8 year old boy prays to the Blessed Sacrament and obtains a grace for his family
Father Patricio Hileman, responsible for the formation of chapels of Perpetual Adoration in Latin America, shared the touching testimony of Diego, an 8-year-old Mexican boy whose faith in the Blessed Sacrament transformed the reality of his family, marked by problems of mistreatment, alcoholism and poverty.
The story took place in Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, in the first chapel of Perpetual Adoration that the missionaries of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament established in the city.
Father Hileman told the ACI Group that the child heard in one of his interventions that "Jesus will bless those who are ready to watch at dawn a hundred times as much".
“I was saying that Jesus invited his friends to the Holy Hour. Jesus said to them: 'Can't you watch over an hour with me?' He told her three times and did it at dawn, "recalled the Argentine priest.
The words of the presbyter meant that the child decided to carry out his vigil at 3.00, something that attracted the attention of the mother, to which he explained that he would do it for a specific reason: "I want my father to stop drink and beat you and that we are no longer poor ".
In the first week the mother accompanied him, the second week Diego invited the father.
"A month after starting to participate in Perpetual Adoration, the father testified that he experienced the love of Jesus and was healed", and later "fell in love with the mother again in those holy hours," said Father Hileman.
“She stopped drinking and arguing with her mother and the family was no longer poor. Thanks to the faith of an 8-year-old boy, the whole family was taken care of, "he added.
This is just one of the various testimonies of conversion that according to Father Hileman occur in the chapels of Perpetual Adoration, an initiative of the missionaries of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, the community of which he is the founder.
"The first commandment of Perpetual Adoration is to let ourselves be 'embraced' by Jesus," explained the priest. "It is the place where we learn to rest in the heart of Jesus. Only He can give us this embrace of the soul".
The priest recalled that the initiative began in 1993 in Seville (Spain), after Saint John Paul II expressed the desire that "every parish in the world could have its chapel of perpetual adoration, where Jesus was exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. , in a custody, solemnly adored day and night without interruption ".
The presbyter added that “St. John Paul II did six hours of adoration a day, wrote his documents with the Blessed Sacrament exposed and once a week he spent the whole night in adoration. This is the secret of the saints, this is the secret of the Church: to be centered and united to Christ ”.
Father Hileman has been in charge of the mission in Latin America for over 13 years, where there are already 950 chapels of Perpetual Adoration. Mexico leads the list with over 650 chapels, also present in Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.
"The same Jesus whom we continue to adore and love is He who gives us the strength to be able to appreciate more and more the sacrament of the Eucharist," said the priest.
According to Maria Eugenia Verderau, who has been praying in a chapel for Perpetual Adoration in Chile for seven years at a set time of the week, this “helps a lot to grow in faith. It helps me understand my place before God, as the daughter of a Father who wants only the best for me, my true happiness ”.
“We live very rough days, from morning to evening. Taking some time to do adoration is a gift, it gives you peace of mind, it is a space to think, to thank, to put things in the right place and offer them to God, "he commented.
Source: https://it.aleteia.org