Shortly after sending out e-mails appealing for support of continuous Eucharistic Adoration, I received many positive responses. Our original plan is to start, after the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, to have Eucharistic Adoration continuously seven days a week and twenty four hours a day. However, after discussion with Lilian Barnes, we decided to proceed gradually step by step. In the first stage, we will have Eucharistic Adoration once a week, starting after the morning mass on Friday and ending before mass on Saturday morning. Hope that you will continue to pray for this intention.<br/><br/>
To be able to start continuous Eucharistic Adoration in our parish, I have to thank Sr. Margaret Wong for her encouragement and Fr. Arnoldi Melchiorre PIME for the seeds he had spread in the parish in the past. Fr. Melchiorre also started devotion to Divine Mercy in the parish. He is now staying in Italy recuperating from an illness. Please pray for his health.<br/><br/>
Many priests have reservation on overnight praying. They consider this a privilege of those priests belonging to seminaries that are especially devoted to the adoration of the Eucharist. However, they forgot that when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, the three apostles that he specifically invited to pray together were future missionaries and not monks. Moreover, experience showed that praying overnight once a week or once a month (for only one or two hours actually) will not cause any damage to one’s health or family life.<br/><br/>
When John the Baptist’s disciples (Andrew and John) asked Jesus: “Where are you staying?” Jesus just replied: “Come, and you will see.” It was recorded in the Gospel according to John that “So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.” In order to know more about Jesus, we have to come closer to Him, just like John, who, at the Last Supper, “was reclining at Jesus’ side.” (John 13:23)