Welcome to our new Eucharistic Adoration Chapel website!
Thank you for your faithful commitment to helping fill our open hours. At the bottom of each page you can find Openings For This Week and the Permanent Openings. Please fill in where you can. Our beloved Lord needs 100+ more adorers volunteering for a specific hour in order that we can have two adorers assigned during each hour.
Highlights
Due to the Coronavirus the current hours of the chapel are from 6am – 7pm Monday through Friday. Please wear a mask when other adorers are present, and thank you for cleaning any chairs/kneelers you use. Maximum 6 adorers in the Chapel at one time.
Dear faithful SMMA Parishioners,
Thank you for your love and patience over the past few months. Our Lord
has certainly blessed our parish family, and we know so many of you
are deeply grateful to be able to once again visit Him in his True
Presence here at SMMA’s lovely Adoration Chapel.
We have been privileged to be of help over the past year, and especially the past few months.
As has been the tradition since the beginning, we are now seeking two
faithful volunteers who will commit to assisting with coordinating the
Chapel schedule and its various needs for one year. The training and
transition of the responsibilities will begin August 1st. The great
majority of things run on “auto-pilot.” Chapel coordinators are a
communications hub for helping fill new permanent openings, find a sub
when the regular adorer is unable to do so, inform adorers when weather
closes the Chapel, etc. Much is now done by computer versus having to
come up to church a lot to post things on the board. With two
volunteers, we estimate each person would spend an average of one hour
per week on the needed duties.
You
also have resources in Fr. Samuel and the Adoration Committee, which
is a small group of committed adorers you can call on for answers,
advice, etc.
We hope the Holy Spirit will move you to consider filling this important role in our parish.
Thank you! Please reply by email, or feel free to call us, if you’d
like to discuss your interest in becoming a Chapel coordinator.
And thank you for your faithful example to everyone at SMMA.
Sincerely,
Anne
Hoffman & Linda Tensing
314-623-7482 314-973-9896
Praise be Jesus Christ now and forever!
God’s blessings to our faithful adorers. We were given permission to reopen Eucharistic Adoration beginning Monday, June 15, 2020. Exposition will begin at 6:00 a.m., ending at 7:00 p.m. Monday – Friday. The church will remain open for the whole parish for quiet prayer Monday – Friday from 6:15 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Adoration will continue to be 1-hour time slots. Adorers will have the opportunity to sign up for the hour they had prior to the pandemic. You are welcome to return to adoration whenever you feel safe and comfortable, whether that be next week, month or year.
Guidelines for returning to adoration are as follows:
- 1. Adoration will be in the chapel and there will be designated chairs where you can sit.
- 2. A mask must be worn.
- 3. Be conscientious about maintaining social distance if you are there with another adorer.
- 4. Cleaning products will be provided and you will be required to clean the chair/kneeler you use after your visit with our Lord.
- 5. The schedule will be hung in the same location outside of the chapel as it was in the past.
- 6. Please remain with our Lord until the next adorer arrives. There will not be any sign in sheet at this time.
- 7. Prayerfully consider taking your adoration time. If you choose not to return at this time, we will find an adorer to fill in for you. We would appreciate your help by letting us know whether or not you would like to resume your hour. Contact Linda at 314-973-9896 or Anne 314-623-7482 or email us at smmaadorationchapel@gmail.com Please let us know by Wednesday, June 10 at 5:00p.m. This will give us ample time to fill in those time slots that are needed.
- 8. Refrain from utilizing the reading material that is located in the chapel.
- 9. As always, please feel free to contact us with any question or concern. (Linda at 314-973-9896 or Anne 314-623-7482 or email us at smmaadorationchapel@gmail.com)
Welcome Home.
Linda & Anne
PARISH HOLY HOUR VIA LIVE STREAM SUNDAY EVENINGS
Each Sunday from 6 to 7pm, Fr. Samuel will offer a Virtual Holy Hour including Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Everyone is welcome to join us through the same link that is used for daily Mass.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/smmaparishstl/videos/
The Power of Holy Hour
In this episode we have our dear friend Fr. Josh Johnson back on the podcast to discuss how to have a fruitful Holy Hour. Through his humor and reflections, Fr. Josh shares practical tools as well spiritual insights about how to pray in silence and grow in intimacy with Jesus.
Fiat meeting will be on Thursday, March 19th.
Our speaker will be Fr. Mirco Sosio, A.V.I., Spiritual Director. As always, we will pray the rosary in the Seminary Chapel from 8 a.m. until 8:15 a.m. Fr. James Mason will speak from 8:15 a.m. until 9 a.m. and we will enjoy coffee and refreshments afterwards in the Fireside Lounge. Please help us spread the word and bring a friend. See https://kenrick.edu/fiat/ for more information.
Exorcists call for day of reparation after Pachamama rituals
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 13, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In a joint statement, four exorcists called on Catholics to join a day of reparation to drive out “any diabolic influence within the Church” that occurred as a result of the Pachamama ritual that Pope Francis attended at the Vatican at the onset of the Amazon Synod. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exorcists-call-for-day-of-reparation-after-pachamama-rituals
Rooted in the Sacred Scriptures and in their presentation of the life of Christ, the Holy Rosary is a prayer beloved by Christians throughout the world. Although Marian in character, it is nonetheless a truly Christocentric prayer. Consisting of both vocal prayer and meditation, the Rosary has the simplicity of a popular devotion while also possessing great theological depth. (READ MORE)
“With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love”
— John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, n. 1.