Fr. Mike is a lifelong boater. He has many friends who share his love of the water. He has worked out a great partnership with Toby Lindo of the Chicago Maritime Academy to bring their boat building program to the families of St. Paul Church and the students of St. Ann’s School – grades 5-7!…
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Join parishioner Teresa Valdivia each Monday. This program, created by the Small Business Education Center will be available to all St. Paul parishioners and neighbors! Classes are in English. Las clases estarán disponibles con intérpretes en español a pedido. One on One assistance: job searches, applying, and interviewing! Sign Up
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We are seeking input from our parishioners about our plans to create more spaces for prayer at St. Paul. We plan to build a St. Ann Chapel and are also considering a smaller space for Eucharistic Adoration and Contemplative Prayer. Will you help us plan, pay for, or build our chapel? How about all 3?…
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The Stations of the Cross for Kids! Understanding the Stations of the Cross is an important part of Lent. Each Friday night at 7 PM during Lent, pray with our Religious Education teachers. The first week will be led in English the second in Spanish. This pattern will continue throughout Lent. Using images from our…
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Keeping the Church BeautifulWe have a committee for that! Saint Paul’s Patronage and Beauty subcommittee would like to share the following renderings to show the proposed addition to the entrance of the church. We are proposing seasonal banners on the exterior pillars at the front of the church. These banners will be changed throughout the…
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In her recent book, Lost in Thought, Zena Hitz examines the question of truth and lies… and comes to the conclusion that we are constantly surrounded by lies What? There are lies told to us by our loved ones, and even lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. She’s thinking along the lines of Yves Simon,…
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Jose Luis Roldan and Rev. Michael Enright will be teaching a course on Theology, using the book Christians and Pagans in the City as the textbook for the course. The subtitle of the book is “Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac,” and the author traces the conflicts between the Church and Paganism from the very…
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When you’ve been around old rectories for a while you start to learn a lot about boilers, pipes, rooves, bricks and all the rest. One of the things that’s true about 120-year-old rectories is that often enough the plumbing is 120 years old. That’s the case at St. Paul. We had a study done a…
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What is a parish? How does a parish fit into the structure of a diocese, and the church as a whole? It’s worth reflecting on these questions since a lot of Catholics have no idea about how the church is structured. If Catholics even think about their parishes, often enough they’re thinking like Protestants or Evangelicals… and without knowing it they have walked away from what the church teaches about parishes, and the universal call to salvation that Jesus wants his church to announce.
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