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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Giovanna Dell'orto

Perpetual adoration is a growing Catholic trend. A Holy Year event is scheduled for the weekend

Religious Trend Perpetual Adoration - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm-fringed residential street in the Miami suburb of Hialeah.

“Your body clock gets used to it. You feel that the Lord embraces you, and everything changes,” said Arguello, who has been the chapel’s coordinator since it opened in 2019. “I don’t feel the same as when I started. Adoration takes you to the presence of the Lord.”

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