Weekly Update (13 OCT - 19 OCT Updated)

Wednesday will be a Rosary procession around the Church after 7:30Mass and Compline. Saturday there are many options. First there is the usual 10:00am-12:00noon - Praying for the unborn and their mothers.  Come join fellow young adults and like-minded people to pray at the Planned Parenthood at 1200 N LaSalle St. Second, Juventutem Michigan  is coming to Chicago for the 40 Days for Life event at 5046 Elston Avenue Chicago which starts at 2:00PM to pray for the unborn.  Third, the evening corn maze  will take place at 6:00. The second corn maze outing will be taking place on the evening of October 19. We will all try to meet there somewhere around 6:00pm (time may change?). Everyone will be getting there on there own, so we will not be meeting any place to head over together, but you are more than welcome to organize car pools with friends, if you so wish! A few of us should be driving from the Chicago area, so that could help. Richardson's is pretty cool because they not only have a corn maze, but they have a zip line and zorbing available! They also have a small cafe with donuts, hot apple cider, and other yummy snacks. More information can be found here: http://www.richardsonadventurefarm.com/   This one was particularly fun last year, so we hope you all can make it (PS- It's a Beatles theme! How cool is that?!)! We might even head out to a diner or pub following the corn maze outing to warm up -- perhaps hot toddies and mulled cider, anyone?  Sunday at 10:00AM there is apilgrimage  to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe taking place. If you are interested please meet at 1170 N River Road Des Plaines IL or reply to this email.  At 4:00PM Cardinal George will bless the new organ at St. John Cantius followed by a Pontifical High Mass with His Excellency Bishop Joseph Perry. Afterwards will be dinner at 6PM and an organ recital at 7PM. Get dinner ticketshere.   Upcoming Wednesdays:  We're taking full advantage of the beautiful weather during the month of October and using Wednesday nights to light up that fire pit in the back of the church following Mass and Compline. A more specific schedule will follow, but the fires will give us a chance to get to know a few priests and brothers a little better. We hope you can join us this month! Share Forward to Friend Upcoming events: St. John Cantius Parish starts its annual Forty Hours Devotion this next Monday,Tuesday, and Wednesday.   Please seriously consider spending some time with our Eucharistic King in Adoration. We need people to sign up to help fill in all of the slots for adoration times!   The times are:   Monday, October 21st   (Lauds at 6:00) (EF Mass at 6:30) (OF Mass at 7:30) 8:30-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-11:30 11:30-12:30 (Midday Prayer at 11:45) 12:30-1:30 1:30-2:30 2:30-3:30 4:30-5:30 (Rosary & Vespers at 4:30) 6:30-7:30 (Compline at 7:00) 7:30-8:30 8:30-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-11:30   Tuesday, October 22nd   (Lauds at 6:00) (EF Mass at 6:30) (OF Mass at 7:30) 8:30-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-11:30 11:30-12:30 (Midday Prayer at 11:45) 12:30-1:30 1:30-2:30 2:30-3:30 4:30-5:30 (Rosary & Vespers at 4:30) 6:30-7:30 (Compline at 7:00) 7:30-8:30 8:30-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-11:30   Wednesday, October 23rd   (Lauds at 6:00) (EF Mass at 6:30) (OF Mass at 7:30) 8:30-9:30 9:30-10:30 10:30-11:30 11:30-12:30 (Midday Prayer at 11:45) 12:30-1:30 1:30-2:30 2:30-3:30 4:30-5:30 (Rosary & Vespers at 4:30) 6:30-7:30 Tridentine High Mass at 7:30 followed by outside Eucharistic Procession   Please make some time to come spend in front of our Lord!! Why not ONE hour at least?   Email Bro. Nathan with your name and the times you would like to sign-up for at: nford@cantius.org (Please let us know as soon as you are able)   In the works - Group trip to Poland in 2016 for World Youth Day (see future emails for details and start saving up!!!). If you would like to help plan, contact any of the officers.  To note: For more information on any of the events mentioned above and for other future or upcoming events please check out our calendar, our facebook page or just shoot us an email.  You may also submit prayer requests to our Facebook page.

Adoration First Thursdays of the Month Come join the brothers of the Canons Regular of St John Cantius for an evening before the blessed sacrament.  Come anytime between 9:00pm and midnight at the church, and spend some time with our heavenly Father. Juventutem Around in The World Congratulations to Juventutem DC for its recent chartering! It joins Boston, Michigan, Miami and of course Chicago in the United States...all of which have been chartered within this last year and a half. The movement continues to grow! Also, we are looking for volunteers (particularly Polish speakers) who can help collaborate withJuventutem Gdansk  andJuventutem Poland  in planning our trip to the next World Youth Day. Please respond to this email if you think you would be able to help.     Meme/Quote of the Week "The darkness that poses a real threat to mankind, after all, is the fact that he can see and investigate tangible material things, but cannot see where the world is going or whence it comes, where our own life is going, what is good and what is evil....If God and moral values, the difference between good and evil, remain in darkness, then all other “lights”, that put such incredible technical feats within our reach, are not only progress but also dangers that put us and the world at risk. Today we can illuminate our cities so brightly that the stars of the sky are no longer visible. Is this not an image of the problems caused by our version of enlightenment?" - Benedict XVI's Easter Message 2012

Weekly Update (29 SEP - 06 OCT)

Wednesday (Today) will be a bonfire after the 7:30pm Mass and Compline. BYOB and a snack to share. Guitars welcome. Thursday will be Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament from 9:00pm until 12 midnight.  Saturday 10:00am-12:00noon - Praying for the unborn and their mothers.  Come join fellow young adults and like-minded people to pray at the Planned Parenthood at 1200 N LaSalle St. Upcoming Wednesdays:  We're taking full advantage of the beautiful weather during the month of October and using Wednesday nights to light up that fire pit in the back of the church following Mass and Compline. A more specific schedule will follow, but the fires will give us a chance to get to know a few priests and brothers a little better. We hope you can join us this month! Share Forward to Friend Upcoming events: Daytime Corn Maze - It's that time of year again! Time to make a couple trips up north to pick some pumpkins, get lost in corn mazes, and eat those delicious apple cider donuts with hot apple cider. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?  We will be leaving following the 11:00am mass, grabbing food for the road (you're free to bring your own with, if you would like!), and carpooling to Kuiper's Farm in Maple Park, IL. -- Don't forget to bring a change of clothes and have cash on you for tickets and other gift or food purchases you may want to make at the farm! We will gather for the return to Cantius around sunset. Please feel free to bring friends and family, as well as invite people through this invite; the more, the merrier! Also, if you plan on joining, please let us know if you would be willing and able to be one of our drivers to the farm. :) RSVP here. Evening Corn Maze - RSVP here.    In the works - Group trip to Poland in 2016 for World Youth Day (see future emails for details and start saving up!!!). If you would like to help plan, contact any of the officers.  To note: For more information on any of the events mentioned above and for other future or upcoming events please check out our calendar, our facebook page or just shoot us an email.  You may also submit prayer requests to our Facebook page.

Adoration First Thursdays of the Month Come join the brothers of the Canons Regular of St John Cantius for an evening before the blessed sacrament.  Come anytime between 9:00pm and midnight at the church, and spend some time with our heavenly Father. Juventutem Around in The World Congratulations to Juventutem DCfor its recent chartering! It joins Boston, Michigan, Miami and of course Chicago in the United States...all of which have been chartered within this last year and a half. The movement continues to grow! Also, we are looking for volunteers (particularly Polish speakers) who can help collaborate withJuventutem Gdansk andJuventutem Poland in planning our trip to the next World Youth Day. Please respond to this email if you think you would be able to help.     Meme/Quote of the Week “I remember, when I used go to Germany in the 1980s and ’90s, that I was asked to give interviews and I always knew the questions in advance. They concerned the ordination of women, contraception, abortion and other such constantly recurring problems. If we let ourselves be drawn into these discussions, the Church is then identified with certain commandments or prohibitions; we give the impression that we are moralists with a few somewhat antiquated convictions, and not even a hint of the true greatness of the faith appears. I therefore consider it essential always to highlight the greatness of our faith – a commitment from which we must not allow such situations to divert us. ” – Address of his Holiness Benedict XVI – Thursday, 9 November 2006

Weekly Update (September 24)

Wednesday (Today) will be a bonfire after the 7:30pm Mass and Compline. BYOB and a snack to share. Guitars welcome. Saturday 10:00am-12:00noon - Praying for the unborn and their mothers.  Come join fellow young adults and like-minded people to pray at the Planned Parenthood at 1200 N LaSalle St. Upcoming Wednesdays:  September 25th - mass, compline, bonfire (weather permitting) October 1st -TBA Share Forward to Friend Upcoming events: Daytime corn maze - It's that time of year again! Time to make a couple trips up north to pick some pumpkins, get lost in corn mazes, and eat those delicious apple cider donuts with hot apple cider. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?  We will be leaving following the 11:00am mass, grabbing food for the road (you're free to bring your own with, if you would like!), and carpooling to Kuiper's Farm in Maple Park, IL. -- Don't forget to bring a change of clothes and have cash on you for tickets and other gift or food purchases you may want to make at the farm! We will gather for the return to Cantius around sunset. Please feel free to bring friends and family, as well as invite people through this invite; the more, the merrier! Also, if you plan on joining, please let us know if you would be willing and able to be one of our drivers to the farm. :) RSVP here.   In the works - Group trip to Poland in 2016 for World Youth Day (see future emails for details and start saving up!!!). If you would like to help plan, contact any of the officers.  To note: For more information on any of the events mentioned above and for other future or upcoming events please check out our calendar, our facebook page or just shoot us an email.  You may also submit prayer requests to our Facebook page.

Adoration First Thursdays of the Month Come join the brothers of the Canons Regular of St John Cantius for an evening before the blessed sacrament.  Come anytime between 9:00pm and midnight at the church, and spend some time with our heavenly Father. Meme/Quote of the Week