Dear Parishioners,
My priest friends make fun of me for clipping coupons out of the newspaper. Now, I’m not a professional coupon collector, like I know some people are, but I also don’t ignore a good coupon when I see one. For instance, a few months ago was a coupon for White Castle: buy five sliders, get five sliders free. My friends weren’t laughing at me when I brought home for dessert a sack of ten sliders. I was a hero. And the other week was a coupon for Dairy Queen: buy one blizzard and get a second blizzard for just 99 cents. Gold.
Dear Parishioners,
There are almost three parables in today’s Gospel parable about the wedding guests. The first parable would be the original invitees who decline the invitation. The second parable would be the beggars who are invited. The third parable would be the beggar who is kicked out and tortured because he isn’t wearing the proper attire.
Dear Parishioners,
A few weeks ago the entire Archdiocese of Chicago gathered at Rosemont Theater for a special one-day event, a day of renewal. We prayed together and heard several keynote addresses. Cardinal Cupich’s talk was on the Mass, and how we are to experience a true Eucharistic Revival. Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa spoke on evangelizing, and how the laity need to be alongside the priests in being “fishers of men.” Then Father John Riccardo spoke on how we can be disciples.
Father James Wallace grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Sts. Faith Hope and Charity grammar school, New Trier High School, and then The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 2007. He attended seminary at The Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2012 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In addition to being the pastor of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish, he serves as a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese, a dean in Vicariate II, and a professor of canon law and spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary. He is also one of the featured Mercy Home Sunday Mass celebrants, airing Sundays at 9:30am on WGN.
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