Hajja Salesjana July-September 2019

When a person adores Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, that person and his surroundings change. When a perpetual adoration chapel opens, it slowly transforms the neighborhood. This is what Isabel Puig calls the “butterfly effect” (from the theory that the smallest movement of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the world can have a powerful effect on wind and weather patterns thousands of miles away). Isabel Puig is a mother of a large family and helps to coordinate hourly turns at a Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration chapel in Badalona (near Barcelona, Spain). She is also currently working with others to open another perpetual adoration chapel in Barcelona, at the Royal Monastery of Santa Isabel, where the Regnum Christi movement houses a scholastic center. “The Lord acts in the neighborhood, in souls, in the whole environment,” Isabel told the Spanish online publication,  Religión en Libertad , as she recalled how, at the chapel in Badalona, “people find peace.” “Adorers find greater peace and serenity to face life, and the wounds of their hearts find healing by going to see Jesus.” “If the adorers are doing better, all of their surroundings are affected,” she noted. “You notice it at home, in families. When people have their priorities straight, this has an immediate effect on their friends, and we are better able to help those around us.” Have you ever heard of the “butterfly effect” of Eucharistic adoration? By cathol007 It can be seen in homes, in families, in marriages, and in neighborhoods … 10 H AJJA S ALESJANA Toth Tamas/Shutterstock.com