This is Father’s Day weekend. There will NOT be a 5 p.m. Sunday evening Mass (June 21st). At each of our other four Masses, members of the Men’s Club will give a short “commercial” for their Group after Communion, and they will be distributing a nice Father’s Day gift to all men present.

Our St. Edna teenagers and chaperones have safely returned home from the Catholic Heart Work Camp in Montague, Michigan. Teens from several surrounding Parishes participated at the same Michigan camp, which has allowed our St. Edna teens to make some good friendships and connections for future events here.

Our St. Edna pilgrims return home this Tuesday, June 23rd, from their pilgrimage to the Shrines of France. We thank them for bringing with them all our prayer intentions. May God keep them safe these final days of their journey.

The Parish Office will be closed from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. this Wednesday, June 24th, so our Pastoral Staff and Office Staff can attend a Vicariate I luncheon and Conference for all Staffs of the Vicariate.

Our Sharing Parish ( St. James on Wabash ) will be here next Sunday, June 28th, attending our 11:30 a.m. Mass. After Mass we will host lunch for them in the Parish Center. Please join us for Mass and/or lunch.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK will take place on Friday, July 3rd, in the Church Narthex, immediately following the 8:30 a.m. Mass for anyone seriously ill in body, mind or soul. That same day, there will NOT be a 6:45 a.m. Communion Service. The Parish Office will be closed (in observance of the Independence Day holiday). The Adoration Chapel will still be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. The next day (Saturday, July 4th), we will celebrate a special 8 a.m. Mass to observe INDEPENDENCE DAY. The Parish Office will be closed. Outreach will still take place. That evening, we will have our usual 5 p.m. Mass (celebrating the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time). The next day, Sunday, July 5th, we will still have our three usual morning Masses but will NOT have a 5 p.m. Mass.

Our second annual outdoor CORPUS CHRISTI Eucharistic Procession on Sunday, June 7th, was absolutely beautiful. Lorie Crepeau and Lisa Hall coordinated the whole Service. 280 people participated. I’d like to thank our Men’s Club for their help carrying the canopy during the procession, and the Knights of Columbus for their presence. The Nolan McGuire Family donated the candles used on each outdoor altar. The beautiful yellow roses were provided by the estate of the late Bob Gaudio, and the monstrance we used is from the estate of the late Fr. Bob Borre. The canopy was donated to us last year by Joe Coleman and June Garby, along with the four beautiful altar antependiums. Special thanks to all of them. Our handbell choir was amazing, and the children scattering rose petals during the procession added grace and dignity to this beautiful ceremony. Our procession improves each year, and I am very grateful.

Thanks are extended to Finance Council members Jim Perkins, Wayne Fritz, and Ron Tsoumas who recently, at all our Masses, asked us to prayerfully consider increasing our weekly contribution to the Parish by $5.00. This will keep us in the black in the new fiscal year which begins on July 1st. Thank you for doing what you can to keep our Parish strong.

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.

Be sure to walk around our Parish grounds or drive around our parking lot to view all the Spring flowers in bloom. Our Gardening for God volunteers do a wonderful job keeping our campus looking so beautiful!

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.

Regarding SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS , 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 560,376 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

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

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.

Happy Father’s Day to all our dads!

Fr. Darrio