Go read this inspiring and succinct article on CatholicExchange.com about a high school teacher who also teaches Missionaries of Charity sisters (Mother Theresa’s order) and who one day brought some high schoolers to Eucharistic Adoration at the convent.
I heard reactions like, “That was powerful” and “The sisters were authentic” and “They had nothing, but they were the happiest people I’ve ever met!” Since then about twenty other students have made the trek to the convent and the reactions are similar.
We so often short-change adolescents and teenagers by thinking that they cannot spend ten minutes, let alone an hour, in quiet prayer and reflection and also by doubting that they can believe in Jesus Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament–how wrong we are!
May we instead set lofty expectations of faith for them and for ourselves, trusting in God to supply the grace and love.
