Perpetual Adoration
The Church and the world have great need of Eucharistic adoration. Jesus waits for us in
this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and contemplation full of faith. And let us be ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease.
Servant of God, Bl. Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae, Holy Thursday, 1980
On the Feast of St John of the Cross 2005, Prince of Peace Catholic Church solemnly inaugurated Perpetual Adoration of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament in the church’s Lady Chapel. Hundreds of parishioners now spend an hour or more in the Lord’s sacramental presence each week imploring the Lord’s mercy, meditating on the mysteries of His life and Eucharistic presence, and interceding on behalf of family, friends, fellow parishioners, the clergy, our neighborhoods, city, state, nation, and for the Universal Church together with the Supreme Pontiff and those bishops in communion with him, especially the Bishop of Charleston.
If you have n
ever spent time with Our Lord in this way we invite you to this encounter with Him in the fullness of his humanity and divinity present in this “bread from heaven.”
If you are a Prince of Peace parishioner who is not currently spending time regularly with the Lord Jesus Christ in Eucharistic Adoration, we encourage you to this encounter with the Lord’s mercy and love poured out and perpetually present in the Eucharist. Please contact Nancy Mohlman to join the Guild of St Thomas Aquinas, our association of committed Eucharistic adorers.
Members of the Guild of St Thomas Aquinas who are already spending time regularly with the Lord in the Eucharist are encouraged to go a step further by bringing friends and family members who are non-Catholic or even non-Christian into the Lord’s presence. Invite them to spend time with you before the Lord in Eucharistic Adoration. Their encounter with the Lord truly and substantially present in the Eucharist may soften their hearts to receive the Gospel, repent of their sins, and turn to the Lord and His Holy Catholic Church. We see time and again in the Gospels that the personal encounter with the Lord Jesus was often sufficient to turn people to repentance and belief. As he is no less present in the Eucharist than he was during his public ministry, inviting non-Catholics or non-Christians to share an hour of Eucharistic Adoration, which is truly a personal encounter with the Lord, with you may be sufficient in bringing them to the Gospel or to the fullness of Christian faith and life.
