Sacraments
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Confessions are heard on Saturdays from 9-9:45 am in the church reconciliation room, 1/2 hour before every Mass, and anytime by appointment.
Classes for 2nd grade students begin in the fall of each year. Please contact the Parish Office for more information.
The Sacrament of Confirmation for 11th grade takes place in the spring of each year. Please contact the Parish Office for more information.
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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
The Importance of Eucharistic
Adoration and Prayer
“The worship given to the Trinity of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit... must fill our churches also outside the timetable
of Masses…This worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed
Sacrament… Adoration of Christ in this sacrament of love must also find
expression in various forms of Eucharistic devotion: personal prayer before the
Blessed Sacrament, hours of adoration, periods of exposition – short,
prolonged, and annual (Forty Hours) - Eucharistic benediction, Eucharistic
processions, Eucharistic Congresses… Let us be generous with our time in going
to meet him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready
to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our
adoration never cease.”
Pope John Paul II
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament is one of the most popular catholic devotions. It is basically a
communal adoration of the Blessed Sacrament that consists of Eucharistic songs,
meditation, and various prayers. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed upon the
altar in a monstrance and is surrounded with lit candles. At the end, the
priest takes the monstrance into his hands and with it makes the sign of
the cross (hence the name Benediction) in silence over the kneeling congregations.
A song concludes the devotion.
