Kampala, Uganda, Jun 3, 2009 / 23:06 pm
Eucharistic Adoration in Uganda is attracting more lay people to prayer and encouraging vocations, an international Catholic charity reports.
Sister Consolate Shirima of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, based at Holy Trinity Monastery in Arua, on the northwest border of the country, discussed the phenomenon with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
She said that over the past five years, increasing numbers of lay people have joined the sisters for adoration. An estimated three or four hundred faithful join the monastery for prayer on Sundays, while daily visitors to the monastery’s chapel are so numerous the order has appointed a sister to look after them.
“They come for adoration on their own at any time they want to. There are some hours where you find two or sometimes three people – or even groups of 10,” she told ACN.
Holy Trinity Monastery is now too small to house the increasing number of sisters.
“Because of the lack of rooms we have to turn people away, so we are looking to extend the monastery,” Sr. Shirima told ACN.