holy hours
Eucharistic adoration periods
Holy hours refers to a Catholic devotional practice of spending an hour in prayer before the Eucharist, often in a chapel or church.
The practice commemorates Christ's request that his disciples watch with him for one hour in Gethsemane.
Churches may schedule holy hours for specific intentions: The parish holds holy hours for vocations on Thursday evenings.
- adorationProfound loving regard
- Blessed SacramentConsecrated elements in Catholicism
- prayerAddress to deity
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- chapelSmall worship room
candlelit vigil · church pew · devotion · meditation · quiet reflection · silence · kneeling · sacred · blessed · candles · tabernacle · contemplation · sacred silence · reverence · rosary · vespers · sanctuary · incense
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Extreme indulgence in vices
idle hours · wasted time · dissipation · revelry · carousing
holy hoursimpiety
Irreverence toward the divine
sacrilege · desecration · blasphemy · profanation · apostasy
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