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Adoration As Opposed To The Eucharist


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I enjoy adoration and Mass alot. Both are the highlights of the week for me. However, I enjoy adoration alot more than I do Mass, for the simple reason that I love to just sit there hours upon hours talking to Jesus and listening. Is it wrong that I like adoration more than Mass?

Thanks in advance,

Anyone who can answer my previous question about the popes, thank you for that as well (PM me if you want).

God bless,

Mikey

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I. THE EUCHARIST - SOURCE AND SUMMIT OF ECCLESIAL LIFE

I wouldn't express it just that way. Some prefer Mass celebrated quietly first thing in the morning, others prefer a more expressive form but one cannot deny the other, it comes to preference. In your qoestion I don't think it helps to put it exactlt that way. As the Catechism teaches us:

1324 The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life.The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch."

1325 "The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit."

1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.

1327 In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking."

So you could say that the Mass is the best which as the source and summit it is. However the following quotes from the Catechism say:

1380 It is highly fitting that Christ should have wanted to remain present to his Church in this unique way. Since Christ was about to take his departure from his own in his visible form, he wanted to give us his sacramental presence; since he was about to offer himself on the cross to save us, he wanted us to have the memorial of the love with which he loved us "to the end," even to the giving of his life. In his Eucharistic presence he remains mysteriously in our midst as the one who loved us and gave himself up for us, and he remains under signs that express and communicate this love:

The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him in adoration, in contemplation full of faith, and open to making amends for the serious offenses and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never cease.

2696 The most appropriate places for prayer are personal or family oratories, monasteries, places of pilgrimage, and above all the church, which is the proper place for liturgical prayer for the parish community and the privileged place for Eucharistic adoration.


St Theresa is reported to have answered the question "What do you do in adoration?" said "I just sit and look at Jesus and he looks at me."

Adoration is best seen as a continuing and deepening of the mystery of faith we celebrate

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