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Come together on Sunday, May 29 from 4-5pm at Cook Park to mourn, to unify and to act.

Planting a Seed and Sharing the Joy! A huge success! There were hundreds of plants and oak trees available for free!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and our parish is supporting Advocate Condell Medical Center's virtual mental wellness education series. Learn more or register to attend at https://cyngrayslake.org/mham22/

Celebrating the 7th Anniversary of Laudato Si': On Caring for Our Common Home

On May 14 and 15th take a plant after masses and plant them in your garden. Grow the plant with care and donate the produce to the food pantry during the summer.

The Boys and Girls Club in Waukegan are grateful for the many gifts they received from our Lenten Almsgiving Project.

Officer Brandon Bernabei answered a different call - assisting at our Food Pantry. We are blessed to have such caring law enforcement in our community.

Thank you to all the parishioners who donated items to our Lenten Almsgiving project and to the many volunteers who collected and distributed the items to families and agencies in need.

As of March 15, parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago contributed $604,000 to the Religious Retirement for Religious fund. Cardinal Cupich extends his deepest gratitude in the attached letter.

Laudato Si' Action Platform Presentation On Sunday, March 20, an experiential gathering was held to inform participants about the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform.

Get involved with the Social Justice Commission who lead many ministries in our parish and community.

Some exciting news. Parish is renting gardening lots at the Village Gardens located at The Chapel. Save your gallon bottles. We need your help planting the garden.

The Care for Creation Ministry offers some alternate Lenten inspiration for this 2022 Season of Lent.

Our food pantry provides fresh fruit to families in addition to many other items. Our Food Pantry is open to anyone needing assistance and there are many volunteers who help to make this happen.

PADS help individuals and families reach their full potential by providing a comprehensive approach to reduce homelessness.

The students helped to furnish an empty apartment on Friday night for an immigrant family from Nicaragua!

As a teenager, Lewis fled his West African homeland for the U.S. after being beaten and jailed for protesting against his government. His family helped him fly to South America, where he began a dangerous journey by foot, bus and boat to the U.S./Mexico border. There, as a 17-year-old so far from home, he asked for asylum.

We wanted to share the exciting news that we have reopened our Rotating Shelter Sites. This reopening means that PADS is once again in need of volunteers to help support our rotating shelter sites.  We have openings seven days a week with the highest need on Wednesdays.

Do you like helping people? Catholic Charities of Lake County has is looking for reception volunteers to assist in greeting clients, answering the phones, handling the mail, and generally helping direct people to our services.

Lenten Almsgiving Tags will be available in the church beginning March 5th. The tags will display items that are needed from 11 agencies and ministries to serve those in need and the marginalized. https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/life-and-dignity-of-the-human-person