Adoration Chapel

Eucharistic Adoration

You are welcome and encouraged to visit the chapel at any time. Exposed Adoration, where Jesus' Body is placed in the Monstrance and displayed on the altar for prayer, is offered every Monday at 6am through Friday at 3pm. To sign up for an hour of Adoration, please visit our We Adore Him site below. 

1. Create an account
2. Choose notification preferences and substitute availabilities
3. Choose your prefered hour of Adoration

Our beautiful tabernacle is the prominent feature of the chapel. It is visible both from inside the chapel as well as outside in the Prayer Garden by its prominent placement next to the window of the chapel. The red candle burns perpetually symbolizing the real presence of Christ. We are so blessed to have this beautiful chapel that provides us with the opportunity to spend personal time with Jesus Christ.
Lord, hear our prayer.

Our Patron Saint

In honor of our patron saint, St. Peter Prince of the Apostles, a relic of St. Peter is displayed and placed under the chapel altar.

St. Peter, pray for us.

St. Angela Merici Adoration Chapel

Just as our old Adoration Chapel was dedicated to St. Angela Merici, founder of the Ursuline Sisters, the new chapel is dedicated to her as well. To signify this, there is a picture of St. Angela Merici on the wall in the hallway outside of the chapel.
St. Angela Merici, pray for us.

Stained Glass Window

Look closely within the brick wall of the chapel and you will find stained glass windows featuring: St. Peter, St. Joseph, St. Ursula and the Blessed Mother. These stained glass windows have been in place since the original chapel's existence. Each window has been cleaned and repaired by Emil Frei Studios.

St. Peter, St. Joseph, St. Ursula, and Mary, Our Mother, Pray for Us

Chapel Entrance

The chapel entrance is in the Prayer Garden which can be accessed from the sidewalk between the Church and Ursuline Hall.  There is a gate that leads to the courtyard. As you enter the courtyard and follow the sidewalk to the far right corner of the building, you will be able to see the statue of St. Peter through the window of the chapel. The entrance into the chapel faces the statue of St. Peter.

This door will be open during the week from 6:30 am-4:00 PM. After those hours and on weekends, the chapel is still available to pray, but you will need to punch in a code into the door keypad. There is a restroom in the hallway that leads out of the chapel.

For those with accessibility needs:  The push plate automatic door openers will only work between the hours of 6:30 am and 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

During the evening and weekend hours, you will need to enter the code, then push down on the handle and pull slightly.  The door will then catch and assist open automatically.   It takes minimal pulling for the door to engage the auto-opening feature.

This Great Sacrament of Love

We want to share with you something about Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and his daily Holy Hour. A couple of months before his death, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was interviewed on national television. One of the questions was this:

"Bishop Sheen, you have inspired millions of people all over the world. Who inspired you to make a Holy Hour everyday?”

Bishop Sheen responded that it was not a Pope, a cardinal, another bishop, or even a priest or a nun. It was a little Chinese girl of eleven years of age. He explained that when the Communists took over China, they imprisoned a priest in his own rectory near the Church. After they locked him up in his own house, the priest was horrified to look out of his window and see the Communists proceed into the Church, where they went into the sanctuary and broke into the tabernacle.

In an act of hateful desecration, they took the ciborium and threw it on the floor with all of the Sacred Hosts spilling out. The priest knew exactly how many Hosts were in the ciborium: thirty-two.

When the Communists left, they either did not notice or didn't pay any attention to a small girl praying in the back of the Church who saw everything that had happened.

That night the little girl came back. Slipping past the guard at the priest's house, she went inside the Church. There she made a holy hour of prayer, an act of love to make up for the act of hatred.

After her holy hour, she went into the sanctuary, knelt down, bent over and with her tongue received Jesus in Holy Communion, (since it was not permissible at that time for the lay faithful to touch the Sacred Host with their hands.) The little girl continued to come back each night to make her holy hour and receive Jesus in Holy Communion on her tongue.

On the thirty-second night, after she had consumed the last and thirty-second host, she accidentally made a noise and woke the guard who was sleeping.

He ran after her, caught her, and beat her to death with the butt of his rifle. This act of heroic martyrdom was witnessed by the priest as he watched grief-stricken from his bedroom window.

When Bishop Sheen heard the story he was so inspired that he promised God he would make a holy hour of prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament everyday of his life.

If this frail, little child could give testimony and witness to the world concerning the real and wonderful Presence of her Savior in the Blessed Sacrament, then the Bishop was absolutely bound by all that was right and true, to do the same.

His sole desire from then on was to bring the world to the burning Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. The little girl showed the Bishop what true courage and zeal really is; how faith could overcome all fear, how true love for Jesus in the Eucharist must transcend life itself.

What is hidden in the Sacred Host is the glory of His love. The sun in the sky is symbolic of the Son of God in the Blessed Sacrament. This is why most monstrances are in the form of a sunburst. As the sun is the natural source of all energy, the Blessed Sacrament is the supernatural source of all grace and love.

The Blessed Sacrament is JESUS, the Light of the world.

(This Article was reprinted from the Liturgy Notes Newsletter Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Worship)