From Our Pastor
Dear Folks,
Adoration chapel news!!!
We are excited to announce that we have an eye on the weekend of August 15th to invite you all to see the new Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel and make it available for prayer the following week! One of the hopes was to invite you to see some of the details up close, before we bring the blessed sacrament in for prayer.
It is the goal of the adoration chapel that during adoration all prayer be quiet, to maximize everyone’s ability to bath in the radiant grace shining forth from the loving heart of Our Lord! When Jesus told us to go to your rooms and pray in private, I believe He did so for two reasons: limiting our distractions by retreating from view and limiting pride by not seeking attention for the depth / piety of our devotion. Having an adoration chapel where it is the norm and expectation that all pray silently, accomplishes both of those purposes.
The only planned exception to this will be the folks who pray the DivineMercy devotion on Wednesday afternoon! Clearly it must be in the chapel inspired by this devotion!!
On weekends, when we don’t have adoration in the chapel, we hope to celebrate some baptisms and weddings in there, but otherwise have it open as much as possible. We will be working out scheduling questions in the next few weeks, and we will also need more scheduled adorers to be able to expand the hours of adoration!
I believe that adoration and rosaries between the morning Masses will continue in the church, but other times are more likely to move to the adoration chapel.
We plan to move the bulk of adoration to the new chapel and will watch to make sure that if crowds necessitate certain times being back in the church, we will monitor that. It is also our hope that folks will be encouraged by the adoration chapel to spend more time with our Lord! More information on all these details will be forth coming! Very excited that this dream is taking shape!
pax,
Father John Mosimann
