News - February 2025

We will begin the season of Lent this Wednesday, March 5, as the sun takes a little longer each evening to settle beyond the horizon and the weather (hopefully) grows warmer. Life emerges once more and reminds us that Lent can be our connecting point to the season of life.

The Lenten season begins this week, our preparation for the celebration of Easter. It is a time for us Christians to embrace the “three pillars of Lent,” prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, in a focused way...

Ashes will be distributed at all Masses and prayer services in the basilica on Ash Wednesday: 6:30am Mass 8:30am Mass 12:00pm Prayer Service 4:30pm Prayer Service 7:30pm Prayer Service

Join us for Surge of the Heart featuring Jon Leonetti on March 10 & 11 at 7:30pm! click the picture for more details!

There is nothing that says ‘Queen of All Saints Parish Community’ more than our coming together as one to worship in the basilica; a close second is to gather for a special event on our beautiful field. We use the lawn for outdoor Masses, barbecues, Homecomings, Ravinia nights, football and soccer games—and of course, the gala night for our one and only fundraiser, the UPP, our United Parish Program.

As we continue to maintain our Sunday giving to support our parish operations, as we focus on the need to replenish our parish endowments for the funds spent on our unexpected expenses for repairs in recent years to the Basilica, and as we look ahead to our one single parish-wide annual fundraiser, the United Parish Program (UPP) on May 16, it challenges our generous spirit to think about fitting in one more request for support, the Archdiocesan Annual Catholic Appeal.