Faithful can subscribe to the notes by contacting the parish office and providing their email address. Thanks for your support of our border town parishes!!! | |
Please support our parishes by clicking the ONLINE GIVING picture - these are your local homes where God is present! Let's share this grace with those of the next generation! | |
|
|
News & Notes from Fr. Pete Jankowski
Join Us for the 142nd Anniversary of the St. Anne Novena
| | | |
|
As we prepare for Day 5 of the St. Anne Novena at our Pavilion – 7:00 p.m. (and by the way, everything about the St. Anne Novena is listed below in these notes) – I just finished a wonderful conversation with two daughters of Earl “Wayne” Voss, who passed away last week and whose funeral will take place on July 28. Daughters Kathy and Karen told me that the family lived right across the street from the St. Anne Rectory until a few years ago and, after a fifty+ year marriage to wife Mayda, Wayne finally was ready to be baptized by Fr. Jim Fanale in 2017.
Karen & Kathy told me about one family tradition that really hit home for the local pastor of the border town. They told me that at weddings and special events, the family would gather for a group dance of “We are Family” by the Pointer Sisters and that Wayne and Mayda would take turns jumping into the middle of the family circle to join in the dance. That symbol of family (and just as much, in many ways, Mayda’s other favorite song “Crazy” by Patsy Cline) represents the kind of life that our gospel implores us to live.
Every night during this Novena, a wonderful group of folks from the Kankakee area have gathered in our Pavilion for prayer and social time together. This is what Novenas are supposed to do – they call us to pray, to remember those most in need of the Lord’s grace and to give thanks for a life and Church we often take for granted. We forget about so many things for which we should be thankful – we are most blessed that this “News and Notes” family join us each week to learn about a couple parishes that love you very much and invite you to join our “Circle of Prayer” every time we gather as a family of faith.
Last night at the Pavilion, Ruth Sparenberg (our 95-year-old St. Anne volunteer who will be serving her famous raspberry iced tea for our clergy at the rectory on July 26) showed me the running fountain that adorns our campus. She told me that the many rocks from that fountain came from the Sparenberg property. I told Ruth that, long after all of us move on from this earth, the Sparenberg legacy will still be inspiring those who gather around that fountain in prayer – such is the impact that each of us can make without knowing it.
Son Jim was able to find a mason named Rudy Bauer (a devout Catholic from the area), whose business was kind enough to offer his services to repair the altar at St. Anne Cemetery. Because Rudy did such a wonderful job, we commissioned Rudy to do the masonry work at the St. Patrick’s Grotto.
We also found out that our “junk food king” Nick Skokna (who has been giving us box trucks filled with all kinds of food for the needy) worked Joe Martin and Richards Supply to offer a generous donation of all the shingles for our church and garage roof project at St. Patrick’s. The cost for the project runs about $33,000 (thanks Rafael Hernandez and Teófilo Báez for collaborating with us on this!!!). We have raised about $8,000 for this project – with the grace of God and the help of our parishioners, we can make it to the other $25,000 before the project starts in late August.
Speaking of August… Secretary Ema Elvir has been working with the Illinois Migrant Council (AGAIN!!!) to help us with the St. Patrick’s Parish Picnic on August 21st! So far, here is where we are with the planning for this event…
- We will celebrate a bilingual outdoor mass at the newly renovated grotto on August 21 at 10:30 AM, with Ana Rivas and the Camino y Esperanza Choir playing at this event (no noon Mass).
- After the mass, Julie Dillenburg (and hopefully Diane Marcotte, to whom we will speak after a long-deserved vacation) will help with children’s activities.
- Joanne Hermann and the CCW will sell tickets and provide desserts for the event.
- Ema will talk to our ice cream person from Kankakee to see if we can get some other kinds of desserts for the event in addition to the CCW pastries.
- Abby Altenberger hopefully will bring her steel drum band from Olivet Nazarene University to our parish property for entertainment.
- We were thinking about getting horseshoes, bean bag throws, bozo buckets and inviting the St. John Paul II Soccer team to join us for a friendly outdoor match.
- José Berrera (who owns a restaurant in Chicago and who is getting married at St. Patrick’s on August 27th) will close his Chicago restaurant on August 21st to serve us at the picnic. Jose will be cooking hot dogs, taquitos, chicken, steak, pambazos, and sodas.
- Maggie Rivera from the Illinois Migrant Council will be providing vaccines, physical exams for school kids, a Red Cross blood drive, and 100 Computers to distribute to the needy.
We will try to advertise the picnic in the Kankakee and Momence papers and invite the community to our parish event… our spiritual family!!!
Until then, we still have lots of St. Anne Day work to do and the folks at the parish have been working diligently in making this 142nd go around the best yet! Thanks to Viatorian priests John Peeters & Moises Mesh for preaching at our English and Spanish Masses, respectively. Thanks to Deacons Arnulfo Cisneros (Immaculate Conception, Morris) & Jim Kelly (St. Paul, Peotone) for helping at the Masses. Thanks to Kavin Sampson (music at 10:00 English Mass), Daniel Lucetta and the Choir from St. Joseph’s in Rockdale (music at the 12:00 Latin Mass) and the Camino y Esperanza Choir (music at the 2:00 Spanish Mass) for joining us as well. The folks at Bethlehem Gifts will be selling their olivewood products as well.
We have a bunch going on this next week and month – feel free to join our family of faith for any or all of it!
| |
The EIGHTH Day of the St. Anne Novena (Recorded at the Camino y Esperanza Retreat House - St. Anne, IL) | |
WATCH THE MASS THE 17TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME ONLINE
On this EIGHTH Day of the St. Anne Novena, Fr. Pete preaches about the need to follow the mandates of the "Our Father," according to the gospel of Luke. This prayer can serve as the most uplifting or damning prayer in the believer's life, depending on whether the believer truly wishes to live like God or chooses to disregard the mandate and live under one's own desires. Fr. Pete also offers a special blessing to grandparents at this Mass as well.
| | |
HELP US WITH OUR $75,000 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS IN OUR GYMNASIUM AT ST. PATRICK'S! HERE IS A VIDEO AS TO WHY WE NEED YORU HELP.
| |
| |
ST. ANNE NOVENA - JULY 17-26, 2022 | |
July 17-25 Masses
(Except Sundays) Outdoors at 7:00 p.m.
July 26 Masses
In English (Outdoors)
at 10:00 a.m.
In Latin (High Mass Indoors) at 12:00 noon
In Spanish (Outdoors)
at 2:00 p.m.
| |  |
11:00 Children's Activities
Food Trucks, Religious Articles and Votive Candles for Sale - Call (815) 427-8265 for More Info
If you can volunteer, contact Sue Bonvallet at (815) 953-1180
| | |
The St. Anne Advertisement written by Pam & Rich Lottinville...
| |
To View the St. Anne Novena Book used at the parish in 1946 (with an indulgence given to the faithful from March 20, 1886), please click below. Thanks to Marlene Liberty (and her grandmother Leah Brown) who used this book during the Novenas from the last century!!!
CLICK HERE TO READ FROM THE NOVENA BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1934!!!
| |
|
|
|
A PREVIEW OF THE ONLINE MASSES FOR THE ST. ANNE NOVENA
JULY 17-26
| | | |
MASS - DAY 1 OF NOVENA
To begin this Novena, Fr. Pete preaches about the primary importance to building a prayer life with God. As members of the Body of Christ in local parish communities, that prayer life must result in serving those around us in God's name - Mary's prayer must result in Martha's work.
| |
| |
|
|
MASS - DAY 2 OF NOVENA
Speaking about the importance of the miraculous healing the relic of St. Anne has offered in the history of this relic, Fr. Pete highlights the stories of faith and healing in today's homily.
| | | |
MASS - DAY 3 OF NOVENA
In his homily, Fr. Pete speaks about the need to treat each person as a brother or sister, as a sacred person created by God and part of the "Body of Christ," whether the person we encounter accepts this understanding or not.
| |
| |
|
|
MASS - DAY 4 OF NOVENA
In his homily, Fr. Pete speaks about how evangelization must follow the farming methods of the First Century and the current methods of Third World Farmers - by throwing the seed liberally wherever we can to produce thirty, sixty and a hundredfold.
| | | |
MASS - DAY 5 OF NOVENA
In his homily, Fr. Pete speaks of our need to maintain this vocation called has called each of us to live, despite the temptations of the world that often attempt to draw us away from our ultimate purpose in life.
| |
| |
|
|
MASS - DAY 6 OF NOVENA
In his homily, Fr. Pete references a trip he was asked to lead with a group of pilgrims who visited the Holy Land. The gift of walking Jesus' steps on the road of faith and praying where the Lord prayed serves as the foundation for the type of life we are called to walk today.
| | | |
MASS - DAY 7 OF NOVENA
In his homily, Fr. Pete speaks about the way society forms the individual, as opposed to the manner which God or a Catholic parent would. As referenced by Morrie Schwartz ("Tuesdays with Morrie"), "Don't let society dictate your culture - you dictate your own!"
| |
| |
|
|
MASS - DAY 8 OF NOVENA
On this EIGHTH Day of the St. Anne Novena, Fr. Pete preaches about the need to follow the mandates of the "Our Father," according to the gospel of Luke. This prayer can serve as the most uplifting or damning prayer in the believer's life, depending on whether the believer truly wishes to live like God or chooses to disregard the mandate and live under one's own desires. Fr. Pete also offers a special blessing to grandparents at this Mass as well.
| | | |
MASS - DAY 9 OF NOVENA
On this NINTH Day of the St. Anne Novena, Fr. Pete talks about the importance of HUMILITY, which serves as the foundation for our prayer life. It was through Jesus humbling himself on the cross that the apostles learned this lesson of faith, passed on to bishops who are to model that same type of life.
| |
| |
|
|
MASS - SS. JOACHIM & ANNE
In his homily, Fr. Pete references a poem to "The Mother of the Madonna," by Rev. Matthew Russell, SJ, the first editor of "The Irish Monthly" periodical that reflects on the role of grandmothers in our life. Fr. Pete offers a special "Prayer for Special Favor" and a "Blessing to Grandparents" at this Online Mass as well.
| | | |
UPCOMING PROJECTS AT ST. PATRICK'S | |
|
Renovate Gym Floor - $20,000
Repair Church Roof - $28,000
Pave Parish Parking Lot - $75,000
Create Gym Parking Lot - $150,000
Gym First Floor Bathrooms & Kitchen - $150,000
Parish Debt $234,174
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!
| |
ST. PATRICK PHOTO DIRECTORIES | |
Thanks to Anne Andrade & Joanne Hermann for assembling, scanning and editing the follow Photo Directories from the Church History of St. Patrick's in Momence! | |
| |
|
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. | | |
|
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!!!).
Congratulations to David & Amy Wheeler (25th Anniversary in June 2022) and Ron & Judy Gall (60th Anniversary in July 2022) for receiving Papal Blessings for their wonderful milestones!!!
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!!!
| |
KEEP UPDATED WITH OUR PARISH BULLETINS!!! | |
|
To View St. Patrick's Bulletin for
July 23-24, 2022
CLICK HERE!
| |
|
To View St. Anne's Bulletin for
July 23-24, 2022
CLICK HERE!
| |
|
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Mary Kay Blankestyn, Elizabeth Rademacher, Ron Gall, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Cynthia Vickery, Joanne McCracken, 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. 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: Susan King & Daughter Amy King (wake at Cotter Funeral Home on Friday - July 22, 2022 from 4-8 p.m. and funeral Saturday - July 23, 20-22 at St. Patrick's Church at 10:00 a.m. St. Patrick's Cemetery after)
Earl "Wayne" Voss (wake at St. Anne's Church on Thursday - July 28, 2022 fromk 9-11 a.m. and funeral on the same day at 11:00 a.m.; St. Anne's Cemetery after with receptioon at St. Anne's to follow)
| |
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! | |
|
BOOK, BRICK & PEW DEDICATION PROGRAM | |
|
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
| | |
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! | | |
LINKS TO CATHOLIC WEBSITES
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ACCESS SITE
| | | | |
