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About This Program
Welcome - May our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament
bless you and your family! This is a privately run website promoting the
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration program, located at St Francis Church, for
all of the Traverse City area and its five Catholic Churches. All are
welcome at our Chapel - both Catholics and Non-Catholics alike!
Eucharistic Adoration has been going on every week at St. Francis since
1999. In 1995 area residents in Traverse City started a fund drive to build
a Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on the N.E. corner of St. Francis Church.
After gathering enough funds the Chapel was finally built and Eucharistic
Adoration started at St. Francis on September 26th 1999 attended by
parishioners from all five T.C. area Catholic Churches. Adoration hours
were about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. In May 2012 momentum started to
build to turn this existing Eucharistic Adoration Program into a Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration Program where our beloved Lord would be adored 7 days
a week, 24 hours a day (minus some hours for weekend Masses). Our Bishop at the
time insisted that all five Traverse City area Churchs praishioners partake
in this program. In late September 2012 a priest from the "Missionary
Priests of the Blessed Sacrament" came to speak at all the five Traverse
City area Catholic Churches to help recruit enough adorers in this most
important human endeavor. Gathering over 700 inital signups from this
recruiting effort some 520 adorers signed up for a specific Holy Hour and an
additional 70 adorers volunteered to be on the Substitute List. After
organizing to have a least two adorers on each hour (on most hours)
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration started in St. Francis Chapel on November 25
2012, Feast of Christ The King, and has been going ever since.
What Is Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration and How
Does This Program Work
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration is a program where the Most Blessed
Sacrament, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, is placed in a
Monstrance and
adored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week all year long. Except for stopping for
Christmas, New Years and the Easter Triduum adoration of the Eucharist at
the T.C. P.E.A. Chapel is continuous. In addition, during the Sunday
morning Masses at St. Francis Church no adoration takes place in the
Chapel. If the Chapel closes because of inclement weather the affected
adorers are notified. One person must be in attendance before our beloved
Lord at all times when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the Monstrance,
however, 2 people are the Church norm for adoration of this type. To
accomplish this people are recruited for
each hour of the whole week thru various means. Each person volunteers to
adore our beloved Lord at a specific hour once a week, each week, for a
certain number of months (or years) that they determine. Their weekly
commitment to this lasts as long or as short as they want. It is hoped,
however, that the commitment will be for a sufficient length of time to help
keep this program going. Many adorers choose to make a lengthy commitment
(many months and years) because of their love for our Lord. These longer
commitments help this program more but even a short commitment of 3 months
or so can help. The biggest help from these commitments is, of course, to
the adorers themselves since they are before our beloved Lord Jesus Christ
for one hour each week receiving many graces and answers to prayer.
The St. Francis P.E.A Program Management Team
The St. Francis Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Program Management Team is a
group of weekly adorers who also volunteer to help manage all the adorers
and hours the chapel is open. They are parishioners from all the T.C. area
Catholic Churches. Their basic function is to make sure someone (preferably
two people) is in attendance before our beloved Lord at all times. This team
consists of 12 Hourly Coordinators, 4 Division Leaders and a Head Coordinator. Each Hourly Coordinator oversees one
hour seven days a week (such as Noon- 1PM seven days a week). He/she answers
adorers questions, solves their problems, and (in emergency's only) finds a
substitute for them or fills in for them. The Hourly Coordinators are backed
up by a Division Leader who oversee six Hourly Coordinators, The Division
Leader helps the Hourly Coordinators in their duties and fills in for them
when their gone. The Head Coordinator oversees this entire program and
backup the Hourly Coordinators and Division Leaders in their duties. The
Head Coordinator is Colleen Lewis (883-6081-Cell). The structure of this program, including
a generous list of Substitute Adorers for people to call and a sofware
program called "Adorarion Pro" to help find substitutes, tends to lead to
the P.E.A. Management being busy only occasionally.
About This Website
This website is an attempt to show the importance of Eucharistic Adoration
in ones life and thus to get more people to sign up for a particular hour of
adoration. This program and the world are in great need of more adorers to
sacrifice their time in this manner. To this end it is the goal of this
Website to disseminate information to the existing volunteers for better
organization and to hopefully get some future volunteers for this Program to
help keep this Chapel open 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a week as it is now.
However, even if you cannot signup for a Holy Hour please be sure to come
and visit our beloved Lord Jesus at anytime.
If you intend to copy
any information on this website for your own website please feel free to do
so as long as you are promoting Eucharistic Adoration or another good
Catholic cause. The contents of this website has no copyright but the
Template of this website has a copyright by AllWebco. Allwebco is a great
company and I recommend them for all of your Template and Hosting needs.
If you have questions/problems/comments about this Website please
contact Tom Walt @ 231-947-5409 or email me at
tomwalt947@gmail.com.
Also, please email Tom with a good Eucharistic Adoration Quote you might
have to contribute to the
Encyclopedia
Of Eucharistic Adoration Quotes (seen on this Website) so others can use
it to promote Adoration.