He must humble himself before him and drink the life he receives at every moment in a kind of ecstasy before the power of God. This is adoration.

Every person must adore. It is his fundamental duty, and it is through the accomplishment of this duty that he finds fulfillment.

God created man to be the cantor of creation so that he can gather up the praises, the glory that all creatures unconsciously give to God by their submission to his laws and by the manifestation of his greatness, his beauty, and his power so that he, the human person, may offer them all to him.

All creatures glorify God. However, only man, through the faculty of knowledge stemming from his intelligence, is capable of singing a canticle of adoration to God.

Each person, therefore, in the thought and in the hands of God, is a praise of adoration. However, not all men offer this worship to God, nor are they, in their personal lives, cantors of creation. And less than ever, alas, does God encounter in his human creatures such cantors of creation.

The sense of adoration is disappearing in the spirit and the heart of man. Let us rekindle adoration. Let us revivify in the spirit of man this ecstasy before God, before his power and his goodness, and this submission of his being to the Creator.

With the sentiments of Christ, through the motion of the Holy Spirit, say to God: Father. Then humble yourself before his majesty and beauty… That is truly what adoration is.

We may have nothing to say; we may have nothing in our mind, but we have only to give ourselves over, abandon ourselves to the motion of the Spirit and stay there, apparently doing nothing. We let ourselves be carried up by Jesus who is the perfect Adorer of the Father.

Christ is God. He is the Son of God. But he is with us to adore his Father. That is what we have to try to understand as much as possible, and it is into his adoring heart that we must try to enter as deeply as possible.

How do we do that? By adoring. Adoration is a gift of oneself in love. Adoration is the summit of love. It is the strongest expression of love because it is the complete forgetting of oneself.

In adoration, one does not turn towards oneself to ask for graces, to give thanks for certain graces already received, to expiate for one’s sins, or to make amends for one’s wrongdoings. No.

In adoration, one sees but one thing: God, his grandeur, his beauty, his power. One sees God for what he is….

Adoration is the loss of oneself before God. It is an emptying of oneself before God. It is the forgetting of oneself before God, It is thus the total giving of oneself….

How can we adore in our everyday life? How can we be true adorers? By giving ourselves, in the full sense of that word, in our everyday life, without choosing—by taking the circumstances, the events, the minutes that go by whatever they are, trying to make them produce as much fruit as possible. That is what it is to be adorers in our ordinary life, and to be so in full reality.

Thus, during the day, as the minutes go by, in the different events of our lives, let us give ourselves in an act of adoration, in an act of love, in the Heart of the one who ceaselessly in the Host offers himself to his Father, eternally immolating himself on the altar in order to sing to the glory of his Father and to draw us, to draw all his Church, into the mysterious and marvelous canticle that will be our eternal bliss.

Mother Julienne du Rosaire, who died within the past few years, was the founder of a French Canadian community of Sisters—the Dominican Missionary Adorers.

On the first day of the Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Ouellet announced that Rome had given approval for the opening of her cause for canonization.

The pamphlet, "Adoration," from which these excerpts are taken is available for just the cost of postage from Les Éditions du Cénacle, Les Dominicaines Missionaires Adoratrices. E-mail: edcenacle@qc.aira.com — Phone: (418) 661-9221. Available in French and English.