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Summary
- A prayer of adoration praises God for who he is; the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls adoration “the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator” (paragraph 2628).
- Adoration is the A in the ACTS pattern of prayer (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication), which the Navigators describe as loosely based on the Lord’s Prayer.
- Traditional prayers of adoration include Psalm 145:1–3, David’s prayer in 1 Chronicles 29:10–13, the Gloria in excelsis, the Te Deum, the Sanctus and the Gloria Patri, quoted from the King James Version and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
- Short prayers praise God’s majesty, mercy, goodness and faithfulness, and prayers of commitment cover submission to God’s will, service, allegiance to God alone and returning to God.
- The 1928 Prayer Book’s “Dedication of Soul and Body to God’s Service” and its communion prayer echo Romans 12:1, offering to God “our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice”.
- Catholics practice adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Catechism 1378; Council of Trent, 1551); the Anglican Articles of Religion and the Westminster Confession reject it.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (1 Chronicles 29:10–13; Joshua 24:15; Psalm 8:1; 86:10; 90:2; 95:6; 100:5; 103:8; 145:1–3; Isaiah 6:3, 5; Lamentations 3:22–23; Matthew 4:10; 6:9; Luke 2:14; 22:42; John 4:23; 15:5; Romans 11:36; 12:1; 1 Timothy 1:17; Revelation 4:8, 11). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, Gloria Patri, p. 9, and Te Deum laudamus, p. 10; Holy Communion, Sanctus, p. 77, the Oblation, p. 81, and Gloria in excelsis, p. 84; Family Prayer, “Dedication of Soul and Body to God’s Service,” p. 588; Articles of Religion, Article XXVIII, p. 608. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Lasance, Francis Xavier. With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1911. “Prayer to the Holy Trinity,” “Ejaculation in Honor of the Blessed Sacrament” and “Ejaculation of Praise and Thanksgiving to the Most Holy Sacrament.” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/With_God/Indulgenced_Prayers
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 1378 (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM), 2096 (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7D.HTM), 2628 (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P96.HTM) and 2639 (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P9A.HTM).
- Council of Trent, Session 13 (11 October 1551), Decree on the Eucharist, chapter 5. In The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Oecumenical Council of Trent, ed. and trans. J. Waterworth. London: Dolman, 1848. https://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct13.html
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), chapter 21, section 2, and chapter 29, section 4. https://thewestminsterstandard.org/the-westminster-confession/
- The Navigators. “ACTS Prayer Model.” https://www.navigators.org/resource/acts-prayer-model/
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “How does one pray? I’ve never been taught how to say a personal prayer or really talk to God.” https://billygraham.org/answers/how-does-one-pray-ive-never-been-taught-how-to-say-a-personal-prayer-or-really-talk-to-god
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