Become More Like Him!

 Become More Like Him!

Cultivating a Eucharistic Life of adoration bears tremendous fruit in our own hearts and lives. We cannot spend time in the rays of His Eucharistic Presence without receiving His grace, His love, His mercy, His peace. As we gaze upon Him Face to face, we are transformed little by little into a closer reflection of His divine image. When we deepen our personal relationship with Jesus by spending time with Him in this way, we will become more like Him, just as old friends or a long-married couple grow more and more similar. We become more aware of the obstacles of sin in our life that stand between us and Our Lord. We develop a stronger desire to make habits of virtue and self-sacrifice in imitation of Him.

In celebration of Divine Mercy, let us pray to God for one another, for by carrying each other’s burden of charity in this way, we easily fulfill the law of Christ.  Before leaving the chapel this week please say a prayer asking God to hear the Prayers of Petition written in the Petition Book, and ask Him to give an abundance of grace to our fellow adorers who are praying for  help.

Celebrate God's Love

Celebrate God’s Love

The resurrection changed everything.  For here is a God who cares.  Here is a God who loves you enough to suffer for you.  Here is a God who actively seeks your welfare and intervenes on your behalf.  Here is a God who is near and personal.  Here is a God who loved you even before you loved Him.  Here is a God who gave His life for you, so you might know His love and live with Him in eternity.

Wow!  And you can’t find time to spend one hour a week in His presence?

The Church gives us Eucharistic Adoration as an important way to build our relationship with God.  If you are not spending “kneel time” in the chapel - I hope you are spending time formulating an answer to the question Jesus will ask when you see Him face to face in judgement … “Why didn’t you take advantage of the opportunity to be with Me?”

Sometimes I think our judgement will not be so much about what we did wrong; but more about the opportunities we missed.

A Personal Encounter

“The Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life’” (CCC 1324) 

Our worship of our Eucharistic Lord, Jesus - fully and completely present under the consecrated species of bread and wine - continues outside of the celebration of the Mass when the sacred Host is exposed for veneration in our chapel.  “This exposition gives us the opportunity for a deep personal encounter with Christ.  The holy and glorious God is constantly inviting us to come to him, to hold converse with him, to ask for such things as we need and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with him.”  (Archbishop Fulton Sheen - Originally published 2/28/22)

Time on earth is the only time we have to gain heaven.  Don’t waste it!  Take advantage of the unfathomable graces available through participation in Eucharistic Adoration.

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Jesus Is the Example

 Jesus Is the Example

“We know Jesus prayed regularly.  And He bids us to do the same.  He tells us to share our troubles and concerns with God, to petition Him, to thank Him, and to praise Him for His many blessings, including life itself.  He encourages us to bring our shortcomings and sins to Him with contrite, humble hearts in times of prayer as well as in the sacrament of reconciliation.”
  (The World According To God - F. X. Cronin)

Following Jesus’s example it’s important to find some quiet time and moments in the midst of our busy days to strengthen our relationship with God.  We need to learn to bless, praise, and openly call on God and the Holy Spirit to intervene in our lives so we can experience the peace that can come from spending time with our Eucharistic Lord.  This is not as hard as some think it is … God is Love … and the closer we get to Love the easier it gets to find those moments to strengthen our relationship with God.  The more you do it, the easier it becomes.

To Know Him Is To Love Him

 To Know Him Is To Love Him

God wants us to know Him, not just merely know about Him.  He wants us to know Him personally, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, as a free decision of our will.  He wants us to know and love Him as sons and daughters should.  How do you measure up?

It’s not too late to make this your best lent ever.  If you need a little help, the best place to start is on your knees in the Adoration Chapel, and you will get to know Him better.

You Can Be An Instrument of Goodness

You Can Be An Instrument of Goodness

Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, is quoted as saying,“It is good to ‘waste time adoring’ Christ present in the Holy Eucharist”.  He urged all of us to devote ourselves to the prayer of adoration.  He added: It is good to adore in silence before the Most Blessed Sacrament, to be in the consoling presence of Jesus and there to draw the apostolic impetus to be instruments of goodness, tenderness and welcome in the community, the Church, and the world.

Won’t you waste some time in the presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist?  

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Eucharistic Peace of Heart

“The most powerful means of obtaining peace of heart is from Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.  What are we saying?  We are saying that in order to obtain that self-mastery which is the precondition of internal peace, we need nothing less than God’s miraculous grace.

Today’s world is so filled with confusion that nothing less than supernatural grace can provide us with the peace of mind without there can be no peace of heart.  Where do we go; to whom do we turn; whom do we ask to give us that peace of mind which is so tragically wanting in the modern world?  Who alone can give us the serenity of spirit which is another name for peace of soul?  Who, but Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace.

We do not normally think of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament as food for the mind and the will but we should.  To be at peace, what we first need is to know the truth; what we next need is to do the will of God.  On both counts, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is our principal source.”

    (Fr John A. Hardon, SJ - Perpetual Adoration, True Peace in the World)

Lent is that time of the Church year when we are encouraged to work for supernatural grace that will give us peace of mind, leading to peace of heart.
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