God bless POPE LEO as he recovers from lung cancer surgery. May the prayers of the world assist him.

BUNCO is this Friday, October 23rd. Lots of men and women enjoy this lively and fun evening.

After all the morning Masses this Sunday, come to the Community Room for refreshments and for information about our Generation to Generation Campaign . The campaign is going extremely well, and we’d like to conclude the campaign before Thanksgiving. We’re hoping that everyone makes a pledge to the campaign, large or small, which is payable over five years. On September 22nd, we achieved our $1,900,000.00 goal, and on October 5th, we reached our LEGACY GOAL of an additional $300,000.00. We’d like to keep adding to that goal to strengthen our Parish and build a lasting endowment legacy for generations to come. I’m deeply grateful for the incredible generosity of our Parish community, and grateful to our dedicated volunteer team for their help with this important work. Some of these volunteers will give a brief witness talk this weekend, at all our Masses, immediately after the homily, about why this campaign and St. Edna Parish are so important to them.

Congratulations to DON LUKEN ! On Sunday, October 4th, at Holy Name Cathedral, Cardinal Cupich and Bishop Timothy O’Malley presented Don with the 2026 Christifideles Award for outstanding service to St. Edna Parish. For many years, Don has overseen the ministry of regularly delivering groceries to the Food Pantry of our Sharing Parish (St. James on Wabash). Thanks, Don, for your faithful service. Don and his team of St. Edna volunteers have driven many miles over the years to help feed the hungry.

Great news for our Parish: parishioner Peter Kirsh is a candidate for the Permanent Diaconate. He has three more years of study to complete before being ordained a Permanent Deacon assigned to St. Edna. Peter and his wife Cindy just completed the first “aspirancy” year of the Deacon training program. Please keep them in your prayers, as they walk this journey of faith leading to Peter’s ordained service to the Church in 2029.

The CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD (CLOW) takes place at the 9:30 a.m. Mass each second Sunday of the month. Children ages 5-12, are dismissed from the Church after the Opening Prayer and escorted to the Doherty Center with their catechists, to hear the Sunday Scripture readings in “kid language” and focus on a nice, easy to understand reflection on the Scripture readings. They return to the Church at Offertory time and are called up to the altar for the Lord’s Prayer. We’d like to have CLOW more often than just the second Sunday of each month, so if you would like to help out with this wonderful and very important ministry, please call the Office.

A beautiful and very easy ministry to take part in is our BLESSING CUP ministry. Each 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 needs to be returned to the Office by the Saturday that concludes your week of prayer. Everyone should consider taking part in this ministry. The vocations that come forth from our prayers benefit the world.

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 (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 593,996 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

During this Respect Life month of October (which is also the month of the Rosary and Domestic Violence Awareness ), please continue praying for peace, and for a permanent end to all wars. Our whole world is in disarray from these wars. Pray, too, for the many people killed and suffering from these wars, and all those suffering from earthquakes, unjust aggression, wildfires, storms, flooding, mudslides, drought, violence, homelessness, unemployment, depression, anxiety, disasters, shootings, accidents, poverty, humidity, and extreme weather temperatures. And pray for people wo are quietly and privately suffering from domestic violence. May God provide them with the graces they need for better and safer futures.

Fr. Darrio