Venite adoremus

Led Adoration

Holy Hours before the Blessed Sacrament that I led with the Legion of Mary at Frank Duff House, in Belfast. They are not talks to watch — they are hours to pray along with: in front of a screen if that is where you are, and best of all in front of a tabernacle.

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The Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance on the altar, between two lit candles, with a crucifix above
Frank Duff House, Belfast

An hour with Him

What a led Holy Hour is

Our Lord is exposed in the monstrance, and for an hour we simply stay with Him. In a led hour, one person speaks so that everyone else can be silent: a reading, a prayer said aloud, a song, a thought to hold in front of Him — and long stretches of quiet in between, so that the hour does not drift away into distractions.

These are the hours I was asked to lead. I share them so that you can keep the same hour wherever you are.

What? Could you not watch one hour with me?Matthew 26:40

The most recent

October 2026A Holy Hour of Led Adoration · Frank Duff House, Belfast

The October hour, in the month of the Holy Rosary — Our Lord exposed in the monstrance at Frank Duff House, with Our Lady standing at the side of the altar, as she stood at the side of the Cross.

Frank Duff House is the Legion of Mary's house in Belfast, named after the Dublin layman who founded the Legion in 1921. The invitation that opens the video is the legionaries' own: “Watch, pray and allow the Lord to transform your heart.”

The week of the Holy Cross

September 2026A Holy Hour of Led Adoration · Frank Duff House, Belfast

Friday the 11th of September, three days before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross — an hour in front of the same Lord who was lifted up, now hidden in the Host.

That week the letter I send to my readers was about the Cross, and this was the hour of the one thing the letter was about: not doing, not explaining — staying where you can see everything.

The first

July 2026One Hour of Led Adoration · Frank Duff House, Belfast

The first of these hours. I was asked to lead the Holy Hour with the Legion of Mary — an hour simply to spend quality time with Christ, and to let Him grant us grace and love through His Eucharistic presence.

It came in the month of the Precious Blood. All that we say of the Blood that washes us is not only remembered in the confessional: it is truly present, Body and Blood, in the Host we adore. Sit before Him for a while, and let yourself be looked at, and washed, by His gaze.

Missions & invitations

Would you like me to come to you?

My diary is open. If your parish, praesidium, prayer group, school or community would like me to lead an hour like these — or a time of prayer, a talk, a day of recollection or a mission — I would be glad to come.

  • A Holy Hour of led adoration
  • An evening of prayer or the Rosary
  • A talk or preaching
  • A mission or day of recollection

Before the Blessed Sacrament

Prayers to take into the hour

Adoro te devoteSaint Thomas Aquinas: “Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore.” Anima ChristiSoul of Christ, sanctify me — the prayer after Communion. Spiritual CommunionSaint Alphonsus Liguori, from his Visits to the Blessed Sacrament. Tantum ergoThe hymn of Benediction, in Latin and English.

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