This year’s Advent Calendar focuses on care for creation. For each day of Advent, there are reflections to ponder and actions to take to prepare us to celebrate the Feast of a God who loved us enough to take human flesh.
See the Advent Calendar here.

There will be a Reconciliation Service with opportunity for private confession on Wednesday December 18 at 7:00pm. The 311 garage will be open. 

Our next preparation session for parents (and, if possible, godparents) of infants to be baptized is Monday, January 6, at the Rectory. Sessions are from 7:00 to 8:15pm.  These sessions are for first time parents and for parents who have never before attended a preparation session. Call the Parish Office to register. It is not necessary to wait for the baby to be born to attend a preparation session. Baptisms normally take place on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at 1:15pm and on the first weekend of the month during Mass. More here

We collected 52 frozen turkeys and enough cash to purchase 20 more for Our Lady of the Angels Mission. Thanks to our parishioners and River North neighbors who were so generous! And a big thank you also to our drivers.  

There is exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the Third Monday of the month from 5:00 to 7:00pm. Adoration will next take place on Monday, December 16. To learn more about Eucharistic Adoration, watch this short video by Fr. Mike Schmitz. 

Assumption's Leadership Group has produced a series of ten-minute videos about various aspects of prayer. One or more of them might help jumpstart your prayer life.

Note: These videos are not sequential and can be viewed in any order. Start with whichever one strikes you the most!

Try a Spiritual Temperaments Quiz