Come Let us Adore Him

During quarantine we had to close our Adoration Chapel, it was a difficult decision because of the many blessings that come from Perpetual Adoration.  

The time has come to bring perpetual adoration back to the parish, to allow everyone in our community to have that face to face encounter with Jesus Christ, any time they need it.

The goal is to begin Perpetual Adoration again on Feb 1, 2021.  This means that we have some hours to fill.  

For those of you who are currently serving, your support has been and continues to be crucial to the success of this ministry.  So at this time we ask that if at all possible you do not make any changes to your current commitment.  You have been loaded into the new online system (stanm.weadorehim.com) and should be receiving communications from that system soon.  You may log in to the system using your name or phone number and then use the "forgot password" link to get logged in.

All Adorers will be able to select the way they would like to contacted (phone call, email, or txt), schedule their commitment, make changes, request a substitute etc.

It is bare bones. There is no inspiring music or stirring messages, no group activities, no required prayers and certainly no technology. It’s just believers sitting or kneeling in silence for an hour at a time 24/7 in every season.

Those who pray here, called adorers, pray before the Blessed Sacrament (the Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity of Jesus Christ), the consecrated host from Mass placed in an ornate gold container called a monstrance.

They speak of praying directly to Jesus and Keep him company — hence the perpetual one-hour shifts that they sign up for in advance. They are the host for those that need to drop and in and are looking for Jesus.

Those who sign up to be Adorers are required to stay until the next Adorer — who signed up for the following hour — arrives. Most people sign up for an adoration hour in order to deepen their personal prayer, but as a scheduled adorer, the role goes beyond just showing up to spend time with Jesus: they are the host of that time period of adoration, making it possible for other people to stop in and encounter our Lord.

"The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time that 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 an everlasting peace on earth." 

"Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace." 

"A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."