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Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

August 06, 2020

DN 7:9-10, 13-14; Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 PT 1:16-19; MT 17:1-9

Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

August 07, 2020

NA 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7; DEUTERONOMY 32:35CD-36AB, 39ABCD, 41; MT 16:24-28

Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest

August 08, 2020

HAB 1:12-2:4; PS 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; MT 17:14-20

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 09, 2020

1 KGS 19:9A, 11-13A; PS 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14; ROM 9:1-5; MT 14:22-33

Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr

August 10, 2020

2 COR 9:6-10; PS 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9; JN 12:24-26

Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin

August 11, 2020

EZ 2:8—3:4; PS 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131; MT 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

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Exquisite works of art reflect black spirituality to inspire worship

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-Mrs. Rowell, Parishioner

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History

Celebrating 30 years of the new building, many more of the patronage of St. Benedict the African in Chicago. This parish is the culmination of almost a decade of prayerful discernment during the 1980s of Roman Catholic presence in the Englewood neighborhood: what it would look like, how it would evolve, what values it would incarnate through its faith community.

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