303 people attended radio personality KEVIN MATTHEWS’ very moving BROKEN MARY presentation last Thursday evening in our Church. You can watch the video-link on our YouTube page ( CLICK HERE ). We thank our Men’s Club for sponsoring and promoting this event and Tomi Gaudio and her Rosary Group for providing 200 beautiful rosaries and cases (in memory of Bob Gaudio) for the first 200 people who came.

The FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL PILGRIMAGE began last Wednesday, June 4 ^th , for our 23 parishioners travelling to Greece and Rome with Razia Khokhar and Fr. Paul. Keep them in prayer as they bring our various prayer intentions with them to pray at the ancient cities and towns that St. Paul visited over 2,000 years ago.

Parents, thanks for keeping your kids safe! St. Edna is a very welcoming place (as we all know), and thank God, we’re a very safe place, too, and we want to make sure St. Edna remains a safe place. Thus, it’s very important for parents to keep a sharp eye on their small, young children so they don’t wander through any part of our buildings alone , where they could possibly be harmed or even snatched away. Sadly, the world we live in has predators seeking vulnerable children for evil purposes. We can never presume that our kids are 100% safe, just because they are in our Church building or on our Church property. Please monitor your kids when they need to use the restrooms, and please, never allow them the opportunity to wander alone near our exit doors.

The Hurley Center roof and fascia replacement project is going well. Some brickwork repairs are also being made. We appreciate your continued use of the monthly Blue Envelope to help pay for this improvement that will keep our Hurley Center watertight (and better insulated) for the next several decades.

Exterior painting of the Parish Center is going on this week and next. Two coats of special flexible paint will keep our six-year-old building looking bright and fresh for many years.

Plan on attending our 60th Anniversary Fest on Saturday, September 6th , starting with Mass in Church at 4 p.m. Bishop Rassas will be presiding and our previous pastors (Fr. Jerry Jacob, Fr. Rich Yanos and Fr. Bob Heidenreich) will be concelebrating, along with many of our previous associate pastors. After Mass we’ll head outside for a wonderful meal for purchase (brats, chicken kabobs, pulled pork, hot dogs) and then a night of free entertainment that begins with a musical performance by our Children’s Choir. After that, our SNACK Theater performers will entertain us with a medley of tunes from their history of fine shows. The evening will conclude with the band “Oh, Yes” providing live music until 10:30 p.m. Please be part of this St. Edna milestone event as we celebrate God’s blessings to us.

More SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  are going around again. Never 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 .  

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 5pm 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 7am to 7pm. Enter the Chapel through Door 4.

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. Veronica (Ronny) Erxleben is now helping with altar server 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 476,201 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Our St. Edna 60 ^th Anniversary Cookbooks are loaded with many wonderful recipes. You can purchase them at the Parish Office.

May God keep our St. Edna pilgrims safe during their two-week pilgrimage in Europe, and may our world be blessed with peace.

Fr. Darrio