Seek God's will in all that you do

and He will direct your path

Proverbs 3:6

 

 

 

 

Weekend Masses 

 

Saturday 5:00pm

Sunday 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 5:00pm

 

 

Our priority continues to be the safety of all worshippers, therefore seating is limited.   

Please reserve your seat by using Sign Up Genius

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040548aca623a7f58-stpetronille

Contact Christine Balaty at 630-469-0404, ext. 2107 by 1 pm on Friday's to reserve your spot if you are unable to use SignUp Genius. 

 ALL MASSES WILL CONTINUED TO BE AVAILABLE BY LIVE STREAMING

 

St. Petronille Parish   

Live-streaming Masses

 

To join a Live-streaming

Saturday 5:00pm or Sunday 9:30am Mass

please click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvNo_3DRlBPSBkdhbEB3j7Q 

 

Order of Service for Live-stream Liturgies

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Thank you to our parishioners for continuing their financial generosity to St. Petronille Parish.    For all who have not already done so, we invite you to simplify your financial contributions to  St. Petronille and sign-up to participate in our automated program.   Questions, please contact Diane at  makowskid@stpetschurch.org

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September 15, 2020

Dear Parishioners of Saint Petronille,

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone for your patience with the construction around the campus and for your continue support of Saint Petronille Parish.

Mass schedule expanding

Since we continue to see larger numbers at Mass, beginning September 26^th, we will be opening up the PLC as an overflow option at the 5 pm on Saturday evenings and 7:30 am on Sunday mornings.  Although this is not optimal nor as awesome and exciting as being in the church, this does allow participants to participate by watching Mass on video screen and receive Holy Communion.

Thank you to those who continue to volunteer to help with cleaning for weddings, baptisms and funerals, but we will still need individuals who are willing to act as Mass captains for our Sunday Masses, 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 and captains for the other sacraments.  Please email reopen@stpetschurch.org to find out more information and volunteer for those positions.

Relic of Saint Padre Pio

The relic of Padre Pio will be displayed for veneration from 6 pm to 7 pm outside the front entrance of the church on September 23^rd.  You can drive up in front of the front entrance of the church, stop briefly, perform a brief act of reverence and offer a prayer from your car.  If you come on foot, you will need to keep 6 ft of distance between you and the relic.  A brief prayer service will take place at 6 pm and a special blessing at 7 pm at the same location. If you would like to take part in the blessing, you should park your car in the main parking lot of the parish church.  The blessing will be broadcast from the front of the church.

Sacrament of Confirmation

Please keep our Confirmation candidates in your prayers as they will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation the next two Saturdays, September 19^th and September 26^th.  Please keep our confirmands in your thoughts and prayers these next two weeks.

The Sacrament of Confirmation is not a “coming-of-age” sacrament as some often teach.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church clearly teaches:  “Although Confirmation is sometimes called the ‘sacrament of Christian maturity,’ we must not confuse adult faith with the adult age of natural growth, nor forget that the baptismal grace is a grace of free, unmerited election and does not need ‘ratification’ to become effective. St. Thomas reminds us of this: Age of body does not determine age of soul. Even in childhood man can attain spiritual maturity: as the book of Wisdom says: ‘For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years. "Many children, through the strength of the Holy Spirit they have received, have bravely fought for Christ even to the shedding of their blood.’”

Actually, the Catholic Church teaches: “It must be explained to the faithful that the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace.  For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed."

Parking Stickers

All contributing parishioners will receive a free-parking sticker in the mail the week of September 28th.   Saint Petronille has traditionally been extremely generous in allowing anyone and everyone to park in our parking lot; however, we do need to make sure that our parishioners can find the parking they require.  To this end, please place the sticker in your front windshield to the right, fill out the enclosed form in your letter and return that activation letter to the parish office or drop it in the Sunday collection.  We will begin monitoring our parking lot the first full week of October.  Although we will not monitor the lot during church services or other major events that include non-parishioners, the lot will be monitored at other times throughout the week.  Please make sure you use your sticker!  Please notice that we can only distribute one sticker per family and lost or stolen stickers will not be replaced so do not lose your sticker or give it to a friend.  We realize that this is a bit of an inconvenience, but it is less an inconvenience than not finding a parking spot.

May Almighty God bless and keep you.

Prayers.

In Christ,

Fr. Thomas Milota

 

 

Click here to read letters from Fr. Milota since the beginning of the COVID pandemic

Faith Formation Board Application

 

Covid-19 services

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St. Petronille Cares

GIVE AND GO!  You now have a new drop-off address to donate groceries and items for our parish families in need due to quarantine: 271 Forest Avenue, GE. 

Drop your donation in the driveway,

Monday-Friday from 9-4.

Thank you again so much for all your generosity!

Continue to check the sign up genius.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040944a9ae2ba7f94-stpetronille

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homilies
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2019 Assessment Study 

of the exterior and interior condition of the St. Petronille Parish campus buildings.

Click here to review the report

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