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Reason For Hope - Venerable Archbishop Sheen, The Holy Hour, and the Holy Spirit |
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Venerable Archbishop Sheen, the Holy Hour and the Holy Spirit
“On the day of my ordination, I made two resolutions,” wrote Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen in his autobiography, Treasure in Clay. The first resolution was to offer the Holy Eucharist every Saturday in honor of the Blessed Mother “to solicit her protection on my priesthood.”
His second resolution – to spend a continuous Holy Hour every day in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
“The Holy Hour,” he wrote, “became like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the… atmosphere of the world...”
In this week before Pentecost, perhaps the World Mission Rosary, offered in prayer before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, would revive the Spirit’s actions and gifts in our own lives, for our own missionary witness.
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