"Time" - God's Precious Gift

A Good Steward Of Time

     "Though even thinking about the subject of time may prove discomforting, it is not a bad idea - especially at the beginning of a new year.

     As we look at 2026, we can think of it as a block of time.  We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,750 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds.  And all is a gift from God.  We have done nothing to deserve it, earn it, or purchase it.  Like the air we breathe, time comes to us as a part of life.

     The gift of time in not ours alone.  It is given equally to each person.  Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, strong and weak - every man, woman and child has the same twenty-four hours every day.

     Another important thing about time is that you cannot stop it.  There is no way to slow it down, turn it off, or adjust it.  Time marches on.

     And you cannot bring back time.  Once it is gone, it is gone.  Yesterday is lost forever.  Tomorrow is uncertain.  We may look ahead at a full year's block of time, but we really have no guarantee that we will experience any of it.

     Obviously, time is one of our most precious possessions.  We can waste it.  We can worry over it.  We can spend it on ourselves.  Or, as good stewards, we can invest it in the Kingdom of God.

     The new year is full of time.  As the seconds tick away, will you be tossing time out the window, or will you make every minute count?” (Author Unknown)

Spend one hour a week in the Adoration Chapel offering part of your most precious possession to the God Who made you and Who died for you, so that you could spend eternity in His presence where time will not be a limiting factor.

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Following Father's Example

Trusting Mary

“We are called to imitate the Father, and the Father entrusted everything to Mary: His beloved Son.  We are to follow this example and give ourselves fully to Mary.

What does giving ourselves to Our Lady mean?  It means going to Jesus and accepting the gift He has bestowed on us:  The gift of His Mother.  It means taking her into all our affairs, concerns, worries, and tasks - letting go of ourselves and being formed anew as children, by Mary.  We can learn to think and live as she, the Immaculate, does.  We can be in Mary’s “school” through daily recitation of the Rosary.  We can talk to her confidently as her children in prayer, entrusting to her our concerns; we can meditate on the Word of God with her, asking her to teach us how to trust and live her fiat at each moment.  We can learn about her virtues, so as to live as she did.

If we are called to a life of trust, from whom shall we learn but from Mary, for how did Jesus learn to trust in ABBA in His humanity, if not from her?”
 ( Stepping On The Serpent: The Journey of Trust with Mary p112)

Make this Christmas Season especially fruitful by placing your trust in our Heavenly Mother as Jesus did.  She wants to help.

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The Gift of Silence Leads to a Better Understanding of Jesus

Enter Into The Mystery

“If you seek God and want to find him; if you desire a life of the most intimate union with him, silence is the most direct path and the surest means of attaining it.  Silence is of capital importance because it enables the Church to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, imitating his thirty silent years in Nazareth, his forty days and forty nights of fasting and intimate dialogue with the Father in the solitude and silence of the desert.  Like Jesus, confronted with the demands of his Father’s will, we must seek silence in order to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of Christ.”  Robert Sarah The Power of Silence

If you seek to understand more deeply the mystery of Jesus a good starting point would be to share time with him in the silence of our Adoration Chapel.  Your mind cannot comprehend the happiness you bring to Our Lord when you are willing to spend some of your precious time in his presence in this unique way.  Discover for yourself the knowledge and peace that comes to us through Eucharistic Adoration.

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Blessed Are They Who Do Not See ...

Believe Without Seeing

Many people take Jesus’ love and Presence in the Blessed Sacrament for granted because they can’t see Him in His human form. When asked to make a commitment for a specific hour in the chapel they hesitate and let everything else come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  What they don’t realize is that faith will make this commitment easy! “Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction about things we do not see.” (Hb 11:11)

Faith helps us realize this with conviction: The most important thing that you will do this week is spend an hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Your willingness to participate in Eucharistic Adoration is a precious expression of your faith that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is welcomed, loved, and adored by you.

Don’t be afraid to commit to one hour each week for fear that there may be times that you can’t make it.  AdorationPro has a built in substitute system to take care of emergencies.  Just think of the words from Scripture: “You have nothing whatsoever to fear from Him.  Get up.  He is calling you!” (Mk 10:50)

When you get to heaven, Jesus will spend all of eternity thanking you and loving you for the fidelity in spending one hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament each week.  This is why He says: “Blessed are they who do not see and yet believe.” (Jn 20:29)

We ask Our Lady of Guadalupe to hear the cries of the suffering and offer to her maternal compassion and protection all who seek her heavenly intercession.

I Thirst For You … Open to me, come to me, thirst for me, give me your life - and I will prove to you how important you are to my heart.

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Your Advent Opportunity

Advent Gives You A Blessed Opportunity

This Advent, as at the beginning of all Advents, the Church encourages us to lift our heads, trust in Jesus’ saving love and make room for him in our hearts, to discover hope amidst life's’ anxieties.  As we begin the season of Advent we need to take time to spiritually prepare for Christmas and the coming of Our Lord.  In every direction we turn we will be reminded and encouraged to “prepare” for Jesus’ coming into the world and to remember the real meaning of Christmas.

Prayer is the secret of preparation.  One of the best ways to pray is to spend time in Eucharistic Adoration in our chapel.  A popular definition of ‘prayer’ is ‘relationship with God’.  What a beautiful thing it would be if at the end of the next four weeks you could honestly say your relationship with God had improved.  Find time in each of the next four weeks to go to the chapel and simply sit in the presence of God.  You don’t even have to have an agenda - a simple prayer such as ‘Jesus, please help me improve my relationship with you’ - then just sit back and while contemplating the Holy Eucharist let God do the work: Nothing else to do, except to say “Thank You God” before you leave.

“I am with you always …” and in his great and wonderful plan of salvation remember that he has been awaiting for you in his real presence for twenty centuries.

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Thank You, Thank You (Thanksgiving 112725)

Thank You!, Thank You!, Thank You!

As a child of God, is there ever a time when we don’t have to say “Thank You” to our creator?   Absolutely Not; not as long as you are a child in good standing within the Family of God, and even more important when you are not in good standing.  If you’re like me, you know you don’t say it enough, and you would like to find a way to get better at it.

I think God made me with a ‘thank you reminder button’.  Trouble is the reminder seems to always be late.  In truth, I don’t know where my button is; and I don’t know how it get’s pushed; maybe my Angel Guardian is involved.  I do know that the very first ‘Thank You’ that comes out of your mouth every morning should be directed to God.

Won’t you join me in trying to do a better job of saying “Thank You”; not only to God, but all those people you come in contact with where a “Thank You” would brighten their day?

I Thirst For You … If you feel unimportant in the eyes of the world, that matters not at all.  For me, there is no one more important than you.

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Jesus Invites You!

 Did You Get Your Invitation?

If in tomorrow’s mail you received an envelope addressed to you and postmarked from ‘Vatican City’ I bet like most of us you would be extremely excited?  Right?  When opened you find a letter from the Pope inviting you to spend an hour with him praying before the Real Presence in our chapel - would you move heaven and hell to meet him there?  I bet you would go to any length to make sure your schedule allowed you to meet the Pope and pray with him in our chapel.

Now expand your thinking and realize that it’s not the Pope inviting you; but Jesus Christ Himself.  Jesus is calling you by name to come and pray with him.  Contemplate that for a moment and let it sink in.  Would you agree, an invitation from Jesus would have a higher priority than one from the Pope?  Jesus offers you an ‘open’ invitation to meet Him for prayer in our adoration chapel.  Why do so many of us hide that invitation in the kitchen junk drawer?  Have we lost our sense of sacred?

We’re so fortunate because we still have the opportunity to improve our relationship with God, and take advantage of all the gifts and blessings he wants to give us.

Ask any soul in purgatory if they would have done anything different while on earth.  I bet they would say ‘Yes’, and their answers would revolve around the desire to have spent more time in the Real Presence of God.

To be honest I wouldn’t expect an invitation in the mail from the Pope.  But I can honestly tell you the invitation from Jesus is REAL and it’s extended to you at this very moment and never expires and automatically renews.

By the way, the answer to that first question is YES.

3 Reasons Why You Should!

 Top Three Benefits Of Eucharistic Adoration

Why should you get involved in Eucharistic Adoration?  Your soul might depend on it!

Our Lord Jesus said “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”  (Mt 28:20)

If you are not a regular Eucharistic Adorer, here are three reasons you might want to become one:  1) Adorers develop a deeper relationship with Christ: Spending time in silence and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament allows for a personal and intimate encounter with Jesus Christ, deepening one’s faith and love for him.  2) Adoration allows for Spiritual healing and growth: providing a space for repentance, reconciliation, and the reception of God’s grace, which can lead to inner healing, spiritual renewal, and protection from sin and evil.  3) Spending time in the true presence of Jesus provides courage to face fears, the ability to undertake great things for Christ, and the power to endure trials.  This highlights Adoration’s ability to provide strength in facing life’s challenges and to live a virtuous life.

“I am with you always …” and in his great and wonderful plan of salvation remember that he has been awaiting for you in his real presence for twenty centuries.

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 The Reality Of The Cross, The Host, And The Virgin

“There is nothing littler, meeker, or more silent than Christ present in the Host.  This little piece of bread embodies the humility and perfect silence of God, his tenderness and his love for us.  If we want to grow and to be filled with the love of God, it is necessary to plant our life firmly on three great realities:  the Cross, the Host, and the Virgin.  These are three mysteries that God gave to the world in order to structure, fructify, and sanctify our interior life and to lead us to Jesus.  These three mysteries are to be contemplated in silence.”
 (The Power of Silence (57) - Robert Cardinal Sarah)

A good place to contemplate in silence is in the Adoration Chapel.  If you haven’t tried it stop denying yourself this great gift from God of peace and the feeling of being loved by our creator.

I Thirst For You … Come to me, and I will fill your heart and heal your wounds.  I will make you a new creation, and give you peace in all your trials.

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Father Forgive Them For They Have No Idea …

 Father Forgive Them For They Have No Idea …

We all know Jesus asked the Father to forgive those who were crucifying him - because they didn’t know what they were doing.  He doesn't say that to us, why? Because if we have reached the age of reason, we do know what we are doing and too often we tell him by our actions we don’t need him. 

When we do that we separate ourselves from a loving merciful God.  Will God forgive us?  Yes, of course.  But … we have to ask!  And sadly too many so called ‘Catholics’ have been living a separate life from the church too long and the idea of asking for help from the one who made us doesn’t even enter the mind as a thought.

You don’t have to ask with words; your actions speak volumes.  A good place to start is in the closest Adoration Chapel.

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'Time' - We All Have Less Than Yesterday

Make Your Time Count

Many of us today tend to give emphasis to feeling good and being accepted in society.  Winning political victories, attaining financial success, unhindered sensuality, and being famous seem to be the most important things for the many, even within the Church.  Even those who are serious about eternity often give up because of their sins and sufferings.  We are no longer “working out our salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12) because we have ignored the dire warning of our Lord Jesus Christ: “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” (Mk. 8;36). 

We all know the time we have from the present until the time we die, is all the time we have left to invest in our heavenly retirement program.  Too many people have a thought in the back of their mind that if they don’t think about death it will go away.  Not True!  Whether we think of death or not, it will still come our way.  Every day, every choice we make brings us closer to our judgement.  Start now making a difference in your relationship with God that will affect your eternal judgement.  So, get off the couch and get on your knees - make a positive change while you still can.  Try a visit to the Adoration Chapel.

The magic of Adoration in part is that the more often you participate, the longer you want to stay, and the deeper you enter into quiet and listening.  Soon you learn to trust his voice and are able to discern his advise.

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Importance of Adoration

The Importance of Adoration

Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration in front of the ineffable mystery which is accomplished in Eucharistic Adoration.  In the Son of God who is given to us, we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails — the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of the town of His birth: Beth-lehem, the house of bread.  God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life.

In the book In Sinu Jesu a benedictine monk recorded many locutions he had received from Our Lord concerning the importance of Eucharistic Adoration.  If you are in need of a way to rejuvenate your relationship with our Lord, an easy way to start is to get a copy of this book and let the messages recorded talk to your heart.

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Mary's Request

Mary’s Request For The Rosary

Tuesday, October 7 is the Memorial to Our Lady of the Rosary.  The Rosary is one of the most popular prayer forms in the Catholic world.  

The Rosary evolved over centuries, with roots in ancient practices.  Early practitioners used beads or knots to count prayers and this method existed long before the modern Rosary was developed.  The prayers being said and counted were 150 Psalms.  Often called a ‘poor man’s psalter’: the laity who could not read the 150 psalms, adopted this counting method to pray 150 “Our Fathers” instead.  This practice became widespread across Europe.

The rise of the Hail Mary from the 11th century onward replaced the recitation of the “Our Father” with reciting 150 Hail Marys instead.  The prayer grew in stages, incorporating scriptural passages from the Annunciation and Visitation (mysteries) before its final form was approved at the Council of Trent in the 16th century.

The Rosary is one of the most popular prayer forms of those visiting the Adoration Chapel and it’s a wonderful place to start if you are new to Adoration.  To help appreciate the importance of the rosary it’s noted that in five of the sixteen Marian Apparitions approved by the church as ‘worthy of belief’, our Lady specifically asks for daily recitation of the Rosary.  Won’t you do your best to fulfill her request?

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Who Is That Magnificent Spirit Next To You?

 Who Is That Magnificent Spirit Next To You?

We’ve all heard of, and many have participated in special days such as ‘Take your child to work day’, or perhaps ‘Take Grandma to bible camp Saturday’; but have you heard of this special day for all Catholics; ‘Take your Guardian Angel to Chapel Day?’

The Catechism states that “From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by the watchful care and intercession of angels.  Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.  Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.”  (CCC336)

An angel is a created spiritual person without a body.  The Church teaches there’s nine choirs of angels; most commentators believe we get our Guardian Angel from the ninth choir simply called ‘Angels’.  The importance of the Guardian Angel is that God has seen fit, in his generosity and mercy, to assign each of us a being that is far more intelligent and higher on the created order than we are.  Their essential task is to see us home, so to speak, to get us home to heaven.

To take full advantage of this gift it’s important to establish a relationship with your angel.  To do so begins by acknowledging their existence, to pray to them regularly, and to become more habitually use to calling upon them in all needs, even very small needs, because angels are there for those as well.

Seeking guidance from our angel can only help and will never hurt.  Our angel knows more about us than we know about ourselves.  This understanding is what God has given the angel to properly support us in things of morality and vocation, even in areas of suffering.

So next time you have a feeling that there’s something watching you, you’re right.  Say a prayer of thanksgiving.  And consider showing your appreciation to your angel for all it does for you by taking your angel to the Adoration Chapel and know that that act has filled your angel with JOY!

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