St. Peter Julian Eymard

Father Peter Julian Eymard, who became the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, Sisters and Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, was for a time one of the early members of the Marist Fathers.  In fact, we was a spiritual director at the junior seminary and later, provincial.  During his years as a Marist, his love of the Blessed Sacrament increased so much that he found himself spending most of his time in prayer and adoration before the Holy Eucharist, exposed on the altar, so much so that his devotional life overtook the apostolic nature of the Marist charism.   With mutual agreement between himself and his Marist Superiors, he left the congregation and began his own, which stressed perpetual adoration, as the process for fertilizing the soil where others labored.  His idea found much support and his congregation spread.  Even today in mid-town Manhattan, the Church of St. Jean-Baptiste, staffed by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, continues the tradtion of perpetual adoration, which is also very popular in a growing number of parishes.
We can't all spend long hours before the Holy Eucharist, perhaps can't even find an open chapel, but in the chapel of our hearts, we can always make time to adore Christ present there.  There is no denying the power of these intimate momens with Jesus, when his peace floods our hearts and our "unsolvable problems" evaporate.
Bro. Rene