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April 4, 2010 Easter Sunday Page FourFrom the Pastor’s Desk....Dear Parishioners and Benefactors of St. Ferdinand parish!Once again we celebrate Easter, which is a great source of our spiritual renewal for each of us. The Liturgyof Easter Sunday leads us to an empty tomb to personally meet the Resurrected Christ and there proclaimour faith by repeating the words of St. Paul to Thessalonians “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose” (1Tes4, 14)Dear parishioners, I wish you renewed faith in the Resurrection of our Lord. May it guide you in transformationof your life and help you reject fear and anxiety, darkness and despair, and assist you in becoming thepeople of resurrection faith, that stare firmly at the Victorious Christ. From this empty tomb flows a true hopeto us faithful, that one day we will be resurrected.Let our hearts be full of that Easter hope, as those who have hope live in a different way. That hope thatflows from the joy of meeting Resurrected Lord I wish you and your loved ones the most. I extend my Eastergreetings to all who are with us today, friends, families, guests and anyone who desired to spend this holy day inour community of faith. Therefore, let the Resurrected Christ give you strength and enlighten our hearts andminds same way as he did to his apostles on their way to Emmaus, so we can become His true witnesses in today’scontemporary world.Bless!The peace and grace of Resurrected Christ may accompany you and your everyday activities. GodThank you to all who donated to the Renovation Fund. In the month of March $5,798 was collected.God bless you for your generosity. Besides the donations collected during our second collection, we received agenerous individual donation from the Knych Family in the amount of $1,000. Additionally, I would especiallylike to thank our Polish Rosary Groups with its president, Ms. Helena Lesak for the donation of $4,000 to coverthe cost of installing the altar of St. Mary of Czestochowa. May our Holy Mother, through her intercession,plead for graces for the members of the Rosary Groups, who made such great sacrifices in order to provide thenew altar for St. Ferdinand Parish.As was already announced, due to Easter Sunday falling this year on the first Sunday of the month, oursecond collection for the Renovation Fund, will be collected on the weekend of April 10/11. This is, again, anotheropportunity to support this fund. Remember, donations collected for the Building and MaintenanceFund are for general maintenance. Donations for the Renovation Fund, on the other hand, will cover the costsof any repairs to the buildings and our parish grounds. The donations collected this month will cover the repairsto our cooling system in the church. The warmer season is approaching quickly and in order to use the airconditioningsystem in the church, we must to replace the leaking air ducts in the attic, so it will not further damagethe church ceiling.May our Lord bestow many blessing and you and your family for your generosity and sacrifice on behalfof our parish. Once a month a Mass is offered in the intention of all benefactors and supporters of St. FerdinandParish.Fr. Jason Torba
Page Five Easter Sunday April 4, 2010Please Share your views on theCatholic FaithThe Archdiocese of Chicago wouldlike to understand the views ofCatholics on a range of topics relatedto our faith. We would greatly appreciateyour involvement in an onlinesurvey. Please note that we are interestedin hearing from all Catholics, regardless of howoften you participate in the life of the Church.All surveys will be anonymous unless participantsthemselves choose to provide contact information. Toparticipate in the survey, please go to the Archdioceseof Chicago’s website at www.archchicago.organd follow the link to the Catholic Faith and PracticeSurvey.If you have Catholic friends or family members whoyou think may not see this announcement, we wouldgreatly appreciate your help in asking them to fill outthe survey as well. Part of our effort is to understandteens’ views, and we encourage their participation.The deadline for completing a survey is Friday,April 16.Irving Park Catholic Woman’s ClubmeetingIrving Park Catholic Woman’s Club will meet onWednesday, April 7 th at 10:30 a.m. in McManusHall, 3131 N. Mason Ave. This is our Pot Luckmeeting, so please come and bring goodies with youCome and enjoy. Don’t forget to bring a friend!Hostesses: Sue Buzinski and Eleanor PicchiettiGolden Wedding Anniversary MassSunday, September 19, 20103:00PMSt. John Brebeuf Church8307 North Harlem Ave.Niles, ILCouples married in 1960 interested in attending thiscelebration should contact our parish office773-622-5900 to register by May 31. Your willreceive invitation directly from the FamilyMinistries Office.Cardinal George AnnouncesFr. Tolton Cause for SainthoodFirst American Diocesan Priest of African DescentFrancis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago,has announced that Fr. Augustus Tolton’scause for sainthood is being introduced in the Archdioceseof Chicago. The Cardinal has appointedMost Rev. Joseph N. Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago,as the Postulator for the cause of Fr. Tolton.Bishop Perry will be responsible for making Fr.Tolton better known and encouraging prayer to him.In his weekly Cardinal’s Network email message,Cardinal George wrote, “Many Catholics might notever have heard of Fr. Augustus Tolton; but blackCatholics most probably have. He was the firstAmerican diocesan priest of African descent, the sonof slaves. After studying in Rome, because no Americanseminary would accept him, he was ordained forthe Diocese of Quincy, in southern Illinois, and latercame to Chicago to start a parish for black Catholics.He died young, at only 43 years of age; butmost priests in the nineteenth century died beforetheir fiftieth birthday. Visiting the sick on a dailybasis was risky in an age before antibiotics. Manypriests sickened sometime in their forties and diedafter a period of ill health.”Fr. Augustus Tolton was born in Missouri on April 1,1854, and is buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery nearQuincy, Illinois. Cardinal George will appoint a historicalcommission needed to assemble the factsabout Fr. Tolton’s heroic virtues. Additional informationand the Prayer for the Cause of Father AugustusTolton can be found atwww.blackcatholicchicago.org.
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