A lovely sharing-invite of a long-time and faithful adorer at our Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Athlone, Ireland some couple of years back. In most of our PDDM Adoration Chapels as in other Perpetual Adoration Chapels throughout the world, Jesus indeed continues to invite to an audience with him even for just a few minutes, a quarter of an hour, a half-hour, an hour-long... depending on how much time we could spare!
Jesus, in the Blessed Sacrament, invites. He calls. He patiently waits for our response.
Would anyone care to heed his call?
Here ye then!
AN INVITE to anyone interested!!!
If the Pope Benedict or Pope John Paul or Mandela or Gandhi or Obama invited me for a chat and even asked me to stay an hour, just the two of us and if he also asked me to call for my very own one hour meeting every week I would feel very important indeed. But guess what! Twenty four years ago Jesus Christ himself invited me to a weekly hour-long audience and even said I could call any other time I liked for as long as I like but he particularly wanted me, (imagine! Me! Just an ordinary ould sinner) to sign up for my very own hour every week for the rest of my life. It occurred to me that He must be hard up for company but over the years I have come to realise that He is hard up for the company of those he loves in spite of their imperfections and that includes every living person especially you and I.
Here’s the deal; I join the team of perpetual Adorers in the Liturgical Centre for an hour a week. This team is part of similar teams throughout the world so now I am part of probably the greatest organisation in the world where there are thousands of my team mates in communication with Jesus Christ Himself at all times. If I write a petition for a dead friend or relative in the book, immediately the prayers of the entire world-wide team are working for him or her. Also through the Communion of Saints all Adorers who have gone to their eternal reward are still part of the team and should I write in a petition for anybody living, all the team past and present are on the ball helping. It could be YOU.
