St. Gertrude Catholic Parish

Dear St. Gertrude,
Here is a list of ten things I have seen lately which bounce around in my mind and imagination giving me an interior life as fascinating as a Disneyworld in the Vatican:10. A movie called “”Osama”” playing at the Evanston Century (a delight in itself) [...]

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St. Gertrude Lenten Calendar 2004

Lent invites us to make private prayer and meditation a regular habit during its 6 week voyage toward Easter, daily if possible. To help out, we are offering each parishioner [...]

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Dear St. Gertrude,
I want to tell you about my mail. I wish I was a faithful correspondent but I’m not. However, I get very interesting mail from very interesting people (well, at least some of them are interesting).

Take for instance, Jeff [...]

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Dear St. Gertrude,
Here are ten things that we thinking about and working on at your favorite parish:
1. A parish synod. We hope to put together something in the spring to gather 200-300 parishioners together to discuss and define how we understand and what we believe [...]

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Dear St. Gertrude,
I had a great week, how about you?
First of all, it was Catholic Schools Week. I am a big Catholic schools fan. Of course I went to them all my student life and I read the statistics from Fr. Andrew Greeley about how formative the schools are, and I [...]

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