Organised night adoration on an international scale began in Rome in 1810 with the Pious Union of the Adorers of the Most Blessed Sacrament and spread through Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century. The World Federation of Nocturnal Adoration Societies was decreed an international association of the faithful of pontifical right on 6 December 2003. Nocturnal adoration is the ordered devotion of an association or a parish rather than a private exercise, and where the Sacrament is exposed the norms of the diocesan bishop govern it.

Join or form a group that divides the night into hours, so that adorers relieve one another and the Lord is never left alone. Take an hour and keep it. A traditional shape for the hour: begin with an act of adoration and the O Salutaris; read the account of the agony in the garden and stay in silence with it; make reparation for the sins of the night just passed; intercede for the dying, for priests, and for those who will not pray; end with the Divine Praises. Where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, follow the diocesan norms and ensure adorers are always present.

About 1 hour

Citation

Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, 4th ed. (Apostolic Penitentiary, 1999), grant on Eucharistic adoration: a plenary indulgence for adoring the Blessed Sacrament for at least half an hour, and a partial indulgence for a shorter visit, on the usual conditions. The governing norms are those of Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina (1967).

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