Prepare Your Heart for Renewal

Attend Eucharistic Adoration as often as you can. Click here to see the places and times Eucharistic Adoration is being offered in the Diocese of La Crosse. While spending time in Adoration, we invite you to consider participating in the following actions:

• Talk to Jesus as you would your friend. Don’t be afraid to share your emotions with Him.
• Invite Him to heal the areas in your life that are distracting you from a deeper relationship with Him.
• Be silent. Let Him speak to you.
• If there are other people present, take a moment to pray for one or two of them who are in Adoration with you. They don’t even have to know you are doing it.

Pray and discern how God wants you to go deeper in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Then, go and make a good confession. Click the link to read a great article from Ascension Press, “Confession 201: How to Confess Like an Adult.”

Create a habit for daily prayer, even if it is just a couple of minutes. Remember:

• No one is perfect.
• If you miss a day, or days, there is nothing wrong with restarting and rededicating yourself to prayer. You are not a failure and God sees the beauty in your perseverance.
• The more consistent you are, the easier it is to form the habit. (Studies show it takes one week to create a habit). Be patient, it may take time to find what is right for you.
• Below are links to help you explore different ways to pray:
  • https://www.usccb.org/catholic-prayers
  • Dynamic Catholic Prayers

Explore “Restore the Roots,” an initiative at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral, La Crosse.

Dedicate one Holy Hour per month to pray for Bishop Battersby, the priests and deacons of the Diocese of La Crosse, and for Vocations.