May 18: Day of Prayerful Adoration

Eucharistic Adoration is a perfect way to both receive the grace of God’s mercy and to become more merciful so that we can extend it to others. Bishop Fulton Sheen said that Adoration has two effects. The first is personal, where over time we change just by being in the presence of the Lord. The second is social and communal, where we begin to think of others more and then act on behalf of their good.

Jesus asks us to come to Him, all who are tired and burdened, and He will give us rest. He promises that we will find His peace, rest, mercy, and joy. Sitting (or kneeling) quietly in His presence allows Him to speak to our hearts, where He offers us everything we need and so much more.

 

Join us on Thursdays between 8:30am and 8:30pm in our parish church for Adoration. Make a commitment to an hour or drop in and join us in prayer.

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A final thought from Bishop Sheen: “The holy hour in our modern rat race is necessary for authentic prayer. Our world is one of speed in which intensity of movement is a substitute for lack of purpose; where noise is invoked to drown out the whisperings of conscience; where talk, talk, talk gives the impression that we are doing something when really we are not; where activity kills self-knowledge won by contemplation… There seems to be so little in common between our involvement with the news of the world and ‘the Stranger’ in whose Presence we find ourselves.”

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