It’s been a few days since Sunday when the adoration article went out to parishioners at St. Louis, and so far no one has contacted me to sign up for an hour.
Rather than being disappointed, I continue to ask our Blessed Mother to pray that God will inspire someone to sign up, even just one person. I have done my best with it, and so I accept these results as God’s will.
That doesn’t mean I am going to give up, but I will take from this that a parish newsletter article may not be the best way to invite people to adoration. I understand the reluctance of people wanting to sign up–it takes up one hour a week from your life, and most of us are careful about making such commitments because our time is precious.
I won’t say that others are selfish with their time, but I admit that I am, viewing it as my time and not God’s time.
Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever, amen.
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Leave a ReplyMonday, 7. November 2005
[...] Â I gave up hope a few weeks back that any new adorers would sign up for adoration. Â Over a month ago, I asked our Blessed Mother for just one person to sign up for adoration, but lo, nothing happened. I knew our Blessed Mother had prayed for my intention, and that God wanted people to go to adoration, so I attributed it to people not listening to his inspiration and to my own poor effort in writing the adoration article for the newsletter. Â Well, last night the phone rings, and the young woman’s voice on the other end asks for Devin. I tell her that I am he, and then she surprises me by asking if she “can still sign up for an adoration hour”. Â Me: “You bet you can! Which hour do you want?!” Â So, our Blessed Mother came through, and so today I made good on my promise to her and prayed the rosary for these new adorers. Â I say adorers in the plural because her whole family is coming to adoration. While talking with her, I heard a baby making holy clamor in the background, and she told me that she and her husband were married in the last year and are already blessed with a baby! Â When our conversation ended, I looked at my Immaculate Heart of Mary painting that my mom gave me, thanked her and Jesus, and then the thought came into my mind that even though I had given up on the prayer long ago, Mary and Jesus hadn’t given up, and I wondered how many more of my prayers may be like that–forgotten by me but moving in the Heart of Christ and awaiting his brilliant timing to be answered in unexpected ways. [link] [...]