Children react as Totus Tuus team members sing songs with children attending the program at St. Hubert Church in Hoffman Estates on July 2, 2021. The parish hosted the weeklong Catholic camp for children and youth. During the week, children attend daily Mass, learn the parts and liturgical songs of Mass, and participate in games, skits, songs, recess and prayer. Parishes throughout the archdiocese offer Totus Tuus camps sponsored by the Office for Vocations.
Vicariate vocation directors hope to foster discernment connections closer to home parishes Young men who are discerning whether they are called to the priesthood should be able to find help closer to home with the addition of three vicariate vocation directors to the archdiocesan Vocation Office. The hope is that the new additions to the vocations team can help reach out to parishes, high schools and colleges and invite young men to consider the priesthood, said Father Timothy Monahan, vocations director.
Consecrated Life Day: Religious men, women answer questions from Catholic school students During the archdiocese’s annual Day for Consecrated Life on Feb. 8 at Our Lady Mother of the Church, 8747 W. Lawrence Ave., we asked several men and women religious to answer questions from students at two of this year’s Blue Ribbon schools — Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Lemont and St. Benedict Prep, 3900 N. Leavitt St.
St. Leonard celebrates summer and Jesus at Totus Tuus Children attending Totus Tuus camp at St. Leonard Church in Berwyn pray the rosary on June 27, 2019.