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Please use this post to advertise 40 hours devotion if your parish is having it. This way, if someone is in a parish not having it, they can take advantage. From the pastor’s column of the Assumption Grotto News (Detroit), Fr. Perrone writes:
The big event of this week for our parish is the Forty Hours Devotion that will commence this Friday morning, November 11, at 6:00 a.m. with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
For newcomers, the practice of the Forty Hours means that the most Holy Eucharist will be solemnly enthroned in the church for as many hours (or an approximation). This is the calculated period of time that our Lord’s body was in the tomb. There Jesus’ dead body, though His soul left it, was being adored by the angels since it still embraced His divinity. Honoring the Lord then in the Blessed Sacrament for forty hours is a work that imitates the angels, surely a wise thing to do and one pleasing to God.
Adoration will be in the church from 6:00 a.m. Friday until 8:30 p.m. The same schedule will be observed on Saturday. During the times when Mass is celebrated, the Holy Eucharist will be veiled. On Sunday, Exposition also begins at 6:00 a.m. and continues throughout the day, between Mass times. The Solemn Closing Ceremony of the Forty Hours will be at 3:00 p.m. with the prayers, readings, sermon, litany of the saints, procession and Benediction.
Forty Hours is like an annual parish homecoming, an all-out effort to bring our people together, outside of Mass time, to pray and give our Lord some moments of quiet prayer, of adoration, reparation for our sins, and supplication for our many needs. I ask you, as I have done in years past, to make a special effort to come to the church for at least one hour during this time (more if you can swing it) and then to join with your family in the grand finale, the solemn closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m…
Many of you, I know, come from a distance to Mass here and would have a difficulty remaining until the 3:00 p.m. Forty Hours Closing. Enter the parish ushers. They will again be offering their Pancake Breakfast in the gym after the 9:30 .m. and noon Masses to sustain your famishing bodies (it is the Eucharistic adoration which is supposed to feed your souls) with a substantial offering of eggs, sausage and, of course, the pancakes.
Maps to Assumption Grotto:
assumptiongrotto.com/maps.html
The big event of this week for our parish is the Forty Hours Devotion that will commence this Friday morning, November 11, at 6:00 a.m. with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
For newcomers, the practice of the Forty Hours means that the most Holy Eucharist will be solemnly enthroned in the church for as many hours (or an approximation). This is the calculated period of time that our Lord’s body was in the tomb. There Jesus’ dead body, though His soul left it, was being adored by the angels since it still embraced His divinity. Honoring the Lord then in the Blessed Sacrament for forty hours is a work that imitates the angels, surely a wise thing to do and one pleasing to God.
Adoration will be in the church from 6:00 a.m. Friday until 8:30 p.m. The same schedule will be observed on Saturday. During the times when Mass is celebrated, the Holy Eucharist will be veiled. On Sunday, Exposition also begins at 6:00 a.m. and continues throughout the day, between Mass times. The Solemn Closing Ceremony of the Forty Hours will be at 3:00 p.m. with the prayers, readings, sermon, litany of the saints, procession and Benediction.
Forty Hours is like an annual parish homecoming, an all-out effort to bring our people together, outside of Mass time, to pray and give our Lord some moments of quiet prayer, of adoration, reparation for our sins, and supplication for our many needs. I ask you, as I have done in years past, to make a special effort to come to the church for at least one hour during this time (more if you can swing it) and then to join with your family in the grand finale, the solemn closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m…
Many of you, I know, come from a distance to Mass here and would have a difficulty remaining until the 3:00 p.m. Forty Hours Closing. Enter the parish ushers. They will again be offering their Pancake Breakfast in the gym after the 9:30 .m. and noon Masses to sustain your famishing bodies (it is the Eucharistic adoration which is supposed to feed your souls) with a substantial offering of eggs, sausage and, of course, the pancakes.
Maps to Assumption Grotto:
assumptiongrotto.com/maps.html