St. Mary Catholic Church

DeKalb, Illinois

     

All parish volunteers need to complete Protecting God’s Children, undergo a background check, and read a few important documents. Please contact Mona O'Bryan at the parish office 815-758-5432 x 107 if you are unsure if you have completed all the requirements or to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for your prompt cooperation with this important US Bishop's initiative.

We need your financial support to complete future improvement projects! If you can help, please give what you can to our Capital Improvements Fund using the mailed envelopes or through our online giving system. God bless you in advance for your generous support! If you have questions, email Jim Glemkowski at jimg@stmarydekalb.org.

Attention Volunteers!  An update to the Youth Guidelines (in sections E and F) requires all volunteers to sign a revised copy. You can do so by printing this document and returning a signed copy to the parish office as soon as possible. Please note that the Safe Environment protocol has been instituted for the safety of those most vulnerable. We appreciate your compliance as we work to protect our community.

“The Lord is kind and merciful” declares the Psalmist (103), “He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills. He redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion.” It is good and beneficial to be reminded continually of God’s goodness and kindness toward us, since we are readily forgetful and ungrateful in our fallen and sinful state. And if God is this way toward us, how are we toward our neighbor? It recalls the prayer that Jesus taught us in the Our Father; to forgive as we have been forgiven. In the same Spirit, we should treat others kindly as we have been treated kindly. We are quick to anger and sense injustice directed toward us. “Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger and abounding in kindness.” Since God is so patient with us, we pray that we may be made, by grace through heartfelt prayer, patient with others. Some of us have a long way to go, but that is our journey of faith: Since God is good and patient, He will see us through.

From the Desk of Father Russell -

Deacon Armando Regalado informed me that he had accepted a position in religious education at St. John the Baptist Church in Somonauk to begin this Fall. He will remain a parishioner of St. Mary Church in DeKalb, but will be relieved of liturgical responsibilities while he takes on his new responsibilities in Somonauk. We thank him for his ministry and pray for him and his family during his transition, as well as for the people of St. John the Baptist, who called himself the “voice”. They will experience a beautiful new voice in Somonauk, and we pray it will be fruitful in Christ, Son of Mary. As Deacon Armando likes to say in the spirit of St. Louis de Montfort: “All to Jesus, through Mary.”