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CONTACT Information
Fran Magelssen
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Adoration Closures
Thanksgiving Week
Friday, Nov 20th at 4pm
until
Monday, Nov 30th at 7 am
While Adoration will be paused the Chapel will be open for private, silent prayer. -
Open Chapel Hours
The chapel is open to the parish and community from 5am through 9pm daily.
During the night a code is required to enter the school building to access the chapel. The code is available only to committed adorers.
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CURRENT PROTOCOLS FOR CHAPEL
- Visitors are required to sign in, including date/hour and their contact information; Scheduled adorers sign their initials by their name
- Masks must be worn (around nose and mouth) at all times
- Maximum capacity of 15 people
- Only every other pew is available; do not sit in marked pews
- Adorers must practice safe distancing which is six feet from nonfamily members
- Use of hand sanitizer (available at entrance)
- The chapel is open for silent, private adoration only.
- No groups are permitted in the chapel at this time
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Are You Truly Happy?
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.
"This is my body."
"For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary."(Matthew 18:20) Jesus is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Saint 2John Chrysostom said that He is even there with us in His robe and sandals. The Church invites you to come and experience His miraculous presence during Eucharistic Adoration as a continuation of His presence in the Mass. As we are always in need of committed scheduled adorers, please prayerfully consider spending an hour with Jesus in Adoration. For further information please email Fran.
Adoration at St. Laurence Catholic Church
Perpetual 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 Divine Mercy. Adorers commit themselves to one or more hours a week. During exposition, the 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 email.
Hours Currently Needed
The first commandment is to love God. What better way to love God than to spend time with Him in the chapel? The Vatican and the Archdiocese guidelines for Eucharistic Exposition require 2 or 3 persons be present at all times. We are in the midst of a campaign to add a second adorer wherever only one is currently in place.
Are you that second person?"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Matthew 18:20
Please prayerfully consider the hours listed below where we need committed adorers and contact us.- Mondays from 11pm to midnight
- Tuesdays from 1am to 2am
- Tuesdays from 2am to 3am
- Tuesdays from 8pm to 9pm (all except 1st)
- Fridays from 8pm to 9pm
- Saturdays from 11pm to midnight
- Sundays from 1am to 2am
- Sundays from 4am to 5am
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Our Fathers say...
"To visit the Blessed Sacrament is.... a proof of gratitude, an expression of love,
and a duty of adoration towards Christ our Lord"
Paul VI, MF 66
"...in the evening, even when I get distracted and think of other things, or even
fall asleep praying. In the evening then, between seven and eight o’clock, I stay
in front of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour in adoration."
Pope Francis
"I throw myself at the foot of the Tabernacle like a dog at the foot of his Master."
St. John Vianney
"The Blessed Sacrament is indeed the stimulus for us all, for me as it should be
for you, to forsake all worldly ambitions. Without the constant presence of our
Divine Master upon the altar in my poor chapels, I never could have persevered
casting my lot with the lepers of Molokai; the foreseen consequence of which
begins now to appear on my skin, and is felt throughout the body. Holy Communion being the daily bread of a priest, I feel myself happy, well pleased, and resigned
in the rather exceptional circumstances in which it has pleased Divine Providence
to put me."Blessed Fr. Damien, Apostle of the Lepers
"God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar."
St. Maximilian Kolbe