Breathing Can Be Prayer

Just Breath

Visit the Adoration Chapel this week and simply spend time enjoying the silence and be aware of your breathing before our Lord Jesus Christ.  St. John of the Cross points out to us, with the right intention “Breathing is praying.”   Doesn’t get any easier.

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Adoration Outside of Mass

Worship of the Eucharist Outside of Mass

Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle or in a monstrance is second in importance only to attendance at Mass.  Here at IHM we have a goal to maintain Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration 18 hours a day (6AM - Midnight), five days a week (M-F), where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the monstrance in our adoration chapel.  This gives us the opportunity to develop a deeper love and closer relationship with Jesus, and helps us acquire the strength, healing and peace to make it through our pilgrimage of life and to achieve our ultimate goal - Heaven and the Beatific Vision.

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One Sacred Heart and One Immaculate Heart

The month of June we celebrate two feasts of importance in our relationship with Our Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother.   We honor the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and we recognize the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“The main difference between the devotions to the hearts of Jesus and Mary is that the one concerned with Jesus emphasizes his divine heart as being full of love for mankind, but with this love for the most part being ignored or rejected, while the devotion to Mary’s heart is essentially concerned with the love that her heart has for Jesus, for God.  It is not an end in itself, the love of her heart is meant to be a model for the way we should love God.  The fact that her heart is immaculate, that is sinless, means that she is the only fully human person who is able to really love God in the way that he should be loved.

Honoring Mary’s Immaculate Heart is really just another way of honoring Mary as the person who was chosen to be the Mother of God, recognizing her extraordinary holiness and the immense love she bestowed on Jesus as his mother, the person who was called to share in and co-operate in his redemptive suffering.” (Catholic News Agency Jun ’24)

We know that the Blessed Mother is always in the presence of her Divine Son; and that her Divine Son is really and truly present in our Tabernacles and Monstrances. So if you want quality time with Our Blessed Mother visit her son.

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Adoration Brings An Abundance Of Grace

An Abundance Of Grace

To pray before the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar in our Adoration Chapel is to cast a glance of faith upon Jesus Christ, true God and true man, truly present in the Bread of the Eucharist. 

To spend time before the Eucharist in Adoration is to manifest God’s mercy and tenderness for humanity and calls on each of us to intercede for the needs of men.  All who pray to Jesus exposed in the monstrance receive an abundance of grace to live in the world as beloved children; and through him, in the Spirit, each of us returns to the Father, the God of tenderness and mercy, to bless and glorify him.  So regardless of your position or state in life, through prayer, you can draw from the unfathomable riches of the Heart of Christ, given to us in the Eucharist, for the good of all.

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Jesus Doesn't Give Up!

 Jesus — The Model Of Perseverance

It’s important on our Spiritual Journey we keep our eyes and ears fixed on Jesus, who is a model of perseverance for us.  During his public life Jesus encounters disbelief and rejection from the very people he was trying to help.  In the fifth chapter of John’s Gospel his conversation with people in the crowd becomes personal when he says, “But you do not want to come to me to have life.”  Thankfully, for our sake, Jesus does not collapse in frustration or give up in disappointment  Instead, he remains steadfastly committed to accomplishing his Father’s works and he perseveres, eventually enduring suffering and death to gain for us the promise of an abundant life.  Lord Jesus, help us to persevere on our Spiritual Journey.   (Paraphrase Give Us This Day, April 03, 2025) 
Jesus will help you persevere; simply stop by the Adoration Chapel and ask Him!

“God is a God of the present.  God is always in the moment,
be that moment hard or easy, joyful or painful.” - Henri Nouwen
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Need For Worship

A Great Need

“The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship.  Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love.  Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world.  May our adoration never cease.”  (St John Paul II)

“Attention is the most basic form of love.” - Simone Weil.  So why not stop by the chapel and give God a little attention?

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Your Message From God

Secrets

As you read this article you should know there is a secret message embedded in what you are looking at.  You’ll have access to it if you believe.  Jesus communicates with us in many different ways, but we are not going to hear or understand him unless we believe and trust.  So close your eyes and ask him what is his message to you.  If one doesn’t come, maybe it’s because either your belief or trust is lacking.  You can fix that; simply visit the Adoration Chapel and ask him for his help.  He is waiting for you, and he always loves to help.  Nothing does the soul more good than committing to one hour of Eucharistic Adoration every week.

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