Name changes to the following parishes were approved by the Archdiocesan Presbyteral Council Oct. 15: • Divine Infant Jesus and Divine Providence Parish, Westchester, to be renamed Mary, Mother of Divine Grace Parish • Holy Ghost and Sts. Mary and Jude Parish, Riverdale and South Holland, to be renamed Christ Our Savior Parish • Our Lady of Knock and Sts. Andrew and Victor Parish, Calumet City, to be renamed Jesus, Shepherd of Souls Parish • Sacred Heart and St. Eulalia Parish, Melrose Park and Maywood, to remain Sacred Heart and St. Eulalia Parish • Sts. Barbara and Louise de Marillac Parish, Brookfield and La Grange Park, to be renamed Holy Guardian Angels Parish • Sts. Simeon and Domitilla Parish, Bellwood and Hillside, to be renamed Queen of All Nations Parish • Immaculate Conception and St. Michael Parish, Chicago, to remain Immaculate Conception and St. Michael Parish.
St. Moses the Black pantry expanding to meet increased need When the St. Columbanus Parish opened its food pantry in 2004, it served about 50 households each week. Now part of St. Moses the Black Parish, the food pantry regularly serves more than 700 households each week, distributing more than 2 million pounds of food and clothes each year.
Homeless, hungry focus of first ‘Carlo Fest’ event Students preparing for confirmation and first Communion at Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish spent the morning of March 23 imitating their parish’s patron by making bag lunches for hungry people.
Replica of beloved Michoacán image of Jesus installed in Mundelein parish In Huandacareo, Michoacán, nearly half a million devotees process with the image of “El Señor del Amparo” (“The Lord of Protection”) through the streets on Holy Thursday night, from the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper until about 5 a.m.