I surrender myself entirely to You, Oh Lord. I make room for You to surrender Yourself to me. Now and forever.

Collect: O God, strength of those who hope in you, graciously hear our pleas, and, since without you mortal fraility can do nothing, grant us always the help of your grace, that in following your commands we may please you by oour resolve and our deeds

We ask all who read this post to spend some time in prayer for the Cardinal, his bishops and priests. May the Gospel of Matthew encourage them to take up our mission and move to bring love, light, beauty and mercy and the message of scripture to a numb world

On June 15, 1925, 101 years ago, the first seminarians were ordained as priests from Mundelein Seminary.  This year, on June 15th, you have the power to ignite the next generation of these spiritual leaders. For 24 hours, our community will unite for our annual Giving Day with one clear, urgent mission: Fuel the Faith.Join us on June 15th to Fuel the Faith and keep this mission growing!This year, USML priests will minister to more than 11 million Catholics in the US alone! Add to that the growing number of deacons and lay ministers from USML/Mundelein in our 12-graduate degree and 7 certificate programs, and 101 years later, we are still going strong!This is your opportunity to spark a wave of transformation across the nation.This June 15th we also have a special matching gift opportunity.Pray for our mission, and get ready to Fuel the Faith!

In the Scriptures for today we see the Apostles knowing that the mission Jesus gave them is immenent. They've had the wonderful honor of hearing and living the Scriptures with Jesus and now they go out to highways and byways and baptize in the name of the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit. I love the beauty of the Catholic Church and Jesus's expectation of us.

St Antony of Padua (1195?) an Augustinian monk,Franciscan friar 1221, where he met Saint Francis of Assisi himself. to Padua, where he was an outstanding preacher His sermons are full of gentleness, but he reproved the wicked with fearless severity – especially backsliding clergy and the oppressors of the weak.

The Immaculate Heart of Mary Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary began as early as the twelfth century. During the seventeenth century in France, St John Eudes popularised this devotion along with that to the Sacred Heart. St Luke’s Gospel twice mentions that Mary ‘kept all these things in her heart’, pondering the word of God.

The signs of inner recollection are three: first, the soul is not hankering after passing things, second, she has a love for solitude, silence and whatever will bring her to wholeness; third, the things that used to help -like series of reflections...now get in the way, and she brings to prayer no other support than faith, and hope, and charity.

St. Margaret Mary received visions of Jesus between 1673 and 1675 at the Monastery of the Visitation in Parais-le-Monial. Christ showed her his Sacred Heart and invited her to experience his love, mercy and tenderness. Devotion to the Sacred Heart subsequently spread thanks to St. Claude La Colombière, her Jesuit confessor, and then with the help of the entire Society of Jesus. canonized in 1920, and today her relics are venerated in the Chapel of the Apparitions of her convent, where a large reliquary contains a wax effigy of her body, as well as most of her bones.

Collect: Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we, who glory in the Heart of your beloved Son and recall the wonders of his love for us, may be made worthy to receive an overflowing measure of grace from that fount of heavenly gifts. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity fo the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Devotion to the Sacred Heart, encouraged by mediaeval mystics and promoted by St Gertrude, St Margaret Mary Alacoque, St John Eudes and others, represents a devotion to Jesus in his human nature, in particular referring to the heart as the seat of the emotions. An Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honouring and glorifying thee. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to thee, and to do all for thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease thee. I take thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death. Be thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God thy Father, and screen me from his anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from thine infinite goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist thee. Imprint thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget thee or be separated from thee. I beseech thee, through thine infinite goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of thy devoted servants. Amen. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

I was crossing State Street on the way to the hospital and a man was walking in stride with me asked: "Do you go to that Church.?" I said Yes. "Well, he said: I go there now because of a priest who invited me back to the Church in Confession. I hadn't gone in many years. For penance: he told me to encourage the next 5 people I meet to know/love the Lord better. You are the 5th person I told the story" He goes to Mass every week and like St.Barnabas, he encorages others to do so too..

Collect: O God who decreed that St. Barnabus, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit,should be set apart to convert the nations. Grant that the Gospel of Christ,which he stenously preached may be failthfully proclaimed by word and deed. Through Our Lord, Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with You in the ubnity of the Holy Spirit, God ferever and ever. Barnabus, son of encouragement, pray for us.

St Barnabas the Apostle born in Cyprus. He was one of the early converts in Jerusalem and vouched for St Paul when he appeared before the elders there. He accompanied Paul on his first missionary journey and later went to Cyprus with his cousin John Mark (Mark the evangelist) to preach the gospel there. He was probably martyred at Salamis in Cyprus, some time before the year 61.

In your mercy, Lord, dispel the darkness of this night. Let your household so sleep in peace that at the dawn of a new day they may wake, with joy, in your name. Through #Christ our Lord, Amen. The Lord grant us a quiet night & a perfect end. Amen #Compline #NightPrayer #Prayer

St Ephraem the Deacon (306)a poet and a theologian. He lived all his life in Mesopotamia, first founding a school He preached there, and laid the foundations of its great school of theology. for the beauty of expression of his homilies beyond his native Syriac church He is a doctor of the Church. St. Ephraem pray for us.

St Columba (521?)England, Ireland, Scotland Columba (Gaelic Colm Cille) founded monasteries at Derry, Durrow, and possibly Kells, before leaving Ireland as a missionary, “an exile for Christ.” His greatest foundation was Iona, took the Gospel as far as northern England. a spiritual guide. In Gaelic literature he appears as Ireland’s most popular saint, noted for his great personal love of all creatures, both human and animal.

Catechesis:The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the color green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the color of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the color of Ordinary Time, the orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).

Cardinal Cupich celebrated the Annual Eucharistic Liturgy with the Lumen Cordium Society at the Church of the Holy Family. His homily, with his meditation on the Eucharist, emphasized that we are the Body of Christ. The responsibility for the Church is made visible through the work of the Lumen Cordium Society, There was a reception through the graciousness of the President of Saint Ignatius College Prep, Fr. Chandler.

As peope graduate from college and look for a job for the first time, they seem to be struggling with rejection and disappointment. Uncertainty brings discomfort and lack of confidence. What I especially like is the young people at our Church who reach out to others looking for a job to give them ideas and encouragement. We help them to know that they are not their job, they are people loved and cared for by God and others. I will continue to pray they find what God has helped them to discern.