"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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