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Daily Readings

Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

August 5, 2021

Nm 20:1-13; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Mt 16:13-23

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

August 6, 2021

Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10

Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

August 7, 2021

Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 47 and 51; Mt 17:14-20

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 8, 2021

1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Eph 4:30—5:2; Jn 6:41-51

Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time

August 9, 2021

Dt 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; Mt 17:22-27

Feast of Saint Lawrence

August 10, 2021

2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9; Jn 12:24-26

Memorial of Saint Clare

August 11, 2021

Dt 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3a, 5 and 8, 16-17; Mt 18:15-20

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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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Saint Benedict the African Parish
340 W 66th Street
Chicago, IL 60621
773-873-4464
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