Posted on 11/14/2015 1:25:03 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire -- any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people over the last 137 years.
The La Crosse-based Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration claim to have been praying night and day for the ill and the suffering longer than anyone in the United States -- since 11 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1878.
The tradition of perpetual Eucharistic adoration -- uninterrupted praying before what is believed to be the body of Christ -- dates to 1226 in France, according to Sister Marlene Weisenbeck. Catholic orders around the world have done it since then. It grew in popularity in 19th century and again under Pope John Paul II, said Father Steven Avella, a history professor at Marquette University...
The order started asking for community help in 1997, when the number of nuns began dwindling. Nowadays, the sisters usually take night shifts and lay people cover the day, according to Sister Maria Friedman, who schedules two people for every hour. "Even the sisters go away frequently or take on other tasks, it's the complexity of modern life," she said...
Other U.S. orders also pray 24 hours, seven days a week, like the 16 nuns who take two-hour shifts at Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Cleveland, Ohio. Their order has done so in the U.S. since 1921, a carryover from an effort that began in 1856 in France, according to that order's Sister Mary Thomas. One or two nuns are there at all times, with no help from lay people. Some orders, though, have scaled back to part-time because of aging nuns or other reasons...
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“..what is believed to be the body of Christ..” Well, depending on how you read that sentence, to those nuns, and Catholics, it is the body of Christ, created through the miracle of transubstantiation during the Mass. As Christ himself said at the Last Supper during the blessing of the bread and wine....”this is my body, take of it and eat it”....waiting for the symbolism experts to spout...3,2,1...just sayin’. Peace.
praying to whom?
They must be OLD!
Praying to whom?
“Our Lord, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...”
That’s who.
My aunt was a nun. When I was young, maybe 8, I asked her why she didn’t work and pray at the same time...or just pray when it’s time to go to sleep but not for hours and hours every day. She basically told me to mind my own business.
The spiritual Olympians of The Church! God blesses them and through their prayers all of us.
she was simply being kind to an impudent 8 year old -
if you had never been dismissed properly like that before you were 8 then it was high time you had.
I wish they would pray that the Catholic Church would get out of the business of importing Muslims to the USA.
These nuns taught me in seventh grade. Sr. Mary John Berchman called me her “little pill” for many years. She was a survivor of the Japanese concentration camps in China where she was a missionary. They ate rats, mice, and maggots. A magnificent woman. Darned good teacher, too.
when I lived near LaCrosse the joke was that there was a parallel group down at the tavern called the Brothers of Perpetual Intoxication. And hey, it WAS Wisconsin...
“La Crosse-based Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration”
One of the worst pack of “habited” liberals in the U.S.A. Their order has been dying for decades. Death by liberalism, a suicide in other words.
See their golden chapel in LaCrosse before it’s one day sold off to some sect. https://www.fspa.org/content/chapel/tours-and-mass video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsxq0NbIqM - you can seem them in their “business” attire glory
Cardinal Burke was Bishop of LaCrosse at one time.
Amen.
Well put.
Boy do you know zip about the Catholic Church.
If you do have questions you can go to Catholic.org. They have a question box for you to submit questions.
You can also see and read other questions asked and answered. I'm amazed at you asking that question, given your Oxford-ian name. You should have known that the Church doesn't do that.
The Catholic Church absolutely does that and the government pays them to do so.
Must be working....life expectancy has risen by about 30 years since they started.
The gov't. decides who comes in and it is headed by a muslim.
OUR government?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
THANKS for the good bellylaugh; I needed it.
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