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News & Notes with Fr. Pete Jankowski
Join Us at the St. Pat's Golf Outing on June 24!
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Feel free to contact Fr. Pete at email pjankowski@yahoo.com. If you have an emergency, please contact Fr. Pete at (815) 685-1359 | |
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Last week, I took a few days off to spend a little time in Lake Itasca, MN and St. Catherine’s Church. Even though this parish was built around the time of World War II and closed before the end of the century, the good souls who maintain this parish in Crookston, MN was given permission to celebrate Sunday Masses for the campers who live in the area.
As Pat Evonwall and her friends try to keep up with maintaining the property, each year they seek out priests to live in the pre-fab house they established next to the church. In exchange for a rental car and free housing, visiting priests are asked to celebrate the Sunday Mass for the 50-100 visitors who come to that church each week. Since Pat has been asking me to help her over the last few years and since she was desperate to find help last Sunday, I took advantage of driving four hours from the Minneapolis airport to Lake Itasca and enjoy some of nature’s beauty and the world’s largest mosquito population (outside of Texas!!!).
While in Minnesota, I took some time to rest and work on producing those ten Novena Masses I recorded earlier in June to put online for the St. Anne Feast Day. I sent out the fruits of that labor with the St. Anne Novena News posting earlier today. With that monumental project now completed (I am figuring that this project took sixty hours to record and complete, about twenty more hours than I expected!), now we can put our efforts forward for the on-site Masses at St. Anne’s on July 26th.
At the other parish, Ema Elvir, Silvia Tejada and a host of others work diligently on putting together a nice picnic on the St. Patrick’s grounds on September 24. Amazingly, we had a wonderful turnout at last year’s picnic and Ema and Silvia are more determined than ever to make this year’s picnic a repeat success! Nick Skokna (who is going to help us with lighting the outside of the St. Patrick’s Academy Gym and Community Center) will help us supply food for the event; this evening, Nick asked me to pick up another $10,000 worth of chips to bring down to the area – five pallets worth! Last year, Nick was able to get us sixty pounds of Chipotle Beef, sixty pounds of ground lamb and enough chips to get the county sick!!!
In the meantime, St. Pat’s gets ready for its Golf Outing on Saturday, June 24th with a 12:00 noon kickoff. St. Anne’s Golf Outing was spectacular and made over $40,000 for their good efforts. The point we need to stress is that the St. Pat’s Golf Outing needs to make our visitors aware of what we are trying to do – promote our Academy Gym as a community center that currently is being utilized by the school district, local businesses and the local churches of the area. We are coming close to finishing the first-floor gym bathroom project and we have made great strides in upgrading the third-floor shuffleboard court, which we are trying to convert into a meeting center. Van Drunen Farms and Wally Martin replaced a good number of windows in the gym; by next year, all the windows in the building will be replaced. The landscaping work in front of the gym has been completed and Joanne Hermann is working with the person who made to Momence Welcome signs to do the same with the gymnasium sign that we will bless and dedicate on September 24.
The huge projects at Pat’s that we have to address (besides the $330,000 debt which we have cut down to $150,000 in four years) is creating a parking lot at the gym and paving the lot behind the church. These projects may seem like a pipe dream (conventionally, the church parking lot would have cost $70,000 four years ago and the gym lot $150,000 – Lord knows what they would cost now!!!) but we never thought we could get any renovations done in the gym and now the building is the talk of the town!
If you still want to attend the Golf Outing, please contact Rick Preston at (815) 370-9617 or Mary Jo Boicken at (815) 592-0614. Like the St. Anne’s Outing, St. Pat’s is holding their event at the Oak Springs Golf Club - $100 for Golf and a Dinner. Some businesses have bypassed all sponsorship and such and just have given us straight donations for the event, for which we are exceedingly grateful!
That is all for now. Pray for our staff – they have been putting in the extra work to benefit all of you… and they are doing a GREAT JOB!!!
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A Preview of the Mass at the Camino y Esperanza Retreat House in St. Anne, IL | |  |
A Mass Preview with the Newly Installed Camera System Inside St. Anne's! | |
Outdoor Masses at
St. Anne's Pavilion
(230 N. 6th Ave. - St. Anne, IL)
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Every Wednesday Evening at 5:00 p.m.
Every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.
EXCEPT June 25, July 30,
August 27 and September 24
All Nights of the St. Anne Novena (Excluding Sundays) from July 17-25 at 7:00 p.m.
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Outdoor Masses at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto
(St. Patrick's Church - 119 N. Market St. - Momence, IL)
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Sunday 10:30 a.m. Mass on June 25, July 23, August 27 and the Parish Picnic’s Bilingual Mass on September 24 (with Blessing of the Animals)
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The person who significantly was responsible for addressing the debt was Kathy Griffiths, who made great inroads in attacking St. Pat's financial woes. This week, Kathy had to step away from her job at the parishes due to health issues; her doctor told her to pull back from so much work, so leaving the parishes was a hard but necessary decision she had to make.
Blessed for us, a business manager named Julie has stepped in for Kathy and seamlessly has continued Kathy's good work. Julie serves as a business manager in the diocese and is a wonderfully spiritual person. She and Ema are already fast friends (not so much with me... Julie seems to prefer the White Sox over the Cubs so pray for the conversation of her baseball soul...).
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ST. PATRICK BORDER TOWN PICNIC - SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 STARTING WITH THE 10:30 MASS |  | Parishioner Joanne Hermann suggested that we re-dedicate the gymnasium at the parish picnic, blessing a sign that should read "St. Pat's Academy Gym and Community Center." She is working on getting this project done while secretary Ema Elvir continues to line up vendors for the event (as well as at St. Anne's Novena - thanks for our newly installed video camera inside the church... and our wonderful donor who made this possible!!!). At present, we are working on having at the parish picnic a Vendor Fair, a Rummage Sale, a Car Show, the Illinois Migrant Council giving out free computers to migrants, as well as our games, music and all the stuff thjat goes with a parish picnic. If you are willing to help, please contact Ema at either parish (she is at St. Anne's on Mondays and Tuesdays and at St. Patrick's on Wednesdays and Thursdays). Thanks to Anne Andrade for helping us out in the summer as well at St. Pat's Office! | |
Watch the Video Highlights from Our Frist Communion Liturgies at St. Anne's Church (April 23) and St. Patrick's Church (May 7) | |
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Mark Your Calendars! Our Confirmation Masses
for the Border Town Parishes will take place on Saturday - April 27, 2024 at
St. Anne's (2:00 p.m.) & St. Pat's (4:00 p.m.)
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UPDATED 50/50 PROGRESSIVE RAFFLE PRIZE WINNING TICKET DRAWN AT PARISH PICNIC
(UPADATED MAY 12, 2023):
1st Prize $3,850
SECOND PRIZE $500; THIRD PRIZE $250
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The More Tickets We Sell, the Higher the First Prize of the Raffle Grows! | Help support St. Patrick's Church with our Inaugural 50/50 Progressive "Split the Pot" Raffle, which will be drawn during our Parish Picnic in September! We need your help in selling these tickets - please call (815) 472-2864 for more information. | |
WATCH THE MASS FOR THE 12TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
RECORDED AT THE OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE GROTTO AT THE CERRITO DE CAMINO Y ESPERANZA RETREAT HOUSE - ST. ANNE, IL
The concepts of BIENVENIDOS and HOSPITALIDAD (welcome and hospitality) are the themes to this week's homily, encountering the faithful into their homes and streets and leading them to Church. This form of evangelization is key to building a successful parish!
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UPCOMING PROJECTS AT ST. PATRICK'S | |
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ONE MORE PILGRIM AND THE TRIP IS GUARANTEED TO HAPPEN!!!
Pilgrimage to Medjugorje, Fatima & Lourdes: September 6-15, 2023 $4,649.00 ... To Read the Brochure and to Sign Up, CLICK HERE!
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Trip Includes Flights from anywhere in the United States and flights between countries as per your itinerary. (all necessary flights on your trip are included)
- Daily Mass will be scheduled.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees & Fuel Surcharges Saving you an average of $400-$600!
- Transfers as per itinerary.
- 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine included with all dinners.
- All tips to driver, hotel, and tour guide. If you feel that the tour guide did a great job, offering them extra tips is greatly appreciated.
- Guided Tours and Tour Fees ~ Our tour guides are very caring, licensed, and well educated. Many of our guides have their PhD's.
- Luggage handling (1 suitcase and 1 carry-on per person)
- Single Supplement (as long as the passengers is willing to room with someone and allows us to provide them with a roommate. If the passenger wants a guaranteed room to of their own, then they have to pay the $900 single supplement)
- Remember: Our trips are not more expensive during high season ~ Passengers will never be expected to pay extra for anything while on the trip.
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NOTE: If you wish to deepen your knowledge of the Catholic Faith as a preparation for this pilgrimage, we recommend the following book as it is faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church (Imprimatur by ARCHBISHOP FELIPE AGUIRRE FRANCO): The Catholic Faith in Easy Terms. Introduction, Nihil Obstat, and Imprimatur by Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco.
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ST. ANNE NOVENA - JULY 17-26, 2023 | |
ST. PATRICK'S / ST. 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). | |
PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS WEEKEND | |
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The St. Patrick’s Parish Picnic will take place on Sunday, September 24. We are looking to have an Auto Show, Vendor Fair, Rummage Sale, the Illinois Migrant Council and whatever else we can put together. If you would like to help or if you have any ideas for the Picnic, please call the Parish Office at (815) 472-2864.
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We are asking you to help us sell our 50/50 Progressive Raffle Tickets which will be sold on behalf of St. Patrick's Church. Currently, the grand prize stands at $3,850. The winning tickets will be drawn at the Parish Picnic. Tickets are available in the sacristies of our churches and at the parish offices.
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If you are interested in serving in one of our Parish Liturgical Ministries, please contact the parish office.
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(SPM) We need Rummage Sale Items. You are invited to donate rummage sale items for our parish event, which will take place on September 24. No clothes or electronics.
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KEEP UPDATED WITH OUR PARISH BULLETINS!!! | |
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To View St. Patrick's Bulletin for
June 25, 2023
CLICK HERE!
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To View St. Anne's Bulletin for
June 25, 2023
CLICK HERE!
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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Former Parish Business Manager Kathy Griffiths, Mary Kay Blankestyn, Irene "Reney" Budz, Ashley & Jesse Childress, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Austin Fuhrmann, Ron Gall, Jean Gibson, Karen Hensa, Joanne McCracken, Marilyn Peterson, Evelyn Provost, Ruth Sparenberg, Cynthia Vickery... 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, Carol Futcher, Raelynn Garrett, Jack & Lucia Houk, Val Lagacy, Bentley Lottinville, Linda Miramontes, Cynthia Vickery and John Wojnowski.
At St. Patrick's... P. Anderson, N. Atkinson, R. Bailey, D. Barth, Beedle Family, D. Brown, W. Bukowski, B & 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. Grill, R. Harper, J. Hibbs, D. Hiller, C. Jones, L. Kane, R. Kazee, A. Kijewski, L. Lee, L. Leranth, E. Lopez, B. Love, J. Marcotte, W. Marten, L. McNulty, L. Mercado, R & V Morse, C. Ortman, D. Petronio, M. Peterson, C. Piec, C. Provost, E. Provost, R. Rehmer, P. Reising, D. Roberts, B. Ryan, A. Schaff, J. Schopf. Schmied, K. Simpson, B. Siwicki, B. Spagnola, M. Tolbert, M. Tolmer, H. Tousignant, M. Velazquez, C. Vickery, M. Williams, M. Witherspoon, S. Young, A. Zimmerman, M & L Zink and G. Zokal
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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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