Thanks JP and all priests who assisted I want to thank Friar Johnpaul Cafiero for his presence here at Holy Family during my time away on retreat. Many of you commented how great it was to have him here for a prolonged period of time. He responded to several requests for the Sacrament of Anointing […]
It was always right about the time August was approaching that I would get a new level of excitement about the new school year when I was a third grade teacher. I would start to think about all the little faces that would be ready to learn new things, and all the clean new
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The Parable of the Sower I think most of us are familiar with Jesus’ Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-23), the Gospel reading for this 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. This is the one in which a sower sows seed indiscriminately on a path (birds came and ate them), on rocky ground (poor soil so
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Congratulations, Dr. Peg! Dr. Peg Hanrahan is retiring as our Director of Teen and Family Faith. For the past eight years she has provided wisdom and leadership for children, teens, our staff and indeed our entire faith community. Dr. Peg has served at six different parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago in a number of
Father’s Day A very Happy Father’s Day to all of the men in our lives and our community who carry out two images of God from Scripture, Father and Abba. Jesus repeatedly addresses God as Father and in teaching us to pray he begins with the word OUR. Our Father who art in heaven… In
