One of our local churches has started a holy half hour adoration for preschoolers every Wednesday. It is wonderful! My boys (5,3 and 2) enjoy it and are always excited when I tell them where we are going. We begin by showing the children how to greet Jesus. Then we gather crayons and a prayer/song sheet that is pertinent to the week (this week is was Our Lady of Guadalupe) and the kids begin by coloring. After a few minutes of settling in, one of the kids rings the bells and we “make ourselves small before Jesus” in worship for a few minutes. We follow this with a prayer and portion of a song.
It’s then back to coloring and a saint story. This process is repeated three times using the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be as our prayers. We end with the Divine Praises. It goes so fast - the boys don’t have much time to think about or do anything else besides focus pretty well on why we’re there! The bonus is the girls and I get time before the Blessed Sacrament as well.
THANK YOU Patty for all your work on this!
Hey guys,
Glad to hear it’s going so well… JP, MG and I look forward to joining you at children’s eucharistic adoration again someday soon.
Nice blog!
God bless,
Darcy
would love to start childrens’ Eucharistic adoration but unsure how to go about it and what hymns would suit. Have you any ideas that might help me. Thank You.
I am so grateful for the idea of Children’s Adoration.
Thank you