LINCOLN (SNR) – The Cathedral of the Risen Christ Parish in Lincoln recently held 40 Hours Devotion Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the parish’s perpetual adoration apostolate.
Perpetual adoration is the practice of having at least one person in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The perpetual adoration program began Oct. 1, 1959 in Holy Family Parish, which later became the Cathedral of the Risen Christ Parish. 
Parishioners Mary and Ray Zink had just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary in 1959 when the perpetual adoration program began. Mary took the noon hour on Monday, and Ray took 2 a.m. Thursday. Ray, who died in 2017, kept his hour for 57 years, and Mary kept her hour for 60 years.
“I still go every week,” Mary wrote for the parish bulletin. “We received many blessings and enjoyed our one-on-one with Jesus. Try it, you will like it.”
Father Josef Bisig, FSSP, rector of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton presided Sunday night at Solemn Vespers, sung by Our Lady of Guadalupe staff and seminarians. Cathedral rector Father Justin Wylie presided Monday night at Solemn Vespers, sung by the Knights of the Holy Eucharist, and Tuesday, with staff and students of St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward sang Solemn Vespers with Benediction.
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The celebration included singing all the hours of the Office, praying rosaries, the stations of the cross, the chaplet of Divine Mercy and the Angelus at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m., as well as additional lunch-hour and evening confessions, during the 40 hours.
For more information or to take one of the open hours, call Rita 402-421-2918 (daytime) or Cassie 402-310-7799 (evening).
