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The meaning of Adoration? I have a vague memory of reading about some famous person going to Mother Teresa and asking advice about making a difference in the world. Her response: Spend one hour a day doing nothing but adoring Jesus Christ and everything else will take care of itself.
I remember that a lot lately and I am coming to grips with the fact that I do not know what it really means to simply adore Him. I wake up earlier these days. I'm pretty good at thinking about Jesus and at reading about him. I'm really good at asking him to do stuff; to help me; to empower me to do something for him; to make my day work and my life count. But I don't know what it would look to simply adore Him. It's yet another way I find myself in the classroom of the Holy Spirit waiting on the Lord to teach me.
And so I ask all of you readers out there (all two of you)-- any counsel here? posted by John David Walt | at 1/20/2005 08:16:00 AM
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What an appropriately after Advent, after Christmastide thought! It's at this time of year, Epiphany, that I think of Shepherds, Angels, and the returning wise men. What was it like when they returned home? Did they doubt what they had seen? There is an old wives tale about when children are borne they can still hear heaven, but as they grow, the sounds and heaviness of earth make them forget. Maybe that happened to wise men and shepherds. All that adoration and heavenly glory faded in their minds, and was covered over after time. That is what inevitably happens to us if we fail to spend time remembering fully. That is why writing is so important. You can work you whole like to accurately and truthfully capture a moment. Prayers are like that too, they try to portray God in words or music as flawlessly possible.
Here is a Roman Catholic Prayer for the Perpetual Adoration, maybe their are a few clues to the puzzle within it's lines?
Jesus, my God, I adore Thee for all time, past, present and future , for every soul that ever was, is or shall be created. Jesus, my God, Who for us has endured hunger and cold, labour and fatigue, I adore Thee. Jesus, my God, Who for my sake has deigned to subject Thyself to the humiliation of temptation, to the perfidy and defection of friends, to the scorn of Thine enemies, I adore Thee. Jesus, my God, Who for us has endured the buffeting of Thy passion, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the heavy weight of the Cross, I adore Thee. Jesus, my God, who, for my salvation and that of all mankind, was cruelly nailed to the Cross and hung there for three long hours in bitter agony, I adore Thee. Jesus, my God, Who for love of us did institute this Blessed Sacrament and offer Thyself daily for the sins of men, I adore Thee. Jesus, my God, Who in Holy Communion became the food of my soul, I adore Thee. Jesus, for Thee I live. Jesus, for Thee I die. Jesus, I am Thine in life and in death.
michael-- this prayer is fabulous-- a great help. thank you.
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