Three Compelling Reasons to Make More Time for Adoration This Year

Allison Auth explains why making more time for Adoration this year will transform your prayer life and help answer life’s questions. 

How much screen time should my kids have? What school should they go to? What curriculum should we use? What meal plan am I using this week? What vitamins should I take? How early should I wake up? What chores should my kids be doing? How much money should I be saving each month? Where can I cut expenses? How can I communicate better in my marriage? 

If your brain is anything like mine, it’s brimming with questions I don’t know the answer to. I can make some guesses and pivot if I’m wrong, but there’s a tendency to feel overwhelmed with anxiety at all the answers I need but don’t have.  

That is why you and I need more Adoration in our lives. We can only hear God’s voice when we attune to it by spending time with Him, and we can only discover His will for us when we learn to share our lives with Him. 

A Conviction of the Heart 

What I propose to you today is not a resolution, but a conviction of the heart. As we look to the year ahead, let us create space to come face-to-face with our Lord in Adoration. Here are three compelling reasons why you need more Adoration in your life, taken from the Catechism: 

Contemplative prayer is silence, or silent love (CCC 2717). 

Silence is the language of God. In silence, God speaks to us His Incarnate Word, the Word that suffered and died for love of us. If we want to hear God’s voice, we need to learn to speak His language and commune in silence with the Eucharist — God’s flesh made present to us.  

In silence, the Word was born in Bethlehem, and in silence, the Word is spoken in the depth of our hearts when we come into His presence. The answers to the questions we long for will only be found when we dedicate time to being in the presence of the One we love. 

Contemplation is a gaze of faith (CCC 2715). 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes contemplation as a gaze of faith fixed on Jesus. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, He increases, and we decrease. What do we want out of life? Where are our hearts hardened? Where do we have fear? His gaze illumines our minds and hearts so that we begin to see everything in the light of His truth. His gaze purifies our heart (CCC 2715).  

When you know you are loved by God, you care less about what others think. You are better able to align your priorities. You are not afraid of your own thoughts. You love others more authentically. 

Recently at a conference, I opened up a journal I use for traveling. I don’t recall when the last entry was, but it was a word I had heard from the Lord in prayer: “Look at me. I will give you the words to say. I will help you become more yourself.” I become more fully alive — more fully me — the more my gaze is on Christ.  

Contemplative prayer is hearing the Word of God (CCC 2716).  

The more I sit in Adoration with my journal, ready to write down anything I think might be from the Lord, the more I have learned to hear His voice. For many years, I thought God’s voice sounded like my internal monologue of caustic criticism, and that God was always disappointed in me. 

As I made room for more silence in God’s presence, I wrote down what I heard and learned to discern what was from God. His voice is peaceful, patient, encouraging — sometimes firm, but never accusatory or degrading. And, the more I hear His voice, the more I am motivated to say “yes!” to whatever He asks of me. It’s a wild adventure of love. 

The Best Therapy 

A video I saw on social media was advocating for more “red-light therapy” this year and showed a woman before the Blessed Sacrament with the red-light candle next to it. This is the best therapy, the best use of your time, and where you will find the answers to the deepest questions in your heart. Not the first time you go to Adoration, or the second, but over time, with honesty and commitment, Christ’s loving gaze will purify you, speak to you in the silence, and show you the way to go. It’s only in relationship with Him that we discover what really matters.  

Back in December, my family took turns being sick on repeat. Exhausted, failing at life, and discouraged with all the things we didn’t get to do, I plodded into my weekly holy hour one night. As I sat in the Lord’s presence, my shoulders began to relax, I breathed deeply, and my burden felt lighter because I realized I was carrying it with Him. If you want to hear the answers to your questions, if you want to lighten your load and prioritize better, then spend more time in Adoration this year. 

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