Category: Nuntium

We are very thankful and appreciative of donations being made during these unprecedented times. Your consistent sacrifice is making a difference and helps us pay the bills that continue to accrue. God bless your generosity, whether you give online via GiveCentral, mail envelopes, or drop gifts in the mailbox or at Mass. Some Archdiocesan collections may be taken again in the Fall.

July 4th – Independence Day/Society of St. Vincent de Paul
July 5th – Lyman Scholarship Fund for tuition assistance to Queen of Angels School
July 19th – Sharing Parish: Maternity BVM at St. José Sánchez del Rio Parish

The Archdiocese of Chicago has developed a multi-phased plan for reopening churches and resuming public participation in the sacramental life of the local Church. An Executive Summary and the full plan are available on the archdiocesan website. The plan envisions a set of required measures and phases to prudently and gradually resume use of our church buildings.

• Each parish needs to recruit non-vulnerable volunteers at the parish level to help the Pastor in implementation. Please contact the parish office if you are under 60, in good health, and would like to volunteer. This group has been hard at work and is meeting regularly to implement plans to reopen Queen of Angels.
• Training and guidance for volunteers involves multiple documents and a webinar. The documents have been evolving over the past few weeks and are guiding how we adapt the re-opening plan to the space of our church and the rituals of our sacraments and liturgies.
• A required certification of readiness to reopen will be required at each phase. Each parish is to complete an implementation template confirming completion of all action steps and showing that there are sufficient trained volunteers to execute it. We hope that our parish will be ready to apply for Phase I the week of June 16, 2020!
• Phase I allows for Baptisms, Reconciliation, Weddings and Funerals with a firm limit of 10 attendees.
• The optional Phase IA allows for private prayer and Adoration with a firm limit of 10 attendees.
• Phase II allows for reopening for weekday and weekend Masses, starting with a limit of 10 attendees.

There will be a review of the plan at each stage to make improvements. This is a slow process, but the guidelines and required measures are designed to protect the health of our whole community and help parishioners feel safe.

Normally, the second weekend in June would bring a special collection for the needs of archdiocesan priests. We would like to still support the healthcare, wellness and retirement needs for the priests of the Archdiocese of Chicago. If you are able, you may contribute online or through your offering envelope and the mailbox at the parish office. If you are not able to give at this time, there will be another opportunity for this collection in November. Your generosity in this annual collection impacts 500 active and 225 retired priests of the archdiocese.

The Mary Windows Stations are used as inspiration and focus for meditative prayer, similar to praying the Stations of the Cross. are now converted into a series of videos that are part prayer, part tour, and will take you reverently through the windows’ stories and symbols from the life of our patroness the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels. There are 12 short videos, one for each of the 6 large windows along each side of the church.