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