Please note that the Archdiocese of Chicago (which includes St. Edna) will be celebrating the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord next weekend (May 11-12) at all of our Masses, NOT on Thursday, May 9th (the traditional 40th day of the Easter Season).

Congratulations to our First Communicants , who this weekend receive Jesus for the first time on Saturday May 4th and Sunday May 5th. These are wonderful days for them and for us, as a Parish family.

Congratulations, also, to Bernie Bedingfield – Vicariate I’s St. Edna WOMAN OF THE YEAR. Bernie was presented this award last Wednesday, May 1st at the Cotillion Banquet Hall in Palatine for her many of years of service to St. Edna’s WOSE Group and to St. Edna Parish. She is a dear, sweet lady --- a true model of goodness to everyone who knows her.

Please don’t believe the many SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  that are going around. They never stop! Please don’t believe them . Some are supposedly from me (or from our Deacons, and probably soon 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 .  

Fr. Pawel (Paul) Barwikowski (age 36), is being assigned to us as our next Associate Pastor effective May 15th. He was born in Poland and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago by Cardinal Cupich in 2016 at Holy Name Cathedral. He has previously served at St. Constance Parish in Chicago and at St. James Parish in Arlington Heights. He helped us out here at St. Edna last year, presiding at two funerals that both Fr. Tomy and I were unavailable to preside at ourselves. He’s a kind, friendly and compassionate priest who I’m sure you will like, and I think you will also like his puppy -- our new Parish mascot! I am very pleased and grateful that the Cardinal has assigned Fr. Paul to serve St. Edna Parish for the next several years. We will have a Welcome Reception for him on Sunday, May 19th in the Doherty Center after all three morning Masses.

SNACK Theater was wonderful ---- a truly great run. The five performances were excellent! Thanks are extended to Maureen Durack and her incredible Team for putting together such a superb event. Many compliments are still coming in!

All six new STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS are now sponsored. I thank our donors for their interest and generosity! The Daprato-Rigali Studios in Chicago have designed six beautiful new windows of a religious nature that reflect our Catholic Faith, to replace the original stained-glass windows on the West wall of our Church. Contact me at dboscutti@stedna.org if you are interested in being placed on a “wait-list” in case someone who has sponsored a window changes their mind. The new windows will be completed and installed by early December.

Please consider becoming a Eucharistic Minister or Lector . We need many more ministers to cover our five weekend Masses. Thank you.

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 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 351,262 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

The Spring flowers are still in bloom. Take a walk (or drive) around our parking lot to see the nice job our Gardening for God volunteers have accomplished.

Most of our PARISH PARKING LOT will be entirely resurfaced beginning Monday, June 3rd. The project should take a week to complete, weather permitting. Only the southwest entrance to the parking lot (closest to the traffic light) will be available while work is being done.

May God bless our world with the peace we so urgently need.

Fr. Darrio