Eucharistic Adoration

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It is our responsibility and privilege to ensure that someone is always present in front of Our Lord. Adorers commit to spending one hour a week in the Adoration Chapel in prayer with the Lord.

We have introduced an online schedule for Perpetual Adoration! Adorers can create an account to set preferences (text, email, phone call) for notifications (such as weather concerns); request a substitute; and fill in for someone else. Guest accounts are available as well. You can access the schedule on this page, through QuickLinks on the Home Page, and the Adoration button on myParish app. However, for people who prefer, you can still be scheduled by calling our Coordinators, Patti or Denise, or the Parish Office at 616-842-0001.

We hope this feature will encourage new people to pray in our Adoration Chapel. During Lent, instead of giving something up, we invite you to prayerfully consider spending more time before Our Lord. Do you want to participate in Adoration but are not sure you can commit to a weekly time? Please consider being a substitute for any open hours. Please email Patti Grillo or Denise Babbitt if you can fill a spot.






In the eventuality that there is no one to relieve you, if that means that an hour slot is not yet filled, or if there is an emergency and you are not able to stay for subsequent slots, a curtain has been installed around the adoration altar that can be used to “repose” the Blessed Sacrament before you leave.

There will be prayers provided to say when doing so. Once the prayer has been said, respectfully close the curtains and depart.

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If you arrive, and the curtains are closed, please pray the exposition prayer provided, and then respectfully open the curtains before beginning your time in adoration.

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The Importance of Eucharistic Adoration

The importance of Eucharistic Adoration is shown in the fact that the Church has a ritual that regulates it: the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction. This is an extension of the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament which occurs in every Mass: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.” Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament flows from the sacrifice of the Mass and serves to deepen our hunger for Communion with Christ and the rest of the Church.  The Rite concludes with the ordained minister blessing the faithful with the Blessed Sacrament.

Some important prayers that are used during this rite include the Anima Christi (en español) and the Tantum Ergo.

Holy Hours

Holy hours are the Roman Catholic devotional tradition of spending an hour in Eucharistic Adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. The bishops have created a variety of holy hours that focus our prayer to Jesus Christ on peace, life, vocations, and other topics that are at the heart of the life of the Church and the world.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament flows from the sacrifice of the Mass and serves to deepen our hunger for Communion with Christ and the rest of the Church.

“The Eucharist is here to remind us who God is. It does not do so just in words, but in a concrete way, showing us God as bread broken, as love crucified and bestowed,” the pope said. “Today, as in the past, the cross is not fashionable or attractive,” he said. “Yet it heals us from within. Standing before the crucified Lord, we experience a fruitful interior struggle, a bitter conflict between ‘thinking as God does’ and ‘thinking as humans do.’ ”

Pope Francis
CNA: Pope Francis, “Let’s Make Time for Adoration”