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) about the Taliban’s treatment of women in [...]

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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 a small book entitled The Little Black Book: 6-Minute Reflections on the Weekly Gospels of Lent. It is available in [...]

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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 Behrens. He is the monk who lived here for about six or [...]

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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 about our need to deepen our faith, our [...]

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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 know that [...]

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