Last weekend’s special Second Collection for the Little Sisters of the Poor brought in over $6,000.00. This collection honored the late Gary Daigle, our previous Music Director, who spent the final months of his life in the care of the Little Sisters at their Chicago facility. Thank you, everyone, for your generosity, made in loving memory of Gary.

We’re pleased to announce that the CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD (CLOW) starts up again this Sunday, September 13th, at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. Children (ages 5-12) will be dismissed from the Church, after the Opening Prayer, to go to the Doherty Center with their catechists, to hear the Sunday Scripture readings in “kid language” and to focus on a nice, easy to understand reflection on the Scripture readings. They will return to the Church at Offertory time, and later will be called up to the altar for the Lord’s Prayer. For now, CLOW will be each second Sunday of the month. We hope to have it more often as time goes on.

Our Generation to Generation Campaign continues to go extremely well, and I am deeply grateful for the incredible generosity of our parish community. In the coming weeks, some of our dedicated parish volunteers may reach out to you to invite you to a personal conversation or a campaign event. I encourage you to accept their invitation and take the opportunity to learn more about this important effort. I am especially grateful to our volunteer team for their help with this important work. Together, we are helping to strengthen our Parish and build a lasting legacy of faith for generations to come.

Previous St. Edna Associate Pastor, FR. STEVE DOMBROWSKI (age 63) passed away on Saturday, August 29th. He had been ill for quite a while and was recently undergoing dialysis six nights a week (while he slept). His funeral arrangements are: Visitation at St. Alphonsus Liguori Church in Prospect Heights (411 N. Wheeling Road) on Saturday, September 19th from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:30 a.m. Fr. Steve started the awesome St. Edna CHRP for Men and CHRP for Women weekend retreats during his years of service here, that so many of our parishioners were part of. He has left a wonderful mark on St. Edna Parish. May he rest now in peace.

Please sign up to keep the BLESSING CUP for a week. One family or individual can take Fr. Hurley’s chalice home with them and pray for vocations (from the Booklet included with the chalice). Call the Office to sign up for your preferred week. The chalice should always be returned to the Office by the Saturday that concludes your week of prayer.

Our new fiscal year began July 1st. Thank you to everyone who has increased their weekly contribution to the parish by $5.00 to help keep us in the black. Because of increased insurance rates on our buildings, and increased costs for employee benefits, we need to reach a budgeted income goal of $26,000.00 per week. Thank you for understanding our need.

OUTDOOR STATIONS OF THE CROSS have been mounted on the north wall of the Parish Center. Come and pray the Stations year-round, at any hour.

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.

SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS are going around again. Please never ever 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 (off the Community Room patio).

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 585,046 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Our annual BLESSING OF PETS will take place on Saturday, October 3rd, at 12:15 p.m. under the Church canopy. Please be sure your pets are properly leashed/contained.

Please continue praying for peace, and for the many people killed and suffering from earthquakes, wars, unjust aggression, wildfires, storms, flooding, mudslides, drought, violence, homelessness, unemployment, depression, anxiety, disasters, shootings, accidents, poverty, humidity, and excessive heat.

May our Blessed Mother, the Queen of Peace, intercede to bring an end to all wars, and may her Son, our Risen Lord, bless us and guard us.

God bless our nation this week, as we remember and mourn the terrible September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.

Fr. Darrio