Chapel of The Divine Mercy
Eucharistic Adoration
St. Laurence Catholic Church
3100 Sweetwater Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77479
Life is a never-ending search for fulfillment, happiness and peace. We look for it in our families, careers and wealth. But the truth is, fulfillment, happiness, and peace can only be found in Jesus. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.” (John 14:27)
Man is both body and soul. As the body needs food to survive, so too does the soul. God placed the soul in us. He alone can nourish it. “The Lamb on the throne will shepherd us and lead us to springs of life giving water.” (Revelations 7:17)
Come aside and rest awhile in His presence. You will find the food to nourish the soul and to understand the true meaning of fulfillment, happiness and peace.
Pope John Paul II appealed to all parishes to have a Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration chapel as there is at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome with these encouraging words, “...every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that this sacrament of love shall be at the center of the life of the people of God so that through all the manifestations of worship due to it, Christ shall be given back ‘love for love’, and truly become the life of our souls.” (Redeemer of Man) He further stated that all the evils of the world could be eliminated through the great power of Eucharistic adoration. The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship. “Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease.” (Dominicae Cenae)
Visits to the Blessed Sacrament “are the most efficacious way of growing in holiness.” (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)
One of the devotions suggested by Our Lord to honor the hour of His death is to adore, in the Blessed Sacrament, His heart, which is full of Mercy. (Diary of Blessed Faustina, 1572)
“I thirst with such a terrible thirst to be loved by You in this sacrament of my love.” When St. Margaret Mary Alacoque asked Jesus about the crown of thorns around His Sacred Heart, Jesus revealed to her that He suffers now more than during His entire passion due to the indifference of the world toward His love for us in the Holy Eucharist.
Each time you go to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, you touch His heart with your faith. Each hour you spend in the presence of Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration releases His power and grace upon you, your family, your parish, your diocese and the world.
Just as you cannot be exposed to the sun without receiving vivifying rays, so you too cannot be exposed to the Son of God, present in the Blessed Sacrament without receiving His Divine rays of enriching graces, mercy, love, life and peace.
Going to adoration is putting our faith into practice. A good example of this is found in the Sacred Scriptures when Jesus asked His apostles who had touched Him, because He felt the power went out from Him. He was referring to the woman who made an act of faith by touching the hem of His garment, knowing that by doing so, she would be healed.
The hour you want to spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament can be spent anyway you want. You may bring your own book in the chapel, read the Bible, pray the Rosary, or just sit, relax and enjoy the sweet peace that comes from simply being in the presence of God. If you feel you cannot pray well, don’t let this discourage you. The mere fact that you take time to spend with Him, pleases Him very much and itself is a prayer of great faith. (Fr. Martin Lucia, C. C. S. S.)
Eucharistic Adoration is a vigil of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance. St. Laurence parishioners unite in making a continuous adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in our Chapel of The Divine Mercy during scheduled times. Adorers commit themselves to one or more hours a week starting Mondays at 9am until 8am each Saturday. The Blessed Sacrament is reposed for Holy Mass each day with exposition resuming immediately following Mass. The exposed Blessed Sacrament should never be left alone. It is thus necessary that a person be scheduled for a specific hour once a week. If you feel you can make a commitment of one hour a week or be on a list of substitutes, please fill out a form and leave it in the foyer of the Chapel. Someone will call you about when you would like to be scheduled.
Committed Adorer
When you commit for one hour or more a week, you are a committed adorer. You become responsible for that hour. If on occasion it is impossible for you to fulfill your obligation, please, look for a substitute. Substitutes can be family members, friends or someone who is on our list of adoration substitutes or other adorers. If you are unable to find a substitute for your hour, call your hourly coordinator.
Drop-in or Visitor
Jesus waits for you anytime. Please stop by for a visit and experience the immeasurable graces and blessings enjoyed by other adorers.
Log Book
If you are a Committed adorer or a substitute, please, sign the Log Book for the hour you have adored. Your signature indicates that the Blessed Sacrament is being adored on all the hours scheduled.
The Holy Eucharist is the sacrament of God’s infinite generosity towards man. When we are generous in our response to Him in this sacrament of love, God pours out His infinite goodness upon all mankind. God will bless you, your family and the world a thousand times as much for this sacrifice because God cannot be outdone in generosity.
“All of us, gazing on the Lord’s glory with unveiled faces, are being transformed from glory to glory into His very image.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)
“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)
“Look into My Heart and see there the love and mercy which I have for humankind and especially for sinners.” (Diary of Blessed Faustina, 1663)
“When we contemplate Him present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, Christ draws near to us and becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves. He grants us a share in His divine life in a transforming union and, in the Spirit, He gives us access to the Father, as He himself said to Philip: ‘He who has seen me has seen the Father.’” (John 14:9)...(Pope John Paul II, Letter to the Bishop of Liege)
Jesus is mercy itself, The Divine Mercy. The image of The Divine Mercy with its red and pale rays, presents the Eucharistic Lord Jesus, whose Heart has been pierced and now pours forth blood and water as a fountain of mercy for us. It is the image of God’s sacrificial gift of mercy made present in every Mass.
Several times in her Diary, Blessed Faustina writes of seeing the red and pale rays coming, not from the image, but from the Sacred Host; and once, as the priest exposed the Blessed Sacrament, she saw the rays from the image pierce the Host and spread out from it all over the world. (Diary, 441) Jesus revealed to Blessed Faustina that in fact the whole world experiences a new effect of His goodness, grace, love, and mercy for each Holy Hour made in His Divine Presence. So too, with the eyes of faith, we should see in every Host the merciful Savior pouring Himself out as a fountain of mercy for us and the whole world.
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, you are the perfect model of adorers of the Holy Eucharist. You adored Jesus in the little white Host with the same faith, reverence and wonder with which you adored Him on the first Christmas night and during all the years you lived with Him. We ask you, Our Mother of Mercy, to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.
Source: "Eucharistic Adoration- Chapel of The Divine Mercy," A booklet published in 1999 by St. Laurence Catholic Church, Sugar Land, TX.
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