Living Without School: Why go to adoration?

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Why go to adoration?

Someone asked me why I go to Eucharistic Adoration. And how a seemingly ADD, doing sort of person can sit and kneel, silently, in adoration.

"We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest." Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain

And yet, when I sit in adoration of Our Lord, in church , I am drawn apart from this tension. I am with God.

So this is my answer.

In Adoration, I am taken out of self, away from desire. I am with God.

A bit of a through-the -Stargate -experience, for those fans of the science fiction television series Stargate. For I am out of my world, my noisy busy world, and I feel alone with God. Sometimes praying. Sometimes just being. Sometimes laying down all my thoughts and prayers and concerns for others, for this busy world .

"To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord." (CCC 1418)

3 comments:

Leanne said...: Leonie, It is one of my favourite times, sitting in front of The Blessed Sacrament. you defined it so well.; 9:01 pm
molly said...: love the Merton quote; 9:37 pm
Leonie said...: Leanne, irt can be so hard to explain sometimes, can't it? And Molly, have you read The Seven Storey Mountain? It apparently helped with a surge in vocations after it's publication in 1948.; 10:10 pm

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