Perpetual Adoration   (updated 10/20)
We are in need of adorers for the following hours.   Please prayerfully consider signing up for one of the hours available. 

Mon:  Midnight and 1 am and 3 and 11 pm
Tues:  Midnight, 1, 2, 3 am 
Wed:   Midnight, 1 and 2 am
Thurs: Noon, 4, 7 and 11 pm 
Fri:      8 and 10 am 

If you are not able to commit to an hour every week you can consider signing up with a friend and rotating or consider being a substitute adorer.   

For more information or to sign up, contact Anitta at 515-344-7850 or at spennani1976@outlook.com 

You may also sign up bu clicking on the Adoration Pro link below and following  the instructions/prompts.

Thank you and God Bless you!

You can now sign up for a weekly holy hour, become a substitute adorer or  find a substitute adorer by clicking on the adoration pro link above. 

• To sign up for a weekly holy hour, click on the link and then select "weekly commitment" then follow the instructions.
• To become a sub, click on the link and select "become a sub" and then follow the instructions.
• To find a sub in the event you are unable to meet your weekely commitment click on the link and then  select "find a sub" , use password subpass and follow the instructions.

You may also sign up or find a sub,by contacting one of the Divisional captains listed to the right.

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”—John 6:51

Jesus was not speaking symbolically when he said this to his diciples and followers in Capernaum.  While it is true that Jesus did speak in parables and metaphors at times, this was NOT one of those times.  Throughout Jesus's public ministry, when people misunderstood his meaning, he was known to correct their misunderstanding (see Jn 3:3-6 for example, where Jesus corrects Nicodemus' understanding of "born again" and explains that it is not a physical rebirth but a spiritual rebirth through baptism).   In fact, during the "Bread of Life" discourse Jesus repeats Four times that He is the Bread of Life and that whoever "eats my flesh and drinks my blood" will live forever, stressing that "my flesh is real food and my blood real drink" for the salvation of the world.  Each time he repeats it, he doesn't attempt to soften or alter his words when those present are taken aback and react negatively to them.  In fact he strengthens the language leaving no doubt in the minds of  those present that he is speaking literally.  Further more, Jesus doesn't try to stop them or tell them he was speaking symbolically when many leave him to return to their former lives.  He allows them to leave and then asks his apostles if they too wish to leave.

That Jesus is really and truely present in the Eucharist is one of the most cherished teaching of the Catholic Church.  The Council of Trent gave this definition for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist :

“…in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ…”
—Canons concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, Council of Trent, Canon #1

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states (1374): “The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as ‘the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.’ In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, ‘the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.’ This presence is called real; by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be real too but because it is presence in the fullest sense; that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God, and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”

We are so blessed to have Jesus really and fully present with us until the end of time in our tabernacles and even more greatly blessed that we have perpetual adoration and a chapel where we can spend time with him anytime we want.   Spending an hour a week with Jesus in adoration of the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, is the best time you will ever spend on earth!