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During the funeral preparations for Fr. Dan Hessling, a few parishioners noticed at St. Patrick's Church in Momence that a great flow of rain was pouring into the corner of our church. Many are aware that our roof problems have been rather significant at St. Patrick's Church - we had no gutters on our gymnasium upon my arrival and a good number of the buildings were in a condition that normally would have pegged a few of our structures to be "condemned" (a couple buildings at Hopkins Park actually were demolished two weeks prior to my arrival, unbeknownst to me.

I had a wonderful roof contact from Joliet, Mr. Rafael Hernandez, who has done a great deal of work at our parish, all for the cost of "gas money." Once again (with the help of an eighty foot lift), Rafael was able to clean up a great deal of refuse that had lodged itself into our current roof structures, causing the flooding in our sanctuary. Rafael had suggested that we find someone... QUICKLY... to tuckpoint a couple areas of our building which would have caused great damage (and harm!) on our property. Where would we find someone to do tuckpointing work on a Wednesday without any advance notice?

Thanks to Jim Sparenberg at St. Anne's, he got us in contact with Hatting Construction in Aroma Park, who had just completed a major job at St. Anne's the week before. Because of the tenuous weather situation, one of the workers from Hatting had free time on his hands, so Mark Surprenant worked with our own David Surprenant to tuckpoint the two areas on our property in dire need of repair for a very reasonable price. Thank you Hatting and the folks of both parishes for helping us preserve one of the most beautiful churches in the diocese!!!

This upcoming weekend really kicks off another round of our Sacrament Season at the parishes. With two Quinceañeras, Two Baptism Services, Seven Confirmations and a House Blessing this weekend, I will be running all over the place... for you!!! Thanks to everyone who are taking part of these wonderful moments of grace, from John Rehmer at St. Patrick's with Confirmation, Ana Rivas and the Camino y Esperanza crew for the Quinceañeras to Ema Elvir for juggling everything while keeping her sanity!!!

In the meantime, I am working on recording all the Novena Masses online for our St. Anne festivities. Ema Elvir has stuffed and mailed the envelopes for the St. Anne Novena and we received permission to celebrate Masses in English, Latin and Spanish on July 26th! The choir from St. Joseph's Church in Rockdale (the parish that celebrates the Latin Mass) will be joining us on July 26th as well. While both parishes are gearing towards their respective Golf Outings (St. Anne's on June 11th and St. Patrick's on June 25th), we continue to focus on the Spiritual Life at our parishes, the key for us to enter heaven!!!

If someone is able to drive to Oak Brook or Morris to pick up cases of food for the needy of our area, Fr. Pete has connections with a gentleman who can set us up with a good amount of food that is "overstocked" or often unwanted by production companies. If you can help in any way to pick this food up, please contact Fr. Pete at (815) 685-1359. A great number of people benefit from this service but Fr. Pete's time is too limited for this one particular ministry. WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Renovate Gym Floor - $20,000

Repair Church Roof - $50,000

Pave Parish Parking Lot - $75,000

Create Gym Parking Lot - $150,000

Gym First Floor Bathrooms & Kitchen - $150,000

Parish Debt $258,000

If you can help in any way, please contact us at (815) 472-2864. Please remember St. Patrick's & St. Anne's in Your Will or Estate Planning!

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June 4-5, 2022



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June 4-5, 2022

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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Mary Kay Blankestyn, Elizabeth Rademacher, Ron Gall, Jean Gibson, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Cynthia Vickery, Joanne McCracken, Joseph & Elizabeth Rademacher, Karen Hensa, Irene Budz... and all those on our sick list.

At St. Anne's... Eva Bell, Paula Bertrand, Lola Billings, Duane Blanchette, Cheryl Boswell, Patrick Burns, Cindy Capriotti, Jesse & Ashley Childress, Abraham Daily, Tom Dandurand, Aria Dionne, Teresa Dionne, Carol Futcher, Raelynn Garrett, Jack & Lucy Houk, Joni Kleinert, Val Lagacy, Bentley Lottinville and Linda Miramontes.

At St. Patrick's... N. Atkinson, R. Bailey, D. Barth, Beetle Family, D. Brown, B & T Cantwell, M. Cantwell, E. Cirks, E. Coffman, S. Conner, M & D Cousin, M. Cruz, A. Delaney, D. Demack, M. Dionne, J. Dobbins, E. Duke, D. Dunlap, G. Field, C. Fritz, R. Gall, J. Gibson, J. Gilbert, J. Grill, R. Harper, D & L Haut, Fr. Hessling, J. Hibbs, D. Hiller, R. Ilg, C. Jones, L. Kane, R. Kazee, K. Kelson-Laney, A. Kijewski, L. Lanove, L. Lee, L. Leranth, E. Lopez, B. Love, W. Marten, L. McNulty, L. Mercado, R & V Morse, C. Ortman, C. Palider, C. Piec, C. Provost, R. Rehmer, S. Rehmer, P. Reising, D. Roberts, A. Schaff, D. Schmied, T & J Settles, K. Simpson, B. Siwicki, B. Spagnola, M. Tolbert, M. Tolmer, H. Tousignant, M. Tedford, M. Velazquez, G. & L. Vlach, M. Williams, M. Witherspoon, C. Woosnam, S. Young, A. Zimmerman, M & L Zink and G. Zokal.

From February 8-17, Fr. Pete led a group of thirty-four members of the Border Town Parishes and the Camino y Esperanza Retreat House on some of the most spiritual places our Lord walked some two thousand years ago. The spirit of this particular group often played out the life of our Lord, modeling the type of passion, death and resurrection our Lord offered in their prayers and joy of heart in the life of a Christian. Thanks to Ana and Eileen Rivas for making this trip possible for our Border Town Pilgrims. All pictures can be accessed on the parish website.

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