The Holy Hour
Is it difficult? Sometimes it seemed to be hard; it might mean having to forgo a social engagement, or rise an hour earlier, but on the whole it has never been a burden, only a joy.
I do not mean to say that all the Holy Hours have been edifying, as for example, the one in the church of St. Roch in Paris.
I entered the church about three o’clock in the afternoon, knowing that I had to catch a train for Lourdes two hours later. There are only about ten days a year in which I can sleep in the daytime; this was one.
I knelt down and said a prayer of adoration, and then sat up to meditate and immediately went to sleep. I woke up exactly at the end of one hour. I said to the Good Lord: “Have I made a Holy Hour?”
I thought his angel said: “Well, that’s the way the Apostles made their first Holy Hour in the Garden, but don’t do it again.”
Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Treasure in Clay)
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- Autographed Color Photo of Bishop Fulton Sheen
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- St. Roch in Paris
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- St. Roch in Paris
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- Letter From Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Signed and Dated, 1967
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- Fulton Sheen: Two Tickets to the Lecture, The Signs of Our Times, in 1946
