Adoration

Adoration of the child Jesus. "The Soul spontaneously tends towards ADoration, for it remembers Heaven".^[1]

ADoration is the Worship specifically rendered to God, and to God alone. To worship someone or something other than God is to engage in idolatry.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

ADoration of the shepherds of the Nativity: "We are poor and ignorant, but we know that the Prophets say that the Savior will be the Prince of Peace and to us he (the angel) said to go adore him. Thus he gave us his Peace. Glory to God in the highest Heavens and glory to the one who is his Christ! And you, be blessed, Woman who bore him! You are Holy since you deserved to carry him!"

"How to return to the park leaving this Little One?" -"Glory to God who showed him to us!" -"Let us Kiss his garment," said Levi with an angel’s smile.

Mary gently lifts Jesus and, sitting on the hay, presents to the Kisses his tiny feet, wrapped in a cloth. Those who have beards wipe them first. Almost all of them cry and when they must leave, they back out, leaving their Heart near the manger...^[2]

ADoration of the baby Jesus by Zacharias: Zacharias stands up respectfully and bows with veneration. Then he approaches and looks at Jesus with the marks of the greatest respect. He is bent, not so much to see Him better, as to pay Him homage. Mary presents him to him and Zacharias takes him with such marks of ADoration that he seems to be carrying a monstrance. It is actually the Host that he carries in his arms, the Host already offered and whose sacrifice will be consummated when it is given to men, as food of love and redemption.^[3]

The Soul spontaneously tends towards ADoration, for it remembers Heaven.^[5]
(Mary) : "The mantWater I have is yours that I shortened and retinted. For me, it still goes Well, but for You, it no longer went. You are Jesus..." To express what is in this sentence is impossible. "You are Jesus". A simple phrase, but all the love of the Mother, of the disciple, of the ancient Israelite for the Promised Messiah and of the blessed contemporary Israelite who possesses Jesus, is found in these few words. If the Mother had prostrated herself adoring her Son as God, it was still only a limited form in its respectful manifestation. But in these words, there is more than an ADoration of knees bending, back stooping, forehead touching the ground: there is all of Mary’s being, her flesh, her blood, her Soul, her Heart, her spirit, her love which adores perfectly and totally the God-Man.

I have never seen anything greater, more absolute, than these ADorations of Mary for the Word of God who is her Son, but of whom she still remembers that he is God.^[6]

Catechesis of June 19, 1943: Mary was the perfect eucharistic Soul. She knew how to withhold her God by ardent love, a superangelic purity, a continuous ADoration. How could I separate myself from this Heart that lived from me? I remained even after the consumption of the species.^[7]
Notebooks of March 25, 1944: The consequences of the ADoration of the Beast.