News - July 2022

Many parishioners know that their ability to support our parish may be limited due to their current housing, medical and other expenses.  However they also know that including our parish in their estate planning may be an alternative that provides them the comfort that they have made the right provision for the parish they have known for many years.

At this time anyone who has donated or pledged to our From Generation to Generation campaign should have received a letter confirming your donation amount*, giving level and name listing for the campaign plaque. This is to ensure an accurate listing on the From Generation to Generation campaign plaque to be placed in the northwest hallway of the basilica opposite our Millennium Campaign wall. Donor names will be listed by the giving levels below.

For most of us, summer is when “everyday” life closes down, and people can "vacate" their day-to-day activities and responsibilities. Some of us are taking family trips for relaxation. Others enjoy backyard BBQs and working in the garden. Here at QAS, this is when we are busy with the regular summer tasks of attending to building needs so we can be ready for the new school year. Along with the school, this summer, following a five-year repair and wait of the side altars, we began to install the marble background over the altars. Completing this work in the next couple of weeks will restore the side altars to their original glory. Thank you for your patience and support.

We hear this phrase often. What does this mean? Our Time - Perhaps the most obvious way to satisfy this obligation is to attend weekly Mass.

July is the heart of our hot, languid summers. It’s vacation time for many, time to rev up the grill or skip out to the beach. Even our reading material changes with the heat and light: that heavy biography becomes an easy on-the-beach thriller. So it’s probably true that our approach to stewardship changes with the seasons as well – it changes but doesn’t disappear.

At this time anyone who has donated or pledged to our From Generation to Generation campaign should have received a letter confirming your donation amount*, giving level and name listing for the campaign plaque. This is to ensure an accurate listing on the From Generation to Generation campaign plaque to be placed in the northwest hallway of the basilica opposite our Millennium Campaign wall. Donor names will be listed by the giving levels below.

Last weekend we heard Jesus say to us, "love your neighbor." And when asked: Who do you mean? Who is my neighbor? He didn't answer directly but told the well-known story of the Good Samaritan. He then asked, "who was neighbor to the man who fell to the robbers?" The point of the story he left for us to work out, but one thing is sure, no one is ruled out. Your neighbor is the one who is close to you, the one who crosses your path.

At this time anyone who has donated or pledged to our From Generation to Generation campaign should have received a letter confirming your donation amount*, giving level and name listing for the campaign plaque. This is to ensure an accurate listing on the From Generation to Generation campaign plaque to be placed in the northwest hallway of the basilica opposite our Millennium Campaign wall. Donor names will be listed by the giving levels below.

This past Monday was a quiet and uneventful morning until around 11 am. Driving north on Route 41, I saw Glenview police cars whizzing past me. Since I was past Glenview, I wondered where they were going. I then saw more police vehicles speeding down the road on the opposite side of the highway. These were coming from Lake Forest, Libertyville, and Buffalo Grove. I wondered what was happening. Later, when I saw the news, I got my answer. With this pandemic of gun violence across the country, I ceased asking the question ‘why?’ More than being outraged, I felt tired. I wish I had a solution to this scourge of gun violence and mass shootings, but sadly I do not.