A Vision Overview of Renew My Church

This is my version of a general overview of Renew My Church that focuses us on building up our parish in Christ. I encourage all to keep it handy as we try to each do our part in great missionary task. We will be using this as we move forward in growing St. Mary of...

Wicker Square Renew My Church Decision

The Cardinal has made his decision for St. Aloysius, St. Hedwig, St. John Berchmans, and St. Mary of the Angels. The announcement was made Monday, May 10. Please see below for a summary, the full details of the plan from the Archdiocese, and the Pastoral letter....

“Thy will be done”

We have been praying a lot for the Renew My Church process: for St. Mary of the Angels, the three other parishes in our grouping, as well as for the whole Archdiocese of Chicago: we introduced the Renew My Church prayer into our Mass petitions four or five years ago,...

Renew My Church: Let us Dream

Our four parishes ended the grouping team meetings of Renew My Church with a quote from Pope Francis: “I dream of a ‘missionary option,’ that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and...

Renew My Church: Come Holy Spirit

The grouping teams from the four parishes have embraced the task and, taking with them your feedback, they are beginning to dream and listen to the Holy Spirit. Let’s listen to Pope Francis who, in his recent book for the Church experiencing the pandemic, Let us...