The False Pope Will Fall Silent!

Very beautiful; you have named two of our favorites too. Fulton Sheen and Padre Pio. I’m sure you’ve seen video of Padre Pio’s last Mass, but I will leave it for the others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn1y1-nTouM

That’s incredible you make a holy hour every day. I do so during Lent as one woman on Facebook [of all places?] mentioned years ago to me how “life-changing” this was for her to do [during 40 Days for Life], so I picked up on it for Lent, and so far, so good...

The answer is right in front of us all; if only everyone knew. Thanks again for the wonderful article. I’ve never witnessed anyone leaving the adoration chapel saying, “I really wished I hadn’t gone.” It simply NEVER happens! =)

http://adorationrocks.com

I understand what you are saying and am myself able to make holy hours. “Count it all joy”, as St. Paul writes, if you can do this.

Yes, it’s a wonderful thing to make a holy hour.
If you can.
How many Catholics who may want to make a holy hour have access to an Adoration Chapel?
How many Catholics who may want to make a holy hour have a parish whose doors are open all day?
How many Catholics who may want to make a holy hour have time for that after they have bucked traffic getting home from work, spent time with the children, helped with homework, prayed the family rosary, and done the bills and the home repairs and helped taking turns with the vigil of a sick child and then gotten up early again in the morning to buck the traffic into work?

Those who can make holy hours should make them....helping to supply grace for all.

Those whose call to the certain duties of their state in life may not leave it possible to make holy hours in Adoration chapels for all the possible reasons given above, can still lead lives of great holiness.

They can put into practice the spirituality of Br. Lawrence (”Practicing the Presence of God”) and/or the grace-filled teachings of Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade (”Abandonment to Divine Providence”).

What matters is that we pray always.

I am totally in agreement with you. I am sure that St. Francis de Sales is also totally in agreement with you, each according to his or her vocation (http://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/devoutlife.pdf).

I wrote in one of my articles:
“I think we are aware that we are living in extraordinary times. It is very important to pray very much especially the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. If you are not able to spend an hour everyday before our Eucharistic Lord in church, I would highly encourage you to adore our Eucharistic Lord often in the nearest church from where you are, as did often Saint Paschal Baylon, Patron of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations. You might do as the angel at Fatima instructed the three children prostrate before the Eucharist and say: I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee (and I thank Thee); I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee (and do not thank Thee). I would also highly recommend to you, if you have not already done so, to consecrate yourself, and your family if possible, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I made this consecration on August 15, 1976 after reading the “TRUE DEVOTION TO MARY”, by Saint Louis De Montfort, which you can find on my main website: http://josephdwight.blogspot.com . Looking back on these last 39 years since this consecration, I am truly amazed at how Our Lady has led me on a divine marvellous adventure that has been permeated by joy as well as many trials and difficulties.”
(“Letter to fellow Priests”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).

But also as you mentioned about the different vocations, the ones who should pray and have the time and the vocation, very often do not put the first priority on prayer!
I wrote in another article:
“More than 14 years ago I welcomed the invitation of the Servant of God, ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN, for priests and bishops, to make everyday a holy hour in church before the infinite God in the tabernacle. In the past few years I had encouraged other priests in my diocese to do the same, but they all said: “I do not have time”. I replied to them that if I did not make a holy hour everyday, I would end up giving to others a poor priest named Father Joe instead of Jesus Christ. We forget so easily the words we say every year at the beginning of Lent: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
(“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).

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