May God bless the people of Minnesota dealing with the heartbreaking Catholic School shootings that took place last Wednesday. Please keep them in your prayers.

Fr. Paul’s mother departs tomorrow (Sunday, August 31st) after her two week visit. So many of our St. Edna parishioners have made her feel very welcomed!

Please remember that this weekend, there will be NO 5 p.m. Mass tomorrow (Sunday, August 31st) because of the Labor Day holiday weekend.

Mass on LABOR DAY (Monday, September 1st) will be at 8 a.m. There will not be a 6:45 a.m. Communion Service that day. The Parish Office will be closed for the holiday, but the Adoration Chapel will be open from 7 a.m. until 9:30 a.m.

Anointing of the Sick will take place in the Church Narthex immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass on Friday, September 5th for anyone seriously ill in body, mind or soul.

Confessions will be heard in the Church Reconciliation Room on Saturday, September 6th, from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m.

We’re one week away from our Parish’s 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, Fr. Bob Heidenreich) will be concelebrating, along with many of our previous associate pastors (Fr. Dan Sullivan, Fr. Tomy Abraham, Fr. Steve Dombrowski, Fr. Kurt Boras, Fr. Benedykt Pazdan). After Mass we’ll head outside for a wonderful meal for purchase (brats, chicken-kabobs, pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs) and then a night of free entertainment that begins with a musical performance by our Children’s Choir (The Minor Miracles). 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.

I wish to thank everyone who has given donations toward the Teen Center Renovation . The amazing generosity of our parishioners has brought us to our set goal amount. The repainting of the walls has been completed. New flooring will be installed over the next two weeks, and new furnishings will be delivered on September 18th, bringing the project to completion. God bless all our donors who continue to believe in the Youth of our Parish!

The Doherty Center Kitchen “re-fresh” is done! The room looks really beautiful. Three generous donors provided new flooring, new solid-surface countertops, new ceiling tiles, a new ceiling fan, new sinks and new faucets. Tom Walters (of our Maintenance Department) painted all the walls and cabinets, and the room now looks so inviting, and is ready for our many Parish groups to use. New stoves were donated a couple of years ago by one of our parishioners, and about three years ago, a new commercial freezer and commercial refrigerator were donated to us. Our Men’s Club provided new LED lighting in the room, a couple of years ago. My grateful thanks to all our wonderful donors and benefactors!

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.

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 .  

Always 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.

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 489,152 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Our St. Edna 60th Anniversary Cookbooks are loaded with many wonderful recipes. You can purchase them at the Parish Office. They will also be sold at our Parish Fest on September 6th.

Our Parish Grounds look so beautiful, thanks to the efforts of our Gardening for God volunteers. Everything looks so nice for the Parish’s 60th Anniversary celebrations on September 6th.

The individual pieces of stained-glass from our original Church windows are ready for pick-up at the Parish Office, for those who ordered them. They’ve arrived just in time for our Parish Anniversary celebration!

Please pray for good weather for our 60th Anniversary Fest next Saturday, September 6th, and please keep praying for peace in our world.

Fr. Darrio