Simple Exposition & Adoration
of the Blessed Sacrament
Every Saturday from 3:30-4:30 PM &
Monthly on a Wednesday Evening from 7:00-8:00 PM
Please check our Bulletin to confirm times/schedules
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God is "Here With Us" in the gift of His Most Holy Eucharist.
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Consider making a Spiritual Resolution to spend some time in Adoration with Jesus Christ present in the Most Holy Eucharist. Perhaps start with a few minutes each week and work toward making a Holy Hour over the course of the year. Bring your family for some time in prayer together! Commit yourself to regularly making a Sacramental Confession. Make your resolutions realistic and attainable so Jesus can really walk with you!
We are all called to holiness...to sanctity...
to sainthood in the HERE and NOW.
Jesus is present in the HERE and NOW...
meeting us where we're at!
"Here With Us"
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STM has produced this special music video for all of you! It's a: a quick Catechesis on the Eucharist, a reflection on the Incarnation & Eucharist, and an invitation to join us for Adoration (& Reconciliation) on Saturdays from 3:30-4:30 PM.
(Track: "Here With Us" by Joy Williams / Recorded by: Elaina Ragusa, 2020 & Praise Hymn Tracks)
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How to Spend Time in Adoration
"How to Spend An Hour in Adoration" (Adapted) | By Sherry Antonetti | Published on 08/10/2018
- First, remember that the Lord is spending this time with you. Let Him look at you. Begin with adoration. How do we adore? As a groom staring at his bride walking up the aisle, as a mother gazing at her newborn, as a son or daughter returning home after a long journey, these are the ways we should approach our Lord. Anyone who ever fell in love knows the feeling of staring into the eyes of the other, and wanting to just drink them up. So also, we should seek that level of intimacy, silence of the self, and joy when we come to adoration. If we don’t feel it, know that the Lord does. He is far more delighted to be in our presence than we could ever be at being in His.
- Why should we go to adoration? To learn how to sit at the feet of Jesus, to chose the better portion, and to help attune our ears to God’s words and our eyes to God’s gaze so we can do what we pray in the Our Father: “thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” Sitting before the Eucharist is being granted an audience with the King of Heaven. Why would we keep away?
- Don’t know what to do? Don’t know what to say? All relationships start with being willing to participate, to spend time. Go and if it’s your first time sitting, let yourself sit and contemplate, this is Christ. This is what love looks like.
- We’re called — whether married, consecrated religious, or single — to be like Christ. Christ allows Himself to be broken, poured out to the last drop. As fallen creatures, we always tend to hold some of ourselves back in reserve. Sitting before the Eucharist will help us to understand that love is always service, love is always a gifting of the whole self.
- Pray the Scriptures. Read them, steep in them, reflect on them. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see, read, hear and understand. Read them again. Enter into the words being spoken.
- Pray the Rosary. No one knows her son better than the Blessed Mother, and she can teach you how to gaze at her Son on the Cross, how to sit at the foot of Her son at the Mount, and how to kneel next to Him in adoration. Pray with Her, and she will help you to “do whatever He tells you.”
- Sing in your heart. Many of us lack beautiful singing voices except in our heads. Here’s your chance to sing your favorite song from church (regardless of the season), in your head, all the verses, to Our Lord. You’ll have all the accompaniment your heart imagines, and you can praise God as you would if that singing voice existed in real life. As an added bonus, you’ll find when you return from adoration, it’s easier to sing in the pews regardless of the song.
- Don’t feel like you have time to spend an hour? Yes, we’re all very busy, but offer God 12 minutes each day before you begin your commute, or the same time at the end of your work, and in a week, you’ll have spent 60 minutes outside of Mass, contemplating Our Lord. You’ll also find that coming and staying becomes easier, as you enter deeper and deeper into the mystery of being in Christ’s presence.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Available Every Saturday from 3:30-4:30 PM
*Confessions can also be heard by appointment with our parish priests.
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"Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly, do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God." -St. Isidore of Seville |
Sacrament of Reconciliation
"God's Gift of Forgiveness" (Adapted) | A Pastoral Exhortation by the USCCB
Painting by: Tommy Canning (All rights reserved.)
“Peace be with you!” With these words, the Risen Lord greeted his frightened Apostles in the Upper Room on the day of his Resurrection. They were troubled, anxious, and fearful—much like each one of us at some point in our lives. Christ repeated the words, “Peace be with you.” But then he added, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them” (Jn 20:19-23).
What an extraordinary gift! The Risen Lord was proclaiming that all the suffering he had just endured was in order to make available the gifts of salvation and forgiveness. He wanted the Apostles to receive these gifts. He wanted them to become apostles of this forgiveness to others.
In the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, we meet the Lord, who wants to grant forgiveness and the grace to live a renewed life in him. In this sacrament, he prepares us to receive him free from serious sin, with a lively faith, earnest hope, and sacrificial love in the Eucharist. The Church sees confession as so important that she requires that every Catholic go at least once a year. The Church also encourages frequent confession in order to grow closer to Christ Jesus and his Body, the Church. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, we seek forgiveness and repentance, let go of patterns of sin, grow in the life of virtue, and witness to a joyful conversion.
We are eager to help you if you experience difficulty, hesitation, or uncertainty about approaching the Lord in this sacrament. If you have not received this healing sacrament in a long time, we are ready to welcome you.
We pray that through the work of the Holy Spirit, all Catholics—clergy and laity—will respond to the call of the New Evangelization to encounter Christ in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
Come to the Lord and experience the extraordinary grace of his forgiveness!
What an extraordinary gift! The Risen Lord was proclaiming that all the suffering he had just endured was in order to make available the gifts of salvation and forgiveness. He wanted the Apostles to receive these gifts. He wanted them to become apostles of this forgiveness to others.
In the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, we meet the Lord, who wants to grant forgiveness and the grace to live a renewed life in him. In this sacrament, he prepares us to receive him free from serious sin, with a lively faith, earnest hope, and sacrificial love in the Eucharist. The Church sees confession as so important that she requires that every Catholic go at least once a year. The Church also encourages frequent confession in order to grow closer to Christ Jesus and his Body, the Church. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, we seek forgiveness and repentance, let go of patterns of sin, grow in the life of virtue, and witness to a joyful conversion.
We are eager to help you if you experience difficulty, hesitation, or uncertainty about approaching the Lord in this sacrament. If you have not received this healing sacrament in a long time, we are ready to welcome you.
We pray that through the work of the Holy Spirit, all Catholics—clergy and laity—will respond to the call of the New Evangelization to encounter Christ in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
Come to the Lord and experience the extraordinary grace of his forgiveness!