Last weekend we concluded a significant portion of the church year. This weekend we return to the portion of the year called Ordinary Time. Perhaps the best way to understand Ordinary Time in the church calendar is to review the long stretch that we have just concluded, a stretch that has been far from ordinary. Ordinary Time […]
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This Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. We read this Sunday, from the Gospel of Luke, how Jesus feeds five thousand men, not including women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish. The Feast of the Holy Eucharist
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Our Middle School Genesis One Club recently won the Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful Earth Day Hutchcroft Youth Award for championing efforts to reduce waste in our cafeteria. Caring for God’s creation is a tenet of Catholic Social Justice and part of our school culture. You can see it in our restored wetland and prairie gardens
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This weekend brings numerous elements to the celebration of the Eucharist. In a church founded upon and structured around Sacraments (experiences of the sacred), the Eucharist is clearly the most important. The sacredness of the Eucharist comes about in too many ways to comprehend, but in it, and through it, we, the Body of Christ,
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This year’s Lenten Social Justice project intended to humanize the immigration issue impacting millions of people in our world today by. recognizing its complexity and emphasizing accompaniment of people on their journey. Respecting the human dignity of every individual is the first and foremost Catholic social teaching. The seven main teachings include: Respecting Human Dignity; Call to
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