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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: Antonio Jones on May 18, 2025, 04:58:34 AM
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I mean when you’re by yourself, in your room or house etc. and not in a church.
An act of adoration.
Does it suffice to say it mentally, “Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee”.
In what does adoration consist?
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just try to pray the best you can, and there are different ways to pray - some formal and some informal, you can get instruction on different ways to pray from Catholic books and the saints
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Just saying the Holy Name of Jesus while bowing your a few times throughout the day is a prayer, an act of adoration. After a while that morphs into "May the holy name of Jesus be forever blessed and praised" and sometimes after a while of that it morphs into....
One of the things I do is when no one else is around is when I walk past the Sacred Heart picture in my hallway, I strike my breast and say to myself "most sacred heart of Jesus have mercy on me." I do something similar with the other pictures and statues at my house. They are there for reminders after all.
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Following my Rosary, I contemplate the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, picturing each one in my mind and adoring God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. This often brings me to read more about the details of each Mystery in the Bible so I can better contemplate them and adore God.
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One thing that's common in Ireland (may not work in other countries) is to cross oneself whenever one passes a Marian grotto, or a statue of any holy figure.
Another thing I like to do is to hold a rosary, even when I'm not praying the rosary, and then to kiss the cross upon it.
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Does it suffice to say it mentally, “Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee”.
Not a bad start. If I recall correctly, the Fatima history includes an excellent, simple prayer:
"O my God, I believe, adore, trust and love Thee. I beg pardon for all who do not believe, adore, trust and love Thee."
I say this, among other things, each morning when I rise. Godspeed.
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don't be so legalistic in your approach
prayer books, liturgy, and the saints are good examples to follow but every act of adoration doesn't have to be exactly like theirs
you can add your own
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Everytime we drive past a church, a cemetary, cross or statue we make a sign of the cross.
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It depends upon the situation. If I drive past a Church with a beautiful statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I’m not going to come to a screeching halt, run from my car, and prostrate myself in full view.
If I’m by myself and I’m going to pray in my home, I might prostrate myself.
Generally, I make the Sign of the Cross, often, even in public. One may adore in one’s heart only. If, by public actions or words, others will mock or curse God, then it’s best to offer silent adoration.
This is even cultural. I grew up in NYC when there were still very ethnic parishes. If you went to Mass in the Italian parish, it wasn’t unusual to see people kissing statues or prostrating themselves and praising aloud. The same behavior in my mostly Irish parish would have been considered highly improper and undignified.
Personally, I’m not a person given to public displays of worship, adoration, or emotion. I don’t judge those who aren’t like me. I’ve been around enough to realize there are all kinds of Catholics, and I’m not referring here to being “ecuмenical” in the Vat. 2 sense of the word.