Adoration

ADORATION CHAPEL OPENING SUNDAY JUNE 5 AT 1:00PM
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It is with great joy that we get to open St. Joseph’s Adoration Chapel.
 
Rules for Adoring in the chapel: Please wear a mask that covers your nose and mouth during your time of prayer and socially distance yourself from others around you (at least six feet). There is a six-person maximum allowed in the chapel at one time (this allows for social distancing). If you arrive for a scheduled time and there are six people present, please sign in on your phone using the Adoration Pro App and wait in your car or on the bench for an adorer to leave. If you are not a scheduled adorer, please limit your time of adoration to one hour, so that we may accommodate all who desire to adore the Lord. We all need to work together and practice the virtue of charity (desiring the good of the other). At the end of your time of prayer, please sanitize the surfaces you touched with the alcohol wipes provided.
 
 

1. What are the rules for entering St. Joseph Adoration Chapel?

2. How many people are allowed in the Chapel?

3. Can I drop by to pray for a few minutes outside of a scheduled hour?

4. Will the six-person limit be enforced?

5. How will the Chapel be sanitized?

6. What is the best way to protect myself from the spread of the COVID-19 virus? Information from the CDC:

• Maintain good social distance (about 6 feet). This is very important in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
• Routinely clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces.
• Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face covering when around others.

7. If I am feeling ill what should I do?

8. Will reading materials be available and will the Adoration chapel library be open?
    

9. Will I have to sign in?
    

Yes, just like attending Mass it is important for us to know who is visiting the chapel. You can sign in using the iPad tablet that will be on a table in the back of the chapel OR you can sign in using your own phone and the Adoration Pro app.

10.  Will the bathrooms be available?


Please restrict your movement in the church building to the chapel ONLY. Use the bathrooms ONLY if it is an emergency and please wipe down the surfaces you touch.

11. How do I request a sub?
You can submit a sub request online at https://adorationpro.org/thomasil.
            - Click on "Find a Sub".
            - Enter the password "substm" and click submit
            - Click "Auto Sub Request"
            - Enter your information and click "Send Sub Request"
 
 If you have any questions please contact Melissa Galla in the parish office at mgalla@stthomasmorechurch.org or 847-888-1682 ext. 211.  
 
 

Understood simply, Eucharistic Adoration is adoring or honouring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ.

Adoration is when we go to the church and pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament.

You can go any time into the church to privately pray before the tabernacle, like a private adoration. But when people speak of adoration, they usually mean going to church during the time when the parish has Adoration with Exposition scheduled. This is when the priest or deacon takes one Host out of the tabernacle and puts it in a special holder called a "monstrance" that is placed on the altar. The monstrance has a round glass window that the Host is placed in, so that it is exposed, or visible, to the people. Parishioners (or anyone, really) are encouraged to come during Adoration with Exposition. The people are "adoring," or worshipping, Christ in His Real Presence in the Eucharist. You can come anytime during the Adoration period, and stay as long or as short as you wish. While you are there sitting quietly in the pew before the Real Presence, you can pray, read spiritual books, meditate on a mystery of the faith, ponder God's will for us.  During Eucharistic Adoration, we "watch and wait", we remain "silent" in His Presence and open ourselves to His Graces which flow from the Eucharist.