Good Time for a Change

 Resolution   (Definition: the act or process to find a solution to a negative habit or problem resulting in a change of behavior to make better.)  

Sounds easier than it is … right?  Most of us learned from experience that a few days after making a New Year’s resolution we struggle to remember what that resolution was.  We know that a resolution doesn’t have to be something you give up; it could be a ‘good’ thing you resolve to do more of.  But if you can’t remember, what good is it?  So I ask: Why would you want to put yourself into a similar situation again this year?  You don’t have to.  I offer you the suggestion of an act or process to change that is permeated with Divine Help.

That suggestion is simply to spend more time in the true presence of our God.  Yes, - Chapel Time!  Spending as little as 60 minutes a week insures the development of a good habit that pays dividends for eternity.  Every time you spend any amount of time in the Adoration Chapel sitting quietly in God’s presence He refills your ‘resolve’ bucket to overflowing.  You never run out of desire to ‘make better’.  What a blessing!  And, listen to this; you don’t have to do anything.  That’s right - just sit in his presence and let him do the work.


If you haven’t been to the chapel, now might be a good time to make a ‘resolve’ to change.  We ask for an hour a week; you don’t have to start with that.  But I will tell you from experience it’s the hour every week that goes by the fastest.  God will be pleased with any amount … what is important is the commitment. So whether it’s 15 minutes, a half hour or a full hour, the important thing is to ‘commit’.

Happy Birthday Jesus

 Happy Birthday Jesus! 

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.  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, as the Lord willed it, in order to give Himself to us as food and to associate us with the unity of His Mystical Body.

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.

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!’  (originally published Dec 25, 2022)

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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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