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!!!

As we have been discussing over the last few months, the charity at our Border Town parishes has been absolutely spectacular! Your kindness towards our Veterans’ Day Collection resulted in a truckload of gifts that we sent to the facility in Manteno on behalf of those who serve our country and often are forgotten. We very much thank you for your kindness on behalf of our retired service men and women who have sacrificed for our country.

Last week, Veterans’ Floors gave us an estimate on refinishing the floor at St. Pat’s Academy Gymnasium to the tune of around $15,000. Knowing our parish still has to address a $222,000+ debt, we thought this project would be out of our grasp (as with a church roof, gym bathroom, etc.). One of our anonymous donors was kind enough to pay the cost of the floor renovation IN FULL! – thank you anonymous donor! Because of this generosity, we will undertake this floor renovation from November 14-30 (the first floor of the gym will be closed at this time). The floor should be ready for Van Drunen’s three-day Christmas party for their staff the week of December 4.

In the meantime, the good folks at Van Drunen Farms have figured out a way to solve our concrete problem over at our gymnasium floor bathroom project (concrete is really hard to get nowadays!). The bathroom project at St. Pat’s has been stalled because of this concrete problem; hopefully we can now move forward so that Joe Kraus and his sons can finish their work constructing the bathrooms so that Joe Cohn and Boss Plumbing can finish their work as well.

The two big upcoming events at our parishes take place the weeks of November 27 with Fr. Tom McCarthy, OSA offering our parishes our Annual Mission. Fr. McCarthy will preach at all the English Masses on November 26-27 and will offer three nights of talks, starting at St. Pat’s on November 26 at 6:00 p.m., confessions and a talk at St. Anne’s on November 27 at 6:00 p.m. and concluding with a Mass and talk at St. Pat’s on November 28. A mission is where we are supposed to remove ourselves from our daily activities to focus on God and our ultimate destiny after our lives have concluded on earth. Hopefully you can join us for these spiritual events.

On December 4, Bishop Ronald Hicks comes to both parishes for our Sunday Masses. St. Anne’s will celebrate her 150th Anniversary of her church’s building at 9:00 a.m. and St. Pat’s will host the bishop at the 10:30 a.m. Mass in English and the 12:00 Mass in Spanish. As the bishop attempts to visit all the parishes in the diocese before his consolidation plan takes affect in 2024, it would be nice if we make a nice showing at all our Masses that Sunday.

Regardless, you all are doing great! Thanks for your support at our border town parishes!!!

By the way, we have been working on scanning our old Academy Photo Albums to put on our website. If you have any of the old Academy books that you would allow us to scan, please contact our parish office. St. Patrick's 1963 Yearbook has been scanned and is now online - CLICK HERE to View the Yearbook!!!

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& Talent Form in English

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Poinsettia Order Forms

ONLINE VIDEOS THIS WEEK

WATCH THE MASS FOR THE 33rd SUNDAY

OF ORDINARY TIME ONLINE

RECORDED AT ST. ANNE'S CHAPEL - ST. ANNE, IL

This week, Fr. Pete talks about the growth of the parish communities at the parishes he serves and the time, talent and financial resources poured into a Momence Gymnasium which serves as a "Community Center" of sorts for children and seniors in need of emergency placement. This said, Fr. Pete is encouraging the faithful to help him find GRANT MONEY to upgrade the gym for the benefit of the community at large.

To get your Catholic Daily Reflections (based on the scripture readings of the day), CLICK HERE!!!

CLICK HERE for Readings for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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.

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!!!

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.

1973 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

1981 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

1986 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

1993 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

2004 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

2006 St. Patrick's Academy 100th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet

2010 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

2016 St. Patrick's Church Photo Directory

1960s St. Anne’s Church Photo Directory

1970s St. Anne’s Church Photo Directory

1989 St. Anne’s Church Photo Directory

1998-2004 St. Anne’s Church Photo Directory

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!!!

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).

To View St. Patrick's Bulletin for

November 12-13, 2022



CLICK HERE!

To View St. Anne's Bulletin for

November 12-13, 2022

CLICK HERE!

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.

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ALL OF FR. PETE'S HOMILIES!

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& Talent Form in English

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