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Welcome to Queen of All Saints parish. We are glad you have joined us to celebrate Easter! On behalf of the staff of our parish and school, I wish you and your families a blessed Easter. May we know more fully the everlasting joy and peace of the Risen Christ within our own hearts. Easter is the Feast of Feasts, the joyful celebration of the true event of Christ’s Resurrection; and what makes this feast even more joyful is that it is also the celebration of our own Resurrection in Him.

"For more than a thousand years, the Church has sung five words that capture the message of Easter: CHRIST OUR HOPE HAS RISEN." Please click for an Easter message from Cardinal Cupich.

Today we enter the most sacred week in the Church’s liturgical calendar. This week we celebrate the mystery of a divinely extravagant love that lies at the heart of our faith. We begin today with the liturgy of Palm Sunday, when we gather together and reenact the scene of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem...

Not far from where my family lives there is a path that comes to life with ambitious high school and college students around this time each year. Most use it either because they’re part of a track and field team, or perhaps because they are hopeful of being part of one. Sometimes the coach is off to the side, waiting, encouraging, (or shouting), urging them on, monitoring their time. When the runners approach the street crossings, cars on the road need to wait as a squad of young people crosses. Of course, a thought that often comes to mind as we are waiting is, “I used to be able to move like that!”

Our Easter collection is one of our two major annual Holy Day collections to support our parish. Of course, we primarily depend on the support of our parishioners every week throughout the year to fund our total operating budget. This includes the maintenance of our beautiful basilica where we gather in shared worship, and our over 40 parish ministries that support each and every one of us at all stages of our lives..

Click for our Holy Week Schedule beginning on Saturday, April 12.

The parable of the Prodigal Son is likely one of the most quoted and most versatile of all the stories in the Gospels. This is so because at various times in our lives it is easy to identify with one or all of these characters. Of course, our motives for identifying with them can be mixed, such as when we prefer to put ourselves in the shoes of the generous father. He has been deeply wronged, and his youngest son has been a keen disappointment. We’ve all been there. And there is more than a hint of disappointment to be found in the eldest son, who complains that he has not received proper recognition from the father. We’ve all been the aggrieved elder brother; haven’t there been times when we’ve preferred to wallow in our grief and refuse to turn the page and move on?

Let’s live this Lent not as a time to “give something up” but rather to “give something back” - the gift of time to look inward to ourselves...

Good and gracious God, I know that life can be unpredictable. Sometimes I know what is good and right, but I don't have the courage to do it. Sometimes I am so busy with my own affairs, I forget to see the needs of people in front of me. Sometimes I am set in my own ways, and I resist growing and learning. Help me, Lord, to be open to Your will. When You prompt me to do the right thing, give me the courage to do it. When those around me need my help, give me Your heart to love them. When I'm stuck in my own ways, give me the grace to grow closer to You every day. Give me the trust and confidence of Mary. Let it be done unto me according to Your word! Amen.

From antiquity, the penitential aspect of the season of Lent was a time not only to do penance for one’s own sins, but also to pray in a special way for those who would be receiving the Sacraments at Easter. In the early days of the Church, becoming Catholic for many meant putting everything on the line - one didn’t know what one might be called on to sacrifice...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Happy St. Joseph’s Day! Whether you celebrate by being part of a parade, watching the Chicago River dyed green, attending Mass or making a meal that includes corned-beef, cabbage and Irish soda bread or share in the food of St. Joseph’s table, these days are special. For me, it is about celebrating my dad...

Simply put, the Lenten season prepares us for the celebration of Easter, the most important day in our Christian calendar. For some it is a time of healing, an opportunity to repair their spiritual brokenness. For others it is simply a good time to cultivate their spiritual lives in a more disciplined manner...

Growing up, the season of Lent was never something I looked forward to - probably because self-denial isn’t easy to embrace. I remember one year in particular...

We talk about the three traditional pillars of Lent: Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Let’s look at how those last two can work together for our Lenten preparation...

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.