St. Mary's Church

Biblical Reasons For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament

Reasons From The Teachings Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament

St. Mary’s Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel

Like any Perpetual Adoration Program we constantly struggle to find enough adorers to keep the chapel open 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week. Typically there are 5 to 10 Holy Hours each week that no one signed up to cover them. We are in urgent need of more adorers, both for the day and night hours. Come and see the difference that just one hour in the chapel can make in your life, then schedule a special hour each week to come and adore! If you are not presently signed up to cover a specific hour of adoration, please consider doing so. We definitely need your help even as a second adorer on many hours that have only one adorer on them.

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus asked, “Could you not watch one hour with me?”, and returned 3 times to find the Apostles asleep each time. Today it is He who is asking each of us to keep Him company. Please prayerfully consider to make a commitment to an hour of adoration each week. Call 519-434-9121 or

email: stmarylondon@rcec.london.on.ca.

Eucharistic Adoration By: Pope John Paul II

I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God. In contemplation, Christians will perceive ever more profoundly the mystery at the heart of Christian life.

Teach young people the value of Eucharistic Adoration. I urge priests, religious and lay people to continue and redouble their efforts to teach the younger generations the meaning and value of Eucharistic adoration and devotion. How will young people be able to know the Lord if they are not introduced to the mystery of His presence? Like the young Samuel, by learning the words of the prayer of the heart, they will be closer to the Lord, who will accompany them in their spiritual and human growth. The Eucharistic mystery is in fact the "summit of evangelization" (Lumen Gentium) for it is the most eminent testimony to Christ’s resurrection.

The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all sacraments tend." In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."

- The Catechism of the Catholic Church: paragraph 1374