What is Sanctuary Spirit and Truth?
Sanctuary Spirit and Truth is a young adult Eucharistic Adoration Community at the Sanctuary of The Divine Mercy.
We gather once a week to connect, to grow and adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Each week we have a speaker, and discussion about the Faith, but the core of why we come together is to bask in the rays of His love and mercy radiating out of the Sacred Host.
Is it not one of the "signs of the times" that in today's world, despite widespread secularization, there is a widespread demand for spirituality, a demand which expresses itself in large part as a renewed need for prayer? Other religions, which are now widely present in ancient Christian lands, offer their own responses to this need, and sometimes they do so in appealing ways. But we who have received the grace of believing in Christ, the revealer of the Father and the Saviour of the world, have a duty to show to what depths the relationship with Christ can lead.
The great mystical tradition of the Church of both East and West has much to say in this regard. It shows how prayer can progress, as a genuine dialogue of love, to the point of rendering the person wholly possessed by the divine Beloved, vibrating at the Spirit's touch, resting filially within the Father's heart. This is the lived experience of Christ's promise: "He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him" (Jn 14:21). It is a journey totally sustained by grace, which nonetheless demands an intense spiritual commitment and is no stranger to painful purifications (the "dark night"). But it leads, in various possible ways, to the ineffable joy experienced by the mystics as "nuptial union". (Novo Millenio Inuente)
It is intense and amazing.
Who: Young Adults in their 20's and 30s.
What: Spirit and Truth Eucharistic Adoration Community
When: Every Thursday 7pm to 9pm (optional 6pm for food)
Where: The Sanctuary of The Divine Mercy
1351 W. Evergreen Ave.
Chicago, IL 60645
Why: Because we desire to be FULLY alive, in Joy and Divine Power.
Come and see. The Spirit is calling!
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