Old St. Patrick's Church

Run with Us!

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:47:52 +0000

Your Are “Running” Out of Time!

There are only two weeks left to register for the Crossroads Runners — we have entries for the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

Say YES to a FUN AND HEALTHY Summer while helping a great cause. For more information, contact Tim Liston at tliston@oldstpats.org.

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:00:35 +0000

We are thrilled to announce our headliners:

Friday, June 28, 2013:

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y

Saturday, June 29, 2013 Country Night

Gretchen Wilson

Phil Vassar

Online volunteer registration at www.worldslargestblockparty.com

Tickets are now on sale!

Baptismal Coordinator Volunteers Needed: A Ministry of Welcome

admin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:33:26 +0000

The baptismal ministry gives you the opportunity to offer your generous donation of time and presence to the sacramental life at Old St. Patrick’s Church.

The baptismal coordinator does not provide preparation, but offers gracious hospitality to those being baptized and their families.

If you are interested in volunteering to be a baptismal coordinator, and thus be among the first to “welcome” our newest members into the Church, please contact Betty O’Toole at 312.798.2366, or bettyo@oldstpats.org.

June 2013 Bulletins

oldstpats — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:04:00 +0000

June 16, 2013 Bulletin

June 9, 2013 Bulletin

June 2, 2013 Bulletin

Summer Mass Schedule

admin — Mon, 27 May 2013 12:00:03 +0000

Mass Schedule:

June 23, 2013

7 a.m.
8 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
5 p.m.
8 p.m.

**Presiders are added Thursday afternoons.*

Directions & Parking Info

Mother Day’s Videos – St. Agatha

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:30 +0000

Mother’s Day in North Lawndale – A Huge Success!

Many heartfelt thanks to the Old St. Pat’s Community for making Mother’s Day special for the children and their moms of St. Agatha’s in North Lawndale. Connections hosted a toiletry drive where we collected a ton of items for this event. Volunteers went to St. Agatha’s where we set up a “retail store” and had “personal shoppers” work with the kids to find the perfect gift for their moms.

The kids were extremely excited to be able to “shop” for their moms and you could feel the electricity and anticipation in the room. Thanks again for your generosity to make this project with St. Agatha’s our Sharing Parish Partner happen. Beth Marek, Director of Outreach

St. Agatha Mother's Day

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admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:10:05 +0000

We are thrilled to announce our headliners:

Friday, June 28, 2013:

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y

Saturday, June 29, 2013:

Phil Vassar

Online volunteer at www.worldslargestblockparty.com

Tickets go on sale Monday, May 13, 2013.

Saturday, May 25

Click here to sign up.

Registration for the 2013-2014 Partners Religious Education (PreK through 7th grade), BluePrints and Foundations Youth Ministry is open to all families!

Please visit www.signmeup.com/91623 to register.

If you are unable to connect to the registration link via your iPad or Kindle, please use your laptop or desktop computer to connect to register.

May 2013 Bulletins

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:56:34 +0000

April 2013 Bulletins

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:53:48 +0000

admin — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:54 +0000

Our Young Adult Choir teamed up with Harmony, Hope and Healing to cover a song by our headliner for World’s Largest Block Party.

Tickets are on sale now! Click here.
$20 per person, $25 at the door – includes all food and drinks.
Raffle tickets: 2 for $5, or 5 for $10

Did You Miss Registration For the Bank of America Chicago Marathon?

admin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:13:16 +0000

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2013

Old St. Pat’s has some of the last “post-close” entries for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and we want you to join our Crossroads Runners Team! If you or someone you know is still interested in running with the Crossroads Runners, but have not yet signed-up, visit www.oldstpats.org/marathon, or contact Tim Liston at tliston@oldstpats.org.

Crossroads Runners provides FREE training with one of two personal coaches, each with 30+ years of experience. All funds raised benefit our worthy Outreach programs to help at-risk youths, the homeless and unemployed.

IT IS NOT TOO LATE!

Join the Bank of America Chicago Marathon with the Old St. Pat’s Crossroads Runners TODAY!

Mass Schedule

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:01:10 +0000

Mass Schedule:

June 2, 2013

7 a.m.
8 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
12:45 p.m.
5 p.m.

**Presiders are added Thursday afternoons.*

Directions & Parking Info

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:00:29 +0000

Thank you for celebrating Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church. We are honored you chose to worship with us. We hope you experienced the hospitality and spirit of great liturgy that is characteristic of this church. We look forward to seeing you again next Sunday.

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

In order to accommodate the number of guests who wish to celebrate with us at 9:30a.m. and 11:30a.m., we are pleased to offer four simultaneous Easter Liturgies in four locations: Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria. Every location will offer beautiful music, festive décor and joyful hospitality!

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

Easter Monday, April 1, 2013

There will be no 7 a.m. or 12:10 p.m. Mass.

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:00:27 +0000

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

Easter Monday, April 1, 2013

There will be no 7 a.m. or 12:10 p.m. Mass.

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:00:26 +0000

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:00:25 +0000

Saturday, March 30

7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

admin — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:00:19 +0000

Friday, March 29

10 – 11:30 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation and individual confessions in the Church

Noon and 5:30 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion & Death of our Lord

3:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Saturday, March 30

7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

Holy Week – Easter Sunday Schedule

admin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:17:59 +0000

HOLY THURSDAY Thursday, March 28

7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper in Church, with Fr. Tom Hurley

7:00 p.m.*Mass & Community Dinners
*Tickets required in advance.

Church Hall with Fr. John Cusick
FXW Cafeteria with Fr. Paul Novak
FXW Gym with Fr. Jack Wall

No 7 a.m. or 12:10 p.m Masses

GOOD FRIDAY Friday, March 29

10 – 11:30 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation and individual confessions in the Church

Noon and 5:30 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion & Death of our Lord

3:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Saturday, March 30 HOLY SATURDAY

7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil

EASTER SUNDAY Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church
Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

March 2013 Bulletins

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:07:20 +0000

March 31, 2013 ~ Easter Sunday

Lenten Resources

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:39:39 +0000

Online resources for Lent

www.creighton.edu/collaborativeministry/daily.html
Read daily Scripture reflections written by faculty members at Creighton University

www.sacredspace.ie
Sacred Space: Your Daily Prayer Online
Daily Scripture reflections composed by the Irish Jesuits

www.bc.edu/content/bc/alumni/association/spirituality/lenten_reflections_2013.html
Boston College Video Reflections for Lent
View reflections for Lent 2013 but also check out the 2012 reflections on Forgiveness

www.bc.edu/schools/stm/c21online/resources/deathofjesus.html
The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts
A free online mini-course offered by Boston College

oldstpats — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:37:26 +0000

Thursday, March 28

7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper in Church, with Fr. Tom Hurley

7:00 p.m.*Mass & Community Dinners:
*Tickets required in advance.

Church Hall with Fr. John Cusick
FXW Cafeteria with Fr. Paul Novak
FXW Gym with Fr. Jack Wall

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

Friday, March 29

10 – 11:30 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation and individual confessions in the Church

Noon and 5:30 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion & Death of our Lord

3:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Saturday, March 30

7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil

Sunday, March 31

Mass Schedule:

7:00 a.m. Church
8:00 a.m. Church, Hall
9:30 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
11:15 a.m. Church, Hall, Gym, Cafeteria
12:45 p.m. Church

Note: There will be no 5 p.m. Mass

All are welcome to celebrate Easter Sunday at Old St. Patrick’s Church!

We will have numerous locations on campus for our Easter morning Liturgies, so that all will be able to enjoy this most holy and joyful day. Here is glance at what you and your family should expect.

Parking is free and available in all three lots around the Old St. Pat’s campus.

Please join the line on the Des Plaines Street sidewalk, across the street from the church.

We will only seat 750 people in the church. We cannot exceed this maximum capacity without breaking the fire code.

So that we can offer our best hospitality to those waiting in line, no one will be allowed to “save seats” in the church. Please enter with your entire party, and sit close together.

Please remember to arrive early, and be prepared to wait in line outside. We are so excited to celebrate Easter with you!

February 2013 Bulletins

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:32:05 +0000

February 24, 2013 Bulletin

February 17, 2013 Bulletin

February 10, 2013 Bulletin

February 3, 2013 Bulletin

The Spirit in its Wake

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:03:08 +0000

F.r Terrance W. Klein

He was a soldier of fortune who became a mercenary for the usual reasons: fame, fortune, females. As the youngest son of minor Spanish nobility, there was small prospect of these at home, and his industry and bravery wer paying off, when a French canon ball tore open his left calf and broke his right shin. Ignatius was confined to bed for months, his leg clumsily set, re-broken, and set again. A protruding limb was sawn off. His leg had to be stretched with weights. He passed his long convalescence reading books, either on chivalry or the saints. To his surprise, he began to enjoy the latter, to draw meaning and hope from them. They led to a much deeper Catholicism than Ignatius of Loyola had previously known.

Francesco had a similar experience. When his home town went to war against neighboring Perugia, he bade farewell to his wealthy merchant father and set out to gain what his mother, of minor French nobility, would have called la gloire, but he was captured and spent several months, quite ill, awaiting the payment of ransom. A changed Francis came home to Assisi, one with radically different ideas of what constituted true glory.

The Greek word for baptism, baptizein, is secular in origin. Like our English word “soused” it carries a certain ambiguity. Before Christians adopted the term for their initiatory, ritual bath, it could mean being thoroughly doused with water, even to the point of drowning, or it could refer to a state of inebriation. Did Christians choose the term because of its ambivalence? From the beginning, baptism has suggested both death and exuberance. The New Testament speaks of dying in the waters of baptism but also of being awash with the Spirit because of them.

By the time the gospels were being composed, with the baptism of Jesus given pride of place in them, Christians had already been baptizing for almost two decades. Those Christian rituals stand as backdrop to the story of Christ’s own baptism. In the light of early Christian experience, Saint Luke records Christ himself receiving the Holy Spirit at his baptism, and one has to wonder if we aren’t also meant to see the event as a premonition of the death to come. Certainly, in all of our gospels, it inaugurates the public ministry that will climax at Calvary.

What was in the mind of Jesus, when he willingly underwent John’s apocalyptic ritual for the remission of sins? Probably, like John, he was convinced that the time of God’s entrance into Israel’s history was at hand. And did he understand himself to be Isaiah’s promised one (42:1), with a mission that would require all that he had, even his life? It’s possible that Jesus entered the waters of Jordan as way of accepting his own, coming death.

While the New Testament witness is clear in linking baptism both to death and to the Spirit, it doesn’t fancy any particular sequence. In most cases the reception of the Spirit follows the water, but in some cases, as with the family of Cornelius, the bestowal of the Sprit precedes the bath (Acts 10: 44-48). Peter asks, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the holy Spirit even as we have?” (Acts 10:47) And the New Testament is equally open to the notion that there are fillings of the Spirit subsequent to baptism. Perhaps that’s why, even today, serious illness can be a way in which the Spirit of God enters, and fills, our lives.

Beginning with Saint Paul and his mysterious “thorn in the flesh” the list of saints sanctified by serious ailments is almost as long as the list of holy ones. Illness convinced Francis de Sales to abandon the study of law for theology; sickness transformed Theresa of Avila from convent gadabout to Carmelite reformer. And the illness need not be in one’s own flesh. Providing hospice care to her young, dying husband in Catholic Italy changed the life of Elizabeth Ann Seton. For so many of the saints, sickness washed over them and brought the Spirit in its wake.

Humans, like any animal, are subject to sickness, but we experience serious illness in a way that no animal does. We can’t help but to fear it, to question why it has to be, to wonder about our future, where it will end. Given the rise in assisted suicides, it’s clear that fear can consume a human life. Yet if one remains a person of faith and turns to God, opens the arms of the soul to the creator of life, sickness itself can become an immersion into the waters of death. It can bring the Spirit in its wake.

All sacraments trace their roots to baptism. What we call “Anointing of the Sick” is no more, or less, than a ritual reminder that Christ claimed us in baptism, that we are his, come what may.

Christ was awash with the Holy Spirit at his baptism. Perhaps he was also filled with foreboding, but he faithfully entered the waters of death and rebirth. Baptism, for Christ and for us, is a ritual anticipation of human life itself, a life that always ends in death. For all men and women, like all animals, must die. But for the Christian, baptism — faithfulness to its promise and confidence in its meaning — is, like the Red Sea, a parting of waters. We give ourselves to the waves, knowing the distant shore to which they lead, knowing that the Spirit is in their wake.

This article was written by Terrance W. Klein and was published in the January 10 issue of America Magazine.

Broadway on Adams

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:22:59 +0000

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Tiara Nelson

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:17:21 +0000

Kinship happens with lots of different partners. Sometimes kinship happens between races as in the case of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement. Sometimes kingship happens between communities, like Old St. Pat’s and North Lawndale College Prep. Kinship at its most basic happens between family members, Kins, if you will.

Let me tell you about my big brother who taught me everything I needed to know about kinship. The Notorious BIG said, “You can’t change the world unless you change yourself.” Growing up as a young African-American male in a household with a mother who didn’t obtain a college degree is difficult. At the age of seventeen my mother delivered my brother and after she completed high school she had to find employment to support her first child. Seeing her struggle but never giving up helped my brother,

Corey, become the man he is today.

Growing up in Uptown he had to stay strong and resist the gang life that took so many of his friends. He was the first person in our family to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree. I love my brother. He is my role model — he is a role model for so many people. Corey has two siblings, me and my brother. But Corey’s kin are everywhere.

Corey is a pre-school teacher at Ryerson Elementary on the West Side. After he is done with the little ones, he comes to North Lawndale College Prep serving as the Head Coach of the Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team. It is not an exaggeration to say that he works for and with young people from sun up to sun down. He treats all of these young people like they are his kin because they are.

He is changing the world. I don’t think he will ever understand how he is changing the lives of teenage females by helping them realize their passion and talent in a sport. He is literally rescuing young high school kids from the streets. So many teen-aged girls do not have a strong male in their lives. So they look in bad places for love. They can get un-motivated, even depressed. But Corey plugs the gaps in their hearts by motivating them to push through their adversities, both on and off the court. He is their hero.

Let me tell you about my big brother who taught me everything I needed to know about kinship.

How does someone become the first person in a family to graduate from college? Corey’s mindset reminds me of a basketball team with one goal in mind: a championship. Corey has won his life championship. He instills in others the importance of hard work and dedication by motivating them to do well in school. It’s not just about basketball; it’s about being dedicated and working hard at everything someone does in life. Corey is all about getting that championship. He wanted better, so he did better. He has also made me better.

So Corey is my kin — he shaped and motivated me. Corey is also kin to his preschoolers and his players. Corey has taught me that we are all kin. We all belong to each other, black and white, Old St. Pat’s and NLCP, everyone in the world. Kinship, at the end of the day, is not a matter of blood. It is a matter of heart.

If you would like to learn more about the amazing work that is happening at this innovative charter high school, please visit their website at www.nlcphs.org.

Tiara Nelson is a senior at North Lawndale College Prep. She is number one in her class with a 4.75 GPA.