LA CROSSE, Wis.-- With prayer shifts scheduled every moment of every day, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are determined to keep earning their name. For 125 years the nuns have prayed ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire – any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds ...
Two people pray before the Blessed Sacrament Aug. 11, 2021, at an adoration chapel, modified during the coronavirus pandemic, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Md. The parish has ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT)- Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA), beginning next month, will no longer pray 24 hours, seven days a week. After 23 years of including prayer partners in its ...
Sister Eileen McKenzie carries the monstrance during a ceremony marking the transition in the congregation's adoration practice. Photo by Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. For more than 141 ...
In this Oct. 14, 2015, photo, Donna Benden, left, and Sister Juanita Hytry prayed at the Adoration Chapel in La Crosse, Wis. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration claim to have been praying ...
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin— For nearly a century and a half, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have said prayers every hour of every day in their chapel in La Crosse. But next month that ...
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 ...
Catholics believe the bread and wine of the Eucharist become the Body and Blood of Christ, according to his word at the Last Supper. “Once the host is consecrated, we believe the presence of Christ ...
HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm-fringed ...
The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration will host an in-person monastic experience June 26-28 at the congregation’s ...