Jesus and Our Mother Always Ready To Help

 Calling on Jesus and Mary for Help!

“O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore you profoundly.  I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, scarileges and indifferences by which he is offended.  By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners”.    (The Angel of Peace at Fatima, third apparition)

The prayer of quiet is just ‘resting’ in the Lord’s presence, and is a good start to asking for the conversion of sinners.  See   
                         you in the chapel.

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Chapel Changes

Chapel Changes

The question has been asked as to why we made the recent changes in the Chapel?  The number one reason was security of the Eucharist.  We have no idea how many people over the years have been given the combo to enter the Chapel.  Many times during a normal day a person in the Chapel finds themselves alone.  Once someone enters there’s no additional security for the Monstrance, the Tabernacle, or most important the Real Presence of Our Lord.  We had no way to verify that every time the Tabernacle was opened, the person doing that had authority; and it simply got to a point where we needed to manage risk better.

The acrylic case provides greater security while at the same time giving us the ability to expand Adoration because of the ease to Expose and Repose the Holy Eucharist by either opening or closing the curtain.  Our overall goal as a Parish is to Adore Our Lord 24/5 has not changed.  We hope to have someone praying in the Chapel every hour of every day Monday through Friday.  At this time we’re quite short of that goal in the six hours between midnight and 6AM as only 40% of those hours has someone praying.  Before Covid we were covering 24/5, and I’m sure we can get there again.

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The Lord was not in the wind, nor in the earthquake ...

 Are You Listening?

“The entire Ignatian spirituality is based upon the fact that God is constantly communicating to us in his own mysterious way.  We truly have the capacity to know and do his will precisely because he is constantly trying to communicate it to us.  There is no better place to listen to the Lord and learn his will for us than before the Blessed Sacrament.  The heart that truly seeks to hear Christ’s voice will soon come to understand that he has way of communicating to us in Adoration.”  

“ … the Heart of Jesus in the tabernacle always has something to say to you.”
                (The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle  Victoria Schneider)

Why Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament?

If we can adore the Eucharistic presence of Christ when reposed in a tabernacle, why do we then need to expose the Blessed Sacrament on an alter?  It is not essential for exposition to take place to have Eucharistic Adoration, yet people report experiencing a greater sense of intimacy with Jesus and attentiveness of mind and heart to prayer when they are able to actually "see" our Eucharistic Lord.  But the best reason for having exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is simply that God wills it.  During His Eucharistic discourse, Jesus made this unmistakably clear: "Indeed, this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son, and believes in Him, shall have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day"   Jn 6:40

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