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St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket Parishes
November 13, 2018
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Dear Families,
 We would like to invite you to a
Back-to-School night in Religious Ed
on November 14.
We will have 20 minute periods for you to observe what happens in your child's classroom (and enough time to circulate if you have more than one child.)
The catechists and the students are eager to welcome you, so that you can get a taste of what is happening in the classrooms each week. We hope that you can join us and discover a bit more about what the kids are learning.
We'll let the classes get a few minutes to get settled in before welcoming you into the classroom. Please note that dismissal will take place as usual.
Save the date for a special mass here at St. Emily in the Syro-Malabar Rite, which comes from India. Fr. Kevin Mundackal will be here to celebrate this mass at 3:00 PM on November 18.
One more date to save -
Breakfast with Santa will be December 15 at St. Emily with two sittings at 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM. More details to come.
St. Emily has begun a Queen of Hearts Raffle. The raffle pot builds until the Queen of Hearts is drawn. Drawings are held weekly. Come to the St. Emily office to buy tickets. It's a fun and exciting way to support the parish.
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St. Emily Dinner Dance
Save the Date for February 9
Pass the Hat Tomorrow Night
Religious Education has been asked to help donate a basket for the Silent Auction.
Look for the top hat tomorrow, as we pass the hat.
We ask that each family contribute between $2 and $5. However, any amount will be welcome!
The proceeds from the dance will help to maintain, heat and light the school building, which your family uses each week. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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Coat Drive
The temperature is dropping, please check your closets. Do you have coats that are just hanging there? Can you share your warmth?
St. Emily Women's Club is having their annual coat drive after the Saturday evening Mass on November 17, and after all the morning Masses on Sunday, November 18.
We will be collecting
clean winter coats and jackets, as well as
new gloves, mittens, scarves for men, women and children. Donations can be dropped off in the gathering area of the church next to Hajdu Hall.
Your donations will go directly to the homeless and those in need in the Chicago area.
Items will be given to:
- Button and Zippers, an organization that distributes coats and jackets to homeless shelters, youth organizations and individuals living on the streets of Chicago;
- Catholic Charities. Coats will be distributed at the Des Plaines location for the homeless in our own area;
- Sarah's Circle, located in Chicago's Uptown Community which serves women and their children who are homeless or in need of a safe place to stay.
If you have any questions, please call Marybeth Janak at 224 217-541 or Mary McKeown at 847 770-0704.
Thanks for sharing your warmth!
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Was your child in our Sunday pre-school?
Come Back And Sing!
St. Emily's Sunday School is celebrating 10 years!
To mark this milestone,
we would like to invite all former Sunday school students to join us in singing "Light One Candle" (our traditional Advent song) after communion during the 9:30 AM mass on December 16.
We will have a brief practice on December 9 after the 9:30 AM mass.
Please contact Barb Zediker at barbzediker@comcast.net or 847.650.5308 with questions and to let us know if you will be able to sing with us.
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Youth Ministry
Join in the fun
Middle School and High School
- November 18 - 7:00 pm
6th/7th Grade Social Meeting
- December 2 - 7:00 pm
All Grades Social Meeting
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Living the Beatitudes
More in our exploration of Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation,
Gaudete et Exsultate.
Pope Francis now moves on to consider each Beatitude in turn.
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
These are strong words in a world that from the beginning has been a place of conflict, disputes and enmity on all sides, where we constantly pigeonhole others on the basis of their ideas, their customs and even their way of speaking or dressing. Ultimately, it is the reign of pride and vanity, where each person thinks he or she has the right to dominate others. Nonetheless, impossible as it may seem, Jesus proposes a different way of doing things: the way of meekness. This is what we see him doing with his disciples. It is what we contemplate on his entrance to Jerusalem: "Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey" (Mt 21:5; Zech 9:9).
Christ says: "Learn from me; for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Mt 11:29). If we are constantly upset and impatient with others, we will end up drained and weary. But if we regard the faults and limitations of others with tenderness and meekness, without an air of superiority, we can actually help them and stop wasting our energy on useless complaining. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux tells us that "perfect charity consists in putting up with others' mistakes, and not being scandalized by their faults".
...Meekness is yet another expression of the interior poverty of those who put their trust in God alone. (#71-72,74)
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- November 14 - Back to School Night for Religious Ed families.
- November 21 - No Class for Thanksgiving Break
- December 2 - First Sunday of Advent
- December 19 - Eucharistic Adoration in the church.
- December 26 and January 2 - No Class
- January 9 - Class resumes
- February 9 - St. Emily Dinner Dance
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St. Emily Parish
Catherine Crino, DRE
847-299-5865
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St. Thomas Becket Parish
Renata Sosin, CRE
847-296-9051
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