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Adoration (updated 2/5/24)
Jesus is present in the tabernacle in our chapel and the chapel is open for adoration whenever the church is open. Jesus is exposed on Wednesday and Thursday from 9am to 9pm.
We are currently working to have Jesus exposed on Tuesdays and are trying to schedule 2 adorers for every hour from 12pm -6pm as a start. We need 2 adorers at Noon, 2:00 and 3:00 pm.
We are also trying to have continued adoration Wednesday and Thursday through the night/early monrning and need 2 adorers for Wednesday 10 and 11pm and 2 for Thursday every hour from Midnight until 8am.
We are also always in need of substitute adorers.
Please contact Anitta Spenner if you are able to commit to spend an hour each week with Jesus.
515-344-7850
[email protected]
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Why do adoration?Have you felt the tug to deepen your relationship with Jesus? Has he been nudging you to consider adoration? Perhaps you are looking for a way to spend some extra quality time with Him. Or, you may have read previous requests expressing a need for adorers and want to but just not sure you can make the commitment. I get it. In our busy lives it is hard to make yet another commitment, but this commitment is one that can bring peace in an otherwise hectic and crazy world.
It's a time of prayer, quiet reflection or increasing your knowledge of our faith through reading. Whether you read the bible, reflect on the gospel, learn more about the mass, the Eucharist or lives of the saints, it’s a great way to spend an hour each week away from the hustle and distraction of the world.
Here are a few quotes from St Theresa of Calcutta has had these things among others to say about the Eucharist:- “In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.” - Pope Benedict XVI
- "The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth." - St. Theresa of Calcutta
- “Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the gospel. Anyone who prays to the Savior draws the whole world with him and raises it to God.” - Pope St John Paul II
- “The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him in adoration.”- Pope St John Paul II
- “Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in Heaven and retold for all of eternity.”- - St. Theresa of Calcutta
- “To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems." - Pope John XXIII
- "A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament." - St (Padre) Pio of Pietrelcina
- "It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present in His Heart....how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual converse, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love before Christ present in the Most Holy Sacrament?" - Pope St John Paul II
- “Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament, we shall accomplish nothing.” – St Peter