Beginnings

Our 24/7 Adoration Chapel began on October 23, 1994. People from Our Lady of the Gulf parish and the surrounding parishes participated in their weekly hourly encounter with the Lord in its sacred space.

This Adoration experience contnued until Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 when the Adoration Chapel (pictured below) was destroyed.

Later, Adoration continued on Thursdays at St. Augustine Seminiary Chapel in Bay St. Louis.

In late 2010, plans were formulated to build a new Adoration Chapel and Catholic Life Center to replace the destroyed one. It will be named "St Joseph Adoration Chapel" in recognition of the St. Joseph Chapel on Dunbar Ave. that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. It had been closed some years earlier because of the lack of priests.

Our old Adoration Chapel destroyed by Hurricane Katrina