Our Lady of Peace Parish

e-mail: mmw1@nysaes.cornell.edu

Our Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The chapel is located in St. Stephens Church but St. Francis DeSales Church is our support parish. Together we are called The Roman Catholic Community of Geneva, NY. We have over 200 adorers but we would love to have 150 more. Two people within every hour would be ideal.

All are welcome and encouraged to visit Our Lord anytime.
Visit for 10 minutes or an hour - the Lord welcomes all.

Hours we need filled at St. Stephen's Chapel are:

Sun: 5-6 PM

Mon: 1-2 AM; 2- 3 AM; 3-4 AM

Wed: 2-3 AM

Thurs: 12Mid.-1 AM

Fri: 1-2 AM, 2-3 AM, 3-4 AM, 4-5 AM,  6-7 PM; 7-8 PM

Sat: 3-4 AM

We still have many open hours. Please try to fill one of them if you can. It will be the best hour spent all week--you will not regret it.

Is the Holy Spirit nudging you to sign up for an hour a week?? Call Joyce Graham, 789-0696; Marcella Walczak, 789-6702; or Anna Marie Giardino, 789-1239 to sign up for an hour with Our Lord Jesus Christ!

TO ALL ADORERS

God bless you regular adorers for all the commitment, loyalty and love you give to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year!!

"Come to me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you…"

"Cast all of your anxieties upon the Lord, who cares for you." (Mt. 11:28, 1 Pt. 5:7)

Please call anyone on the Committee (above) if you are interested in signing up for an hour or have any questions pertaining to Adoration. You are Needed!

By Eileen McCarthy; New London, CT

1. Slowly read scripture until something hits you. Then listen.

2. Say a rosary.

3. Let God look at you.

4. Tell Him something that made you happy. Then listen.

5. Tell Him what you are afraid of. Then listen.

6. Tell Him what angers you. Then listen.

7. Speak about your loved ones.

8. Pray for an enemy.

9. Talk with Him about work.

10. Sing a song for Him in your heart.

11. Promise to trust Him.

12. Imagine Mary sitting next to you and praying with you.

13. Renew your loyalty to His Church.

14. Lean on Him. Tell Him you love Him.

15. Thank Him for the Sacraments.

16. Tell Him your failures. Ask for help. Then listen.

17. Slowly recite the Beatitudes.

18. Say one Our Father slowly.

19. Say one Hail Mary slowly.

20. Say the Creed slowly.

21. Pray for vocations.

22. Ask Him to show you the next step.

23. Look at yourself. Count your gifts. Then thank Him.

24. Pray for the world.

25. Enjoy just being in His presence.

"Come to Me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest, says the Lord." Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Matthew 11:28-30

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION THOUGHTS

Some parishioners have asked "What is Eucharistic Adoration all about. Explain it for us." We hope the following helps a little. The Body of Christ is placed in a glass holder called a Monstrance and set on an altar in a holy place for people to come and adore the physical presence of Our Lord.

During this visit, people start to grow in the spiritual awareness of God, their own soul and eternal life. Our eternal spirit is made up of memories, feelings, emotions, love, compassion, joy, happiness, peace and much more. We develop our spirit with all these things that science cannot measure but we know we have.

When we spend one hour a day or a week with God, He helps us to see our life and our relationships with everything and everyone a little differently. We call this help from God "Grace" when spiritual changes are occurring that cannot be measured or we call them "Miracles" when physical things happen that we cannot explain how they happened.

Our whole religion is built on Faith, Hope and Love. During a Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration we grow in our awareness of these attributes and our awareness of God's presence in our life. This is what God meant when He said "Seek and you shall find". We need to spend time seeking the Presence of God and the Grace he has waiting for us. Each day of our lives we are building "Eternal" memories and feelings.

How people spend their hour:

• Some come and talk to God

• Some come and pray the rosary

• Some come and meditate on scripture

• Some come and cry their hearts out to God

• Some come to sit and just be with the Lord

• Some come to contemplate the life and sufferings of Jesus

• Some come to pray for healing for themselves or others

• Some come and leave their tears and problems for God

• Some come and beg for God's mercy in their life

• All come to have a more intimate relationship with God

What happens to people who spend time with Our Lord:

• Some experience a new awareness of God's Presence

• Some experience burdens lifted

• Some experience help in overcoming addictions

• Some experience physical healing

• Some experience healing of marriages and families

• Some experience forgiveness of past sins

• Some experience healing of friendships

• Some experience the gift of tears and healing

• Some experience the peace of silence in this busy world

• All experience some unexplainable grace in their life

(A parishioner, 1995)

Evangelization

Perpetual Adoration is affirmation of our faith. Through this constant vigil of prayer, we give witness to our belief that God is truly dwelling with His people.

Perpetual Adoration is a message in itself of the importance of coming to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Perpetual Adoration is making the Good Shepherd available to His people with the constant miracles of His grace and love. Perpetual Adoration is letting the Good Shepherd work with His people all the time! St. Paul says that, "Faith comes through hearing, and how are they to hear unless there is someone to preach?" And Pope John Paul II is now calling the whole people of God to preach:

• that every holy hour draws the world and everybody in the world closer to Christ and lifts the whole world up to God the Father for his blessing

• that when we go before the Blessed Sacrament we stand in behalf of that one person in the world in most need of God’s mercy, and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb so that they go to Heaven to be with God for all eternity, instead of going to hell - that by our Holy Hours of prayer we will contribute to the radical transformation of the world...

We need to respond to the appeal of Pope John Paul II and evangelize. The laity need to learn to evangelize each other and go out into the parish.

The Pope said this is the age for Eucharistic Evangelization and he called upon every parish to have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, because he said that this is what will bring about God’s Kingdom on earth and everlasting peace to all mankind.

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