Friday, March 28, 2014

OH COME LET US ADORE HIM

Dear Saint John’s School Families,
Saint John’s students had a new and special experience this week!  While going to Adoration has been on 2nd-8th graders Thursday afternoon schedules for many years, this week was extraordinary.  Our children were “wowed” when their class entered Saint John the Evangelist’s new Adoration Chapel for the first time. 
Classroom instruction and discussions before and after the students’ visits to the Adoration Chapel perhaps took on new meaning.  Students responded, “Eucharistic adoration is a practice in the Roman Catholic Church in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and adored.  Adoration differs from other acts of worship. Adoration (Latin) is respect, reverence, devotion. The term comes from the Latin adoratio, meaning “to give homage or worship”.  Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator.  Students learned  that Perpetual adoration is a Eucharistic devotion whereby members of a given parish, (now Saint John the Evangelist Parish) unite in taking hours of adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Other remarks were so powerful coming from the mouths of our youth, “Today adoration made me feel so much closer to God.”  “I felt peaceful”.  “It was awesome”. “I prayed for my Grandpa”.  Several indicated that it wasn’t their first visit to the Chapel.  They had come with their parents before.  Students remembered that they had helped raise $’s to build this very special place on our campus. Father Frank continues to encourage parents and all of us to take time from our daily lives to go to the Chapel, and bring our children with us.
Have a safe, fun and relaxing spring break.  Maybe a visit to the Adoration chapel? 
Shalom,

Mrs. Schmitt
 

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