The 2023 Annual Catholic Appeal offers a wonderful opportunity to answer the call "Walking on the road with Jesus." We encourage giving at any financial amount to support this initiative. In addition to providing for ministries and services throughout the Archdiocese, the Annual Catholic Appeal funds services in our own Holy Child Jesus Parish. For example, funds from the Appeal support religious education for our young people. If you received your pledge form in the mail, please complete it and mail it back. Or fill out the forms that will be at Mass on the weekend of February 18-19. You may also make a donation online at annualcatholicappeal.com.
Holy Child Jesus Parish is pleased to announce that we have six new Ministers of Care who have completed their training to bring Communion to the sick and the homebound. Please contact Art Blumberg, Director of Evangelization and Ministry if you or someone you know needs this care. Call (773) 764-0615, extension 140, or email art.blumberg@hcjp.org. You are invited to help honor them on Sunday, January 26.
Ignited Youth Ministry is hosting a Game "Night" for all teens and young adults! Join us for an afternoon of board games, video games, and fun! This will take place on Sunday, January 29th at 2:45-4:30pm on the 3rd Floor of the Convent (7325 N Claremont Ave.) You can bring your favorite board or video game to share. We can't wait to see you there!
All are invited to our Lunar New Year celebration here at Holy Child Jesus Parish. Sunday January 22, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM Activity Center 7341 N Claremont Ave. Chicago
1st Annual Sto. Niño Feast Day celebration on Sunday, January 15, 2023; and to the 9 – nights Mass Novena preceding the feast day which will commence on January 6. Please click on the "Novena Mass and Feast schedules" The Sto. Nino's activities flyer was posted at the vestibule. Jesus shared not only the spiritual food at his gathering with the crowd, but he also shared the food for the body. Henceforth, there will also be sharing not only the spiritual food and but also physical for fellowship and communion after each nightly Mass and on the feast day celebration. All are cordially invited!
The Filipino Community of Holy Child Jesus Parish INVITES YOU TO CELEBRATE Simbang Gabi 2022 Friday, December 16 Please join us in our annual celebration of Simbang Gabi! Mass is at 7:00 p.m. followed by our "salo-salo" reception at the Activity Center. All are welcome! We hope to see you there. THANK YOU and MALIGAYANG PASKO PO!!!
NOT JUST A CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT! Hot cocoa! A photo booth! AND Italian Beef sandwiches! Please join us in song and celebration of the season with our Holy Child Jesus Parish Christmas Carol Concert. Listen and sing along to our choirs. In the spirit of the season, we will serve hot cocoa at the concert. Check out our photo booth and take a holiday picture. Enjoy an Italian Beef sandwich after the concert is over. When? Sunday, December 18 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Where? Holy Child Jesus Parish Activity Center. We hope to see you there!
We will observe our regular Mass schedule on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Saturday - 4:00 p.m. - English 6:00 p.m. - Vietnamese Sunday- 7:30 a.m. - Vietnamese 9:30 a.m. - English 11:30 a.m. - Vietnamese 1:30 p.m. - English
Ministry of Care Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist. When we consume the Body of Christ, we are bringing God into ourselves. As we are taught, the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” Christ within us puts us in touch with God in a way that nothing else can. But what if someone cannot come to Mass because he or she is sick, homebound, or hospitalized? How can that person receive the Body of Christ, to be in touch with God? The Ministry of Care offers a way for us to help those who cannot attend Mass. Through this ministry, people are trained in how to bring the Eucharist to others, how to bring God’s comfort through the word and sacrament of God. If you would like to join this ministry, the Archdiocese offers training from September 28 through October 26. Please click here for more information.
Jesus Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. His life-giving offering provides food for our souls, brings us hope and peace. To be in the presence of Jesus means that we are with God and God is with us. Yet too often we forget this. We receive the Eucharist without stopping to think what it truly means to receive the Eucharist with joy, to know that we have God within us and to bring ourselves and God into the world. Look at the shining faces of the children receiving their First Communion. They know that they are in the presence of something that is wonderful. Can we who are older do the same? The National Eucharistic Revival is meant to reawaken our joy and our hope, remind ourselves that we are in the presence of wonder and awe of Christ. As part of this revival, Holy Child Jesus Parish will have an additional Adoration and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on every third Friday of every month between 9:00 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. with Benediction to follow at 7:00 p.m. We will be in the presence of Christ, worship him, praise him, talk to him. We can rest in his arms, be peaceful knowing that he loves us. Sign-up for one-hour adoration times for is available HERE, by calling the Rectory at (773) 764-0615, or filling out the form at the back of church. Spend some time with Jesus!
Holy Child Jesus Parish is happy to announce that our parishioner Ronabel Castillo has been named as Director of Youth Formation. She and Fr. Arthur will be working together to form and build up the role of youth in our parish. We often hear that our young people are our future. It is even more true that young people are our present. Our youth have so many talents, skills, and abilities that they are sharing with us right now to spread the Good News, to serve God and the people. Our parish is committed to nurturing and growing these gifts. All of us, young and old, are children of God. All of us can teach one another, all of us can learn from one another.
Thank You, Cardinal Hollerich! Holy Child Jesus Parish sends its sincere thanks to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg for presiding at Mass and blessing our statue of Our Lady of Luxembourg. We are grateful to the Luxembourg Society of America for their support and appreciate all those who participated in the Mass. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those who came before us, founded the original St. Margaret Mary Parish, and built our beautiful church that now is the home of Holy Child Jesus Parish. St. Margaret Mary had a special devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She knew, and wants us to know, that the Sacred Heart encompasses everyone, spreading Christ’s infinite love to us all. May we carry her devotion to the Sacred Heart and to each other as we move forward prayerfully and confidently in Holy Child Jesus Parish.