Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

Join us in prayer and community to adore our Lord, in an environment where silence and stillness are NOT expected!!! Games, scripture, colouring, storytelling, and song are on the menu for parents and their little ones in this special hour in Our Lord’s Presence!  This event is prepared for children 4 to 7; older and younger siblings are welcome! Our next Children’s Adoration Hour is Saturday July 15th, 9:30 am.

“Regular” Adoration is also held at our Sister Parish, St. Henri, after the 8:15 am Mass every Tuesday, until 4:00 pm. 

What is Adoration ? 

Adoration is time that you can spend adoring our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. A priest places the Body of Jesus in a special receptacle called a Monstrance, which has a small window through which we can see the consecrated host. As Our Lord is truly present in the Eucharist, this is a special time that we can spend contemplating our Lord, and just being with Him. 

But… what do we do in Adoration??? 

There are a variety of things we can do in Adoration, such as:

• Read the Scriptures
• Pray a Rosary, or even just a single decade
• Slowly recite the Beatitudes (Mt 5:1-12)
• Pray for an enemy, or someone we disagree with
• Just talk to Jesus about our day, our feelings, our hopes, like a friend. 
• Examine our conscience, ask Him to help us prepare for confession
• Tell Him “Jesus I trust in You, strengthen my trust”. Promise to trust Him.

That said, we don’t actually have to do anything. When we sit in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, it’s Jesus himself that takes care of the “doing”. In our hyper-busy world, where we always have to be doing something, or watching something, or scrolling something, what could be more meaningful than to offer Jesus the quietness of not doing anything, and just sit in the silence and open our hearts to him? 

We close this post with a beautiful prayer for Adoration, composed by Norbert Oberle, as featured in “Prayers and Devotions for Eucharistic Adoration”:

“Dear Jesus, 

Here, present in this Blessed Sacrament, I know you are always with me throughout the day and night, but in this special time, help me to turn my mind and heart to you. 

As I pray, first of all I want to offer you praise and glory for inviting me to be a member of your family through Baptism, and for enabling me to grow in your love by receiving your Body and Blood in the Holy Eucharist. 

Secondly, I wish to thank you for watching over me and guiding me as I go about my daily activities. 

Thirdly, I ask for forgiveness for the many times when I fail to accept and follow your guidance – the times when my weak human nature yields to temptation. 

Fourthly, I petition and ask you for your special help in the numerous difficult situations and problems that I seem to encounter so often. 

Without you I can do nothing. I’m sure that not long after I leave you here in this Eucharistic presence, I will be calling on your special help again. Please listen to my petitions and grant those which will help me become more pleasing in your sight. 

I offer this prayer to you, Our Lord Jesus, who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. 

Amen”