tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70367604633498746102024-03-27T02:37:15.907-04:00 Immaculate Heart of Mary Adoration Chapel of the Holy Eucharist IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-58961993225380727832024-03-25T08:30:00.021-04:002024-03-25T08:30:00.140-04:00Every Cross is Unique<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Palm Sunday<br /><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi56BGf4cf5TaqRoaB8loErX6WD2RaXo0Jsx0Lg_9zZxXft-I53BSgOGqN721Ji__g_mS1ND74kJdzYdWZ9qKrruIJUsheWICsB78TQTzSfKfWvtrojrQVjkd2sqUgAxP97FSy6tb_91ZmjsoT43OpPcPYRp2AsVgqstEGQYAIfV3ktBLK8qq7vDCt56Wk" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi56BGf4cf5TaqRoaB8loErX6WD2RaXo0Jsx0Lg_9zZxXft-I53BSgOGqN721Ji__g_mS1ND74kJdzYdWZ9qKrruIJUsheWICsB78TQTzSfKfWvtrojrQVjkd2sqUgAxP97FSy6tb_91ZmjsoT43OpPcPYRp2AsVgqstEGQYAIfV3ktBLK8qq7vDCt56Wk=w42-h54" width="42" /></a></div>Each of us has a cross to bear; that cross is not the same for any two.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">The difference between our crosses is due to God’s will toward each of us.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Our Lord said: “If any man will follow me” let him take up his cross (Mk 8:34).</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He did not say: “Take up my cross.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">My cross is not the same as yours, and yours is not the same as any other.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Every cross in the world is tailor-made, custom built, patterned to fit one and no one else.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That is why we say: “My cross is hard.” We assume that other persons’ crosses are lighter, forgetful that the only reason our cross is hard is simply because it is our own. Our Lord did not make his cross; it was made for him. So yours is made by the circumstances of your life, and by your routine duties. That is why it fits so tightly.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our Lord deals separately with each soul. The crown of gold we want may have underneath it the crown of thorns, but the heroes who choose the crown of thorns often find that underneath it is the crown of gold. Even those that seem to be without a cross actually have one. There are as many kinds of crosses as there are persons: crosses of grief and sorrow, crosses of want, crosses of abuse, crosses of wounded love and crosses of defeat.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God does not give us a cross then turn his back to let us manage on our own. He gives us a cross and because he loves us <b>gives us the help we need to manage that cross</b> and turn it into a blessing that will benefit us for all of eternity.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God is present in our Adoration Chapel and ready to help you with your cross. All you have to do is show up, ask him for his help, then place all your trust in him. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</b></p><div><b><br /><br /></b></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-23727232358011980622024-03-18T08:30:00.013-04:002024-03-18T08:30:00.135-04:00<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">“I thirst”<br /><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwROzrCVm5-rZELIbluX_3LS8jG1f7CP3z0pzYJL3cuGR0mHAc_k7w82K_z2wzquCcq1yMcabXnmtz7mr0a2lIgvTG-W3Ugb9PzWSRxmJ3KOBI0N5QCBBhZRKQd2riUlS8_jovMokxDUUU_b35weAeDDKtBOqNlf27e8TWoizUohXcwDXE6hV7w3eKYXM" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="173" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwROzrCVm5-rZELIbluX_3LS8jG1f7CP3z0pzYJL3cuGR0mHAc_k7w82K_z2wzquCcq1yMcabXnmtz7mr0a2lIgvTG-W3Ugb9PzWSRxmJ3KOBI0N5QCBBhZRKQd2riUlS8_jovMokxDUUU_b35weAeDDKtBOqNlf27e8TWoizUohXcwDXE6hV7w3eKYXM=w39-h66" width="39" /></a></div>“One day Our Blessed Lord said to the multitude: ‘If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink’ (Jn 7:37).<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">But on the cross, he, from whose fingertips toppled planets and worlds, he who filled the valleys with the song of a thousand fountains now cries, not to God, but to man: “I thirst” (Jn 19:28).</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">The physical pain of being nailed to a cross, lingering for hours without food or drink beneath an Oriental sun, the parched dryness that came from the loss of blood, now expresses itself not in peevish impatience but in a simple declaration of thirst.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">There is nothing in the whole story of the Crucifixion which makes Our Lord seem so human as this one word. And yet that thirst could not have been only physical, for the Gospel tells us that he said it in order that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. It, therefore, was spiritual as well as physical. God was on the quest for souls, trusting that one of the trivial ministrations of life, the offering of a cup in his name, might bring the offerer within the sweet radiance of his grace. The Shepherd was still out after the sheep, at the moment when he was giving his life for the flock!” <span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(Seven Words of Jesus and Mary - Fulton J. Sheen)</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Have you this lent through your prayers and/or actions been able to quench the ‘thirst’ of Our Lord? Even a little?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He waits patiently for each of us to come to him. Why not visit him in the chapel?</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi </b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-44071039398799673802024-03-11T08:30:00.011-04:002024-03-11T08:30:00.264-04:00Easter Blessings<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Are You Ready For The Blessings Of Easter?</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmFTcTMjtW3PqDg8aSr_ek2eZ1R7KNuQjpmaP-1hBwJCOJ60KeMmtFfYeThiWPyP08Rm690XzsBkDCw9mC2AU5CUnJrOgggG85BcKhLekWvS0H16BIKu_C8B64P7wGAn2rlL_obrlTcrIcCEjMODEDZDj7_SiJ8akNtQ-wKjJMroMVGtgmaUtjWuNiCyQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="202" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmFTcTMjtW3PqDg8aSr_ek2eZ1R7KNuQjpmaP-1hBwJCOJ60KeMmtFfYeThiWPyP08Rm690XzsBkDCw9mC2AU5CUnJrOgggG85BcKhLekWvS0H16BIKu_C8B64P7wGAn2rlL_obrlTcrIcCEjMODEDZDj7_SiJ8akNtQ-wKjJMroMVGtgmaUtjWuNiCyQ=w55-h68" width="55" /></a></div>Pope John Paul II reminded us in an encyclical that the church draws her life from the Eucharist. Christ promised to “remain with us always, until the end of time” (Mt 28:20), and that promise has been kept in the Eucharist. Here at IHM, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is an important daily practice and an inexhaustible source of holiness and blessing for the parish and for those who personally participate by spending time in our chapel each week.<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“If in our time Christians must be distinguished above all by the act of prayer, how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual conversation, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love, before Christ present in the most holy sacrament?” (Pope John Paul II). Eucharistic adoration is a primary source of strength, consolation and support, both spiritually as well as physically.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The season of Lent is set aside to help us prepare our hearts and minds for the coming of Easter. Take advantage of the opportunity given through Eucharistic Adoration.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-27237954721005982712024-03-04T08:30:00.008-05:002024-03-04T08:30:00.140-05:00Pray In His True Presence<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Face-to-Face with God</b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNsxyNLTQCoESKnci3CqI0kKayYreLZjb9hOcZwuLHytihKOGrazZjUrm2L7QfhAfOKiXPA8dvxK2f1Xj1sdZ79gU9Ipi8l0Ds3rWKWRFL9SalXTN3nt7Ct1uEb3uIGMZ3nvfq1mOcxW1Zc1I3kw9WOJbBNlaJNzAp1HOiqFTEiY1YTV9JxWeEZf0xQ6o" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="294" height="42" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNsxyNLTQCoESKnci3CqI0kKayYreLZjb9hOcZwuLHytihKOGrazZjUrm2L7QfhAfOKiXPA8dvxK2f1Xj1sdZ79gU9Ipi8l0Ds3rWKWRFL9SalXTN3nt7Ct1uEb3uIGMZ3nvfq1mOcxW1Zc1I3kw9WOJbBNlaJNzAp1HOiqFTEiY1YTV9JxWeEZf0xQ6o=w72-h42" width="72" /></a></div>Praying silently before the Blessed Sacrament in the Adoration Chapel is a time to speak intimately with Our Lord, who makes himself present to us in a uniquely intimate way. As an audience before the King of the Universe and the court of heaven, we ARE listened to, assisted, and graced with his abiding love. <span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(DCN Bob Calleja - Divine Child/Dearborn MI)</span><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So if you ever wonder if Our Lord hears you when you pray why not visit him in the chapel where he is truly present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity and praying sitting face-to-face in his presence you know he cannot help but hear your every word.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-5007184579633053602024-02-26T08:30:00.020-05:002024-02-26T08:30:00.131-05:00Follow Me ... Now!<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Lent Is A Time To Follow Him</b></p><p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiOC4evr5VTK2OGFTernipKObCFxHB6yJzRXlcTBfjHFVVx4WGPwoxx6gh-zIMb4_8qV7-WOifq9xWJ0zqaY7DDekO9ADrK0mKpcJjcL5snB6eXZxCHGBO7dtDJKXiHpWPrx7XbXPs36iLIvdE0HteFubEH4VJttqC4y6uuHBJleyzCYA9zyNXzz7zpy8" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="271" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiOC4evr5VTK2OGFTernipKObCFxHB6yJzRXlcTBfjHFVVx4WGPwoxx6gh-zIMb4_8qV7-WOifq9xWJ0zqaY7DDekO9ADrK0mKpcJjcL5snB6eXZxCHGBO7dtDJKXiHpWPrx7XbXPs36iLIvdE0HteFubEH4VJttqC4y6uuHBJleyzCYA9zyNXzz7zpy8=w79-h54" width="79" /></a></div>“As Jesus walked on from there, he noticed a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Jesus said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(Matthew 9:9)</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">“Follow me,” Jesus says, and Matthew does so at once. What a radical response! Would you and I do the same? Would we drop everything straightaway to follow a man we knew little or nothing of? Probably not. Yet Matthew does so, as do Andrew, Peter, James and John. <span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(Matthew 4:18-22)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every day, Jesus passes through our lives and calls us to follow him in ways both big and small. The example of the Apostles challenges and encourages us to respond promptly to Jesus’ call. Do we?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You might ask, “Where do I meet Christ in my daily life? I do not perceive his presence or hear him calling me.” Yet he is there.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He calls us to be faithful to our daily prayers when we don’t feel like praying. He speaks to us through Sacred Scripture or a passage from some spiritual work. He invites us to grow in the spiritual life through an invitation to spend time with him in the Adoration Chapel.”</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>(Amber Kinloch - St Josephs’ Shelf)</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How will you respond to his invitation?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-29745029100424364262024-02-19T08:30:00.010-05:002024-02-19T08:30:00.259-05:00Motivation Reinforced <p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Motivation Comes From Being In His Presence<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br />W</b>hen we visit Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration he rejoices over all that we are doing for him.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He never says, “It’s not enough.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinNZDF1QHFOnG5bhWv4h7Yieb9zbpVxRr6DsgIayLk_ef7zAm_1HAjjSY0K-UjU17AdHirNcwqP5lv-Y_qusdkbciuFtsLEkXoGkQ22ucZFd-GI8FhTr6jHae_YmPf-mD-TTxv_FuZy5oPkFQOhAHhLiupyP-5UsL9de14AplToKbHivYflhJTT2eIXj4" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="171" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinNZDF1QHFOnG5bhWv4h7Yieb9zbpVxRr6DsgIayLk_ef7zAm_1HAjjSY0K-UjU17AdHirNcwqP5lv-Y_qusdkbciuFtsLEkXoGkQ22ucZFd-GI8FhTr6jHae_YmPf-mD-TTxv_FuZy5oPkFQOhAHhLiupyP-5UsL9de14AplToKbHivYflhJTT2eIXj4=w33-h56" width="33" /></a></div>You need to do more.”<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He never says, “You need to serve me more.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He never says, “You’re not faithful enough to me.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You need to work harder.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Rather, he blesses us and pours out his love on us, knowing that this is enough to compel us.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He tells us how pleased he is with us, and that experience of God’s pleasure motivates us to lay down even more of our lives.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">To put it more simply, his love for us calls more love out of us.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It may be hard to believe, but Jesus is even more eager to be with us than we are to be with him!<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Renew your motivation by spending time in the Adoration Chapel.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><br /><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>If you give God a chance He will win!<br /></span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a><p></p><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-84220895004827436322024-02-12T08:30:00.004-05:002024-02-12T08:30:00.136-05:00 This Could Be Your Best Lent Ever<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_WUAevjiZZTO6rZQRE8deGOYLJrRPzrh9gDRe2-GThh9z5tLPvVI_Tm7ilOPiYzVuzqeAnetex-ucEA0RG6c432i6tz97k_h3aIUs9gL_C7EMZi-0ihPyXtoeiDTyMtj6ml91DMdy_FFxNMJUhmyvjh5eyqWQxPGoMjtvbF8qzJVaSgOhSFX4YAwtRvo" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="201" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_WUAevjiZZTO6rZQRE8deGOYLJrRPzrh9gDRe2-GThh9z5tLPvVI_Tm7ilOPiYzVuzqeAnetex-ucEA0RG6c432i6tz97k_h3aIUs9gL_C7EMZi-0ihPyXtoeiDTyMtj6ml91DMdy_FFxNMJUhmyvjh5eyqWQxPGoMjtvbF8qzJVaSgOhSFX4YAwtRvo=w58-h72" width="58" /></a></div>If you’re still looking for an idea of what to do this Lent that would be pleasing to God, and beneficial to your soul, now might be a good time to honestly ask yourself that question and trusting in God see what ideas come to the surface.<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If in the past you haven’t been too successful with Lenten resolutions you might want to take a new approach. If before it was you who decided what plan of action to take - this year you might want to ask God for his input.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you decide to ask God you should begin by separating yourself from the noise and clutter of this world and sit quietly in his presence. You can do this anywhere; you don’t have to be in church or the adoration chapel. God is always with us; so find a quiet place where you can simply turn your mind to God and ask him as a friend what he would like to see you do to grow spiritually in this time before Easter?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The hard part is now to be quiet and listen. Remember any conversation is not a monologue but an exchange - we must not do all the talking but must also be good listeners. At the same time you need to place your trust in God - He will not lead you astray. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">See you in the Adoration Chapel this Lent.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-75469729278620406262024-02-05T08:00:00.014-05:002024-02-05T08:00:00.155-05:00Begin Now From Where You Are<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Begin Now From Where You Are</b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwKaEEzPonZuIwM6X98VM2FxOJHxT_7wWyHsm8x475NIfpGz98PnhG1BJhl3qqVfE5fzfqY5cuci4Xilrr7hmtnik7TgJBjYGiOkSQoNVEMU-yM5XKE7BN2XqqDKt8BU9IBP0bWLu6bqibweGaZt8cKTuuyA2q3Jecz-yk-ca58gpC4CXqkOotuoK-TVQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="186" height="87" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwKaEEzPonZuIwM6X98VM2FxOJHxT_7wWyHsm8x475NIfpGz98PnhG1BJhl3qqVfE5fzfqY5cuci4Xilrr7hmtnik7TgJBjYGiOkSQoNVEMU-yM5XKE7BN2XqqDKt8BU9IBP0bWLu6bqibweGaZt8cKTuuyA2q3Jecz-yk-ca58gpC4CXqkOotuoK-TVQ=w60-h87" width="60" /></a></div>Spiritual growth is not limited to the seasons of Lent or Christmas, but rather it’s the endeavor of a lifetime.<br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />To grow spiritually we must be totally dependent on our relationship with God.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">To improve that relationship we need his help.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You don’t need a grand conversion experience.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Rather for most of us, it’s a continual series of small, firm daily renewals that lead to a grand conversion.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">This type of conversion takes time to establish and additional time to grow.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />A relationship with Jesus also is not dependent on you doing everything correctly.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It means only that you desire to give him your heart.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You are going to make mistakes or struggle, and he knows it.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He is not going to stop putting graces in your life, and he is not going to ignore you if you struggle.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You only need to raise your level of trust in God and he will support you.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Keep in mind that no one becomes a saint overnight - not the Apostles, not the martyrs, none of them reach sainthood in a single instant. Trust that Jesus is working with you in the middle of your trials, and that you are bearing far more fruit than you think you are. If you keep that mindset, then you will find the practice of dedicating each day to the Lord becoming easier and easier.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are not a regular Adoration adorer now would be a good time to start your conversion.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-43217342434503832672024-01-29T08:00:00.015-05:002024-01-29T08:00:00.135-05:00 God Wants Presence<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBPSC70G3pd3e_EyIp8U6RID6qavZmGbli6gz_bjBjeBnoHM_YV02K-tjgNR3MG2v6OtHRryw3tVAm4oNcSTVlLqI9gCWdQxjoyEjrZ1FogmcqB5oki3PeWg4kts1oWXtJ1dzuAKhUq4IiNkjwOyc73SOIuTUuBPo_m8koV01ktNFsDz0Mm8NzJ3jPgkE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBPSC70G3pd3e_EyIp8U6RID6qavZmGbli6gz_bjBjeBnoHM_YV02K-tjgNR3MG2v6OtHRryw3tVAm4oNcSTVlLqI9gCWdQxjoyEjrZ1FogmcqB5oki3PeWg4kts1oWXtJ1dzuAKhUq4IiNkjwOyc73SOIuTUuBPo_m8koV01ktNFsDz0Mm8NzJ3jPgkE=w80-h60" width="80" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">“You console my Eucharistic Heart by giving me signs of your friendship; of all these, the one that most consoles me is your presence before my Eucharistic Face.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">There are many ways of expressing friendship and of responding to the love of one’s friend, but the one that is most satisfying to the heart is the simple act of companionship, of presence, of being together. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9px;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: underline;">In Sinu Jesu: When Hearts Speak to Heart </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9px;"> pg 153)</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">This is a good time to offer Jesus the gift of your presence, and one of the better ways to do that is Eucharistic Adoration in our chapel, where you can go and pray before the face of our true God almost anytime you want. You don’t have to be a ‘committed’ adorer to pray in the chapel, you are welcome anytime your schedule permits.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The more time we spend in his presence the easier it is for us to find him not only in the chapel, but everywhere and in everything we do.</p>
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“Loving Father, my heart reveals to me that everything that I long for finds its fulfillment in the Eucharist. Attune my way of thinking to the Eucharist so that I will be responsive to the presence of your Son in whatever comes my way.”<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> (</span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Jesus, Present Before Me</span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Fr Peter Cameron, O.P.)</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /><br /></span></p>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-73830477528683357182024-01-22T08:00:00.012-05:002024-01-22T08:00:00.128-05:00Listen to God's Invite<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">God’s Invitation</b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHY3daE0j4lZWGG6QfuXsCx9XlzXJ9RJvsc0zb45ajp2uK72ieUkVjgJMtxL4Lg5aJOnbw2QiteTYRBKjcITw0qEbPS0OvQhztIQdf8EWpUHBKwBNn16aTuDIwuX7l0IKtKxs-UIfhjFZV4WvRnYP2o3tX8NeIOMPdk6dEx4kIgnGuuttQqukMOmOS14s" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="243" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHY3daE0j4lZWGG6QfuXsCx9XlzXJ9RJvsc0zb45ajp2uK72ieUkVjgJMtxL4Lg5aJOnbw2QiteTYRBKjcITw0qEbPS0OvQhztIQdf8EWpUHBKwBNn16aTuDIwuX7l0IKtKxs-UIfhjFZV4WvRnYP2o3tX8NeIOMPdk6dEx4kIgnGuuttQqukMOmOS14s=w82-h71" width="82" /></a></div>Need time to catch your breath and put a little normalcy back into your life? As in all things, God is ahead of us because he gives us a standing invitation to step away from the busyness and noise of everyday living when he says in Matt 11:28-29, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.”<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You can find that ‘rest’ spending time in His Real Presence in the Adoration Chapel. The beauty of this ‘rest’ is that you don’t have to do anything but show up. You simply sit in His presence and God does the work. All you need is a little trust. How much easier do you want it? This action of sitting in His presence changes us from the inside out by lifting us up and giving us renewed direction and energy.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Join the many of your fellow parishioners who have made ‘chapel time’ a regular component of their prayer life and found this divine support to be priceless.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-21494293821888290032024-01-15T08:00:00.019-05:002024-01-15T08:00:00.131-05:00God Waits For You<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He Waits For You!<br /><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUdIFZkIfrcDvljGw4KoPYLylfGc3AJlJ4VkFMOiPb6jai142AKrUvPs0xEuaPaZY6zch9nI9O8n1HvKxJZ73yNYzpuEuB8tSCwKqBNRw07R5nnObHyiyJYppLzq590d1jE6nlhwXKIp1w0ftNP4FHAvA_dT23SQ6J4HsPbilaqveQ46RK2fI9SQwxcSA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="294" height="41" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUdIFZkIfrcDvljGw4KoPYLylfGc3AJlJ4VkFMOiPb6jai142AKrUvPs0xEuaPaZY6zch9nI9O8n1HvKxJZ73yNYzpuEuB8tSCwKqBNRw07R5nnObHyiyJYppLzq590d1jE6nlhwXKIp1w0ftNP4FHAvA_dT23SQ6J4HsPbilaqveQ46RK2fI9SQwxcSA=w70-h41" width="70" /></a></div>Many people visit the Adoration Chapel to be able to sit quietly in the Presence of God and experience the solace of the surroundings during normal activities of the day.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Some adorers are ‘committed’; as such they have volunteered for a specific time each week.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You don’t have to be a ‘committed’ adorer to spend time in the chapel; you can visit when your schedule permits.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">No matter when you go He is waiting for you and wants to hear about your life, your joys, your sorrows.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">In His presence it’s a good time to recall how He was insulted, publicly humiliated, and suffered for us to save us from eternal damnation.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">This is a time we can thank Him for what He did, tell Him how much we love Him, and give Him thanks for all the graces and blessings He gives us.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It is a time we can talk to Him as a friend who always has time to listen.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />Adoration helps us grow through silence.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">While sitting in his presence we grow spiritually and it doesn’t take long to experience these changes positively affecting our lives.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">These changes improve our relationship with God, and as our relationship improves we find ourselves wanting to spend more time in His presence, and we begin looking for additional opportunities for chapel time.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />Pope Francis in a recent Angelus said, “Through silence and prayer, we make space for Jesus”.</span><p></p><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-66734385612462590372024-01-08T08:00:00.010-05:002024-01-08T08:00:00.129-05:00Make Better<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">To Make Better<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWMziaNWB6Dbc9pXLKVjIe_4H3K12JtKu9opWFADVewCzYHHl_NmHQzjAeyyKhGAqQYIR-xJCYSGKypDYTvLKKIVePu4FcfZZk7oacj9hG1J4yk-DuygDNo3CDaXwrhZdFlHFQDUtUdvoBBNt-O9R3pcoXUBezfWONHp31H4OK8mv8U0N6B15bJRQ4hv4" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWMziaNWB6Dbc9pXLKVjIe_4H3K12JtKu9opWFADVewCzYHHl_NmHQzjAeyyKhGAqQYIR-xJCYSGKypDYTvLKKIVePu4FcfZZk7oacj9hG1J4yk-DuygDNo3CDaXwrhZdFlHFQDUtUdvoBBNt-O9R3pcoXUBezfWONHp31H4OK8mv8U0N6B15bJRQ4hv4=w70-h47" width="70" /></a></div>Our human condition often gets in the way of fully realizing how important it is to our spiritual well being to spend time in the true presence of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord and God.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Unfortunately, we may not fully realize its importance until we’re standing face to face before our Lord.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">When that time comes I hope we’re all able to say ‘I tried to use every opportunity You gave me to better our relationship and to prepare myself for eternal life with You.’</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The New Year not only gives us the opportunity to evaluate our physical lives and commit to change that hopefully will make us better people; it also gives us the opportunity to evaluate our spiritual lives and make changes where we can improve our relationship with God. ‘Change’ can start in the Adoration Chapel. If you’re not a regular, why not give it a try.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Adoration is: “The experience of Christs’ peaceful presence.”</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-75160519787237596942024-01-01T08:00:00.013-05:002024-01-01T08:00:00.136-05:00A Resolution That Becomes Easier To Keep With Time<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">A Resolution That Becomes Easier To Keep With Time<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b>If you are going into the new year without a resolution that if kept would in some way make you a better person let me offer you a fail-safe practice.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Time spent in Eucharistic Adoration increases your love of God and helps you become a better person in the here and now.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Not only is there an immediate Spiritual benefit, but every moment of adoration adds great value to your eternal retirement account that will never decrease in value from that time on.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />We all know the importance of compound interest on our financial retirement; the same can be said of our heavenly account.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Don’t wait … start now.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Have faith in Our Lord and remember, </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Every saint has a PAST.... Every sinner has a FUTURE</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-82744734331074875292023-12-25T08:00:00.011-05:002023-12-25T08:00:00.132-05:00 Happy Birthday Jesus! <p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Happy Birthday Jesus! <br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFkx282DqwctDV5MXuinW-H39-3rOYqgqo_9g9J-AlwAMvm8rAXBF3UdyFZ70gpaupybfbYu8visQoWFjppbxTMObYWjy03QdYQq_MwUAR2hDAjp6pNqLG_B1odpUzy9tQzbPfVVyIFqkn54Prhm4n0D3IOWFgIrSVWQ8pUX7QKvU0mLcMoFV5h9oFAts" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="500" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFkx282DqwctDV5MXuinW-H39-3rOYqgqo_9g9J-AlwAMvm8rAXBF3UdyFZ70gpaupybfbYu8visQoWFjppbxTMObYWjy03QdYQq_MwUAR2hDAjp6pNqLG_B1odpUzy9tQzbPfVVyIFqkn54Prhm4n0D3IOWFgIrSVWQ8pUX7QKvU0mLcMoFV5h9oFAts=w80-h61" width="80" /></a></div><b><br /></b>When you look upon the Sacred Host after the consecration at Mass, or you kneel in front of the Sacred Host displayed in the Monstrance in the chapel, you look upon Jesus Himself, the Son of God.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">We believe the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the Consecration, so that it is the adorable body and blood of the Lord Jesus that from then on are really before us under the sacramental species of bread and wine, </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline;">as the Lord willed it</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">, in order </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline;">to give Himself</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> to us as food and to associate us with the unity of His Mystical Body.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">During this season of gift giving please take a few minutes to find a quiet place to sit and free your mind of all the clutter of secular Christmas; sincerely thank Our God for the priceless gift of His Divine Son. It’s a gift the true value of which cannot be fully appreciated this side of Heaven.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So if you’re asked ‘What did you get for Christmas?’; I hope you would respond ‘I received the gift of greatest value anyone on earth could hope for!’ <span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(originally published Dec 25, 2022)</span></p><div><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /><br /></span></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-80458793507126047492023-12-18T08:00:00.005-05:002023-12-18T08:00:00.130-05:00Advent Is A Time Of Preparation<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Time of Preparation</b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">“The notion that we must be ever prepared to meet the Lord when He summons us into His presence is not absent in these days of Advent and that thought is not to be frightening, but it is a call to open-eyed preparation in every day of the journey that is ours.” </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: 9px;">Archbishop Timothy Broglio<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: 9px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Eucharistic Adoration is one of the better ways to prepare for the journey that is ours.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">You do not have to be a ‘committed’ adorer to spend time in the chapel.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">If you’re not a regular … Jesus would love to see you stop by the chapel and spend as much time as your schedule allows whenever it’s convenient.</span></p><div><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-2604818119932660122023-12-11T08:00:00.008-05:002023-12-11T08:00:00.140-05:00Prepare For Christmas<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Advent Is A Time Of Hope </b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzQbvjJf9NQg8Rc40GXaiuIvdZVrSmwe9vgucTTuhxqztlBuIbln_iwAnnz7iv4DkEJJ0PwWQwiwyAVGR7_o3lRCdWJu25Xy5CumNQlFpiOj3eiNfZpqIM4wQfjCH6Hj6MWtumltLP2Kdo-sStr3tFohmU5wGBibzienHIqypP2pVc5D1ONbW4kXGzBzE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="243" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzQbvjJf9NQg8Rc40GXaiuIvdZVrSmwe9vgucTTuhxqztlBuIbln_iwAnnz7iv4DkEJJ0PwWQwiwyAVGR7_o3lRCdWJu25Xy5CumNQlFpiOj3eiNfZpqIM4wQfjCH6Hj6MWtumltLP2Kdo-sStr3tFohmU5wGBibzienHIqypP2pVc5D1ONbW4kXGzBzE=w58-h50" width="58" /></a></div>Dear Jesus, you are the hope in our messy world. This Advent, help us slow down, listen to your voice, and focus on what's really important. We place our hope in you as we prepare our hearts to celebrate your birth on Christmas.<p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Amen</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Eucharistic Adoration helps prepare our hearts for Christmas!</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-71277552648139362982023-12-04T08:00:00.006-05:002023-12-04T08:00:00.138-05:00Adoration and Advent<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Adoration and Advent Go Together</b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil_K37X2dmoCH4WS6UsTwJN2zjHkGcdC8qRXoc32_Ycanx28ON2svaXcU0GBS_LxJcVxkEqiUwgq8AXF8s_djvxjlKS6SAkGdbDNlyG2IlCQu5ow7L6vGLKr4CRfpst-YNRDeqRA2-MEwzIPO8AJSwwsyKEwpPcQH01HB0eZtSjbdXoSVO9DQumLhZEug" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="515" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil_K37X2dmoCH4WS6UsTwJN2zjHkGcdC8qRXoc32_Ycanx28ON2svaXcU0GBS_LxJcVxkEqiUwgq8AXF8s_djvxjlKS6SAkGdbDNlyG2IlCQu5ow7L6vGLKr4CRfpst-YNRDeqRA2-MEwzIPO8AJSwwsyKEwpPcQH01HB0eZtSjbdXoSVO9DQumLhZEug=w62-h84" width="62" /></a></div>Advent is that beautiful time of year that helps us focus on the spiritual preparation for Christmas and on the coming of Our Lord. It’s that time of year when every Christian publication we subscribe to, every Christian radio station listened to, and perhaps every homily heard, will all be encouraging us to “prepare” for Jesus’ coming into the world and to remember the real meaning of Christmas.<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One of the best ways to “prepare” is to pray. And one of the best ways to pray is Eucharistic Adoration. A popular definition of ‘prayer’ is ‘relationship with God’. Have you ever been able to establish a relationship with someone, or improve upon a relationship, without spending time with them … of course not. Same holds true with God.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Advent presents an opportunity to start or improve your ‘relationship’. And our beautiful Adoration Chapel is the perfect place for more “face time” with God.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You don't need to be a scheduled adorer - you don't need an appointment - simply drop-in and spend time with God. If you find the visit improved your relationship with Him why not schedule a weekly appointment to be together in a special way. He would like that!</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">** Become part of the Adoration Movement **</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-79363945775904005662023-11-27T08:30:00.015-05:002023-11-27T08:30:00.140-05:00Adoration Is Magical<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Feel The Magic<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b>Having celebrated Thanksgiving last week I hope we all were able to spend time consciously thanking God for His many blessings and demonstrate our faith in His continued support and the gifts He bestows on us. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd7lw1VbnCwCbgdGX7pJhGI_jqxsyuJxCLruLgBmzEOEsXlLhIX04_scC4dWtJiSqGoMGbB7c9xvEB-chVSw19G_la7wvRD9Nr2LC5Z-fr6Ykns5RQatN9J9MAJx3Omy5QsJ3Ki_j7pLym3CQoF108S7T8HbvDhq4caU9q1CJAWZAp-ofVk64FX7araRY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="151" data-original-width="334" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd7lw1VbnCwCbgdGX7pJhGI_jqxsyuJxCLruLgBmzEOEsXlLhIX04_scC4dWtJiSqGoMGbB7c9xvEB-chVSw19G_la7wvRD9Nr2LC5Z-fr6Ykns5RQatN9J9MAJx3Omy5QsJ3Ki_j7pLym3CQoF108S7T8HbvDhq4caU9q1CJAWZAp-ofVk64FX7araRY=w98-h61" width="98" /></a></div>At the time, immersed in busy holiday schedules, we may not have been thinking: “can we ever thank Him enough; can we ever out give Him; or ever love Him to the same level He loves us?”<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As you head to Adoration this week remember how blessed we are to live in a place and at a time we do. In spite of our troubles, our misguided direction, and the selfish movements of entitlement and relativism, there is still one practice that will nourish and help you grow in this world and prepare you for a better life in the next … and that is the gift to simply sit in His real presence. It’s magical - you don’t have to do anything in Adoration - just sit in His presence and He does the work, and you leave a better person. When was the last time you did nothing and became a better person? God can make this happen.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Advent starts next week … why not make a commitment to spend time each week in His presence in preparation for Christmas. It doesn’t have to be the same block of time each week and you don’t have to sign-up to be a permanent adorer. Choose a time convenient for you and go sit in His presence and feel the magic. On Christmas morning you will be able to give Him a gift He truly appreciates - your time!</p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-3647845472944048812023-11-20T08:30:00.009-05:002023-11-20T08:30:00.141-05:00 What’s the Secret?<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">What’s the Secret?</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIIeX7Alz6dXaP0eTcSfzFPVRFf-Us_-8X8YxkicyAR1Sw1W3Ld4c012fTrrWn3DWqygD4VZaBOthF1KdaZgYrRp569Bu720IKHXE__bJK5VLIMmNkEXuWD3Qt4xp6fiNWmX-WX8ua3fXMqCyWrwQrTXr2FOnO83iDC8ooiLMrRBFIEo9_Psqf8Wy5gbg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="186" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIIeX7Alz6dXaP0eTcSfzFPVRFf-Us_-8X8YxkicyAR1Sw1W3Ld4c012fTrrWn3DWqygD4VZaBOthF1KdaZgYrRp569Bu720IKHXE__bJK5VLIMmNkEXuWD3Qt4xp6fiNWmX-WX8ua3fXMqCyWrwQrTXr2FOnO83iDC8ooiLMrRBFIEo9_Psqf8Wy5gbg=w51-h74" width="51" /></a></div>Father Jose’ Calveras, was a Jesuit priest who had a reputation of teaching people how to pray. Fr. Jose’ is quoted as saying: “The key to the art of prayer is the prayer of petition. Many people never learn how to pray because they have never learned to make effective use of petitionary prayer. The hand outstretched to beg obtains what the hand pressed against ones’ head to think does not.”<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you have not succeeded in prayer it’s not because prayer does not work. It may be because you’ve not learned how to pray well.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first law of prayer is: FAITH. Have you noticed the habit Jesus had of saying to anyone who came to Him for a favor: Do you believe I can do this? In other words, He always insisted on faith in His power to heal and cure and work miracles.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This teaching of Jesus is no different today than it was 2000 years ago. So if you are questioning the effectiveness of your prayer heed His teaching when He said, “Have faith in God. I tell you this: if anyone says to this mountain …” You know the story. But there is an important point at the end where Jesus goes on to say “I tell you then, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.” (Matt 11:20)</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Jesus continues to work miracles in response to faith in our day. Believe and expect only the best. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>Chapel time builds Faith.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></b></span></p><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-52367109626090187182023-11-13T08:30:00.018-05:002023-11-13T08:30:00.147-05:00 Mary Is Our Model Of Faith And Our Perpetual Help<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Mary Is Our Model Of Faith And Our Perpetual Help</b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9wDYXj3d2S3opsl_ng4PNct7_LAl4yYUsJkFz9ZiOEll1KoeC4jetcERPcP6P_WpLNsTpNomiWmL8DdSPCZJTq4QnQ-tAH5HTZH4t9fN6pkGqRXF9m3MP_kYlrZQSfLtgr4zovdyowxkhMQVYy7mBYzcXzwQmJC5JZMbIK6BuSfXiSp6lvq35rbqfEks" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="515" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9wDYXj3d2S3opsl_ng4PNct7_LAl4yYUsJkFz9ZiOEll1KoeC4jetcERPcP6P_WpLNsTpNomiWmL8DdSPCZJTq4QnQ-tAH5HTZH4t9fN6pkGqRXF9m3MP_kYlrZQSfLtgr4zovdyowxkhMQVYy7mBYzcXzwQmJC5JZMbIK6BuSfXiSp6lvq35rbqfEks=w54-h73" width="54" /></a></div>The Blessed Virgin lived in such physical proximity and loving intimacy with her divine Son as no one ever has or can hope to experience. She was with Him, near Him and close to Him physically and emotionally as only a loving mother can be close to the child whom she brought into the world. Mary was always thinking of Jesus.<p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She believed that this Infant, this Child, this young Man was no mere human being. She knew He was human, but she believed in His divinity because her mind penetrated beyond the veils of what her eyes and ears and hands could experience. Faith penetrates. Faith sees. Faith knows what the senses cannot perceive and even the human reason cannot comprehend. Mary saw. It cannot be too strongly emphasized or too often insisted that Mary had to live by faith. She saw only a helpless, speechless baby, yet she believed He was the almighty Word of God.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is the first foundational lesson we learn from Mary in our veneration of the Holy Eucharist. Like her, we must come before the Blessed Sacrament with total undiluted faith. We believe that which the pagan, sophisticated, over-educated world tells us is a dream. When we come before the Blessed Sacrament, we need to break through the crust of what the senses perceive and what the mind rationally would tell us, believing more than we can see, believing more than we can touch, believing more than we can experience with our senses or even fathom with our minds. This is why we speak of Our Lady as the model of our faith. “Oh Mary, Virgin most faithful, pray for us that our faith may become more and more like yours.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you need to grow your faith visit the Adoration Chapel and ask Mary for her help. As our heavenly Mother she is committed to help. Our Adoration Chapel is available to everyone.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /><br /></b></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-33564544167390920182023-11-06T08:30:00.016-05:002023-11-06T08:30:00.141-05:00 More Time Spent .. Greater Reward<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">More Time Spent .. Greater Reward<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b>“Do you want the Lord to give you many graces?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Visit Him often.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Do you want Him to give you few graces?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Visit Him rarely.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsijYYTWoPvTRQ4a7p60hYdBnpjey6lx98BycniH95FpWpo5peB0vR49FzWam58h6T76AznH4KJjUTORPe1hdzuz0bxk1GOppt80TCU28S4D6vrDWnhOAEJnUF67lPkJWTXgv6EfdjbG-mHsw0ItJ8IGCHaC88KYuV_pRIk3N8UqDkG-vt-LHro9Ya6hY/s670/IMG_0894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="670" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsijYYTWoPvTRQ4a7p60hYdBnpjey6lx98BycniH95FpWpo5peB0vR49FzWam58h6T76AznH4KJjUTORPe1hdzuz0bxk1GOppt80TCU28S4D6vrDWnhOAEJnUF67lPkJWTXgv6EfdjbG-mHsw0ItJ8IGCHaC88KYuV_pRIk3N8UqDkG-vt-LHro9Ya6hY/w90-h60/IMG_0894.JPG" width="90" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Do you want the devil to attack you?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Do you want him to flee from you?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Visit Jesus often.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Do you want to conquer the devil?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Take refuge often at the feet of Jesus.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Do you want to be conquered by the devil?</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Forget about visiting Jesus.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">My dear ones, </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline;">the visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely necessary way to conquer the devil</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline;">will not</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> come out victorious against you.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">St John Bosco)</span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Heed St John’s advice by visiting Jesus in our Adoration Chapel. Sign up as a committed adorer and let Jesus know you will do your best to visit Him same time, same day, every week and begin to have a greater appreciation of how God helps you conquer the devil.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a></span></p><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></b></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-38931922556279293922023-10-30T08:00:00.008-04:002023-10-30T08:00:00.147-04:00"Come Away ... and Rest"<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">“Come Away … and Rest”<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilq8Mw96s2B2WmuD1nb1JH6KqZxHMrKc_TeZs051ym_wq2fVUtKlaHS9M5OtcfI8VrtmI3pCtMF5-X5K51opicEJNMAEVp127U6QZrmiFU2jI8eF41l8w9CqFm4IgEQc02O91t6vpiTGbUmrnIh4gLLeI95qDf7ZHeM999QClj_TTX-j9SJblUjxjFZAA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="186" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilq8Mw96s2B2WmuD1nb1JH6KqZxHMrKc_TeZs051ym_wq2fVUtKlaHS9M5OtcfI8VrtmI3pCtMF5-X5K51opicEJNMAEVp127U6QZrmiFU2jI8eF41l8w9CqFm4IgEQc02O91t6vpiTGbUmrnIh4gLLeI95qDf7ZHeM999QClj_TTX-j9SJblUjxjFZAA=w70-h103" width="70" /></a></div>Jesus said to the apostles, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” (Mark 6:31)<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He realized that the apostles, having just returned from a long and tiring trip of evangelization, needed time to rest and be rejuvenated.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">That was good advice at the time, and is good advice now.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Jesus knows how busy and demanding each of our lives have become, and He offers us respite when we visit Him in the Adoration Chapel.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Give it a try … you might be surprised and very grateful.<br /></span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi</a><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br />“Let us with Mary Immaculate adore, thank, supplicate, and console the most sacred and beloved Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!” </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(St Peter Julian Eymard)</span><p></p>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-53199090297626134032023-10-23T08:30:00.005-04:002023-10-23T08:30:00.142-04:00 What Do You Have To Lose?<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">What Do You Have To Lose?<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTzl2-BiKaxCjai6ZSB8k_mb08T0ykXdHXX_fnwcpI3qlB-L6nwWLShAL6FLn7TojbmLLZvrevt8rruk2cXmCaIs8Q-HMSwoPThCwW-bFcJ1SUKqOcs8G1_a2z9bq5Kz0xKxsI7IO8eRCgflcFziCyaval5gFAkstBZMhlM94xToaJLyTEU6rZvAdgYsg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="732" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTzl2-BiKaxCjai6ZSB8k_mb08T0ykXdHXX_fnwcpI3qlB-L6nwWLShAL6FLn7TojbmLLZvrevt8rruk2cXmCaIs8Q-HMSwoPThCwW-bFcJ1SUKqOcs8G1_a2z9bq5Kz0xKxsI7IO8eRCgflcFziCyaval5gFAkstBZMhlM94xToaJLyTEU6rZvAdgYsg=w45-h63" width="45" /></a></div>Time, not money, is our greatest commodity.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It’s also the gift we most often squander or channel in the wrong direction.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">We lose perspective amid our busyness.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Making even little pockets of time each week to stop by the chapel to adore the Lord in Adoration can radically change not only the course of your week but your very life.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">As you reap the benefits of Adoration you go from something reactionary - something that will help you get through current challenges - to something you yearn for; even to the point of missing it if you are not able to spend regular time in the chapel.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Remember, you can’t ‘out give God’, so you have nothing to lose and the reward will be far greater than any effort extended.</span><p></p><div><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-54868331375971647212023-10-16T08:30:00.003-04:002023-10-16T08:30:00.142-04:00Most Powerful Source of Grace<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Most Powerful Source Of Grace<br /><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3aouKpXm-hpb86OHurIglR3vVqlui1aWrZf1YJj8bfS8vwOWZzKq_UtcyZcukpWaaV7XXAdH_zvlelfwAsPDjPsszUETHUIuRT2VYAp0YE0uE7wf8LrtWAgPBaEkaGJXhxAFkpw52w3czwKizsXsQvTgx4yjP-0xXLVdegQg9gygR3bAXbqo4phwxXdk" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="179" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3aouKpXm-hpb86OHurIglR3vVqlui1aWrZf1YJj8bfS8vwOWZzKq_UtcyZcukpWaaV7XXAdH_zvlelfwAsPDjPsszUETHUIuRT2VYAp0YE0uE7wf8LrtWAgPBaEkaGJXhxAFkpw52w3czwKizsXsQvTgx4yjP-0xXLVdegQg9gygR3bAXbqo4phwxXdk=w46-h60" width="46" /></a></b></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“We know adoration is due to God alone because He alone is worthy of veneration as the source and destiny of our being. We have also seen that since God became man in the Person of Jesus Christ, our adoration of Jesus is really the adoration of God in human form. Since Christ in the Blessed sacrament is here on earth in the fullness of His Divinity united with the humanity He received from Mary, we are to adore Him in the Holy Eucharist. This is the highest form of worship we can render to God and the most powerful source of grace we have on earth in our journey to a heavenly eternity. On all these counts, the Blessed <br /><span> <span> </span></span>Virgin is our model of what our adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament should be.” <span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">(Father John A Hardon, S.J.)</span></p><div><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036760463349874610.post-77960819339577212912023-10-09T08:00:00.016-04:002023-10-09T08:00:00.146-04:00Christ's Real Presence<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Christ’s Real Presence<br /></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b>“The simplest way to express what Christ asks us to believe about the Real Presence is that the Eucharist is really </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He. </i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">The Real Presence is the </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">real Jesus</i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwkbQveOdhmXjy2SCAUzxxWKpI5XUnragvsSkyvnod9Ea7AOvahAggEsXLhc1ycs0vOS8j6dH6sMd2kqo5kB51Z7GvforzkJyfqjf3JlxyU8czomNz8lZC36-GPONkeMJ_V5Zz4DS_m88OlW4O-bQGlIcI9yW34XPKl0F6zaIJ_534oPPK1M1H29lsCKY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwkbQveOdhmXjy2SCAUzxxWKpI5XUnragvsSkyvnod9Ea7AOvahAggEsXLhc1ycs0vOS8j6dH6sMd2kqo5kB51Z7GvforzkJyfqjf3JlxyU8czomNz8lZC36-GPONkeMJ_V5Zz4DS_m88OlW4O-bQGlIcI9yW34XPKl0F6zaIJ_534oPPK1M1H29lsCKY=w77-h76" width="77" /></a></div>We are to believe that the Eucharist began in the womb of the Virgin Mary; that the flesh which the Son of God received from His Mother at the Incarnation is the same flesh into which He changed bread at the Last Supper; that the blood He received from His Mother is the same blood into which He changed wine at the Last Supper.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Had she not given Him His flesh and blood there could not be a Eucharist.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">We are to believe that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ - simply - without qualification.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It is God become man in the fullness of His divine nature, in the fullness of His human nature, in the fullness of His body and soul, in the fullness of everything that makes Jesus Jesus.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">He is in the Eucharist with His human mind and will united with Divinity, with His hands and feet, His face and features, with His eyes and lips and ears and nostrils, with His affections and emotions and, with emphasis, with His living, pulsating, physical Sacred Heart.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">That is what our Catholic Faith demands of us that we believe.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">If we believe this, we are Catholic.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">If we do not, we are not, no matter what people may think we are.”</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> (Father John A Hardon SJ)<br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Eucharistic Miracle showing the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/video-of-possible-eucharistic-miracle-in-mexico-appears-to-show-host-pulsating-like-a-heart/">Pulsating Host</a></p><div><br /></div>IHM Adorationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701101529052707285noreply@blogger.com0