{"id":6567,"date":"2012-10-29T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:39:09","slug":"eucharistic-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"Eucharistic Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to be a week of faith building in the Diocese of Phoenix.\u00a0 Today, at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix, begins a\u00a0 Eucharistic Congress<\/a> – a week devoted to the Holy Eucharist.\u00a0 In The Eucharist: Source and summit of the faith<\/a>, our Cathedral Rector, Very Rev. Fr. John Lankeit talks about the impact both in our parish, and in his personal spiritual life, of Eucharistic Adoration.<\/p>\n

Fr. John Lankeit, rector of the cathedral, said within the first three weeks of the establishment of perpetual adoration, parishioners told him of the spiritual fruits already being harvested.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne woman told me that just by spending three holy hours \u2014 one hour a week, three different times \u2014 she said, \u2018I am more patient with my children, I have more peace,\u2019 and she attributed it directly to her holy hour,\u201d Fr. Lankeit said.<\/p>\n

He told another parishioner at Ss. Simon and Jude that he thought perpetual adoration would revolutionize the parish. \u201cNo, Father,\u201d the woman told him. \u201cIt already has.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how important is spending time before the Eucharist in adoration?<\/p>\n

Fr. Lankeit believes it is crucial. He said that it\u2019s one thing to read about Christ or to pray, but it\u2019s another thing to actually encounter Him. The cathedral\u2019s rector spends one holy hour each day in adoration of the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy priesthood would collapse without it,\u201d Fr. Lankeit said of daily adoration. \u201cMy priesthood is me standing in the Person of Christ and if I don\u2019t know Him intimately and allow myself to be known intimately by Him in His Real Presence, then priesthood is social work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another parishioner and mother of six young children, Sharon Phelan, says,<\/p>\n

The hour she and her husband Mike spend before the Blessed Sacrament is the highlight of her week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe busier life gets, the more I desire stillness and peace.\u00a0My heart craves this time each week,\u201d Sharon said. \u201cIt is indescribable the quiet, stillness and peace I feel.\u00a0Just being with Jesus, next to my husband who is Christ to me in my home\u2026 is beautiful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With those thoughts in mind, we will be devoting a great deal of time to church activities this week.<\/p>\n