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! =)
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.