Announcements for the weekend of 9/6/08
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Saint Jerome School
Inspired by Word and Spirit
Hello dear community
At the beginning of August, we had the joyful moment of breaking ground for our Adoration Chapel…What a blessing for our community. We are waiting for more paperwork from the Diocese to start the process with the excavation. Also, as our Festival is coming (Oct 4,5,6), we had decided to postpone its construction for safety reasons, avoiding the inconvenience with the environment. But as I told you, from August to December, I will provide short capsules to better understand the meaning and appropriate use of the Adoration Chapel.
(Adoration Chapel Formation Article 1 - August 10, 2008)
(Adoration Chapel Formation Article 2 - September 7, 2008)
Article 3. ADORATION
Adoration is the honor and reverence that a human being offers only to God, who is the source of knowledge and the life, the absolute Lord of everything. In the episode of the temptations, “Jesus said to him: ‘Get away Satan! It is written’: ‘The Lord your God, Shall you worship and Him alone
shall you serve.’” (Mt. 4:10; Lk. 4:8)
Adoration is the recognition of the absolute perfection of God. The Christian adoration consists in preaching (Acts 20:7), praying (1 Tm. 2:8), singing (Eph. 5:19), receiving baptism, and participating in the Supper of the Lord, the Eucharist or “The Breaking of the Bread” (Acts 2:41;1 Cor. 11:18-34). The Eucharist is the greatest adoration.
We do not worship the Virgin and the saints, we “honor” them, we “venerate” them, for their close and special relationship with God, and we ask that they intercede for us, because they are already with God. Jas. 5:16-18: “The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful. Elijah was a human being like us; yet he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain upon the land. Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.” Jn. 2, Rev. 8, 3-4. “Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne. The smoke of the incense along with the prayers went up before God from the hand of the angel.”
The images, statues, and paintings remind us of God, of Jesus, and of the saints, but we do not “worship” them.
Next article (first weekend of October we will talk about images and meditation).
Have nice weekend!
Fr. Andres
Fr. Andres Arango, eud.
Pastor
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