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Word on Fire ENGAGE is a series of Lenten reflections you can receive via email. ENGAGE utilizes Flocknote, so you must be signed up for our parish's Flocknote messaging service to participate. By using Flocknote, this will send Bishop Barron’s reflection and videos to your email, where you can read or watch them at your convenience. You can then post comments or join in an online discussion about the material with other parishioners. Click the link in the above headline to sign up.

Yes, it’s official. We are going to Ireland next year. Fr. Benedykt is pleased to announce an 11-day parish pilgrimage to Ireland from July 6-16, 2020. The pilgrimage will take us to: Dublin, Blarney, the Ring of Kerry, Killarney, Connemara, Galway, Knock, Derry, Donegal, and Belfast. Spots are filling up quickly, so if you are interested, please reserve your spot as soon as possible (call us at 708-422-8995 or email ejoyce@stbernadettechurch.org).

St. Bernadette offers financial aid for active parishioner families with children attending Catholic grade schools and high schools in the area. The intent of the scholarships is to encourage our families involvement in the Catholic school system. Parishioners may apply by clicking the link above.

A statement from the Illinois Conference of Catholic Bishops in opposition to the "Reproductive Health Act". The act would bill would establish abortion as a “fundamental right” and denies human dignity to the unborn by stating, "A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this State".

The Annual Flower sale this year will be Mother’s Day Weekend, May 11-12, 2019. Pre-orders may be picked up on Friday, May 10 from 4:00-6:30 p.m. in the Quonset Hut and cash & carry sales are Saturday-Sunday, May 11 & 12 from 8:00 a.m. - 12 noon. Please return your orders by Sunday, April 28.

This Lenten Calendar will help you celebrate the season and grow in holiness with a faith-based activity for every day of Lent. Please feel free to download and print the calendar. (The calendar will open in PDF format.)

St. Bernadette and the Red Palm restaurant (3020 W. 95th St.) are working together to bring the Queen of Hearts raffle to Evergreen Park! This parish fundraiser is a 50/50 raffle, held every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Drawings are held until there is a winner, which could take up to 54 weeks. However, if the winner of the evening's drawing is present at the Red Palm, they will win a guaranteed $100 in addition to their chance at winning the 50/50 pot. Tickets are available for purchase at the Red Palm and at the parish rectory. For a complete list of rules, and an explanation of how the raffle works if you are unfamiliar, please click the link above.

St. Bernadette and the Red Palm restaurant (3020 W. 95th St.) are working together to bring the Queen of Hearts raffle to Evergreen Park! This parish fundraiser is a 50/50 raffle, held every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Drawings are held until there is a winner, which could take up to 54 weeks. However, if the winner of the evening's drawing is present at the Red Palm, they will win a guaranteed $100 in addition to their chance at winning the 50/50 pot. Tickets are available for purchase at the Red Palm and at the parish rectory. For a complete list of rules, and an explanation of how the raffle works if you are unfamiliar, please click the link above.

You are invited to join Fr. Benedykt and other parishioners on an 11-day pilgrimage to Italy from February 11-February 21, 2019. Italy's timeless art and architecture, history and symbols representing 2,000 years of Christian faith have fascinated travelers for centuries. Our pilgrimage will take you to Venice, Florence, Assisi, Rome, and Vatican City.

This year we will continue our tradition of visiting area Churches on Holy Thursday. Our pilgrimage will depart after Holy Thursday Mass (approx. 8:30 p.m.) and visit parishes in Bridgeport. We'll have the opportunity to pray at each of our stops - six in all. Sign up after Masses if you are interested.

On Thursday, January 25, you can support St. Bernadette's Religious Education Program with Buona Beef. The Buona Beef restaurant in Beverly (10633 S. Western) will donate 20% of sales from your purchase to our RE Program. You must, however, present them with the flyer provided through the link above when ordering. Stop by Buona and support St. Bernadette!

Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP) is a weekend retreat program that gives women a chance to get away from daily pressures and provides an opportunity for reflection and spiritual renewal through prayer, Scripture, personal reflection and connecting with others. CRHP has proven to be a faith-deepening and life-changing weekend for many. Most who have participated in the weekend experience say that "you can't explain what happens; you have to experience it". This is your invitation to that "experience".

Because the 4th Sunday of Advent falls on Christmas Eve, December 24, we will have only one Mass on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday Mass at 4:00 p.m. on December 23 will be celebrated as usual. Masses for the celebration of Christmas are: Christmas Eve at 4:00 p.m., Christmas Day at 12:00 midnight, 8:30 a.m., and 10:30 a.m.

The video we played, with clips and pictures from the 70 year history of St. Bernadette, is now available on YouTube!

Our pastor, Fr. Benedykt, is participating in a Catholic Leadership Review process. This process is part of the Archdiocese’s policy that every priest be evaluated every five years to provide an opportunity for him to recognize his talents and to grow to become a better priest and pastoral minister. This evaluation survey can be found by clicking the heading above. The evaluation is open to all parishioners and we encourage you to participate.

Our 70th Anniversary Mass and Celebration is fast approaching. We're creating an ad book to mark the occasion. Perhaps you'd like to consider placing an ad to help us commemorate this event? You can place on ad on behalf of your family or, if your an alumni, perhaps on behalf of your class? If you are a business owner, business ads are also welcome. And, of course, photographs are also welcome!

Our Religious Education Program will have a time change for classes this year! Classes will run from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. We hope that this time change will be better for families with younger children who felt we were getting out a little too late for them last year. We will also be adding a Family Mass on the second Sunday of every month at our 10:30 Mass that students and their families will be asked to attend. Regular Religious Education classes begin Monday, September 11! See you then!

The weekend of August 19 and 20, as part of our annual summer mission appeal, we will welcome Fr. Show Reddy Allam to St. Bernadette. Fr. Allam is the Mission Coordinator for the Diocese of Guntur in southeast India. He will speak at all of our Masses about the needs of the people in Guntur and the work of the Diocese in serving the needs of the poor.

Theology on Tap, a summer speaker and lecture series for young adults in their 20s and 30s, is back with improvements for 2017! This year, two different locations on the South Side are hosting Theology on Tap this summer. St. Catherine of Alexandria in Oak Lawn will host four sessions on Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m., beginning July 12. And Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m., beginning July 13, St. George, St. Michael, and St. Elizabeth Seton will co-host four sessions at alternating locations - Durbin’s Pizza in Tinley Park (on July 13 & 27) and Square Celt in Orland Park (on July 20 & August 3).

Thanks to a partnership between Word on Fire, Bishop Robert Barron's media ministry, and eCatholic, the company that hosts our website, we are able to stream Volume 1 of Bishop Barron's new Catholicism series "The Pivotal Players", which features some of the most influential individuals in the history of the Church.