Come and have some fun with your kids! Our neighbors on 22nd Place between Leavitt and Damen are stocking up on candy for the kids. There’s a Costume Contest, Free Hot Chocolate for kids in Holygrounds with the purchase of a coffee, and free gifts for the first 100 kids who sign up. Join us…
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Today, I visited Division 8 RTU once again. This is the hospital division of the jail, where people who need medical care while waiting for their trial are housed. Sometimes they’re in jail because they committed a crime, and often enough they are incarcerated because they’re mentally ill. I lately found out that this is…
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Yesterday I had a pretty scary day in the jail. I usually go on Thursday mornings to Division 8 RTU, that’s the hospital division in Cook County Jail. I just found out lately that it’s the largest mental health hospital in Illinois, and maybe the largest in the country. That’s because Cook County is the…
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A few days ago I asked the Police at the 10th district if they’d send a patrol car by St. Ann School at recess and school dismissal. I asked for this favor because there’s a little trouble brewing in the neighborhood, and as the temperature rises I think there might be more trouble. By trouble,…
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This past week I went to the Coast Guard station in Michigan City, Indiana to help film a little video. Click here to see it!
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This morning I visited the jail again. As usual on Thursday mornings, I went to Division 8, the hospital section of the jail. In case you didn’t know, the jail is where you go when you’re waiting for your trial. Prison is where you go once you’ve had a trial and been given a sentence. …
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St Paul would like to thank Hofmeister & Son Hams Inc. for their continued generosity to our program to help feed the Homeless and Refugees in our St Paul Parish Community. For the past 46 consecutive Sundays a group of 15 to 20 volunteers have gathered after Sunday Mass to assemble 150 Sandwich bags for…
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What is a glimmer? Or better, what is a glimmer of hope? You might think of light bouncing off ripples of water maybe. Or maybe the sound of a child’s laughter. Or a kiss. In the unpublished forward to The Great Gatsby, the author wrote “When a lot of people get together in the best…
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In David Brooks’ book How to Know a Person he describes what he calls an “illuminator.” That’s the kind of a person who lights up the people around them. No, not in a bad way! Brooks writes that when you’re looking at a person in this way, your gaze says, “I want to get to…
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