On our way to Pittsburgh I wanted to see if I could find an adoration chapel to pray on Saturday and as big as Pittsburgh is – I only found one that is perpetual! But, what a gem!
Skip and I started our Saturday morning there and were in such awe of the beauty, reverence and number of young people kneeling in adoration. So we decided to attend Sunday Mass there before we left Pittsburgh.
What an experience! Such a reverent worship! No one putting on a show. No one drawing attention to themselves – all attention was drawn to the One who offered Himself as the very first Sacrifice!
http://www.thepittsburghoratory.org/
We met Brother Reed after Mass who is on fall break from studying for the priesthood. He told us they were preparing for 60 seminarians to come in that day who would spend the week evangelizing at Pitt and CMU. How cool is that!?
Now it’s time to learn about oratories, and the Oratarions of Saint Philip Neri. Here is a link to their blog.
http://oratorianvocations.blogspot.com/p/theoratorian-vocation-you-may-say_18.html?m=1
I think this will be a quest – to visit an oratory where ever I travel.
And then a quote from my meditation that struck me today…..
“There is no doubt about it: a person who loves pleasure, who seeks comfort, who flies from anything that might spell suffering, who is over-anxious, who complains, who blames, and who becomes impatient at the least little thing which does not go his way – a person like that is a Christian only in name; he is only a dishonor to his religion, for Jesus Christ has said so: ‘Anyone who wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross every day of his life, and follow Me.'” Saint John Vianney
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