The announcement earlier this week that the Vatican is organizing a global, simultaneous eucharistic adoration for Sunday has really caught people's imaginations. Pope Francis will preside over ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (RNS) — To bring healing from the ashes of the most destructive wildfires in California history, hundreds across the country practice Eucharistic adoration, prayer before an altar ...

Years ago, I signed my name to a list of parishioners who would ensure our adoration chapel received a perpetual adoration by giving one hour a week. I was one of the last to sign up, so I might not ...

The Year of the Holy Cross in Ukraine will conclude on the Sept. 14 feast day with a liturgy and the Stations of the Cross at the Shrine of the Lord’s Passion in Sharhorod, Ukraine. Dioceses in Italy, ...

more than 11 years ago. "That's for you," she whispered. The priest had just been calling for additional volunteers to take one hour a week to pray in a tiny chapel just off the main sanctuary. That ...

Too many of our prayers rush past praise. In our family, we celebrate birthdays by sitting down for a meal of the honoree’s choosing. We light candles on a cake—red velvet for Jeff, strawberry for ...

Pope Francis said Sunday that prayer in adoration of God and service to others spreads the fire of God's love, changing the world one heart at a time. "I invite everyone to discover the beauty of the ...

Today's "growing culture of indifference and individualism" must be countered with prayer and adoration, which inspires solidarity with those in need, Pope Francis said. Charitable efforts guided and ...

Five minutes from here, the landscape is all ash and ruin. But inside this small chapel, there is a kaleidoscope of stained-glass light and a single man sitting bathed in that light. The man is ...