Please keep all of First Communicants in prayer as they receive the Lord in the Eucharist for the first time this weekend. May the Lord continue to bless them and their families.

Thank you to everyone who attended our special Memorial Mass for our late Holy Father, Pope Francis on Thursday evening, April 24th in our Church. How blessed our Roman Catholic Church has been to have had him shepherding us for the last twelve years. May he rest now, in the peace of God’s love.

Our Holy Week and Easter liturgies were incredibly beautiful . Compliments keep coming in. My grateful thanks to everyone who shared their time, talent and treasure to make sure our celebrations were inspiring and profound. Our parishioners and staff performed many tasks, large and small, to assure quality liturgies to honor the Lord. May the risen Christ bless them abundantly.

Please be EXTREMELY CAREFUL when exiting our Parking Lot and making the left turn onto Arlington Heights Road to travel south. We have always hired (and we still do) Arlington Heights police officers for traffic control at our Saturday evening 5 p.m. Mass and at two of our Sunday morning Masses, but less and less officers are signing up for this detail, so please be very cautious, and, as always, be extra kind and patient to your fellow drivers exiting our parking lot. Thank you!

Our Adoration Chapel is a wonderful place to find some personal peace. Pray before the EUCHARISTIC LORD Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Enter the Chapel through Door 4.

Please don’t believe the many SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  that are always going around. They never stop! Please don’t believe them . Some are supposedly from me, or from our Deacons, or from Fr. Paul, asking you to contact us, or to purchase gift cards for us to distribute to other people. Don’t be fooled. We would NEVER ask you to do this kind of thing, no matter “how busy” these messages say we might be. Just DELETE these scam requests and save yourself some major headaches  and financial losses .  

We can always use a few more Altar Servers  at our weekend Masses. The parents of any interested boys or girls should contact Deacon Joe or Fr. Paul for training.

Our Rosary Group is praying a continuous SPIRITUAL BOUQUET   “for peace in the world” , so please continue praying Rosaries and  Hail Mary’s  and letting Tomi Gaudio know at  tomig@comcast.net  so she can keep count. As of this writing, over 434,506 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Treat yourself to one of our ST. EDNA COOKBOOKS! The book is extremely well done and is loaded with many wonderful recipes. You can purchase them at the Parish Office.

During this nine-day period of mourning for Pope Francis, please pray for the repose of his soul and for the peace in our world that he longed for and prayed for.

Fr. Darrio