Children's Adoration, August 2010

Eucharistic Adoration for Children

At Saint Cecilia Cathedral

Omaha, Nebraska

August 2010

“Adoration means entering the depths of our hearts in communion with the Lord, who makes himself bodily present in the Eucharist.  In the monstrance, he   always entrusts himself to us and asks us to be united with his Presence, with his risen Body.”  -  Pope Benedict XVI

Meditation for the month of August:

“Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.”  Isaiah 55: 2 

Are the things you spend your money on things that feed your body and your soul?  When you read books, do they help you to grow in the love of Jesus and his people?  What feeds your body?  What feeds your mind?  What feeds your soul?  Jesus wants to be the food for you in every way.  Will you let him feed you?

Thought for the month from Saint Peter Julian Eymard (August 2):

He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentance, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant.

Prayer for the Month, From Saint Augustine (August 28):

O, God, Grant us in all our duties your help;
in all our perplexities, your guidance;
in all our dangers, your protection;
and in all our sorrows, your peace.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
our body, and our blood,
our life and our nourishment. Amen.

The following saints have feast days in August and can be found in our Cathedral.  See if you can find their depictions in the windows, paintings and statues of the Cathedral!  St. Clare, August 11;  St. Bernard August 20;   St. Bartholomew, August 24;  St. Augustine, August 28

October Children's Adoration

Eucharistic Adoration for Children

At Saint Cecilia Cathedral

Omaha, Nebraska

October  2010

“At school you learn everything you need for life. You also learn to know God, to know Jesus and thus you learn how to live well. At school you make a lot of friends and this is a beautiful thing because in this way you form one big family, but among our best friends, the first we meet and know should be Jesus Who is a friend to everyone and truly shows us the path of life.”  -  Pope Benedict XVI

Meditation for the month of October:

"I love so much a soul's desire to receive Me, that I hasten to it each time it summons Me by its yearnings."
- Words of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, October 16

Prayer for the Month, From Saint Francis (October 4):

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood;

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.