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Perpetual Adoration Returns
We are very happy to announce that our Perpetual Adoration Chapel will return to it’s 24/7 schedule come October 1. Information about signing up or any other matter is listed in the bulletin, on our parish website, and below. That’s today’s information and announcement, but let’s place more focus on an exhortation on this beautiful Catholic gift in the examples of the saints.
St. Isidore and Bl. Maria Torribia (12th cent.) married, would get up early for Mass, then spend time in adoration.
St. Thomas Becket, Martyr (12th cent.), wrote to a friend that he prays for him before the Blessed Sacrament.
St. John Fisher (16th cent.) beheaded by Henry VIII, had a hole drilled in the wall next to his bed so he could see into the church and adore the Lord in the Eucharist if he woke in the night.
St. Elizabeth Seton (18th-19th cent.) as an Anglican in New York soon to become Catholic, would sit in the corner of Trinity Episcopal Church in New York City since it was closest to St. Peter’s Catholic Church. She did so because that back corner seat was closest to the Lord in the Eucharist down the street.
St. Augustine (5th cent.) "It is our duty to adore the Blessed Sacrament. No one receives the Blessed Sacrament unless he adores it...and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring….To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; to seek Him, the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement."
J.R.R. Tolkien (20th cent.) creator of the Lord of the Rings wrote to his son, an RAF pilot in World War II: “Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. By the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste -or foretaste- of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man’s heart desires.”
St. Irenaeus Martyr (2nd cent.). "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking."
St. Pope Clement I (1st cent.): "Through Him, our gaze penetrates the heights of heaven and we see, as in a mirror, the most holy face of God. Through Christ, the eyes of our hearts are opened and our weak and clouded understanding, reaches up toward the light."
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