Participants pray to end violence and promote peace during the ninth annual Sunrise Prayer Service and Mass at Oakwood/41st Street Beach, 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Aug. 25. Worshippers gathered to pray for peace and the healing of families, schools and communities. The event is sponsored by the Black Deacons of Chicago.
New deacons to be ordained for archdiocese Cardinal Cupich will ordain 27 men as permanent deacons to serve in the Archdiocese of Chicago in two Masses on Sept. 26 at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave. Two men were ordained in August.
Deacons hold 10th sunrise service praying for an end to violence For the last 10 years, the Black deacons of Chicago have led sunrise services near around the start of the school year to pray for an end to gun violence in the city. They gathered again and continued praying on Sept. 12, this time not on Oakwood Beach but in the parking lot of St. Katharine Drexel Church, 9015 S. Harper Ave., because of social distancing.
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