May 29, 2022:
The Ascension of the Lord
PARISH NEWSLETTER
The Church of St. Mary :: 201 E. Illinois Lake Forest, IL 60045
Parish Office Hours: 8:30am to 4:00pm Monday - Friday
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-----This July we will be offering a wonderful summer camp for your youth. Totus Tuus, “totally yours”, is offered to deepen and celebrate our children’s life and friendship with the Lord. Here is information about the camp in July:
Totus Tuus is a summer, week-long Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, apologetics, Christian witness, the sacraments, Marian devotion and Eucharistic worship for students entering grades one through 12. We strive to help young people understand their faith through catechesis, so they may live in today’s world through a “parish mission” for the young students of the parish, all with a strong emphasis on fun.
Totus Tuus is concerned not only with teaching the faith, but also igniting the hearts of its team members and young people. Totus Tuus seeks to assist and supplement the work of parents and parishes toward a deeper understanding of their faith and the Person of Christ.
The mission of Totus Tuus is to inspire in young people a true longing for holiness, a deep desire for daily conversion and an openness to their vocation by constantly challenging them to give themselves entirely to Christ through Mary, and by continually strengthening their prayer lives in imitation of Her.
Totus Tuus – Totally Yours
Totus Tuus, a Latin phrase meaning totally yours, is the shortened version of St. John Paul II’s motto, “Totus Tuus ergo sum et omnia mea tua sunt.” Originally taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary, it signifies our desire to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ through Mary. It also expresses our effort to give our all to every young person we encounter during this summer mission work.
Totus Tuus calls upon college students and seminarians from Chicago and across the United States to carry out its mission. These missionaries are hired for their love of the faith, energy, enthusiasm, ability to work as a team, commitment to spiritual growth and desire to work with youth. Those hired are extensively trained, put on teams of four (two men and two women) and sent out to a different parish every week for six weeks. Within the parish, they conduct a week-long “parish mission”, teaching and inspiring the parish’s youth.
In these teams, Christ’s love is made manifest. The love shared by these team members is the example of authentic Christian living, and their lives for the summer are centered on prayer and the sacraments. It is through this supernatural life that they work to serve and be a witness. “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41). Youth see these teachers are joyful and on fire with the Catholic faith, and they long for the same thing in their lives.
The daily schedule for Totus Tuus teachers revolves around Mass, Sacrament and prayer – a summer entrusted fully to the Lord, and a heart devoted to youth and parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Totus Tuus teachers will lead young people to Jesus for a week; however, Mary will lead them to Jesus for a lifetime. Mary is a living catechism, and the mother and model of catechists. Therefore, Totus Tuus promotes Marian devotion. By meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, we come to see how Mary always leads us to her Son.
Finally, Totus Tuus demonstrates one can be a faithful Catholic and still have fun. Morning pump up skits, along with songs, recesses, games and a water fight in the parishes are all manifestations of fun built into the program.
-----Further down in this newsletter is more program information and how to register the young people in your family for Totus Tuus at St. Mary’s!
-----May God bless us as we walk with Jesus in newness of life,
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on the massacre of children in Uvalde, Texas
May 24, 2022
Today, a gunman walked into a grade school in Uvalde, TX, and slaughtered at least 18 children. The shooter allegedly killed his grandmother before driving to the school. Authorities say the suspect is dead. He was 18 years old.
The parents were told, “Please do not pick up students at this time. Students need to be accounted for before they are released to your care.” Imagine being a parent with a child in that school. Imagine having to bury them.
Parents now face a delay in identifying the victims—such was the extent of the damage done to these children’s bodies by the killer’s weapons.
The NRA has its annual meeting on Friday in Houston, about 300 miles east of the massacre, less than a year after the TX governor signed into law a bill that allows people without license or training to carry handguns.
We don’t yet know whether the Uvalde gunman took advantage of “permitless carry,” but we do know that America is awash in guns. We have more firearms than people.
It was not always this way. But more Americans died from gun violence in 2020 than during any other year on record: more than 45,000. That was a 25% increase from 2015, and a 43% increase from 2010.
Mass shootings have become a daily reality in America today. Two people died and 7 were injured last week during a mass shooting just down the street from Holy Name Cathedral. Last weekend in Chicago, 28 people were shot.
The size of the crisis, and its sheer horror, make it all too easy to toss up one’s hands and declare: Nothing can be done. But that is the counsel of despair, and we are a people of hope. What do we hope for our children?
That as a regular feature of their schooling, they learn how to behave should a shooter attack? That they feel endangered by simply doing what society says is good for them—going to school? That they come to wonder whether they even have futures at all?
Tonight our airwaves will fill with pundits who offer predictable lamentations and warnings and tut-tuts and thoughts and prayers. And we must pray—for the victims, their loved ones, for the parents who will send their kids off to school tomorrow.
We must weep and soak in the grief that comes with the knowledge that these children of God were cut down by a man who was just a few years their senior. But then we must steel ourselves to act in the face of what seems like insurmountable despair.
Researchers also determined that if the ban had remained in place in the years since it was allowed to expire, it could have prevented another 30 public mass shootings that killed 339 people and injured 1139 more.
As I reflect on this latest American massacre, I keep returning to the questions: Who are we as a nation if we do not act to protect our children? What do we love more: our instruments of death or our future?
The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai. The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them.
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Children's Worship Bulletin for May 29, 2022:
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ST. MARY'S RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
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HOLY COMMUNION TO THOSE IN CARS
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Please note: The offering of Holy Communion to those in cars has been discontinued
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SCHEDULE: Saturday, May 28 - Sunday, June 5, 2022
Saturday, May 28, 2022:
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
+ 8:00am: Confession - Church
+ 5:00pm: Livestream & PUBLIC Mass
Sunday, May 29, 2022:
+ 8:00am: PUBLIC MASS
+ 10:00am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS
+ 12:00pm: PUBLIC MASS
Monday, May 30, 2022: ~ Memorial Day
Parish Office Closed
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
Tuesday, May 31. 2022:
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
+ 5:00pm: Handbell Choir Practice - CCR
Wednesday, June 1, 2022:
School Graduation Mass - No Adoration & Benediction on this Date
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
Thursday, June 2, 2022:
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
+ 7:00pm: Choir Practice - Church
Friday, June 3, 2022:
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
Saturday, June 4, 2022:
+ 7:30am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS with Rosary & Private Prayer after Mass until 8:30am
+ 8:00am: Confession - Church
+ 5:00pm: Livestream & PUBLIC Mass
Sunday, June 5, 2022:
+ 8:00am: PUBLIC MASS
+ 10:00am: Livestream & PUBLIC MASS
+ 12:00pm: PUBLIC MASS
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FROM AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE
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Fall 2022 Adult Confirmation
for Vicariate I Parishioners
Are you an adult who missed receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation? Preparation for Confirmation for Vicariate I parishioners will be offered weekly on Mondays beginning Monday, September 12, 2022 from 7:00-9:00pm, at St. Edna Parish, 2525 N. Arlington Heights Rd. in Arlington Heights. Bishop Jeffrey Grob will preside at the Confirmation Mass to be held at St. Edna Parish, Arlington Heights, on Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00pm.
Information and a registration form can be found at:
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PLENARY INDULGENCE IN TIME OF CRISIS
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Plenary Indulgence
The Apostolic Penitentiary, a branch of the Vatican offices which focuses on mercy and the forgiveness of sins, issued a decree granting a Plenary Indulgence during this extraordinary time. To see some of the ways we can still participate in the life of grace and the life of the Church during the Covid-19 pandemic please click here.
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To find ways to volunteer within our community and to seek assistance from the parish please click here.
Here is a List of Places You may watch Mass on TV, Radio or Online:
- Online:
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Church of St. Mary Livestream can be found on our Facebook Page. View past celebrated Masses or join us for a current Livestream Mass according to the schedule in this newsletter.
- TV: EWTN
- DirecTV Channel 370
- Dish Network Channel 261
- Verizon Fios Channel 285
- XFinity Channel 33, 291, 1668
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Relevant Radio:
- 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT.
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These Masses will be broadcast live on your local station, on the Relevant Radio® app, at relevantradio.com, and on my Father Rocky Facebook page so you can tune in from wherever you are. The Mass will be rebroadcast each evening at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT on your local station.
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To read the Daily Scripture readings you may go to usccb.org and select "Daily Reading" at the top left menu.
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II Mitch Hanak and Maggie Milligan
I Beauregard Dobbins and Alyssa Bazzanella
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PRAYER FOR THE SICK AND DECEASED
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Please remember in your prayers those who are sick, especially: |
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Brooke Bloom
Joan Dolan
Christian Jenko
James Krueger
Abby Logan
Caroline Lyczko
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Carolina Martinez
Robert Matthei
Debbie McNairney
Infant Julian Pusateri
John Sternberg
Cal Stroh
Kathleen K. Walters
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Please note that the names on our parish sick list are now posted for a three-month period.
The new sick list began on May 1 and will continue through August. If you would like to add a family member to the Prayers for the Sick, please call our Parish Office at: 847.234.0205.
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Please remember in your prayers those who have gone to their eternal rest with Our Lord, especially:
Marianne Powers
(mother of John [Robin] Powers; grandmother of Sydney and Jack)
Martin Sobey
(brother of Faith [John] Favale; uncle of AJ Favale and Catherine [Brett] Barnes)
Elaine Williams
(mother of Matt [Cathy] Williams; grandmother of Lindsay, Matthew, Ryan, and Jack)
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Mass Intentions will be prayed for during a private or public daily Mass.
Saturday, May 28, 2022:
7:30am: Lucy Yoo; Margaret Hoffmann
5:00pm: Anita Caputo; Dorina Mentuccia; Anna & Carl Deckmeyer & Bob Pommer
Sunday, May 29, 2022:
8:00am: Radic-Neverka Family; Dorothy Banas; Loretta Nacius
10:00am: Percy McKeever; Betty Grota
Noon: Ethel Blahunka; Silvio & Francis Bosco; People of St. Mary’s
Monday, May 30, 2022:
7:30am: Edward Hoover; Stephen Kraychy; Mary Kay Tschanz
Tuesday, May 31, 2022:
7:30am: William Leiser; Loretta Nacius; Special Intention for Mary Gail Reding
Wednesday, June 1, 2022:
7:30am: Gwen Wheelock Labus; Josephine Glab; Rosemary Sheahen
Thursday, June 2, 2022:
7:30am: Jim Tollaksen; Marjorie Ann Mayes, Special Intention for Myra Cordero
Friday, June 3, 2022:
7:30am: Ryan Stoll; Sylvia Sarmiento; Anna & Carl Deckmeyer & Bob Pommer
Saturday, June 4, 2022:
7:30am: Suzanne Parr Happel; Deceased Members of the Craigmile-Maurer Family;
----------Patrick & Clara Corbett
5:00pm:Austin Vanden Heuvel; Frank Funai; Aldo Raganelli
Sunday, June 5, 2022:
8:00am: Cimarrusti-Valentino Family; Joseph Morahan; Rosemary Sheahen
10:00am: James Jacksack; Richard Kelner; Gene Kluza
Noon: David Craigmile Sr.; Ryan Stoll; People of St. Mary’s
If you would like to request a special Mass Intention, please email our Parish Receptionists at: receptionist@churchofstmary.org and they will kindly assist you!
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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” (REVELATION 22:13)
This is a reminder of how we should live our lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – putting God first in all that we do. Not only when I am at Mass and parish activities, but when I am in the world, at work, or at school. Living gratefully and generously is a lifestyle; it should influence how I make all my daily decisions.
Sunday Collection-------------------------------------------Actual-------------Budgeted------Surplus/(Shortfall)
May 22, 2022-------------------------------------------------- $19,347--------- -- $22,000 ----- ------($2,653)
Total Sunday Collections Fiscal 2022 YTD--------- $1,171,836------------$990,000 ------------$181,836
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THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY
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We are grateful for the outpouring of support from parishioners while we navigate financially. Thank you for continuing to support your parish as well as our sharing parish, Most Blessed Trinity. Thank you for mailing your contribution to the Parish Office or scheduling your online donation. Offertory basket will be made available during Sunday Public Masses as well for your offering.
Ways To Give
+ Drop in the Offertory Basket during Public Mass at the end of Mass
+ Mail Your Contribution:
----- Church of St. Mary
----- c/o Business Office
-----201 E. Illinois
-----Lake Forest, IL 60045
+ Online Giving:
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Schedule your recurring donations via our online Giving safe and secure portal, GiveCentral Go to: Church of St. Mary GiveCentral or click the image to the left.
Thank you!
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Church of St. Mary Website
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Information on our Mass Schedule, Sacraments, School, Religious Education, Youth Ministry, Guild of St. Mary, Liturgical Ministries, Bible Study, RCIA, Bulletins, Gospel Reading Podcasts, Homily Podcasts, and more can all be found on our webpage.
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