." "This initiative is fantastic," she added. "Hopefully it continues forever." Monsignor Adriano Pancelli, master of liturgical ceremonies at St. Mary Major, told ZENIT that the initiative aims to remind Catholics of the central role of the Eucharist. "It's enough to look at the lives of the saints," he said. "The Eucharis is the living rock of the Church. It's about adoring the Blessed Sacrament and feeling that the Lord is present. The most sublime, most high, most true and effective mystery." Zenit |
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