Posted on 10/29/2015 7:51:30 AM PDT by Salvation
When we think of the word “adoration,†we think of a high form of love, perhaps the highest. Theologically, we equate adoration with latria, the worship and love due to God alone. In the vernacular, to say “I adore you†is to indicate an intense and high form of love.
Liturgically, adoration of the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament indicates a period during which one enters into the experience of loving God and gazing upon Him in that love. The Lord, too, extends a gaze of love to us, as is beautifully stated in the Song of Songs: Behold, he is standing behind our wall, He is looking through the window, peering through the lattice (Song 2:9).
In all these examples there is a sort of intense, yet resting love expressed; a love that is tender and deep, quiet and fixed.
However, the greatest act of adoration the world has ever known exhibits little of this quietude or restfulness. Indeed, one might call this act of adoration quite stormy; though intense, it was not restful. In fact, you might not consider it adoration at all. But consider this reflection by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.:
Adoration of infinite value was offered to God by Christ in Gethsemane when he prostrated himself saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as though wilt.†Christ’s adoration of the Father recognized in a practical and profound manner the sovereign excellence of God … The Savior’s adoration continued on the cross (The Three Ages of the Interior Life, Vol 2, p. 251).
At the heart of this most perfect act of adoration was obedience, a heart that not only loved God but out of that love wanted only what He wanted. True adoration of God includes both a loving acknowledgment of His excellence and a submission of our will to His in loving obedience. Out of love we offer our whole life to God.
Thus adoration is more than mere feeling, no matter how intense; it is sacrifice; it is the willing offering of one’s very self as an act of love to God, who has so loved us. No greater love is there than to lay down one’s life for God and for those we love in Him.
Is obedience and sacrifice what you and I mean when we say that we are going to Eucharistic adoration or when we say that we adore God? The most perfect act of adoration was love expressed as obedience and sacrifice.
“Can you not spend one hour with me?”
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Accepting adoration is poison. If we allow others to raise us up we often forget to hold on above.
“Liturgically, adoration of the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament indicates a period during which one enters into the experience of loving God and gazing upon Him in that love. “
Yet never commanded nor taught nor demonstrated in God’s inspired Scriptures...
Arch...Pope. Whole cloth.
Adoration of our Lord and Savior is poison? Really.
So you have no adoration for God? Are you not a Christian?
Great conclusion.
I specifically pointed out that there is absolutely no mention, nor command, nor teaching, nor example of Eucharistic adoration in the Scriptures.
Are you saying that adoring Christ is poison?
I don’t think so.
We adore you.
We glorify you.
We bless you.
We praise you.
Perhaps you need to look up those phrases in your limited Bible.
How do you interpret the First Commandment?
Why?
Did not Jesus say “can you not spend one hour with me?”
As the same scriptures say, Jesus IS the “bread of life.”
Perhaps instead of ad hominem attacks, you could point us to Scripture that teaches EA?
Indeed, Christ said that in the garden, but it had nothing to do with EA.
I thought your denomination doesn’t believe in interpretation?
Results: nothing.
Thanks, Salvation.
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