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Parishes gather for Renew My Church Vision Day

Leaders from 35 parishes newly formed under Renew My Church came together Sept. 6 for Vision Day: Building the New Reality at St. John Brebeuf Parish in Niles to learn about how they can make their communities more vital and engaged as part of the final stage of the process.

Catholics welcome icon of Mary as ‘we would all like to be welcomed’

On a cloudy Thursday morning, more than a hundred people gathered near the northwest corner of Humboldt Park to welcome the statue of the Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos to Chicago.

St. Mother Teresa parishioners come together to celebrate their patron’s life

Parishioners at the new St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish came together on Sept. 5, St. Teresa’s feast day, to thank her for her example and to ask her continued intercession as they work to unite the former St. Therese Chinese Catholic Parish in Chinatown and St. Barbara Parish in Bridgeport.

A state that serves the nation

Last January, you may recall, the bishops of the United States gathered at our seminary in Mundelein for a retreat at the invitation of Pope Francis. He sent Italian Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa as the retreat director. Father Cantalamessa has served as preacher to the papal household since he was appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1980.

Soup kitchen has fed hungry in Uptown for over 40 years

At 3:30 p.m. on a Friday, the basement of St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, 4827 N. Kenmore Ave., is already buzzing with activity. There are volunteers chopping vegetables for soup and salad. Another is opening cans of black beans — a main ingredient for tonight’s soup — and others are putting rolls and slices of bread in baskets and placing them on the long tables that occupy the floor of the multipurpose room.

Wilmette churches celebrate coming together as new parish

“It’s a joyous day.” That’s how Nancy Lou Kelly, a parishioner at the new Sts. Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish in Wilmette described the June 30 Unity Mass that celebrated the coming together of the two churches into one parish.

In spirit of Renew My Church, parishes come together to provide a home for two families in need

Even though they won’t be activated as part of the Renew My Church process until 2022, seven churches in Tinley Park, Orland Park, Crestwood and Orland Hills came together in the spirit of the process and built part of a duplex that will house families in need.

Renew My Church: Developing an evangelization team

When Father Ryszard Gron, pastor of St. William Parish, asked Aida Rodriguez to be the parish’s evangelization lead, she wasn’t sure she was the right person for the job.

Renew My Church: What does a warm, welcoming parish look like?

Representatives from parishes across the Archdiocese of Chicago got an example of what a warm welcome feels like when they attended the first session of the Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship’s Vitality Day: Hospitality and Welcoming.

Renew My Church: Helping leaders transform parish cultures

When members of St. James Parish, 2907 S. Wabash Ave, attended the Renew My Church Summit in October 2018, they heard a lot of great things about how the church needs to have a culture of evangelization.
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