On Wednesday, November 18 we were joined by a man with special ties to the Holy Cross Community. Father Charles Dunn S.J. has served as Dean of Students as well as Vice President of Academics and came to us to share with us his insights into the appreciation of adoration. It was a topic near to our hearts with our own weekly adoration just a day away.
Father Dunn brought us back to a time on campus when adoration was initiated by student demand. When students paused for a moment of acknowledgement if they passed by the chapel doors on the way to class. When even a truck full of firemen on their way to stop a blaze would tip their hats as they passed a church. Adoration, he suggested is a similar acknowledgement. The reverence that prompts us to pause in our walk to Kimball just for a moment to turn towards the alter is the same that should drive us towards adoration for just an hour out of our busy week. A simple gesture of respect and acknowledgement can be appreciated even if it could never be enough on its own. Father Dunn described adoration as a place of anchoring, and peace. A place to simply sit in quiet to listen to and love our God.
To those who have never been, or have reservations about what to expect, Father Dunn proposed that we should begin the way we do most things - by starting. Even if we don't know what to expect. Even if we don't understand the details. Like watching a sports game, the best way to understand the rules is to go.
If you haven't made it to adoration in the past, maybe now is a good week to go.
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