Loving God Has A Cost

Loving God Has A Cost

If we have a desire to love God as He wants to be loved and thereby merit His fruitful love in return, we must pay the price that this demands.  If we are to love God the way He wants us too we begin by sacrificing our time.  It takes time to pray.  It takes time to do some spiritual reading.  It takes time to visit the sick or shut-ins at home or in the hospital.  It takes time to help some elderly person with shopping or tidying up their home.  It takes time to simply give the gift of yourself to someone in need of companionship.  

God knows how important ‘time’ is to us; and it pleases Him when we are willing to give our ‘time’ to sacrifice our convenience.  Our sacrifice is rewarded with an experience of His presence, a sense of His intimacy, and a joy in our heart that we are doing something good.  And best of all, when we give freely of our ‘time’ God gives us an abundance of it.

It’s OK to begin small … start with a short visit to the Adoration Chapel to pray.  Every few days try to repeat this practice and soon you will be amazed at how much ‘time’ you have to get things done.

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Your Consent Is Needed

St. Augustine is quoted as saying, “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”  In other words - nothing will happen until YOU do something. This is your time to step up and pray.

Join your fellow parishioners who have stepped up by spending an hour each week in the Adoration Chapel ‘doing something’.  Commit to just an hour each week ( 1/168th of your week) and let God know you are seriously in-love with Him.  Returning Love to Our Lord will fill your heart with abiding joy and bless your days, your job, your families, you life with His protection and grace.  Each hour given to Our Lord bears fruit a hundredfold in this life and in the next.

Don’t wait - Advent is the perfect time to start.

Perseverance is the most important part of establishing a disciplined and fruitful life of prayer.

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If Only You Could Touch His Cloak

 If Only You Could Touch His Cloak

Whenever we receive the Eucharist we touch Jesus and Jesus touches us.  Truly, we physically touch each other.  What was once bread has been changed into Jesus Himself.  He didn’t just rise from the dead two thousand years ago.  He is risen, and is present to us in these moments.  That small white wafer is not a symbol but is His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity within us.  By having Jesus closer than close we give him the opportunity to make us better people from the inside out.  With a better understanding of this mystery comes the realization of how blessed and fortunate we are to be the sons and daughters of God and able too often enter into physical contact with him.

Recall the Bible story of the women who had suffered with hemorrhages for twelve years and the tremendous faith she had that if only she could touch his clothes she would be cured. (Mark 5:25-28)  Her faith moved her to want to touch him just once in her lifetime.  We have the opportunity to touch him almost daily.

Visit the Adoration Chapel.  Ask Jesus to increase your faith so that you can have a better understanding of the privileges of being a son or daughter of God.

Next time you’re in the chapel, pray for greater awareness of Jesus in your life.  He won’t disappoint because He promised to always be us.  The only question left: Will you choose to be with Him?

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Both Society And Our Church Need Us!

St Peter Julian Eymard underlined the urgency of Eucharistic Adoration for the renewal of our parishes and of the world:

"Today solemn exposition of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and the need of our time.  It is the sovereign grace.  Exposition is the powerful weapon at the disposal of the Church and of the faithful ... We are not afraid to say: the Worship and the Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament is the need of our time ... This worship is necessary to save society.  Society is dying because it has no center of truth and charity, but it will be reborn in full force when all its members gather around the life of Jesus in the Eucharist.  Go back to the source, to Jesus - especially to Jesus in the Eucharist ... It is well known: a civilization grows or decreases according to its worship of the Blessed Eucharist.  This is its life and the measure of its faith, its love, its virtue.  What the reign of the Eucharist will bring to pass!  Impiety and ingratitude have reigned on earth for long enough.  Thy kingdom come!"

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To Adore God …

To adore God is to surrender our intellect, our mind, before God, and open it to be enlightened in the revelation of his will for us.
To adore God is to surrender our hearts, our minds and our deepest desires before God and say “Speak Lord! Your servant is listening”, ready to obey.
To adore God is to love him with the same unconditional love and unselfish love God has for us as much as humanly possible.
To adore God is to become more childlike in acknowledging our complete and total dependence on God.
To adore God is to offer an act of divine worship before him, protecting our purity of spirit, our capacity to know truth for evil, right from wrong, and not call good evil and evil good.

Eucharistic Adoration in his presence is the only place we can find true peace; the peace the world cannot give, a supernatural other-worldly peace that the world cannot take away, a peace that strengthens us against the sinful onslaught of the world, the flesh and the devil.   (The Essence of Adoration - Louis Guardiola, C.P.M.)
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Purpose Of Life

 What Is The Ultimate Purpose?

Peter Kreeft in his book Because God is Real reminds us that: “Nothing could be more relevant to your life than the doctrine of the Trinity.  For life is meaningless to you unless you know life’s meaning.  And the meaning of life, the ultimate purpose of life, the greater good, the supreme value, is love.  And the doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of that, because it means that love “goes all the way up” into the ultimate reality, into the very essence of God.  The doctrine of the Trinity means that God is love.”

“Love” is waiting for you in the Adoration Chapel.  You are encouraged not only to visit the chapel, but to visit often.  It’s up to you … once you die, you can’t help yourself any longer.

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Jesus Waits For You

Jesus Waits For You

“Jesus waits for you in the Eucharist, in our tabernacles and monstrances, and on the altar at every Mass.  His message to you is unmistakable.  In a world where so many people feel unseen, unheard, and unworthy, Jesus generously proclaims:  I see you. I hear you. I know you. You are worthy. I am with you. I care. I am yours. You are mine.   And this is His invitation:  “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”” (Matt 11:28)

  “Go to Him.  Seek out time in His presence.  Allow His presence to transform you in ways unimaginable.”  (Matthew Kelly - 33 Days To Eucharistic Glory)

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