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News & Notes from Fr. Pete Jankowski
What a Special All Souls' Day!!!
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Note: the funeral for Mary Clocksin (the mother of Business Manager Kathy Griffiths) will take place on Saturday, November 5th at 11:00 a.m. at St. Teresa's Church in Kankakee. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon Kathy’s parents. | |
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The week of All Souls' Day was one to remember at the Border Town Parishes! Not only did we FINALLY get all the electronic office devices to work at St. Anne's Church (thanks to an alumnus from Bishop McNamara School fixing a cable on the property that needed to be grounded!!!), All Souls' Day for me began with SINGING the Mass in Latin for the Poor Clare Sisters at the Annunciation Monastery in Minooka, IL. One of my regular altar servers (Henry Stachyra) was off on business, driving to the East Coast, when he made a stop to pick up TWO ANGEL STATUES for the St. Patrick Sanctuary. Those angels will adorn our back altar in the very near future, accompanying a new processional cross that a couple anonymous donors and I purchased for the St. Patrick faithful.
After Mass, I was travelling back to the parish when I received a phone call from Superintendent Shannon Anderson from the Momence School District. It seems that the public school has requested that St. Patrick's gymnasium be sought out by the district as an emergency shelter for the public school system, in the event of a weather or police emergency. This call paralleled a conversation I had with Momence Police Chief Brian Bucato, who told me that the Momence Meadows Senior Home also sought out our gymnasium for the same purpose. Superintendent Anderson was kind enough to write a letter for this specific purpose, which you can read if you CLICK HERE! Our local Alcoholics' Anonymous Group (who had to leave a neighboring church in Momence last month... because the church closed!) have been renovating our gym facilities as well, for their use and for the benefit of our community.
As I have shared with you previously, that gymnasium from the old Academy serves various good people in the city, from those who seek emergency shelter to large gathering places outside of the public schools (as Van Drunen Farms will be using for three days in December for their annual Christmas parties). The need must be great enough because, as I have shared with you, various souls in our community have volunteered to renovate the second floor of the gym as well as creating bathrooms for the first floor to accommodate those in need.
We have gotten to the point in the gym where Veterans Flooring from Rockford, IL is going to strip down the floor and refinish it from November 14-30 at a cost of $15,000. When an anonymous family from the area heard about this work, they DONATED the $15,000 and paid for the Gym Floor Renovation!
As it has become evident to us that this building serves the community as much as the parish, we decided to seek out your help towards this cause as well. As a community center, we can apply for GRANT MONEY to upgrade our gymnasium and surrounding area to use for all kinds of purposes. As I have written ad nauseum to all of you, conventional monies for these repairs and upgrades are out of the parish reach but with GRANT MONIES and the kindness of outside donors, all things are possible. We suspect that a gym parking lot would cost us around $150,000 but… if we had GRANT MONEY for this project… this would cost the parish practically nothing and we could serve the neighborhood while upgrading our facilities in the process. If any of you can help us with getting GRANT MONEY to upgrade our Parish Gymnasium and surrounding property, we would be most appreciative of your help.
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The nighttime services for All Souls’ Day were very eventful as well. Not only did a good number of families come to pray for their beloved deceased (and took all my votive candles in the process… which I invited them to do!!!), over two hundred souls attended our Bilingual Mass at St. Patrick’s at 7:00 p.m., including a Bible Study group from Camino y Esperanza in St. Anne, IL! We have been working with Camino y Esperanza to build our Hispanic base at the parish, resulting in a Sunday Mass where constantly over ONE HUNDRED FAITHFUL are in attendance (last Sunday we welcomed 142 souls!). Ruben & Carmen Andrade were kind enough to make Mexican Hot Chocolate and Pan Dulce for those who wished to socialize after Mass and created a “Day of the Dead” display in the church where faithful could leave pictures of their loved ones who had died so that we could pray for them, those listed in our Book of the Dead and those whose funerals we celebrated at the parishes last year. At the end of the Mass, we offered a Blessing for the BIBLE STUDY group and they, in return, sang a birthday song in Spanish for three members of our community who celebrated birthdays on November 2nd (where there is death there also is LIFE - see the video below!!!).
We were very blessed on All Souls’ Day with so much good that happened at our parishes – and YOU are all responsible for this good!!! We are blessed for what all of you have done to help us out!!! God bless all of you.
Fr. Pete
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WATCH THE MASS FOR THE 32nd SUNDAY
OF ORDINARY TIME ONLINE
RECORDED AT ST. ANNE'S CHAPEL - ST. ANNE, IL
This week, Fr. Pete offers the same homily presented in church the week prior, based on the art house movie, "Babette's Feast," winner of the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The movie is about a humble woman who cooked the meal of her life for two sisters who took her in out of compassion. The meal we share at Mass is also "the meal of our life" that we often take for granted as well.
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FR. PETE'S HISPANIC MINISTRY COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY | |
Asked to teach a new course for the University of St. Francis concerning the largest growing Catholic demographic in the United States, Fr. Pete offers the following videos that he used to teach his students for your consideration. | |
St. Patrick’s Daily Drawing works in conjunction with the “Pick 3” Illinois Lottery. For $20 a ticket, you pick a number from 000-999. In the month of December, each “Pick 3” number offers a prize for our local contest - $250 for each weekday, $500 for each Sunday and $1,500 for December 1st. If we sell all 1000 tickets, the parish makes $10,000 for this fundraiser. Contact (815) 472-2864 for more information or contact Lorri Simpson. | |
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Fr. Pete Paid Off the Parish Truck!
Sometime back, Mary Tolmer was kind enough to work out a deal with Fr. Pete so that he could buy maintenance guru Artemio Ojeda a $20,000 truck (he did the same for the maintenance man at the last parish as well – that truck cost $30,000… Fr. Pete is getting cheap!). Fr. Pete worked out a deal with Mary to pay the money back in a type of non-interest bearing loan. Fr. Pete had a couple bumps along the way, but today Fr. Pete gave Kathy Griffiths the last $1000 that he owed on the truck.
Fr. Pete still owes $3000 or so for other items he have purchased on behalf of the parishes. Much of what he is doing is self-imposed but it is still the right thing to do and Fr. Pete intends to hold up to his debts. Fr. Pete just wanted to be upfront with all of you so that you knew what he did for Artemio and the parishes so that we could keep him here on the property FOR A LONG TIME!!!
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Fr. Pete has chosen to donate TWO ANGELS for the St. Patrick's Altar of Sacrifice to match the ones he purchased for St. Anne's Church. Thank to Henry Stachyra for driving to Connecticut to pick up the statues!!! | | | |
Bob Morse purchased a GRAVESTONE to honor Fr. Dan Hessling, former pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Momence (2007-2019).
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Fr. Pete and other anonymous donors purchased a special PROCESSIONAL CROSS for the Sanctuary of St. Patrick's Church! | | | |
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St. Anne’s will be taking a food collection for Thanksgiving baskets for the needy in the area. Please take the bags the Service Commission will provide on October 23, 30 and November 6 and fill with thanksgiving items (frozen turkeys can be included separately). Please return bags no later than November 13.
The Service Commission will have a special Thanksgiving food drive to help the St. Anne Food Pantry. REP kids will decorate paper bags and deliver them to parishioners on October 23 & 30 and November 6. Parishioners can return the filled bags to the church each weekday Mass or Sunday but no later than November 13. Frozen turkey donations can be taken to St. Anne Hall Hall and placed in the freezers. Monetary donations can be made by sending a check to:
St. Anne Food Pantry
c/o National Bank of St. Anne
158 W. Station Street
St. Anne, IL 60964
The St. Anne Food Pantry will be open on November 5 & 19, from 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. for those who need food for their Thanksgiving dinner.
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UPCOMING PROJECTS AT ST. PATRICK'S | |
ST. ANNE NOVENA - JULY 17-26, 2022 | |
ST. PAT'S/ANNE'S
PHOTO DIRECTORIES
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Thanks to Ruth Sparenberg, Anne Andrade & Joanne Hermann for assembling, scanning and editing the follow Photo Directories from the Church History of St. Patrick's and St. Anne's Churches! | |
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The Holy Father provides a wonderful opportunity to receive an Apostolic Blessing for Birthdays, Baptisms, First Communions, Confirmations, Weddings, Religious Professions, Ordinations and Anniversaries of these sacraments. | | |
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For weddings and such, Fr. Pete offers a special blessing on the first Sunday weekend of each month and is willing to purchase an Apostolic Blessing for anyone who asks (and if he can afford it... since he pays out of pocket!!!).
If you are interested in receiving an Apostolic Blessing, you can do so by clicking the link below or by calling the parish offices.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR OWN APOSTOLIC BLESSING!!!
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Parish Hotline... If you know of someone who is sick and in need of the sacraments or if you know someone who wishes a visit at the hospital or care facility, please contact the parish office or Fr. Pete Jankowski at (815) 685-1359.
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Fr. Pete offers the anointing of the sick at both parishes at the First Friday Masses every month (St. Patrick’s at 9:15 a.m. and St. Anne’s at 5:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish). | |
KEEP UPDATED WITH OUR PARISH BULLETINS!!! | |
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To View St. Patrick's Bulletin for
November 5-6, 2022
CLICK HERE!
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To View St. Anne's Bulletin for
November 5-6, 2022
CLICK HERE!
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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Austin Fuhrmann, Jean Gibson, Evelyn Provost, Mary Kay Blankestyn, Ron Gall, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Cynthia Vickery, Joanne McCracken, 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, 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. Gilbert, J. Grill, R. Harper, D. Haut, 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, 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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR BELOVED DECEASED: Robert Kraus and Mary (and William) Clocksin
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Fr. Pete Jankowski posts his homilies online at the parish website for those who wish to keep up with the gospel message each week.
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PARISH REGISTRATION FORMS | |
FR. PETE'S TELEVISION SERIES | |
CLICK HERE to watch Fr. Pete’s Twelve Part Series “Stories on the Journey,” Broadcast on Shalom World TV! | |
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BOOK, BRICK & PEW DEDICATION PROGRAM | |
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For only $100, you can dedicate a brick to someone special at St. Patrick's Outdoor Grotto (where the Our Lady of Lourdes Outdoor Masses are celebrated)!!!
(815) 472-2864
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For only $25, you can dedicate a Journeysongs Pew Book from either parish. Please call (815) 472-2864 (St. Patrick's) or (815) 427-8265 (St. Anne's) for more information! | | |
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