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We need volunteers to help at our Border Town Picnic! If you can help set up, clean up, run games, and join our soccer team to face off against our “evil nemeses,” the soccer team from St. John Paul II Church in Kankakee!!! Please call (815) 472-2864 for more information and to volunteer.

Thanks to Diane Marcotte and Julie Dillenburg for running our children’s games! Thanks to Abby Altenberger and the Steel Drum Band from Olivet Nazarene University for their entertainment for our picnic! Thanks to Ana Rivas and the Camino y Esperanza Choir for providing music for our Bilingual Mass! Thanks to the Illinois Migrant Council for offering free health screenings for our kids and 100 new computers that will be distributed at our picnic! Thanks to José Berrera Quezada (our restauranteur from Chicago, getting married at St. Patrick’s on August 27) for closing his business for the day to cook hot dogs, pambazos, tacos, enchiladas and all kinds of other foods for our picnic! Thanks to St. Pat’s CCW for providing desserts for the event! Over twenty-five churches have been sent invitations to join us at our picnic – and YOU are invited as well!!!

The Catechism of the Church and Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 12, define the Church as “The Body of Christ” and “The People of God.” Each of us have a role in this Body of Christ, united by the Spirit with Christ as the head.

The challenge in today’s age is that, a great deal of the time, many of us forget that Christ established this Church so that we work together and that we build this local Church to support one another, in good times or in bad. In today’s age, rather than challenging each other in the way of the faith, some choose to leave the Body of Christ altogether or choose not to invest in the manner that Christ established for us to get to heaven.

In order for a parish to succeed, each of us need to do our part in helping out – you, me and each person around us. There are so many examples of how this goal is accomplished in the parishes under my care.

On August 21, we continue to build this family by offering a Church picnic at St. Patrick’s, starting with an outdoor bilingual Mass at 10:30 a.m. in our beautiful grotto. We are looking for volunteers to run the children’s games, bingo games and forming a soccer team to face off against the folks from St. John Paul II.

Regardless of whether you choose to volunteer or not, the picnic’s intent is to bring us together, to give thanks for the local Churches we have and to do what is necessary to get our families to heaven by living the gospel message with the children of the next generation. At the very least, please consider joining the members of our local community for a time of social and not taking for granted the most important treasure that we possess – the presence of God in our lives through the beautiful churches your predecessors have built for the sake of prayer and reflection.

Please also pray for me that I continue to serve you well, as I need to do for the Poor Clares who support this local Church and the students from the University of St. Francis in Joliet.

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This week, Fr. Pete references St. John Vianney (the patron saint of parish priests), who spent ten to fourteen hours a day in the confessional for the conversion of souls. In 2014, Fr. Pete was interviewed by Timothy Cardinal Dolan about him spending 24 hours in the confessional two times a year while at St. Patrick’s Church in Joliet, IL.

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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.

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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Mary Kay Blankestyn, Elizabeth Rademacher, Ron Gall, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Cynthia Vickery, Joanne McCracken, Karen Hensa, Irene Budz, Robert Marcotte... 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, M. Clocksin, 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 & 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.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR BELOVED DECEASED: Lornie Klonowski (Funeral on August 17 at 11:00 a.m. - St. Anne's Church) and Tony & Carol Marucci (per the request of the late Carol Preston of St. Patrick's)

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