Please note that there will NOT be a 5 p.m. Mass this Sunday, May 10th (Mother’s Day weekend).

The Deacon Wives will be giving a homiletic reflection this weekend at our four Mother’s Day Masses.

The second collection this weekend will be for CATHOLIC CHARITIES . Please be as generous as you can to this very worthy cause.

Please note, too, that there will not be a 5 p.m. Mass on Sunday, May 24th (Memorial Day weekend).

All our First Communion celebrations last weekend were very beautiful. Congratulations and best wishes to our 18 Religious Education Program students who received the Lord for the first time on Saturday, May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd.

Our MAY CROWNING celebration was very beautiful, too, at the start of our 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday, May 2nd. WOSE’s 2025 Woman of the Year, Angie Helmstetter, had the honor of crowning our St. Edna statue of the Blessed Mother this year.

People LOVE the little knitted and crocheted PRAYER SQUARES lovingly made by our St. Edna Knitting and Crochet Group. These wonderful ladies crafted 1,100 of these little squares that were included in the Gift Bag that was presented to each family at our Easter Masses. Thanks, ladies, for sharing your wonderful talent!

Check out the Lost & Found Box mounted on the wall inside Entrance 2. There are many items in there that you may have lost these last few months.

Be sure to walk around our grounds or drive around our parking lot to view all the tulips and other Spring flowers that are in bloom now. Our Gardening for God volunteers do such a wonderful job keeping our campus looking SO BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL!

Please remember that if police officers are not present to direct traffic after our weekend Masses, it might be best to consider (for safety’s sake) making a right turn out of the parking lot, heading north , even though that might take you a little bit out of your way.

Regarding SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS , please never believe them . Some are supposedly from me, or from our Deacons, 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 .  

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.

The parents of any interested boys or girls who would like to be ALTAR SERVERS should contact the Parish Office at 847 398-3362. Veronica (Ronny) Erxleben provides the training for our Altar Servers.

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 551,632 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Please continue praying for peace, and for the many people killed and suffering from wars, unjust aggression, wildfires, storms, violence, homelessness, unemployment, disasters, shootings, accidents, and poverty.

May our Blessed Mother, the Queen of Peace, intercede to bring an end to the war our nation is currently involved in, and to all wars, and may her Son, our Risen Lord, bless our Easter Season.

Happy Mother’s Day to all our moms!

Fr. Darrio