Parish Secretary Ema Elvir has been working diligently with our Illinois Migrant Council, Vendors from the Kankakee Area and with Bethlehem Gifts to provide wonderful services for the souls in our border town. This weekend, we will be gifting our Fathers with popsicles and Candy Bars in Honor of Father's Day Weekend. The Migrant Council of the area will be working with those in our area in need of health services and computers over at St. Patrick's on June 26th. Nick Skokna continues to bring us box trucks full of snack chips that otherwise would be destroyed for the hungry of our area. Bethlehem Gifts will be selling their wares at our parishes on June 25-26 on behalf of the Christians who suffer in the Holy Land.

Meanwhile, I continue to record Masses that we are putting online for our Anne Anne Novena celebrations, which culminates on July 26th with three special Masses!!! Fr. John Peters, CSV will preach at our 10:00 Outdoor Mass in English. I will celebrate and preach at a Indoor Sung Latin Mass at 12:00 noon with the choir of St. Joseph's Church in Rockdale gracing us with their presence. Fr. Moises Mesh, CSV will celebrate and preach at the 2:00 Outdoor Mass in Spanish. Deacons from the diocese will assist us on this day, which includes children's activities at 11:00 a.m., food, votive candles and religious articles for sale. For more information about all things St. Anne's, check down below...

Pictured above are highlights of the Corpus Christi Procession from my previous Church in Joliet. Feel free to join us in Momence for the Corpus Christi Procession that will take place at St. Patrick's Church on June 19th following the 12:00 noon Mass. As tradition of the Church tells us... On Sept 8, 1264, Pope Urban IV designated this special feast day as “Corpus Christi” or “The Body and Blood of Christ.” In reality, we celebrate this feast on Holy Thursday, the day where we remember how this Mass was first introduced to us by the Lord. However, because Holy Thursday fell into Holy Week, Pope Urban felt that this particular feast could easily get lost in the significance of the Paschal Mystery. Thus in 1264, Pope Urban designated this particular day as one to honor the great gift that is given to us from the altar before us.

As part of this tradition, we will process around St. Pat's Campus with the Blessed Sacrament following the 12:00 noon Mass, followed by adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 4:00 p.m. I will hear confessions until 4:00 p.m. and conclude the day with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

St. Pope John Paul II once implored every parish throughout the world to dedicate themselves to Eucharistic Adoration. St. Patrick's Church offered adoration every Thursday from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Feel free to join us on June 19th or any Thursday at 10:00 a.m. to spend time with the Lord. If we show God we wish to spend time with God NOW, then we are better prepared for the other side of life!!!

ONLINE VIDEOS THIS WEEK

June 25-26… St. Patrick’s on Saturday  at 4:00 p.m. & Sunday at 10:30 & 12 noon

St. Anne’s at 9:00 a.m. Sunday

“We offer friendly and family relationship with our valued guests and visitors. Our mission is to encourage and strengthen the faith. We bring the peace of the Holy Land to your home. Your “orders” help bring back the peace to the Holy Land. The Holy Land needs your prayers and support.”

It is a source of continuing concern that the city of Bethlehem in the Holy Land has been ravaged by conflicts throughout the past years and decades. The birthplace of Jesus has at times endured war-like conditions. In 2001, I returned to the United States as part of a program to support the Christian Community in Bethlehem area. A large sector of that community carves religious art in native olive wood as a major source of income and depends on tourism to market their products. With tourism at a standstill, the

community is becoming desperate.

In addition to marketing these handicrafts at Churches, Parishes and trade shows, Bethlehem Gifts as an online store was established to be part of the efforts to spread the word and reach more and more of the religious Christian communities in the United States, Europe and everywhere else.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7

To Learn more about the good work of Bethlehem Gifts, please CLICK HERE!!!

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the St. Anne Novena Page

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For More Information in Spanish, CLICK HERE!!!

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 - $38,000

Pave Parish Parking Lot - $75,000

Create Gym Parking Lot - $150,000

Gym First Floor Bathrooms & Kitchen - $150,000

Parish Debt $254,000

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!

To View St. Patrick's Bulletin for

June 18-19, 2022



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To View St. Anne's Bulletin for

June 18-19, 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. Please also pray for Mary Clocksin (mother of Business Manager Kathy Griffiths) who is very ill and in need of your prayers.

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, 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. 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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