What is Adoration? Adoration is essentially honoring the precense of God in Eucharistic form. (Catholics believe that Jesus truly is the Eucharist. We take the words "This is my body; this is my blood." literally. "The Eucharist is: Jesus truly present - Body( in the flesh), Blood, Soul, and Divinity")
In Adoration, Catholics sit and pray- opening ourselves to God in His Holy Magnificence. We sit facing the altar and the monstrance. The monstrance is the special holder of the Holy Eucharist. (see above picture) The word monstrance comes from the Latin word monstrare, meaning "to expose." When the priest places the Eucharist in the monstrance, he does not touch it. Instead he "holds it with a humeral veil, a wide band of cloth that covers his shoulders (humera) and has pleats on the inside in which he places his hands." The monstrance is placed on the altar where everyone can see and worship.
If you have never been to Adoration, you have never experienced the power that radiates throughout the church from that tiny piece of flesh. I may have only been to adoration once, but, as many people say, it's a life changing experience. It's like a preview of Christ's radiance before we meet Him in heaven. The time I went to adoration, I went after confession and did my penace in the chapel. After praying my penace, I just sat there with my eyes closed- I didn't want to move; I couldn't move... The energy I felt in the room was amazing. Have you ever prayed over someone with a bunch of people? Did you feel the power of prayer in your hands? That's what I felt. God truly amazed me that day.
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/pea/a2.html and http://www.catholic-church.org/kuwait/eucharistic_adoration.htm
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