Newsletter – Issue #14
Newsletter – Issue #13
Praying in the middle of the night – why?
The Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Christchurch has now been open for nine years. Perpetual Adoration means exactly that – the chapel is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because the Blessed Sacrament can never be left alone, someone must be in the chapel every hour during the week. Therefore, one of the […]
Newsletter – Issue #12
Newsletter – Issue 11
Perpetual Adoration and the Traffic Light Framework
On Friday December 3rd the Traffic Light Framework comes into effect. Here in Christchurch we will be entering the Orange setting. I have read all the information available, including the actual Order that the Government has gazetted, all the guidance given to Faith Communities and I have spoken to a number of people at the Diocese, […]
Retreat with John Pridmore
There will be another retreat opportunity at St Gregory’s for adorers on Saturday September 7th from 9am-12.30pm. It will be led by John Pridmore who was a gangster in London and had an amazing conversion. He is in the Diocese for a couple of months giving parish missions and speaking to school students. You can […]
Eucharistic Miracles Exhibition
Anticipation of Heaven
On Saturday 6th July we held our annual retreat at St Gregory’s Parish Hall. Our speaker Fr Philip Suelzer CSJ gave two talks. In his talks Fr Philip invites us to seek Christ, challenges us to a deeper abandonment of our lives to Christ. The second talk was recorded on video, click the Facebook link […]
The Story of the Monstrance – Fr John Adams
The new monstrance now in use at the adoration chapel at St Gregory’s was considered for purchase well before the perpetual adoration project began, here is its story.