Eternal adoration

Nocturnal adoration in the Church of St. Remigius Bonn in June 2008

The perpetual adoration is an old tradition of the Catholic Church . The basis for this is belief in the true presence of Jesus Christ in the figures of the Eucharist .

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history

From the 10th century, the tradition arose in monasteries of venerating the body of Christ in the form of the host in a chapel . The eternal prayer before the sacrament of the altar, which is exposed in the monstrance , developed from the prayer form of adoration . In order to keep the presence of Christ in the world constantly present and always remembered, worship was instituted every hour of the day and night. In Germany, the eternal prayer was introduced by Johann Philipp von Walderdorff (1701–1768). According to an instruction from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Ordinance of the Sacraments , the exposure of the Holy of Holies must never take place without an adequate prayer vigil.

There are several forms of eternal prayer:

• Worship is literally eternal; so there is always someone there who prays before the holy of holies . This custom is maintained in various churches and places of pilgrimage , but also by some contemplative religious communities.

• The worship is interrupted or spread over a longer or shorter period of time, for example an hour a day.

• The worship is continuous but is temporally distributed among churches and chapels in an area such as a diocese , a country, or around the world. Many dioceses have distributed perpetual adoration over a year to the parishes of the diocese. Every congregation is assigned a specific day on which the holy of holies is exposed in a church. The faithful are invited to take part in specific hours of prayer. Such a day of eternal prayer usually begins with a high mass and ends with a solemn devotion in the evening.

Usage today

There are some religious orders that are particularly dedicated to eternal adoration. These include, among others:

• Benedictine Sisters of Adoration
• Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Olpe
• Capuchin Sisters of Eternal Adoration
• Divine Adoration Sisters

See also

• Franciscan Sisters of Eternal Adoration
• Eucharistic Adoration

literature

• Ursula Krause: Eternal adoration. In: Christian Schütz (Ed.): Practical Lexicon of Spirituality. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-451-22614-6 , Sp. 359-360.

Web links

• Eucharistic Adoration in the Catholic Church ( Memento from September 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Worship Center St. Clemens Berlin with extensive information on eternal adoration ( memento from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Instruction Redemptionis sacramentum No. 138. Retrieved June 7, 2017 (No. 138). 
2. ↑ Roland Noe: anbetung.info. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .