Rooted in the Eucharist...

 ...you will fill me with joy in your presence... - Psalm 16:11b

"In 1853 Neumann began the Forty Hours Devotion* on the feast of Corpus Christi in the Church of St Philip Neri.  The Forty Hours Devotion was known three centuries before Neumann's  time.  ... 

What Neumann did was to inaugurate it on a diocesan level.  A schedule was made calling for the devotion to be held in designated churches so as to cover the entire year.  Neumann gave great edification by the way he joined in these devotions whenever possible.  To Neumann the Forty Hours was not merely the pious practice of making visits.  To him it was the way of seeing that Catholic life in Philadelphia was rooted in the Eucharist."

Alfred C. Rush, CSSR

The Autobiography of St John Neumann, CSSR

*Forty Hours Devotion is a devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed. It commonly occurs in a succession of churches, with one finishing prayers at the same time as the next takes it up. The number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional "forty-hour period" from our Lord's burial until the resurrection.

St John Neumann

Bohemian - 1811-1860

Redemptorist missionary - Bishop of Philadelphia

Bishop motto:  “Passion of Christ strengthen me”

Multi-lingual; Promoter of Forty Hours Devotion

Opened over 100 schools, built over 80 churches,

wrote 2 catechisms, and a Bible History +++

Patron of sick children and immigrants

FEAST DAY - January 5

 “Lord, teach me how to live.” ~ St John Neumann

Click here: St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R. - YouTube (4 mins)
Click here: St. John Neumann - YouTube (2 mins)
https://stjohnneumann.org/our-st-john-neumann/about-st-john-neumann/(Philadelphia)

St John Neumann, pray for us!

Rooted in the Eucharist...

 ...you will fill me with joy in your presence... - Psalm 16:11b

"In 1853 Neumann began the Forty Hours Devotion* on the feast of Corpus Christi in the Church of St Philip Neri.  The Forty Hours Devotion was known three centuries before Neumann's  time.  ... 

What Neumann did was to inaugurate it on a diocesan level.  A schedule was made calling for the devotion to be held in designated churches so as to cover the entire year.  Neumann gave great edification by the way he joined in these devotions whenever possible.  To Neumann the Forty Hours was not merely the pious practice of making visits.  To him it was the way of seeing that Catholic life in Philadelphia was rooted in the Eucharist."

Alfred C. Rush, CSSR

The Autobiography of St John Neumann, CSSR

*Forty Hours Devotion is a devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed. It commonly occurs in a succession of churches, with one finishing prayers at the same time as the next takes it up. The number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional "forty-hour period" from our Lord's burial until the resurrection.

St John Neumann

Bohemian - 1811-1860

Redemptorist missionary - Bishop of Philadelphia

Bishop motto:  “Passion of Christ strengthen me”

Multi-lingual; Promoter of Forty Hours Devotion

Opened over 100 schools, built over 80 churches,

wrote 2 catechisms, and a Bible History +++

Patron of sick children and immigrants

FEAST DAY - January 5

 “Lord, teach me how to live.” ~ St John Neumann

Click here: St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R. - YouTube (4 mins)
Click here: St. John Neumann - YouTube (2 mins)
Click here: Life - The National Shrine of St. John Neumann (Philadelphia)

St John Neumann, pray for us!

Rooted in the Eucharist

 ...you will fill me with joy in your presence... - Psalm 16:11b

"In 1853 Neumann began the Forty Hours Devotion* on the feast of Corpus Christi in the Church of St Philip Neri.  The Forty Hours Devotion was known three centuries before Neumann's time.  ... 

What Neumann did was to inaugurate it on a diocesan level.  A schedule was made calling for the devotion to be held in designated churches so as to cover the entire year.  Neumann gave great edification by the way he joined in these devotions whenever possible.  To Neumann the Forty Hours was not merely the pious practice of making visits.  To him it was the way of seeing that Catholic life in Philadelphia was rooted in the Eucharist."

Alfred C. Rush, CSSR

The Autobiography of St John Neumann, CSSR

*Forty Hours Devotion is a devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed. It commonly occurs in a succession of churches, with one finishing prayers at the same time as the next takes it up. The number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional "forty-hour period" from our Lord's burial until the resurrection.

 

 

St John Neumann

Bohemian - 1811-1860

Redemptorist missionary - Bishop of Philadelphia

Bishop motto:  “Passion of Christ strengthen me”

Multi-lingual; Promoter of Forty Hours Devotion

Opened over 100 schools, built over 80 churches,

wrote 2 catechisms, and a Bible History +++

Patron of sick children and immigrants

FEAST DAY - January 5

 

 

 “Lord, teach me how to live.” ~ St John Neumann

 

Click here: St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R. - YouTube (4 mins)

Click here: St. John Neumann - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Life - The National Shrine of St. John Neumann (Philadelphia)

 

St John Neumann, pray for us!

"Inundated with happiness"

Come and share your master's happiness! - Matthew 25: 21/23

 

“St Rose of Lima was so ardent in her love of God in the Blessed Sacrament that when she knelt in His presence the fire which sparkled in her eyes showed the flame which consumed her soul.  At times she appeared like an angel.  If anyone asked her what effects the Blessed Sacrament produced in her, she stammered and said she had no words to express them, but that she seemed to pass entirely into God, and was inundated with such happiness that nothing in common life could be compared to it” (pg 34, Hidden Treasure).  ...

“St Joseph Benedict LaBre, St Paschal Baylon and St Rose of Lima are three saints that we know of who spent forty straight hours in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament commemorating the forty hours Christ was in the tomb” (pg 39, Hidden Treasure).

Excerpts:  Hidden Treasure, The Riches of the Eucharist (Louis Kaczmarek)

St Rose of Lima

Peru ~ 1586-1617

Father - Spaniard ~ Mother - Indian

Third Order Dominican, Mystic

Patroness of the Americas, Philippines

FEAST DAY - Aug 23

 

 

 

"Apart from the cross there is no other ladder

by which we may get to heaven." ~ St Rose of Lima

 

Click here: Saint Rose of Lima - YouTube (2 mins)

 

St Rose of Lima, pray for us!

Rooted in the Eucharist

"In 1853 Neumann began the Forty Hours Devotion* on the feast of Corpus Christi in the Church of St Philip Neri.  The Forty Hours Devotion was known three centuries before Neumann's time.  ...  What Neumann did was to inaugurate it on a diocesan level.  A schedule was made calling for the devotion to be held in designated churches so as to cover the entire year.  Neumann gave great edification by the way he joined in these devotions whenever possible.  To Neumann the Forty Hours was not merely the pious practice of making visits.  To him it was the way of seeing that Catholic life in Philadelphia was rooted in the Eucharist."

Alfred C. Rush, CSSR

The Autobiography of St John Neumann, CSSR

*Forty Hours Devotion is a devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed. It commonly occurs in a succession of churches, with one finishing prayers at the same time as the next takes it up. The number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional "forty-hour period" from our Lord's burial until the resurrection.

 

 

St John Neumann

Bohemian - 1811-1860

Redemptorist missionary - Bishop of Philadelphia

Bishop motto:  “Passion of Christ strengthen me”

Multi-lingual; Promoter of Forty Hours Devotion

Opened over 100 schools, built over 50 churches,

wrote 2 catechisms, and a Bible History +++

FEAST DAY - January 5

 

 

 

 “Lord, teach me how to live.” ~ St John Neumann

 

Click here: Life - The National Shrine of St. John Neumann

 

St John Neumann, ora pro nobis!