Throughout this past academic year, we have been so blessed to welcome 15 seminarians in Mundelein Seminary’s Spirituality Year to help us with our apostolic works each Wednesday. During their Spirituality Year, the seminarians live together with in community near Holy Name Cathedral and spend the year focusing on human formation, growing in their lives…
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Mother’s Day Brunch with Our Neighbors
On May 13, we hosted a beautiful Mother’s Day brunch for about 200 of our neighbors. The event started with a simple prayer service and reflection on motherhood and the special role of Our Lady in our lives in the upper church, and then everyone headed downstairs for a delicious, home-made meal of ham, green…
Reflections on Teaching
By Sr. Stephanie Baliga Teaching at St. Sylvester School in Logan Square has been one of the most formative experiences of my religious life! I’ve been teaching at St. Sylvester’s since 2017. Our teaching apostolate focuses on going into under-resourced Catholic schools to provide direct religion instruction and whole school faith formation support – all…
“The Eucharist Invites us to Slow Down and be Loved” – Sr. Alicia on Ave Explores Podcast
Sr. Alicia was recently interviewed about her experience seeing and loving Jesus in the Eucharist and seeing and loving Him in the poor by Katie Prejean McGrady on the Ave Explores podcast from Ave Maria Press. Check out the clip below! You can find the full episode here or wherever you like to listen to…
From Sorrow to Joy: Franciscan Holy Week Traditions
The ups and downs of Holy week can be a roller coaster experience. From “Hosanna, hosanna” to “Crucify Him, crucify Him,” the liturgies are so rich with joy and hope, grief and anxieties. But in the end, joy and hope are victorious! While each year Holy Week looks slightly different for our community, there is…
Reaching Out to Young Adults
In recent months, our community has started working in partnership with Bishop Bob’s vicariate team to start a brand new young adult group for our vicariate (region of the Archdiocese that Bishop Bob is entrusted with overseeing). Those of you familiar with Chicago may know that there are several very well known and long-standing young…
The Retreat Center is Open!
Those of you who followed along with our most recent construction project of transforming the old, abandoned school building on the OLA campus into a new Outreach and Retreat Center, will know that the building is FINALLY fully finished and ready to be used in this new way for the mission of the Church! We…
A Look Inside Our Grocery Delivery Partnership
When the pandemic hit in 2020, so many of our neighbors, especially our elderly neighbors, found themselves especially vulnerable and at-risk. In an effort to help keep them home, safe, and well-fed, we started partnering with Chicago CPD and a few other organizations to start delivering groceries from our weekly food pantry right to their…