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Please join us for the 2021 Jubilee Garden Season!
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NO GARDENING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
Farming season has begun and will continue on Saturdays through October, with the exception of Memorial Day weekend. We meet from 8 to 11am on Saturday mornings. Your help is needed, even if only for an hour! For more details, please call Sharon Fredrickson at (847)643-6633. The Jubilee Garden is located on the north side of Route 22, just east of Quentin. For more information, check out our website at www.sfdsjubileegarden.net/ !
Kristin Bird Speaker at St Francis - Celebrating Easter
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On April 26, 27 & 28 we were blessed to have Kristin Bird speak to our parish community at 10:00am and 7:00pm.
Many people attended the in-person sessions as well as joined us through the St Francis de Sales Youtube and Facebook streams. You can still log in and watch these.
Kristin shared her own personal stories and humor as she told us about the importance of sharing our own authentic stories with others, since in today’s world, the experience of others is highly regarded and valued. People listen to our stories. Kristin also shared God’s story from creation, the fall, and how Jesus came to reconcile us all to the Father and of course, how it’s up to us to choose to follow. On her last day she shared how she experienced the love of God through the good council of a friend and a growing relationship with her husband and children. She reminded us that we all have a story and how God is woven into our story. We then had a chance to share some of our story in a discussion before we left the church.
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You can watch the 3 presentations through our Youtube and Facebook accounts. Links below.
Feel free to send any thoughts or comments to growdisciples12@gmail.com
Did you know SFdS has a Parking Lot Mass??
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Did you know that St Francis de Sales offers an outdoor Mass in our west parking lot??
Gather with us every Sunday at 11:15am in the church parking lot. From the comfort of your car you can participate in our Mass, viewing our priest, deacon and lector and listening to Mass broadcast on 89.9 FM on your car radio. Holy Communion will be brought to each car.
We would love to have you worship the Lord with us on Sunday!
A Call from the Bishops of Catholic Conference of Illinois: Governor Pritzker has recommended severely cutting the Invest in Kids program
/A Call from the Bishops of Catholic Conference of Illinois: Governor Pritzker has recommended severely cutting the Invest in Kids program
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Hand-Carved Olive Wood Gifts from the Holy Land
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The group that sells the olive wood from the Holy Land is not going to be in the parish to sell the beautiful figurines to help the Christian community in the Bethlehem area. The Christian carvers in the Holy Land are suffering greatly as the local government refused to assist them with any kind of funds. Therefore, the consequences are threatening to their existence. They are building hope on the Catholic churches to make a purchase from their group to put food on the table.
Please visit their website: www.starofbethlehemart.com and try to purchase anything that would help substantially.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Issam
Did you know that 600 Christian families are living in Bethlehem and are completely dependent on carving olive wood figurines for their livelihood? The recent clashes in the Middle East have stopped the tourism industry in Bethlehem, causing most of those families serious harm in earning their living and forcing many of them to leave their homeland. Christians having to leave the land of Christ has tragic consequences on the holy sites. Issam from “Star of Bethlehem Group” came to the United States with a mission to help those families by selling their beautiful religious hand crafts. The cost of goods goes to benefit the Christian carvers to keep them working in the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, the profit from sales goes directly to the needy Catholic schools and clinics in the Holy Land. Star of Bethlehem has been approved by many bishops and the diocese of Jerusalem.
Help Catholic Charities this Mother's Day!
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Give to be the Face of Hope
Today, our second collection will support mothers and children who reach out to Catholic Charities and lift-up our most vulnerable neighbors across Chicagoland who are facing extraordinary challenges right now. Please offer your most generous donation to the second collection to help ease the burden of poverty, hunger, homelessness, unemployment, abuse, addiction or aging.
Learn more or make a gift at www.catholiccharities.net text HOPE to 878787 or scan the QR code with your phone.
