Please remember that there will NOT be a 5pm Mass next Sunday, May 25th , due to the Memorial Day Holiday weekend.

I hope all our moms had a very wonderful Mother’s Day. We were happy to present you with a carnation at last weekend’s Masses.

Thanks are extended to Therese Pauwels and Diane Yannotta (our Deacon wives) for the wonderful and insightful homiletic reflections that they shared with us at last weekend’s Mother’s Day Masses.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to last weekend’s Second Collection for CATHOLIC CHARITIES. Your gift assists them in their outreach to those in need.

The Hurley Center roof and fascia replacement project began this past Monday (May 12th). 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.

Our First Communion celebrations for twenty-nine of our Religious Education Program students were wonderful on the weekend of May 3-4. Tomorrow (Sunday May 18th), one more of our students will receive the Lord in the Eucharist for the first time. May the Lord continue to bless all our First Communicants and their families.

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. Ronnie Erxleben is now assisting 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 436,201 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Our ST. EDNA COOKBOOKS are loaded with many wonderful recipes. You can purchase them at the Parish Office.

May God bless our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV , with a healthy and grace-filled Pontificate and may his call for peace and for “no more war” be honored by the leaders of our world.

Fr. Darrio