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About This Program

Welcome - May our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament bless you and your family! This is a privately run website promoting the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration program, located at St. Francis Church, for the entire Traverse City area and its five Catholic parishes. All are welcome at our chapel - both Catholics and non-Catholics alike!

Eucharistic Adoration has been going on every week at St. Francis since 1999. In 1995, area residents in Traverse City started a fund drive to build a Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on the N.E. corner of St. Francis Church. After gathering enough funds, the Chapel was finally built, and Eucharistic Adoration started at St. Francis on September 26, 1999, attended by parishioners from all five Traverse City area Catholic churches. Adoration hours were about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. In May 2012, momentum started to build to turn this existing Eucharistic Adoration Program into a Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Program where our beloved Lord would be adored 7 days a week, 24 hours a day (minus some hours for weekend Masses). Our Bishop at the time insisted that parishioners from all five Traverse City area churches partake in this program. In late September 2012, a priest from the "Missionary Priests of the Blessed Sacrament" came to speak at all five Traverse City area Catholic churches to help recruit enough adorers in this most important human endeavor. Gathering over 700 initial signups from this recruiting effort, some 520 adorers signed up for a specific Holy Hour, and an additional 70 adorers volunteered to be on the Substitute List. After organizing to have at least two adorers on each hour (on most hours), Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration started in St. Francis Chapel on November 25, 2012, the Feast of Christ the King, and has been going ever since.