SNACK Theater was wonderful ---- a truly great run. The five performances were excellent! Thanks are extended to Maureen Durack and her incredible Team for putting together such a superb event. Many compliments are still coming in!

Some excellent news: We’re getting a new Associate Pastor assigned to us effective May 15th. Fr. Pawel (Paul) Barwikowski (age 36), was ordained by Cardinal Cupich in 2016, and has previously served at St. Constance Parish in Chicago and at St. James Parish in Arlington Heights. He helped us out here at St. Edna last year, presiding at two funerals that both Fr. Tomy and I were unavailable to preside at ourselves. He’s a kind, friendly and compassionate priest who I’m sure you will like, and I think you will also like his puppy -- our new Parish mascot! I am very pleased and grateful that the Cardinal has assigned Fr. Paul to serve St. Edna Parish for the next several years.

BUNCO takes place this Friday, April 26th in the Parish Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Games begin at 7 p.m.

Our Ugandan Catholic friends will be celebrating their monthly Mass in Church this Sunday, April 28th, at 1 p.m. followed by a Social at 2 p.m. in the Doherty Center.

Please note that the Archdiocese of Chicago (which includes St. Edna) will be celebrating the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord on the weekend of May 11-12, NOT on Thursday, May 9th.

All six STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS are now claimed. I thank our donors for their interest and generosity! The artists of the Daprato-Rigali Studios in Chicago have designed six beautiful new windows of a religious nature that reflect our Catholic Faith, to replace the original stained-glass windows on the West wall of our Church. Contact me at dboscutti@stedna.org if you are interested in being placed on a “wait-list” in case someone who has claimed a Window changes their mind. The new windows will be completed and installed by early December.

All the fluorescent lighting in the Hurley Center Basement was replaced recently with new LED lighting , to make things a lot brighter down there, and to reduce our electricity costs.

The green carpeting in Hurley Center Rooms A, B, C and D has been replaced with brand new vinyl plank flooring . The east wall in Room A was repainted this week by Tom Walters, and a new Video Monitor will be installed there on Thursday for our various Groups to use. The west wall of Room D will be repainted next week. The tremendous generosity of our parishioners and benefactors allows us to continue improving and upgrading our campus.

Please consider becoming a Eucharistic Minister or Lector . We need many more ministers to cover our five weekend Masses. Thank you.

SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  never stop. Please don’t 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 .  

We can always use a few more Altar Servers  at our weekend Masses. The parents of any interested boys or girls should contact Deacon Joe for training.

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 350,657 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Be sure to take a walk (or drive) around our parking lot this week to look at all the beautiful Spring flowers in bloom, thanks to the efforts of our Gardening for God volunteers.

Our world needs the peace of Christ so badly. Please continue praying for that, and for the conversion of sinners everywhere.

Fr. Darrio