What is a Guardian of the Blessed Sacrament?
Guardians of Adoration offer an hour of prayer each week before the Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the monstrance in the Adoration Chapel. The Blessed Sacrament can never be left alone. As a weekly guardian, you will make a weekly Holy Hour, whereby you come to the Adoration Chapel at your appointed time, sign in, and remain in the Chapel until the next set of guardians comes to relieve you for the next scheduled hour. The goal is to schedule at least four guardians for each morning, afternoon, and evening hour, and two for the nocturnal hours. This is to ensure someone is always guarding the Blessed Sacrament. In the event there is a conflict, the guardians need only communicate with their peer guardians to ensure the Holy Hour is covered.
Once you choose a Holy Hour, you will be added to a group email to facilitate communication with your peer guardians. Once you are familiar with your peers, you are encouraged to exchange cell numbers to call and text in the event of a last-minute conflict.
Please note: The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament begins at the conclusion of the 5:00 PM Life Teen Mass with the singing of “O Salutaris Hostia” and procession to the Chapel. Reposition occurs on Saturday at 10:00 AM, at the conclusion of daily Mass, with the incensing and singing of “Tantum Ergo,” where the priest blesses the assembly and replaces the Sacrament in the Tabernacle. The Chapel is used on Saturdays for Baptisms and Weddings.
Chapel Access After 9:00 PM
All visitors are welcome to the chapel during the day before closing. Once the building is secured at 9:00 PM, visitors are not permitted to enter the Chapel. For the safety of all and the reverent care of the Blessed Sacrament, only registered Guardians may serve during their assigned hour.
An Invitation to Say “Yes”
Please prayerfully consider offering one hour of your week to be with Jesus, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. A single hour of quiet, faithful presence becomes a gift not only to Our Lord, but to our entire parish community.
The Hours Most In Need:
The following Holy Hours are currently in greatest need of additional Guardians:
Sunday 10 PM Monday 11 AM, 5 PM, 6 PM Tuesday 2 AM, 4 AM Wednesday 9 AM, 2 PM Thursday 5 AM, 10 AM Friday 4 AM, 5 AM, 7 PM, 8 PM Saturday 4 AM
EXTRAORDINARY BLESSINGS – Adoring Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament
When we are willing only to do what is ordinary, then we can only expect God’s ordinary blessings. Only when we are willing to do the extraordinary can we hope to obtain extraordinary blessings. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is absolutely the extraordinary effort that God is asking of us today so that He may bestow upon mankind His extraordinary blessings.
The merits of your prayers before the very true presence of our Lord that takes place in our Adoration Chapel cannot be underestimated. All good things happening in the parish and in vocations are borne from the fruits of the prayers that take place by those adoring and guarding Our Lord.
“The Hour That Makes the Day Holy” – OSV, Kathryn Jean Lopez
What is Eucharistic Adoration? – Bishop Barron from Word on Fire