Dear Friend of Belmont Abbey College,
At the heart and center of every institution dedicated to excellence is an ideal.
Belmont Abbey College’s ideal is Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
Our vision statement proceeds from this very truth…
“Belmont Abbey College find its center in Jesus Christ. By His light, we grasp the true image and likeness of God which every human person is called to live out.”
For 130 years our Benedictine monks and college students have quietly prayed, worked, and studied here, just outside Charlotte, North Carolina. Now, as we experience unprecedented growth in our student population and in the surrounding towns, we are inspired to thank the Lord by building Him a new home on our campus: we are initiating construction of a new Eucharistic Adoration Chapel. You see, our current chapel is simply too small to hold all the students, faculty, staff, monks, and local visitors who stop in to pray each day.
Located in a quiet, wooded area next to our dorms and across from our cemetery, our chapel will enable students, staff, and neighbors of the college the opportunity to access the Blessed Sacrament in round-the-clock exposition for prayer and meditation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And since we have our own exit off I-85, this new very visible chapel will encourage more travelers and commuters to stop by as they pass.
We broke ground and formally blessed this site on August 22nd, on the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, and later that day the monks in the Abbey unanimously voted to name the chapel in honor of St Joseph, foster father of Jesus. The Abbot, our college President, the Bishop of Charlotte, and many staff, students, and friends of the college were with us as we asked God’s blessing on this endeavor.
We invite you to join us in building something beautiful for God by helping in three ways, specifically by pledging your supplication, your sacrifice, and your support.
- Your supplication: please pray to the blessed Mother, particularly by praying the rosary, and ask her intercession for the success of this project.
- Your sacrifice: please commit to attend weekday Mass or to spend time in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in order to honor Our Lord in the Eucharist, and say a simple prayer for this project while in his presence.
- Your support: please pledge as much as you can in financial support to build a home worthy of the great mystery of the Eucharist; a place deserving of being named in honor of St Joseph, who provided a dwelling for the Holy Family while he was on earth. We need $735,000 to complete this chapel.
Everyone who helps us with supplication, sacrifice, or support will be permanently remembered in the chapel upon its completion.
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