My Daily Domestic Diigolet 05/10/2009

• For Franciscan sisters, every day is prayer day – JSOnlinetags: no_tag
  • Sister Marie Leone LaCroix rises in the darkness of her room at St. Rose Convent.

    The Franciscan sister, 91, slides into her bathrobe and slippers, takes her cane and slowly makes her way to the dimly-lighted chapel.

    There, LaCroix sits before the marble altar where, in an ornate golden vessel, rests a consecrated host Catholics believe to be the body of Christ. And there, she takes her place in an unending chain of prayer that began long before she was born.

    “It’s so quiet. It’s such a serene time to be with God,” LaCroix said.

    Her order, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, has prayed before the Holy Eucharist in shifts around the clock since 1878.

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