By james art 
Hialeah, Florida (AP)-two times a week, Louise Arguel and her husband spend 2 to 3 hours. the suburb in Miami on HyaliahS
“The clock of your body gets used to it. You feel that the Lord hugs you and everything is changing,” said Arguelo, who is the chapel coordinator since he opened in 2019 “I do not feel the same as when I began. The justification takes you to the presence of the Lord.”
In hundreds of parishes in the United States and elsewhere, the growing number of Catholics undertake changes to the blessed mystery – which they believe is the presence of Christ, and not just a symbol – of viewing in dedicated chapels 24/7. Thousands of more churches have regular hours or days of adoration.
The Vatican marks a special Candlestick An event on Friday on Saturday for the practice – “24 Hours for the Lord” – and churches around the world will offer continuous adoration then, including Miami’s iconic La Ermita sanctuaryS In the United States last summer, thousands of worshipers have passed through many states to gather in Eucharistic CongressThe first such event in more than 80 years.
For many parishioners, St. Benedict is already a practice as a standard as you go to a table -except that it feels more and more.
“If you don’t give up 15 minutes a day to encourage this friendship with the Lord, how will you spend the eternity of heaven with Him?” said Alfredo Yanson.
Every day from 6 to 7 o’clock in the morning before working as a communication engineer, Yanson goes to the tiny chapel. Ten chairs are confronted with the monstrous form of sunny shape, the core, where it is shown unusually large dedicate a host.
He calls the orchid doctrine “Wonder Factory”-as his brother’s healing in Nicaragua from a severe Covid-19 case, one of the many reasons he prays.
There are 400 admirers like Janson in mostly Cuban American, a working -class parish, who engage at least an hour a week and often act as replacers if someone can’t make an hour. Church legislation prohibits the leaving the blessed mystery unattended in the monster.
Their commitment allows the chapel to be open to those who can only have a few minutes to stop before or after school, work or worship. Like most, it is open to anyone, except from midnight to 6am, where only registered fans can enter for security reasons. Plans to expand him are at work.
“Without the whole community, this would not be possible,” Yanson said.
Reverend Jonhatan Longono said the chapel is an “oasis” for many, a place where happy or sad tears can fall freely. But he often reminds his flock that prayer is not an individual endeavor.
“This is the point of the chapel that people can enter Communion,” Londono said. Over the two years, he is the parish priest, he has dumped a race, who sometimes wore Guayber’s black shirt with the clerical collar, also in the spirit of the church meeting, which is where they are.
His predecessor in St. Benedict launches the eternal chapel of adoration. When the churches were closed during the blocking of Covid-19, he took the monster through the neighborhood streets on the back of a pickup.
This is in accordance with the centuries of tradition – during the 16th century plague in Milan, Italy, St. Charles Boromeo, he hosted altars outside so that people can find comfort in the presence, said Timothy O’Mali, Academic Director of the University of Notre Da Da Center for Liturgy.
The practice of adoration traces to the early church. He blossomed in the Middle Ages after the Church created the feast of Corps County – the Latin body of Christ – the celebration of the belief that when bread and wine were lit during the Eucharistic Sacrament, Christ became truly present in them.
Basic processions with the blessed mystery and often Visiting celebrations in the cityThey are still celebrated today at this solemnity, which falls in late spring, especially in Latin America and Spain. Spain also has a centuries -old tradition of night adoration, said Fermin Labar, Professor of Church History at the University of Navaria.
As a young man in his native Argentina, Pope Francis He went to night adoration with his brother and he calls for a “24 Hours” practice of poem at the beginning of his papacy. Late in his own, St. John Paul II wrote about the importance of adoration, complaining that in some regions it was abandoned.
“The worship of the Eucharist outside the Liturgy is of an invaluable value for the life of the church,” read his encyclical encyclical from 2003. “It’s nice to spend time with him (Christ) … to feel the endless love present in his heart.”
It is this “affective encounter with Christ” beyond the ritual requirements of worship that attracts a growing number of people, and especially young people like today’s students from Notre Dame, O’Mali said.
“They have a lot of anxiety and have an object here-I would say a person-but they can focus all their attention to, who is there to be in silence, without technique,” he said. “Some just sit and talk … as if they were with a friend.”
For the pastor in the area of Miami, Alejandro Rodriguez Artla, this is the attractiveness that distinguishes the adoration of the liturgy, which is practically present all admirers.
“Table has activities, table has other families, social element,” says Rodriguez, whose last three parishes have all had a chapel of adoration. “People like the peace and intimacy of the feeling that he is talking to anyone but them.”
When he was appointed to a pastor a shrinking congregation, whose church was gutted by fire, he decided to include a chapel in the recovery – and said that people still send him a message to thank him, saying that 20 people were often stuffed in him.
Today, he leads St. Thomas Apostle to Miami’s suburb, which has had eternal adoration for more than two decades and still hosts him for about 12 o’clock every weekday. This allows many families with children at St. Thomas School to appear before the hours or after sports practice, along with travel traveling.
“I think this is an anchor,” Rodriguez told the Chapel of Adoration. “A church building spends the bigger part of the week empty, but that doesn’t.”
In a recent early afternoon in the chapel “St. Benedict”, some faithful were praying in the rosary while others read the scriptures or kneeling in a silent memory.
“It just seems to me that I look at him and that he is the one who speaks to me,” said Lastnia Vivas, who wears one of the changes from midnight until 1 in the morning. “Sometimes a person arrives tired, but the peace you feel here is unique.”
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