Parishes really need people to volunteer to help out on this, if they are going to offer it.
That’s the key issue, the people have to be committed to this for it to become reality.
Ice storms in the deep south??!! Where is this place of which you speak??
The Senior Pastor has made it clear to everyone that as a priest and as the senior pastor, he is responsible to God for proper reverence and functioning of the ministry and so has reserved ownership and responsibility for the ministry to himself. He prays the breviary and rosary there just about daily and I think that is a sign of a healthy priest. We have three captains, one for each 8 hour period, and these report directly to the Senior Pastor. Hourly coordinators for each hour of the day report to their respective captains and the 24 hourly coordinators are the primary points of contact for all committed adorers when they have car trouble or are sick or otherwise need a substitute.
At 1100 ft. above sea level, ice happens here in the Atlanta burbs about once each year.Ice storms in the deep south??!! Where is this place of which you speak??
This past winter some of the roads froze for the first time in my memory (I’m 21) and everyone freaked out and couldn’t drive (including me, I lost control and slid into the guard rail on a bridge). Ice is extremely rare, I had never seen frozen roads before.The Senior Pastor has made it clear to everyone that as a priest and as the senior pastor, he is responsible to God for proper reverence and functioning of the ministry and so has reserved ownership and responsibility for the ministry to himself. He prays the breviary and rosary there just about daily and I think that is a sign of a healthy priest. We have three captains, one for each 8 hour period, and these report directly to the Senior Pastor. Hourly coordinators for each hour of the day report to their respective captains and the 24 hourly coordinators are the primary points of contact for all committed adorers when they have car trouble or are sick or otherwise need a substitute.
I’m a coordinator for the midnight to 1:00 AM hour. I call the adorers who are committed for that hour once in a while and make sure everything is OK, that there are no concerns like suspicious characters hanging around ouside the chapel in the middle of the night and things like that. And if an adorer can’t make it, I call the sub list or sometimes just go myself.
The parish has been doing it for going on 13 years and it all runs fairly smooth. It does take coordination, effort, and commitmen but it is worth it for a parish with enough people to support it. Even daily or weekly adoration is worth it. I feel that it is the number one way to sanctify a community other than Mass. And it is impressed upon the parish that they can adore any time, but that there are great graces to be found, not only for oneself but for the whole parish and the whole world, when one commits to an hour on a regular basis. It is a commitment, and I look at it as a gift of part of my life back to God who himself has given me that life. I get more out of it than he does, I’m sure.
Yea, our Church is big and we do cover some real estate. It tends to be like that down here. Larger but more spread out. At one point last summer, 15 families were joining each week. The Bishop has discussed a mission Church. It’s not like the Churches back on Long Island… little ones on every corner, like 7-11’s. But it is awsome to hear 1100 people say “Amen!” in unision. Atlanta is booming in terms of Catholicism, as is the whole south. Birgmingham, Greenville SC, Charlston, Nashville… Contrary to what the media would like us to believe, the Catholics from all those closed parishes up north didn’t all just leave the Church and become atheists. They went somewhere, and many of them came down south.
At 1100 ft. above sea level, ice happens here in the Atlanta burbs about once each year.
When it does, look out… Georgians by birth don’t know how to drive on it.
No ice ever in Spring, TX?
-Tim-
24/7 in a small chapel specifically for that purpose. I don’t attend nearly as often as I should.
We celebrated the 15 year anniversary of 24/7 Adoration 2 months ago. It sounds like it’s a similiar set up with hour coordinators and shift coordinators that have 6 hr blocks. Our parish only has 1700 families and I’m always surprise that the larger churches do not offer opportunities (or very limited) for Adoration. I’ve been doing adoration for 6 years now. I definitely have a testimony about it all…The Senior Pastor has made it clear to everyone that as a priest and as the senior pastor, he is responsible to God for proper reverence and functioning of the ministry and so has reserved ownership and responsibility for the ministry to himself. He prays the breviary and rosary there just about daily and I think that is a sign of a healthy priest. We have three captains, one for each 8 hour period, and these report directly to the Senior Pastor. Hourly coordinators for each hour of the day report to their respective captains and the 24 hourly coordinators are the primary points of contact for all committed adorers when they have car trouble or are sick or otherwise need a substitute.
I’m a coordinator for the midnight to 1:00 AM hour. I call the adorers who are committed for that hour once in a while and make sure everything is OK, that there are no concerns like suspicious characters hanging around ouside the chapel in the middle of the night and things like that. And if an adorer can’t make it, I call the sub list or sometimes just go myself.
The parish has been doing it for going on 13 years and it all runs fairly smooth. It does take coordination, effort, and commitmen but it is worth it for a parish with enough people to support it. Even daily or weekly adoration is worth it. I feel that it is the number one way to sanctify a community other than Mass. And it is impressed upon the parish that they can adore any time, but that there are great graces to be found, not only for oneself but for the whole parish and the whole world, when one commits to an hour on a regular basis. It is a commitment, and I look at it as a gift of part of my life back to God who himself has given me that life. I get more out of it than he does, I’m sure.
Yea, our Church is big and we do cover some real estate. It tends to be like that down here. Larger but more spread out. At one point last summer, 15 families were joining each week. The Bishop has discussed a mission Church. It’s not like the Churches back on Long Island… little ones on every corner, like 7-11’s. But it is awsome to hear 1100 people say “Amen!” in unision. Atlanta is booming in terms of Catholicism, as is the whole south. Birgmingham, Greenville SC, Charlston, Nashville… Contrary to what the media would like us to believe, the Catholics from all those closed parishes up north didn’t all just leave the Church and become atheists. They went somewhere, and many of them came down south.
