Congratulations to High School student LORENZO DeGUZMAN who was presented with the second annual St. Carlo Acutis Award for outstanding service to St. Edna Parish. This award is bestowed to a High School age young man from each Parish in the Archdiocese. The award ceremony took place last Sunday, March 22nd at the Seminary in Mundelein.

HOLY WEEK begins this weekend with our Palm Sunday Masses. A complete schedule of our Holy Week Services in on our website, www.stedna.org , and in our Bulletin (and on our entrance doors).

I hope you can join us on Holy Thursday (April 2nd) for our Agape Pot-luck Dinner in the Parish Center before our 7 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper . Be sure to RSVP. The Agape meal will be served between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Please remember that on Holy Saturday (April 4th) the only Mass that evening will be the 7 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass ( NO 5 p.m. Mass ). Also, there will NOT be a 5 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday (April 5th).

Our annual PASTA DINNER on March 14th was a very enjoyable experience. Thanks to everyone who came for a delicious meal, and everyone who worked so hard planning and carrying out the whole evening.

You can view all three nights of the MULTI-PARISH LENTEN MISSION that we hosted here at St. Edna on March 9-11 on our YouTube page (a link is on our www.stedna.org website homepage).

Special LENTEN PRAYER BOXES are on a table in the Narthex for you to drop your Lenten Prayer Intentions in. Slips of paper and pens are on this table, along with our St. Edna Guide for Lent card listing our opportunities for renewal.

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.

Thank you to everyone who has made a donation to help get our teenagers to Montague, Michigan for this summer’s CATHOLIC HEART WORKCAMP . At this point we have sufficient donations so that some of our students who could use some financial assistance are able to go on this trip. They are sure to have powerful, life-changing experiences this June.

Regarding SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS , please 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 530,965 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

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

May our Blessed Mother, the Queen of Peace, intercede to bring an end to the war our nation is currently involved in, and to all wars.

May your Holy Week be very blessed, and may God bless our OCIA Elect and Candidates preparing to receive their Easter sacraments at our 7 p.m. Vigil Mass this coming Saturday, April 4th.

Fr. Darrio