The Presence of the Heavenly Court

Our Savior has brought Heaven to earth by giving us Himself in the Most Blessed Sacrament, for He is the same God who is in Heaven, surrounded by His angels; and in His presence in our chapel we can associate ourselves with all the heavenly court who form an invisible guard around Him.  You would deprive yourself of the sweetest joys of your life if you failed to come and pour out your love and petitions before His real presence.  He allows Himself to be the true refuge of our souls, where we can find comfort, guidance, strength, peace, sanctity, and happiness.  Even though the burdens of our lives seem almost unbearable at times, we all have a Friend who will never fail us - God in the Holy Eucharist.  His Sacred Heart calls to each of us, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  (Matt. 11:28)

In our world more than 360,000 Masses are offered every twenty-four hours, or four elevations of the Eucharist each second.  Praise Be Jesus!

Chapel of the Holy Eucharist - Aug 02, '26

Become More like Him

One of the great benefits of Eucharistic Adoration is our ability to sit in his Real Presence and to be able to simply converse with him and enjoy his presence, which enables his heart to ‘rub off’ on ours.  When we spend time with a friend - simply conversing with him/her and enjoying their presence that person tends to influence us, and so it is with our companionship with Jesus in the Eucharist.  We all need to spend time becoming more like Him.

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Add Spice To Your Relationship With God

 Spiritually Lazy

“Most Western people are just spiritually lazy.  And when we are lazy, we stay on the path we are already on, even if it is going nowhere.  It is the spiritual equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics: everything winds down unless some outside force winds it back up.”  Scott Peck quoted in Falling Upward by R. Rohr  p.xix

If you find your spirituality in need of a jump start why not make a commitment to spend time in the Real Presence of our Lord during Eucharistic Adoration.  Time in the chapel could be the ‘outside force’ needed to jump start your Spiritual Journey.

Spend A Little Time In His Presence And Reap The Benefits

Source of Unlimited Grace

“Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them”  (St Peter of Alcantara).  Our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to come and visit Him at our local Catholic Church and make a “Holy Hour” (an hour spent in Eucharistic Adoration) whenever we can.  The Eucharist is the Real Presence of Jesus: He is present body, blood, soul and divinity.  He is our Savior and our Friend.  What a joy it is to spend time with Him!

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen enthusiastically promoted the making of Holy Hours during his lifetime.  He stated, “During a Holy Hour we grow more and more into His (Christ’s) likeness.”  He also remarked, “The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony.  Not for activity did He plead, but for an Hour of companionship.”

Can’t you find a little companionship time to spend with Him in our Adoration Chapel?

Get Closer

 A Way To Become Holier

Every day is a chance.  Every hour an opportunity.  Every moment a precious gift.  Don’t waste your chance, opportunity or precious gift.  Spend them in the presence of God. That’s easier than you think because God is always with you; the problem is you’re not always with Him.  Say this short prayer at the beginning of every day and after a few days your awareness of his presence within will increase to the point you will have a desire to spend face time in His Real Presence.

“Dear Lord, I need your help today to be aware that you are always with me.  Thank you.”

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Spend Time In His Real Presence

The Advantages Of Being In His Real Presence

Cultivating a Eucharistic life of Adoration bears tremendous fruit in our own hearts and lives.  We cannot spend time in the rays of His Eucharistic Presence without receiving His grace, His love, His mercy, His peace.  As we gaze upon Him face to face, we are transformed little by little into a closer reflection of His divine image.  When we deepen our personal relationship with Jesus by spending time with Him in this way, we will become more like Him, just as old friends or a long-married couple grow more and more similiar.  We become more aware of the obstacles of sin in our life that stand between us and Our Lord.  We develop a stronger desire to make habits of virtue and self-sacrifice in imitation of Him.

Spending time with Jesus in His Sacrament of love will also fill our hearts with abiding joy and bless our days, our jobs, our families, our lives with His protection and grace.  Each hour that we give to Our Lord bears fruit a hundredfold in this life and in the next.

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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.

Is Jesus Disappointed In The Way You Live Your Catholic Religion?

 Do You Disappoint Jesus?

When Jesus walked the earth and shared his message for/of salvation, there were many things he experienced that disappointed him.  He was disappointed by the large number of people who didn’t understand or believe what he was teaching and how by following him would lead to salvation. He was disappointed with the  political leaders who accused him of blasphemy.  He was disappointed by the twelve men he personally chose who failed him when he needed their support the most.

We believe He died for our salvation and in todays’ world too many of us continue to disappoint him.  Consider for a moment the large number of lukewarm catholics.  People who don’t believe in the Real Presence; people who don’t attend mass because they leave before the final blessing; people who commit to spend time in his presence then don’t.

No matter where you end up after death, I can guarantee: You will be disappointed and unhappy you didn’t do more to prepare yourself for eternity while you had the chance.  I believe what will separate us in heaven will be our capacity for happiness.  Your glass might be filled to the brim, but the soul next to you might have a bigger glass.

Your Spiritual Journey Should Lead To Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

In order to increase our understanding of God’s great mysteries we have to be able to leave the place we are at on our Spiritual Journey and enter into a new phase of understanding.  This leaving is the first step of spiritual growth allowing us to open ourselves to the deeper mystery of the Real Presence.  This openning gives us the opportunity to increase our hope, compassion and mercy.  It is the promise delivered and the potential realized of unity between Creator, created and creation.  It is Love!  And it is given to us freely asking only that we open oursevles to it.

Stop by the Adoration Chapel often to ask God for his help to increase your understanding and growth in knowledge of the Real Presence.  Remember Jesus said “seek and you will find”.

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Find A Way To Calm Your Heart and Discover Peace Of Mind

How To Find A Calm Heart And Peace Of Mind

Whenever Jesus wanted to recenter and reconnect with God, he went to the wilderness - to the mountains, to the desert, to the sea, to the garden.  What did he find there? …  God’s creation has a patient way of silently receiving our thoughts, ponderings, complaints, objections, hopes, dreams, all of everything stirring around our heads … Bringing calm to our hearts and peace to our minds … find your wilderness, mountains, desert, sea or garden in our Adoration Chapel, simply by sitting silently in his presence and learning.

Once we open ourselves to the deeper mystery of real presence, we are able to glimpse the magnificence of the gift.  The Body and Blood of Christ is so much more than a physical specimen.  It is the soothing balm, a healing salve.  It is hope, compassion, and mercy.  It is the promise delivered and the potential realized of unity between Creator, creating, and creation.  It is love.  And it is given to us freely, asking only that we open ourselves to it.  So don’t remain ‘closed’ but ‘open’ yourself to finding a calm heart and peace of mind.  Start by spending time in the Adoration Chapel on a regular basis.

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The Treasury Of God’s Mercy Just In Time For Lent

“There is one action whose effect is boundless: it is our confident and insistent prayer.  Even the poorest of believers, when he does not have much to give, still has an unknown wealth: to draw through prayer from the infinite treasury of God’s mercy.

In the Gospel, the Lord calls us to perseverance in prayer.  Pray without ceasing.  Watch and pray.  While our world lacks hope, a powerful remedy is offered to us.  In a society that suffers from loneliness and individualism, Eucharistic Adoration helps us discover the Real Presence of Christ at our side: I am with you always, until the end of the age.  His love for us does not change.  From Him alone comes stability of our life.  The prayer of adoration allows us to welcome this love, to take this time of reflection in silence, to root ourselves in Christ and to allow our inner freedom to grow.  Furthermore, Eucharistic Adoration has the power to transform our everyday relationships by giving them the true meaning of human love.” (The Magnificat Adoration Companion)

Raise your prayer life to the next level by spending time in Eucharistic Adoration this Lent.  The chapel is always open, and Jesus waits to welcome you.  Committed Adorers are always needed.

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Be Set Free From Evil

Be Set Free

“Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator.  It exalts the greatness of the Lord who made us (Ps 95:1-6) and the almighty power of the Savior who sets us free from evil.  Adoration is homage of the spirit to the “King of Glory” (Ps 24:9-10), respectful silence in the presence of the “ever greater” God.  Adoration of the trice-holy and sovereign God of love blends with humility and gives assurance to our supplications.”

   (Catechism of the Catholic Church - no. 2628)

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Eucharistic Miracle of the Real Presence

 Eucharistic Miracle

“Around the year 700 there was a priest in Lanciano, Italy, who was struggling with his faith in the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.  One morning, while celebrating Mass, he was astonished to see the host change into real flesh and the wine into real blood.  His initial shock gave way to joy as he proclaimed to those near him: “Behold the flesh and blood of our most beloved Christ!” 

After repeated and thorough investigations, scientists concluded that the flesh and blood actually do belong to the human species.  More specifically, the flesh consists of myocardial tissue (the muscular tissue on the heart wall), and the blood contains just the right proteins in the same proportions as normal human blood.  Even though this miracle occurred thirteen centuries ago, both the flesh and blood remain intact and are on display in the Church of St. Francis in Lanciano.”  (Encountering Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration - the WORD among us)

This is the same body and blood that is on the altar every time Mass is celebrated in our churches, and the same body and blood of our Lord Jesus found in our Adoration Chapel.  If he were still walking the earth and preaching as he did 2000 years ago you wouldn’t be able to find an empty seat not only in our Adoration Chapel, but in the whole church.  If you have any doubts I would hope to find you on your knees in the Adoration Chapel praying to the Holy Spirit to increase your faith.  This is truly real.

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Listen to God's Invite

God’s Invitation

Need time to catch your breath and put a little normalcy back into your life?  As in all things, God is ahead of us because he gives us a standing invitation to step away from the busyness and noise of everyday living when he says in Matt 11:28-29, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.”

You can find that ‘rest’ spending time in His Real Presence in the Adoration Chapel.  The beauty of this ‘rest’ is that you don’t have to do anything but show up.  You simply sit in His presence and God does the work.  All you need is a little trust.  How much easier do you want it?  This action of sitting in His presence changes us from the inside out by lifting us up and giving us renewed direction and energy.

Join the many of your fellow parishioners who have made ‘chapel time’ a regular component of their prayer life and found this divine support to be priceless.

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Adoration Is Magical

 Feel The Magic

Having celebrated Thanksgiving last week I hope we all were able to spend time consciously thanking God for His many blessings and demonstrate our faith in His continued support and the gifts He bestows on us.  

At the time, immersed in busy holiday schedules, we may not have been thinking: “can we ever thank Him enough; can we ever out give Him; or ever love Him to the same level He loves us?”

As you head to Adoration this week remember how blessed we are to live in a place and at a time we do.  In spite of our troubles, our misguided direction, and the selfish movements of entitlement and relativism, there is still one practice that will nourish and help you grow in this world and prepare you for a better life in the next … and that is the gift to simply sit in His real presence.  It’s magical - you don’t have to do anything in Adoration - just sit in His presence and He does the work, and you leave a better person.  When was the last time you did nothing and became a better person?  God can make this happen.

Advent starts next week … why not make a commitment to spend time each week in His presence in preparation for Christmas.  It doesn’t have to be the same block of time each week and you don’t have to sign-up to be a permanent adorer.  Choose a time convenient for you and go sit in His presence and feel the magic.  On Christmas morning you will be able to give Him a gift He truly appreciates - your time!

Christ's Real Presence

 Christ’s Real Presence

“The simplest way to express what Christ asks us to believe about the Real Presence is that the Eucharist is really He.  The Real Presence is the real Jesus. 

We are to believe that the Eucharist began in the womb of the Virgin Mary; that the flesh which the Son of God received from His Mother at the Incarnation is the same flesh into which He changed bread at the Last Supper; that the blood He received from His Mother is the same blood into which He changed wine at the Last Supper.  Had she not given Him His flesh and blood there could not be a Eucharist.  We are to believe that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ - simply - without qualification.  It is God become man in the fullness of His divine nature, in the fullness of His human nature, in the fullness of His body and soul, in the fullness of everything that makes Jesus Jesus.  He is in the Eucharist with His human mind and will united with Divinity, with His hands and feet, His face and features, with His eyes and lips and ears and nostrils, with His affections and emotions and, with emphasis, with His living, pulsating, physical Sacred Heart.  That is what our Catholic Faith demands of us that we believe.  If we believe this, we are Catholic.  If we do not, we are not, no matter what people may think we are.”  (Father John A Hardon SJ)

Eucharistic Miracle showing the Pulsating Host

 The Kingdom of God Is …

“God loves us as His children and His heirs.  His legacy to us is meant to be experienced and lived in the here and now, not just in eternity.  Our inheritance is more than eternal life.  It is eternal life in our temporal lives.  It is the eternal kingdom of the Father in the here and now.  God promises this to us.  And His promise, when He gives it, is not a human promise.  It is a fact.  You can take it to your heart, to your mind, to your soul, with serene certainty.  We can know that because He loves us perfectly and completely”.

 (The World According To God - F. X. Cronin)

God in His Real Presence has said He has more ‘grace’ in His hands than He can shower on us at any one time.  Why not ask Him for an extra measure?  

"I do believe ... but"

 “Help My Unbelief”

Three weeks ago we quoted Fr John Hardon SJ saying “the simplest way to express what Christ asks us to believe about the Real Presence is that the Eucharist is really HE.  The Real Presence is the real Jesus”.  Two weeks ago we reminded everyone that the Council of Trent in 1551 declared that Jesus Christ is really and truly present in the Eucharist, and the Council declared this a Dogma of Faith.

‘Dogma’ is defined as that part of doctrine which has been divinely revealed and which the Church has formally defined and declared to be believed as revealed.  So this is not what the Church is telling us to believe; this is what God Himself is telling us to believe.  Recently a Pew Survey reported that 69% of declared Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence.  Imagine … 2 out of 3 Catholics don’t believe what God Himself tells us is true.

If you’re one of the non or half hearted believers it may be time to commit to praying during this Advent period asking the Holy Spirit for the grace to increase your belief in the Real Presence.  You’re encouraged to visit the chapel; kneel before the Holy Eucharist and pray the prayer the father of the son harboring the demon prayed before Jesus as told in Mark 9:21-24; “I do believe; help my unbelief”.

Jesus told that father “All things are possible to him who believes”.  Your belief in the Real Presence won’t go from cold to hot over night … you won’t hear thunder or feel the earth shake … but know every prayer is answered.  If you want to succeed you have to show God you’re sincere, and don’t quit asking until you get what you want.

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The Real Jesus

The Real Jesus!

“The simplest way to express what Christ asks us to believe about the Real Presence is that the Eucharist is really He. The Real Presence is the real Jesus. We are to believe that the Eucharist began in the womb of the Virgin Mary; that the flesh which the Son of God received from His Mother at the Incarnation is the same flesh into which He changed bread at the Last Supper; that the blood He received from His Mother is the same blood into which He changed wine at the Last Supper. Had she not given Him His flesh and blood there could not be a Eucharist.

We are to believe that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ - simply, without qualification. It is God become man in the fullness of His divine nature, in the fullness of His human nature, in the fullness of His body and soul, in the fullness of everything that makes Jesus Jesus. He is in the Eucharist with His human mind and will united with the Divinity, with His hands and feet, His face and features, with His eyes and lips and ears and nostrils, with His affections and emotions and, with emphasis, with His living, pulsating, physical Sacred Heart. That is what our Catholic Faith demands of us that we believe. If we believe this, we are Catholic. If we do not, we are not, no matter what people may think we are”
     (Father John A Hardon SJ)

Change Is Possible With God's Help

 Looking To Change?

If you suffer from indifference, waste, selfishness and/or individualism our Lord Jesus Christ offers you the opportunity of conversion.  Conversion occurs when we spend time with Jesus in the Real Presence of Eucharistic Adoration.  If you want to change indifference to compassion; waste to sharing; selfishness to love and/or individualism to fraternity, join other members of our parish in Eucharistic Adoration who are changing just by being in his presence.  Chapel time is always available, and there is not a single living person who can’t benefit from time spent in the Real Presence of our God.