Today, March 30th, our new Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel is being blessed by Bishop Nevares, before it opens to our community later in April.

The Chapel will, through your help, become a Perpetual Adoration Chapel, where members of our community unite by spending an hour to adore Jesus truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament, during the day and throughout the night, seven days a week, so that every hour of every day, someone is there with our Lord.

Adoration is an intimate experience of quiet prayer in which the Lord and the adorer gaze at one another in love. To quote St. John Vianney, "I look at Him, and He looks at Me."

Blessing the Chapel

Bishop Nevares, through the Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament in the Monstrance, and the incensing of the walls of the Chapel, blesses the new home of Eucharistic Devotion for our community. Each item, the Monstrance, the Tabernacle, and the Holy Images inside have been blessed previously by our pastor, Fr. Robert Aliunzi.

A Place of Refuge

The Adoration Chapel is to be a place where we can rest in quiet prayer with Jesus, who will reside there waiting for us day and night in the Blessed Sacrament, calling out to each one of us: "Come to Me all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you."

The Tabernacle

Embedded in the Adoration Table is a Tabernacle, able to house Our Lord when He is not exposed in the Monstrance for Adoration, so Jesus will be still be present in the chapel even when Adoration is not occurring.

The Reliquary

Also embedded in the Adoration Table is a Reliquary, which will soon house the Relics, the remains, of some saints deeply connected to Eucharistic Adoration.

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