The complete schedule of our Triduum and Easter Services is on our website and in our Bulletin (and on our entrance doors).

I hope you can join us tomorrow evening --- Holy Thursday (April 2nd) for our Agape Pot-luck Dinner in the Parish Center before our 7 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper . Be sure to RSVP. The Agape meal will be served between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK will take place this Good Friday (April 3rd) morning at 8:30 a.m. in the Narthex of the Church for anyone seriously ill in mind, body, or soul.

Both the Parish Office and the Adoration Chapel will be CLOSED on Good Friday (April 3rd). The Office will be open, as usual, on Holy Saturday. On Monday, April 6th, the Parish Office will be CLOSED.

CONFESSIONS will NOT be heard on Holy Saturday (April 4th) morning.

Please remember that on Holy Saturday (April 4th) the only Mass that evening will be the 7 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass ( NO 5 p.m. Mass ). Also, there will NOT be a 5 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday (April 5th).

Congratulations to High School student LORENZO DeGUZMAN who was presented with the second annual St. Carlo Acutis Award for outstanding service to St. Edna Parish. This award is bestowed to a High School age young man from each Parish in the Archdiocese. The award ceremony took place last Sunday, March 22nd at the Seminary in Mundelein.

You can view all three nights of the MULTI-PARISH LENTEN MISSION that we hosted here at St. Edna on March 9-11 on our YouTube page (a link is on our www.stedna.org website homepage).

Please remember that if police officers are not present to direct traffic after our weekend Masses, it might be best to consider (for safety’s sake) making a right turn out of the parking lot, heading north , even though that might take you a little bit out of your way.

Regarding SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS , please never believe them . Some are supposedly from me, or from our Deacons, asking you to contact us, or to purchase gift cards for us to distribute to other people. Don’t be fooled. We would NEVER ask you to do this kind of thing, no matter “how busy” these messages say we might be. Just DELETE these scam requests and save yourself some major headaches  and financial losses .  

Our Adoration Chapel is a wonderful place to find some personal peace. Pray before the EUCHARISTIC LORD Monday through Friday from 7am to 7pm. Enter the Chapel through Door 4. The Chapel will be CLOSED on Good Friday.

The parents of any interested boys or girls who would like to be ALTAR SERVERS should contact the Parish Office at 847 398-3362. Veronica (Ronny) Erxleben provides the training for our Altar Servers.

Our Rosary Group is praying a continuous SPIRITUAL BOUQUET   “for peace in the world” , so please continue praying Rosaries and  Hail Mary’s  and letting Tomi Gaudio know at  tomig@comcast.net  so she can keep count. As of this writing, over 530,965 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Please continue praying for peace, and for the many people killed and suffering from wars, unjust aggression, storms, violence, cold weather, homelessness, unemployment, disasters, shootings, and poverty.

May our Blessed Mother, the Queen of Peace, intercede to bring an end to the war our nation is currently involved in, and to all wars.

May your Holy Week and Easter be very blessed, and may God bless our OCIA Elect and Candidates preparing to receive their Easter sacraments at our 7 p.m. Vigil Mass this Saturday, April 4th.

Fr. Darrio