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  • As of Saturday March 21, 2020:

    Please see the direction below that Fr. Tom received from the Archdiocese in conjunction with the Governor’s order to shelter in place (Notes in yellow are our parish’s response to these directives):

     

     Archdiocese of Chicago

     

    Governor Pritzker has announced a mandatory shelter-in-place order for the State of Illinois.  What this means for our parishes is that effective 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21 through Tuesday, April 7:

     

    • All churches and adoration chapels must be closed and locked until the order is lifted by the governor. Private prayer in any parish building must be discontinued until the order is lifted. St. Mary Church will be closed and locked today at 5 p.m.  The Church will remain closed until the Governor’s order is lifted.

     

    • There can be no live Stations of the Cross or any other gatherings anywhere on parish/school property, nor can any parish personnel be involved in organizing them on any other site.

     

    • All weddings and baptisms must be postponed and can be re-scheduled only once the order is lifted. There are no exceptions to this, regardless of the size of the group. However, in case of an extreme emergency for baptism, please seek the permission of your bishop.

     

    • Funerals and wakes must be postponed until the order is lifted.

     

    • Priests can – and are encouraged – to continue celebrating Mass privately and to livestream their Masses for their parishioners, if possible. Fr. Tom will continue to say Mass privately every day for our intentions. Sunday Mass will be recorded and made available to the parish.

     

    • Anointing of the sick and confession/absolution guidelines will be forthcoming.
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TODAY'S DAILY REFLECTIONS

    SUNDAY MASS WEBCAST

      • FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

        GIVE GLORY TO GOD

               On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, just before we begin to enter Holy Week, we are summoned to Bethany. If we had been friends of Mary, Lazarus, and Martha, and found out that Lazarus was gravely ill, we probably would have dropped everything to be with them. This was what was so surprising about the behavior of Jesus. Although he was their close friend, he chose to stay away, that God’s glory would be manifested. This is a persistent theme in John’s Gospel. Right to the very end, Jesus’ works were meant to give glory to the Father. As our Lenten journey reaches a crescendo, let us be mindful that, as people who have “put on Christ” in baptism, we are also called, by our attitudes and actions, to give glory to God.

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        TODAY’S READINGS

        First Reading — Thus says the Lord God: I will open your graves, have you rise from them, and settle you on your land. Then you shall know I am the Lord, O my people! (Ezekiel 37:12-14).

        Psalm — With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption (Psalm 130).

        Second Reading — If Christ is in you, the spirit is alive even if the body is dead because of sin (Romans 8:8-11).

        Gospel — Lazarus, dead for four days, came out of his tomb when Jesus called his name

        (John 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]).

        The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

         
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