Adoration Chapel

Take time out today to come be with Jesus.
The chapel is so quiet, peaceful and filled with His Presence.

He is waiting for you.

“As of three years ago I did not have an adoration hour. When Sister Mary Grace left for the convent I assumed her adoration hour which is 1am Thursday mornings. That hour of the morning is very difficult to make and I struggle with it but I continue to fight and go at that hour for a couple of reasons. One because that was my daughter’s hour that she signed up for to help the church fill every hour, secondly is because it’s a sacrifice to get there at that hour. Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for all of us when He died on the cross for our sins, so I also try to offer this small sacrifice for His glory.” - Todd Richey

“The greatest gift from our Adoration Chapel has been the increase in the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life from Kokomo parishes.  It is also a great place to pray when seeking guidance from Jesus on difficult issues”.  - Ed Lopke 

“Hi, my name is Jonny Polk.  I am a convert from Protestantism, and I came into the Church in 2010.  I really appreciate being able to spend time with our Lord any time during the week at the Adoration Chapel!  As a Protestant, I was really hungry for more of God, especially outside of the Sunday service.  Whenever I visit Jesus in the Adoration Chapel, I feel a sense of inner peace.  I feel that I am more in tune to hear his voice, and feel his presence inside of me.  I feel really blessed to have the Adoration Chapel at St. Patrick!  When I leave the chapel, I feel there are special graces and blessings that follow me for visiting our Lord in the most Blessed Sacrament!  Thank you, Jesus, for being there for me, when I always need you! - Jonny Polk

“The Adoration Chapel has been a spiritual life changer for me.  I’ve had a specific hour since we were able to sign up, however, Jesus sees me more often than that in our beautiful Chapel!   I’ve gone into the chapel distraught, prayed for an hour or whatever amount of time I need and have come out of there a different person with a different attitude.  Nothing had changed, but my outlook was completely different.

The Lord gives me peace and lets me know that He has everything under control.  I don’t have to worry…I pray and He works it out according to His plan for me, which is always in my best interest.  I know that Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Spirit are working together for me, as well as all the angels and saints!  WOW!  What an awesome team who are there for me 24/7!  I can’t imagine my life without our Adoration Chapel! ” – Kathy Reding

Fr. Ted Dudzinski established the Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Perpetual Adoration Chapel in 2003  to help spiritually ground his flock and to help increase vocations for the assistance of the Local Church.   The desire is to have two scheduled adorers every hour.  Whether you spend five minutes in Adoration or an hour, everyone is encouraged to spend time in His presence.  Since its establishment, the chapel has borne much fruit in blessings to our parish and an increase in vocations in our parish.

• The chapel was dedicated on Corpus Christi June 22, 2003 after 11:00 a.m. Mass and the Corpus Christi procession.

• There are 168 hours in a week’s time.  Currently we have 235 individuals committed to an hour each week and 43 who are on the substitute list.

• Currently we have all but 18 hours filled.

• The number of individuals who just pop in for a visit with Jesus in a week’s time is approximately 150.

• A wide assortment of reading materials in both English and Spanish is available….books on individual Saints, Bibles, many types of devotionals, many books on the Eucharist, educational books on the Catholic faith, children’s books, and so much more.

• There is a brick walkway leading to Chapel where families/individuals can purchase a brick to have their names engraved in honor of or in memory of a loved one.

• The ten year anniversary of the chapel was celebrated June 2, 2013 with the Eucharistic Procession on Corpus Christi, a large gathering of parishioners in fellowship, and a renewed commitment to Adoring Christ.

Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” “This presence is called ‘real’ – by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”    The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all sacraments tend.” In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our

 – The Catechism of the Catholic Church: paragraph 1374