Join us for 24 hour Adoration every First Friday of the month.
Watch the story on how Sacred Heart Devotion started
Exposition of the Eucharist is immediately after the 8:30 am First Friday Mass and ends in benediction before First Saturday 8:30 am Mass.
All other Fridays, Adoration is after the daily 8:30 am Mass and ends with Benediction at 4 pm.
We encourage sign ups for 24 hour Adoration with your preferred date and time to spend at least an hour with our Lord. This ensures that someone is with our Lord at all times.
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The Adoration Chapel is located behind the Main Sanctuary.
You may enter from the left side of the church near the outdoor statue of our Blessed Mary.
The word “Eucharist” is derived from the Greek word eucharistia, meaning “Thanksgiving”.
About First Friday Devotion
Source: CatholicNewsAgency.com
“The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins.”2
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great antiquity in the Church. It was St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, however, who made this devotion widespread. In 1675, within the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi, our Lord appeared to her and said: “Behold this heart which, not withstanding the burning love for men with which it is consumed and exhausted, meets with no other return from most Christians than sacrilege, contempt, indifference and ingratitude, even in the sacrament of my love [the Eucharist]. But what pierces my heart most deeply is that I am subjected to these insults by persons especially consecrated to my service.”3
To those who show him love and who make reparation for sins, however, our Lord made a great pledge: “I promise you in the unfathomable mercy of my heart that my omnipotent love will procure the grace of final penitence for all those who receive communion on nine successive first Fridays of the month; they will not die in my disfavor, or without having received the sacraments, since my divine heart will be their sure refuge in the last moments of their life.”4
The great promise of the Sacred Heart is most consoling: the grace of final perseverance and the joy of having Jesus’ heart as our sure refuge and infinite ocean of mercy in our last hour.
To gain this grace, we must:
Almighty and everlasting God, look upon the heart of your well-beloved Son and upon the praise and satisfaction which he offers to you in the name of all sinners; and grant them pardon when they seek your mercy. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you for ever and ever.
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We invite you to visit the Tabernacle at the Blessed Sacrament Chapel on days when we do not have Adoration. (The Blessed Sacrament is located right beside the Adoration Chapel).
Hours:
• Mon-Fri 8 am – 4 pm
• Saturdays 3 pm – 6 pm
(First Saturday 8 am – 10 am & 3 pm – 6 pm)
• Sundays 7:30 am – 12:30 pm, 4:30 pm – 6 pm
(The word Tabernacle means “dwelling place” where the Eucharist are kept for later use; e.g. Distribution to the sick).
How does one spend an hour before Jesus exposed in the Blessed Sacrament?
This hour Jesus wants you to spend with Him is spent any way you want. You may bring your own prayer books, use the books in the chapel, read the Bible, pray the rosary, or just sit and relax and enjoy the sweet peace that comes from simply being in the Presence of God. You may feel that you can’t pray well. Don’t let this discourage you. The mere fact that you take time out at a specific time each week to spend an hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament pleases Him very much and is in itself a prayer of great faith. ~EWTN
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