I apologize that no police officers have been on hand for traffic control after our Saturday evening Mass. We pay them for their services (when they are on-site), but for the past couple of months, no officers have signed up for this service. Please, until officers sign up again, exit the parking lot VERY CAREFULLY. You might want to consider only making a right turn out of the parking lot, heading north, until the time police officers eventually sign up again to direct traffic. I know how frustrating this is for you, and again, I apologize for the inconvenience.

Six moms were scheduled to come to our first NEW MOM’S GROUP last Saturday, and TEN moms actually came! This wonderful new group is off to a great and promising start!

Our UGANDAN CATHOLIC friends will celebrate Mass in our Church tomorrow (Sunday, January 25th), at 1 p.m. followed by their monthly Social in the Doherty Center.

The Season of Lent begins soon (on Ash Wednesday, February 18th). Please mark your calendars for the annual MULTI-PARISH LENTEN MISSION that St. Edna will be hosting this year, on March 9th, 10th and 11th. Fr. Tom McCarthy will lead our Mission once again. When he led our 2021 Mission, the Church was packed!

More SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  are going around again. 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 516,166 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Please continue praying for peace, and for the many people in our world suffering from wars, unjust aggression, storms, violence, cold weather, homelessness, unemployment, disasters, shootings, and poverty.

Fr. Darrio