St. Benedict the African (There's a Sweet Sweet Spirit in this Place)

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Memorial of Saints Cornelius

September 16, 2021

1 Tm 4:12-16; Ps 111:7-8, 9, 10; Lk 7:36-50

Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

September 17, 2021

1 Tm 6:2c-12; Ps 49:6-7, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20; Lk 8:1-3

Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

September 18, 2021

1 Tm 6:13-16; Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5; Lk 8:4-15

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 19, 2021

Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8; Jas 3:16—4:3; Mk 9:30-37

Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs

September 20, 2021

Ezr 1:1-6; Ps 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6; Lk 8:16-18

Feast of Saint Matthew

September 21, 2021

Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5; Mt 9:9-13

Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time

September 22, 2021

Ezr 9:5-9; Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8; Lk 9:1-6

Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina

September 23, 2021

Hg 1:1-8; Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b; Lk 9:7-9

Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time

September 24, 2021

Hg 2:1-9; Ps 43:1, 2, 3, 4; Lk 9:18-22

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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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