The Eucharistic Shrine at the Adoration Convent of Christ the King in Lincoln is one of the nine Jubilee Year pilgrimage sites across southern Nebraska. Bishop James Conley established nine pilgrimage sites throughout the 23,000 square miles of the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln for the Jubilee Year of Hope, for the faithful to obtain a Jubilee Indulgence.
In 1896, Saint Arnold Janssen and Mother Mary Michaele founded the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration in Holland. The Sisters’ rose-colored habit symbolizes joy in honor of the Holy Spirit and the Sisters’ adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, so they are often called the “Pink Sisters.”
Bishop Glennon Flavin invited the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration to the Lincoln Diocese in 1973. They were the first community of cloistered contemplative nuns to take up residence in Lincoln. Bishop Flavin established the King’s Men, a Pink Sisters Auxiliary of women, and the Ladies of the Eucharist, which are all associated with the Sisters. The community continues its prayerful presence in Lincoln. All are invited to pilgrimage to this site and the eight other Jubilee Pilgrimage sites across the Diocese of Lincoln.
SNR photos | Corbin Hubbell
