Filipino Families of Skokie

feast of san lorenzo ruiz at st lambert parish

rex — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:11:00 +0000

Joins us in celebrating the Feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila. A Nine-day novena will start on September 16-24, 2010, 6:45 pm at St. Lambert Parish in Skokie, IL. The Feast Day is on September 25, 2010, 5:00 pm Mass.

letter from san lorenzo ruiz committee

rex — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:49:56 +0000

Filipino Families of Skokie

Keeping the Filipino Culture and Tradition Alive

Email: filipinofamiliesofskokie@gmail.com

August 30, 2010

Dear Friend(s):

September is a very special month for the Filipino community. It is the month that we honor and celebrate the feast day of the first Filipino saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila. His life reflects the Filipinos’ unique gift of faith and spirituality.

St. Lambert Church will again be observing San Lorenzo’s feast day on September 25, 2010. The spiritual celebration will start with a nine-day novena from September 16 to September 24 at 6:45 p.m. at Saint Lambert Church, 8148 Karlov Avenue, Skokie, Illinois (847) 673-5090. A procession and a festival Mass on September 25 at 5:00 p.m. will highlight this special occasion.

We encourage you to join us spiritually in our novena, and we cordially invite you to come and celebrate the fiesta with us following the mass! We will have music, entertainment and meet old and new friends. We will also have a small “salu-salu” at St Lambert’s Trainor Hall. Bring all your family and friends!

If you wish to make a donation for this year’s celebration, please make the check payable to Filipino Families of Skokie and send it in the enclosed self addressed envelope. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Mark your calendars………..San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila celebration at Saint Lambert Church!

Thank you for your continued support and may God Bless you and your family!

FFOS San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Committee
4200 Cleveland Avenue
Skokie, Illinois 60076-2734

Filipino Families of Skokie is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax deductible as allowed by law.

The San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Committee

Gualberto (Chair)
Besena
Carnate
Decilio
Fernando
Lopez
Mil
Miranda
Ortega
Pono
Tangonan
Zarate

Special Committee

Alog
Folkers
Melecio
Redito
Syfu

photo source: www.stlorenzoruiz.com

sept 1st novena to our lady of perpetual help

rex — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:45:27 +0000

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena

Please join the parishioners of St. Lambert Parish in Skokie and all the devotees of Our Mother of Perpetual Help around the area for a novena this coming Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 6:45 in the evening. As in every first Wednesday of the month, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated after the this Wednesday’s novena.

Read about the Image of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Or Our Lady of Rerpetual Help)

Photo by Rex, The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Roxbury, MA

you are invited to our lady of perpetual help novena

rex — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:59:27 +0000

You are cordially invited to the Novena of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (or Our Lady of Perpetual Succour) on Wednesday, September 1st at 6:45 pm and every Wednesday thereafter at St. Lambert Parish, Skokie, IL. On first Wednesday of each month, a Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is celebrated before the novena prayers.

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help needed in pakistan

rex — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:11:32 +0000

Floods hamper aid efforts as disease threatens millions of Pakistanis

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

By Catholic News S…

By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pakistanis faced new dangers posed by disease as emergency response teams and international aid agencies struggled to rush supplies to millions of people forced to flee the country’s worst flooding in 80 years.

Jack Byrne, Catholic Relief Services’ country representative to Pakistan, said the aid effort has been hampered because bridges and roads have been washed away by monsoon rains and the ensuing floods since late July.

The floods that started in the northern part of the country have generally followed the Indus River, moving southward to Sindh and Punjab provinces.

In parts of northern provinces where floodwaters have receded, people are returning and “are having a hard time identifying where they lived,” Byrne said.

“People are still on the move in and around Sindh,” Byrne told Catholic News Service from his office in Islamabad, the capital, Aug. 17. “Thousands are just living on the road.”

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods have made their way to the major cities of Karachi and Lahore, taxing each community’s effort to provide adequate food and shelter, he said.

CRS, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, has collected $6.2 million in emergency funds since the flooding began. Even so, Byrne told CNS, some relief agencies are concerned that donor fatigue is setting in.

“The donor response has been slow,” he said. “It’s what the U.N. calls perception deficit, people thinking the money is not going where it’s needed because they think the government is corrupt. Pakistan is saddened that the world has been slow to respond.”

Byrne said the funds collected by CRS have been used to provide emergency kits to about 3,000 households and a total of about 30,000 people. The kits contain cooking sets, water purification tablets, bottled water, blankets and soap.

“We would like to have 20,000 kits distributed by the Eid holiday, Sept. 10, the end of Ramadan,” he said.

The agency also has started providing transitional shelter to people in the north. The simple wooden structures will provide adequate housing for the short term as people begin to re-establish their routines, he explained.

Once people are settled into new housing, cash-for-work programs will hire people to rebuild roads, clear drainage channels and build small bridges.

The floods have devastated Pakistan’s already fragile economy, wiping out farmland and sweeping away people, livestock and property.

Please help! Send your help through the Catholic Relief Services. Or click on the icon below.

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A man braves a bridge badly damaged by heavy floodwaters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Photo by Asad Zaidi for CRS

News and photo source: Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Read and watch the video of the Pope’s appeal for help for Pakistan

world youth day 2011 logo

rex — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:50:55 +0000

World Youth Day 2011 Logo.

august 28 novena prayer

rex — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:51:18 +0000

The Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) members’ next Novena prayer is scheduled on Saturday, August 28 at 2:00pm.

The Filipino Families of Skokie was organized primarily as a spiritual group. The main purpose of our organization is to unite, promote, support, and engage in activities fostering and enriching the spiritual and cultural heritage of the members. In order to achieve these goals, member families are encouraged to attend and participate in parish functions and fund raising and other activities designed in promoting the spirituality, camaraderie, and well being of member families to include:

The Bi-weekly novena devotions to the Santo Niño, Our Lady of Fatima, and San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila.

Please join us at Roger and Tessie’s place this Saturday at 2:oo in the afternoon. Please note the change in schedule.

Pope appealed for help for Pakistan

rex — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:19:08 +0000

According to www.asianews.it, it is estimated that at least one fifth of Pakistan is under water, more than 20 million people have been affected and at least 1,600 are dead. This was due to weeks of heavy monsoon rains, destroying entire villages, farmlands and crops. Infrastructure is also greatly affected making the rescue and relief effort very difficult.

Speaking at the end of general audience at Castel Gandolfo, in front of 2,000 pilgrims, the pope said his thoughts turned first to the “dear people of Pakistan” hit by ” severe flooding” that has caused “numerous victims and left many families homeless”.

The Pope added: “As I entrust to the merciful goodness of God all those who are tragically gone, I express my spiritual closeness to their families and all who suffer because of this disaster. Our solidarity and the concrete support of the international community must not be lacking to these our sorely tried brothers and sisters!”.

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article source: http://www.asianews.it

Video source: RomeReports’ Youtube Channel

sto nino de agosto video

rex — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:56:52 +0000

Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) will join in the celebration of Sto. Ñiño de Agosto 10th anniversary. August 21st, Saturday, St. Matthias Parish, 2310 W. Ainslie St., Chicago, 60625 at 9:30 in the morning.

The celebration will start with The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 9:30 am and will be followed by a procession, continuing with the program in the Keehan Garden.

Celebrants will be Fr. Leoncio Santiago and Fr. John Sanaghan

Visit St. Matthias and Transfiguration of Our Lord Parishes website.

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st lambert dinner and raffle draw

rex — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:39 +0000

August 21st is St. Lambert dinner and drawing of the Elevator Fund Raffle winners immediately after the 5:00 pm Saturday Mass. Please buy your dinner tickets (for $10.00 per person) in advance.

The Elevator Fund Raffle tickets and dinner tickets are available after every Saturday and Sunday Masses and at the rectory during weekdays.

Good luck to all our ticket holders and thank you so much for making this project possible!

May God bless you.