Be sure to EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE these next few days.  Your vote is your voice.   Use it well.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK takes place on Friday, April 4th, in the Church Narthex, immediately following the 8 a.m. Mass for anyone seriously ill in mind, body or soul.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS are prayed each of the Fridays of Lent at 7 p.m. in the Church.

CONFESSIONS will be heard on Saturday, April 5th, in the Church Reconciliation Room from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m.

Please attend THE PASSION OF CHRIST at St. Edna Church at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 5th.  This will be a professional, live production, well worth seeing.

Mark your calendars for our AGAPE DINNER on Holy Thursday, April 17th.  This is always a well-attended event.  Food will be served between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Congratulations to St. Edna Teenager RYAN GURETZ who received the first-ever BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS AWARD on Sunday, March 16th, at the Seminary in Mundelein.  This Award is presented to a young man from each Parish in Vicariate I who has modeled excellence in ministry.  Ryan has served our Parish well these last few years in our Youth Ministry Program and at our annual Pancake Breakfast and our Trunk-or-Treat events.  His suggestion to our Youth Ministry leaders to use the REMIND app has allowed better communication with teens.  Thanks, Ryan, for being a shining light to our Parish and a great role model to your peers.

Always be EXTREMELY CAREFUL when exiting our Parking Lot and making the left turn onto Arlington Heights Road to travel south.  We have always hired (and we still do) Arlington Heights police officers for traffic control at our Saturday evening 5 p.m. Mass and at two of our Sunday morning Masses, but less and less officers are signing up for this detail, so please be very cautious, and, as always, be extra kind and patient to your fellow drivers exiting our parking lot.  Thank you!

A WAIT LIST has been started for those interested in purchasing certain colors of glass from our ORIGINAL STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS as a keepsake for yourself.  Contact the Parish Office for more information.  A piece of glass with its edges ground down for safety is $35.00.  A piece of glass with lead framing surrounding it is $60.00.  A half-size piece of glass with lead framing surrounding it is $42.00.

A printed brochure explaining each of our NEW stained-glass windows is available in the Narthex and at the Parish Office.

It has come to our attention that a number of people are putting their feet on our upraised kneelers (using them as footrests) during Mass.  This added weight and pressure weakens the brackets that hold the kneelers in place.  Please use our kneelers only for their intended purpose of KNEELING in prayer and adoration.  Thank you.     

Our Adoration Chapel is a wonderful place to find some personal peace.  Pray before the EUCHARISTIC LORD Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.  Enter the Chapel through Door 4. 

If you’re looking for a new ministry to take part in, please consider becoming a SLIDE MONITOR OPERATOR at one of our weekend Masses.  Diane Knowlton will train you for this easy and worthwhile volunteer ministry.    

Please don’t believe the many SCAM EMAILS  and  SCAM TEXTS  that are always going around.  They never stop!  Please don’t believe them . Some are supposedly from me, or from our Deacons, or from Fr. Paul, 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 or Fr. Paul 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 426,653 Hail Mary’s have been prayed.

Treat yourself to one of our ST. EDNA COOKBOOKS!   The book is extremely well done and is loaded with lots of mouth-watering recipes.

May God bless our week and all the people suffering around the world from storms, earthquakes and wars.

Fr. Darrio