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A weekly committed Adoration hour

Sign up for a specific weekly hour of Eucharistic adoration in a parish offering Perpetual Adoration.

Why this practice

A weekly visit is friendship. A weekly committed hour is covenant. In parishes offering Perpetual Adoration — where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed twenty-four hours a day and the faithful sign up to keep an hour — the souls who keep their hour each week become part of an unceasing prayer that has never broken in centuries.

Croiset would have understood: the discipline of returning to the same hour each week forms the soul in a way that occasional visits do not.

How to begin

1Find a parish in your area offering Perpetual Adoration (or scheduled weekly Adoration).
2Sign up for a regular weekly hour — even a difficult one (early morning, late night) often forms the soul more deeply.
3Keep it as a real commitment. Find a replacement when you must miss; this is part of the covenant.
4After a year, evaluate. Many find a second hour becomes possible.

The hours kept before the Blessed Sacrament hold up the world. Without those hours, the world would fall.

— Traditional

A prayer for this practice

Sacred Heart of Jesus, exposed for me, I come now to keep this hour. Let me not be elsewhere in mind while I am here in body. Take this hour, and through it take more of my life.

Amen.

When you're ready

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