Please note that we are postponing until next year, our Parish Appreciation Mass and Reception that was scheduled for all our volunteers on Sunday, October 11th. When we have a new date, we will let all our volunteers know. The 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, October 11, 2026 will still take place, and will celebrate the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK will take place this Friday, October 2nd, in the Church Narthex, immediately following the 8 a.m. Mass, for anyone seriously ill in body, mind, or spirit.

CONFESSIONS will be heard this Saturday, October 3rd, from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. in the Church Reconciliation Room.

Our annual BLESSING OF PETS will take place this Saturday, October 3rd, at 12:15 p.m. under the Church canopy. Please be sure your pets are properly leashed/contained.

Our annual CRAFT FAIR takes place this weekend (October 3-4) in the Parish Center. Get an early start on your Christmas shopping.

The Men’s Club sponsored TAILGATE PARTY takes place on Sunday, October 11th. It’s always a real good time.

Our Generation to Generation Campaign is going extremely well. On September 22nd, we achieved our $1,900,000.00 goal, and are now aiming toward a LEGACY GOAL of an additional $300,000.00. We would like EVERYONE to be able to say they contributed to the success of this campaign, so please, sometime within the next two months, make a contribution to this five-year pledge campaign. Now that we’ve made our initial goal, St. Edna is allowed to keep 80% of the pledges that are made from this point on. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to strengthen our Parish and build a lasting endowment legacy for generations to come. I’m deeply grateful for the incredible generosity of our Parish community, and grateful to our dedicated volunteer team for their help with this important work.

Congratulations to Peter Kirsh and his wife, Cindy . Peter is now officially a candidate for the Permanent Diaconate. He has three more years of study to complete before ordination in 2029 to be a Permanent Deacon assigned to St. Edna Parish. He and his wife just completed the first “aspirancy” year of his training. Please keep Peter and Cindy in your prayers. I’m very pleased that they have said “yes” to serving God and St. Edna Parish.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD (CLOW) takes place at the 9:30 a.m. Family Mass every second Sunday of the month. Children ages 5-12, are dismissed from the Church after the Opening Prayer and are escorted to the Doherty Center with their catechists, to hear the Sunday Scripture readings in “kid language” and to focus on a nice, easy to understand reflection on the Scripture readings. They return to the Church at Offertory time and are later called up to the altar for the Lord’s Prayer. We’d like to have CLOW more often each month, so if you would like to help out with this wonderful and very important ministry, please call the Office.

A beautiful and very easy ministry to take part in is our BLESSING CUP ministry. Each week, one family or individual can take Fr. Hurley’s chalice home with them and pray for vocations (from the Booklet included with the chalice). Call the Office to sign up for your preferred week. The chalice needs to be returned to the Office by the Saturday that concludes your week of prayer. Everyone should take part in this ministry. The vocations that come forth from our prayers benefit the world.

Our new fiscal year began July 1st. Thank you to everyone who has increased their weekly contribution to the parish by $5.00 to help keep us in the black. Because of increased insurance rates on our buildings, and increased costs for employee benefits, we need to reach a budgeted income goal of $26,000.00 per week. Thank you for understanding our need.

OUTDOOR STATIONS OF THE CROSS have been mounted on the north wall of the Parish Center. Come and pray the Stations year-round, at any hour.

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.

SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS are going around again. Please never ever 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 (off the Community Room patio).

The parents of any interested boys or girls who would like to be ALTAR SERVERS should contact the Parish Office (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 590,087 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Please continue praying for peace, and for a permanent end to all wars. Our whole world is in disarray from these wars. Pray, too, for the many people killed and suffering from these wars, and all those suffering from earthquakes, unjust aggression, wildfires, storms, flooding, mudslides, drought, violence, homelessness, unemployment, depression, anxiety, disasters, shootings, accidents, poverty, humidity, and extreme weather temperatures.

Fr. Darrio