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Our recent efforts to stay connected with parishioners was featured in a very short video story by the Associated Press. Click to watch.
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We are asking all of our parishioners and parish friends to send in photographs of themselves to be used to create a “photo congregation” for Holy Week. We will print your photographs and place them in the pews of the church for our live-streamed Holy Week liturgies. Be sure to tune in to see yourself on the screen!
Please submit your photos by Wednesday, April 8th at NOON.
Photos should be emailed to Elaine Lindia, Pastoral associate, at elindia@stbenedict.com
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Helpful COVID-19 Resources
Click for a list of websites with ways to help the local community. If you have any helpful resources that can be added to this list, please don’t hesitate to contact us…
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd at 7PM*
Join us on the remaining Fridays of Lent for virtual Stations of the Cross. Tune in to our live-stream page to join us in prayer.
*We will use a pre-recorded video for this gathering, filmed using our own parish stations. Though we encourage you to join us in prayer at 7pm, the stations may be prayed at any time using the devotional video.
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Jeremy Kiolbassa, Director of Music & Liturgy shares how he’s coping with working from home.
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Based on current guidelines from local public health departments, which recommend the cancellation of public gatherings involving 250 or more people, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, mandated the suspension until further notice of all liturgical services effective Saturday evening with the regularly scheduled weekend services. In addition, he has mandated the closing of schools operated by the archdiocese, and to close the Pastoral Center and related agency offices until further notice.
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Consider dedicating a hymnal to a friend or family member. This is a wonderful and permanent way to honor, remember, celebrate, or pray for a loved one. Each dedication is affixed to the inside cover of one hymnal and will remain there for the life of the book (25+ years), reminding all who open it of those memorialized. All funds raised will help us to purchase new choir robes…
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Elaine Lindia, Pastoral Associate, shares how she is coping with staying at home during the shelter-in-place order. Special guest appearance by Boopie, a feathery friend!
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Fr. Steve, our pastor, was recently featured on WTTW’s series “FIRSTHAND: Coronavirus” which chronicles Chicagoans’ response to the current pandemic. Fr. Steve talks about being called to action in this extraordinary time, and the parish’s efforts to stay connected…
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Our Associate Pastor, Fr. Robert Pajor, shares how he is coping with the recent shelter-in-place order. Special guest appearance by Henry!
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FRIDAY, MARCH 28TH at 7PM*
Join us on the remaining Fridays of Lent for virtual Stations of the Cross. Tune in to our live-stream page to join us in prayer.
*We will use a pre-recorded video for this gathering, filmed using our own parish stations. Though we encourage you to join us in prayer at 7pm, the stations may be prayed at any time using the devotional video.
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There are no racing thoughts at this time. However, when my thoughts occupy my mind, I pick that word or phrase back up and silently repeat it again. I am this prayer. I become this prayer, most times struggling, for at least twenty minutes to attune my heart and hear His language: silence…
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March 24th, 2020
As all residents of the state comply with the order to stay at home and refrain from non-essential activities, we are nonetheless painfully aware that being cut off from the sacramental life of the church, especially the Eucharist, creates a great hardship for our people, indeed for all of us. However, we make this sacrifice for the common good, convinced that we, like all citizens, have a responsibility in preventing the spread of COVID-19. In fact, doing so will ensure that our people can return to the sacraments as soon as possible…
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March 20th, 2020
Governor Pritzker's mandatory shelter-in-place order for the State of Illinois means the following for our parishes effective 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21 through Tuesday, April 7…
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH at 7PM*
Join us on the remaining Fridays of Lent for virtual Stations of the Cross. Tune in to our live-stream page to join us in prayer.
*We will use a pre-recorded video for this gathering, filmed using our own parish stations. Though we encourage you to join us in prayer at 7pm, the stations may be prayed at any time using the devotional video.
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March 19, 2020
Based on current guidelines from local public health departments, which recommend the cancellation of public gatherings involving 250 or more people, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, mandated the suspension until further notice of all liturgical services effective Saturday evening with the regularly scheduled weekend services. In addition, he has mandated the closing of schools operated by the archdiocese, and to close the Pastoral Center and related agency offices until further notice.
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On Thursday, March 26, 2020, at 6 PM in Kittler Hall, we will be showing the powerful feature film, IGNATIUS of LOYOLA: Soldier, Sinner, Saint, an epic motion picture based on true events in the life of the founder of the Jesuits, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Refreshments will be available.
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