One of the greatest things that has happened to our beloved parish this year is the official commencement of perpetual Adoration in our Divine Mercy Perpetual Adoration Chapel on April 21, 2025. I feel so blessed that the Lord gave me the privilege of ensuring that this tremendous treasure of our parish was built. I am so grateful that he used me. Since its opening, we have not only had a record of over 350 committed adorers but also Adoration going on uninterrupted 24/7.

While this is very encouraging, I would like to invite each and every member of our parish to spend at least thirty minutes a month in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Most especially, I invite you, parents and your family members to come together to spend some time in front of the Blessed Sacrament. The blessing that comes from doing this has been known to be immeasurable. Remember, a family that prays/adores together and eats together stays together!

Our commitment to this perpetual Adoration devotion is based on our firm conviction of the real presence of our Lord in the blessed sacrament. He is truly present in the consecrated host, Body, Blood, soul, and divinity. This reality has been proved by so many eucharistic miracles over the years in different parts of the world. The most current miracle doing the rounds right now happened in India. Allow me to share an article I found online about this with you.

On May 10, 2025, the Vatican officially recognized and confirmed the Eucharistic miracle in Kerala, India, where the face of Jesus miraculously appeared on a consecrated host during a Catholic Mass offered by a priest named Fr. Thomas Patikkal in the Archdiocese of Thalassery on November 13, 2013. The announcement of the Vatican's approval by the Archbishop Mar Joseph Pamplani at Vilakkannur Church — the site of the 2013 miraclefollows a comprehensive 12-year investigation, which included both scientific and medical examinations of the phenomenon.

The miraculous Host had been sent to the archdiocese for observation and safekeeping. CatholicVote.org reported on May 12, 2025, that from "September 2018 to January 2020, the archdiocese sent the Host back to Vilakkannur Church for public veneration. The Syro-Malabar Church’s Theological Commission, which investigated the event, found strong theological grounds supporting that it was a Eucharistic miracle. In January 2020, the Host was taken to the Syro-Malabar headquarters in Kakkanad and presented to then-apostolic nuncio Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro. Archbishop Pamplani told the congregation that the Holy See found that the miracle deepens faith in the Real Presence of the Eucharist and thus permitted the faithful to honor the miraculous Host in the same way the faithful honor the Blessed Sacrament. The archbishop added that the reality of the True Presence is a doctrine of the Catholic faith and does not depend on miraculous appearances.

The official proclamation will take place on May 31, 2025, at Vilakkannur Church, and Pope Leo XIV’s representative in India, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, will preside over the Mass.

Indeed, as archbishop Pamplani rightly pointed out, the reality of the True Presence is a doctrine of the Catholic faith and does not depend on miraculous appearances. Nevertheless, the Lord continues to allow these miracles in order to strengthen our faith and increase devotion to the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. So let us take this opportunity to visit the Lord regularly in our own chapel here, for the Lord is truly present there, waiting for you.

I love you!

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