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Hand-Carved Olive Wood Gifts from the Holy Land
/Proceeds benefit Catholic communities in the Holy Land.
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.
WELCOME TO ST. FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH!
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We look forward to seeing you back in church
Please register at www.stfrancislzparish.org and join us for our scheduled indoor Masses: 5 pm Saturday Vigil, 6:30 am Sunday, 9:00 am Sunday (also Live-streamed on our Youtube and Facebook channels) Tune into Comcast 4 and U-verse 99 for a rebroadcast of our Mass Sunday at 12:30 pm.
We also offer a unique outdoor parking lot Mass. No registration necessary!
11:15 am Sunday – West Parking Lot - behind the School/Church. Remain in your parked car and participate as our priest celebrates Mass from the altar on a raised truck platform. Mass is broadcast to your car radio 89.9 FM. You are able to receive Holy Communion as the Eucharist is brought to each car.
Other weekday opportunities include:
Daily Mass: Noon on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays. Please note our School Mass at 1 pm on Wednesdays. No registration is required. We also stream daily Mass on our Facebook and YouTube channels. Communion Service: 8 am Tuesdays and Thursdays
Prayer experiences including Parish Mission, Scripture study and healing services. We continue to work on exciting new opportunities for you to stay connected to God and to each other. Please check our website frequently for current events.
Ministry Center and Fr. Valker Hall are still closed until further notice. For scheduling funerals or sacraments of Baptism, Matrimony, Confession or Anointing of the Sick please call Parish Office at (847)438-6622.
We pray that as the number of those vaccinated increases over the next few months, positivity and death rates in our state, which have been rising will significantly decrease. These rates determine state and Archdiocesan mandated guidelines regarding safety protocol and capacity limits that we must follow. We need to remain vigilant and continue to adhere to current public health and Archdiocesan guidelines including masking, distancing, capacity limits and hand sanitizing.
We are at a critical tipping point in our fight against this virus. If we stay the course for another few months, following the state and Archdiocese guidelines, we can really knock this virus back for the good of all. And once we see a trend of significant decline in positivity rates, we are hopeful and excited that the state and Archdiocese will safely expand capacity limits and ease other restrictions. In the meantime, let’s love our neighbor as Jesus asks of us and continue to do our part to keep everyone safe.
Keeping our church safe for all, requires a huge volunteer commitment. In order to keep our church doors open, we need adequate help. We have a very dedicated and joyful pool of volunteers, but we can always use more. If you would like to ensure that we can continue to safely keep our church open and at our capacity limit, please visit our website to sign up to volunteer.
