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St. Joseph Parish ministry builds beds for children in need

St. Joseph was a carpenter. He built things for people — beds, tables, whatever they needed. And he taught Jesus to help him. That’s what Diana told her 3-year-old daughter Isabella for three nights in February. Then, on the morning of Feb. 24, she told her that St. Joseph had come to build her a new bed.

Vietnam veterans honored at special anniversary Mass

On March 29, 50 years after the United States pulled members of its military services out of Vietnam, Father Ken Budzikowski stood in front of a full St. Cajetan Church and said, “Welcome home, Vietnam vets. Thank you for your service.”

Spelman Glee Club makes stop at St. Benedict the African

For St. Benedict the African parishioner Susan Rashard, the March 19 concert offered by the Spelman College Glee Club was a chance to enjoy and appreciate choral music in her church once again.

Longstanding parish ‘diner’ offers hot meals and friendship

How does a hot, home-cooked meal at no charge on Wednesday evenings sound? For Morgan Park residents, that’s available in the diner in the OSP Community Room at Our Lady of Kibeho Parish.

Archdiocese seeks feedback from parishioners about their faith life

On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, archdiocesan parishes will roll out the Disciple Makers Index Survey to all parishioners with the goal of learning where parishioners are in their faith journeys and how the local church can help them grow in that faith.

A simple invitation led one musician to a life in the church

If you attend a major event for African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago, chances are that you will see Tyrone Pittman leading the choir and playing the piano.

New video series hopes to evangelize through stained glass windows

Perhaps the first thing that visitors to St. Mary of the Woods Church see is the walls of windows, meant to make the congregation feel as though they are really in the woods, with images of Mary peeking out at them from among the branches and leaves.

New program invites parishes to sponsor asylum-seeking families

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago has been working with the more than 3,600 asylum seekers who arrived in Chicago on buses by mid-November seeking to make a new start in the United States. Now parishes can help by sponsoring such families and accompanying them in getting established.

Music minister celebrated for half-century of service

Maybe the secret to working at the same parish for 50 years is starting as a teenager. That worked for Debbie Titus, who celebrated a half-century of music ministry at Santa Maria del Popolo Parish in Mundelein at a special Mass Oct. 2.

Pastor uses art to support breakfasts for the homeless

“I’ve said to people that I was born with a package of crayons in my mother’s womb,” said Servite Father Christopher Krymski, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica and director of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd. “My father was an artist and I think the DNA may have gone down to me.”
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