Parishioners from Assumption, Epiphany, Good Shepherd, Our Lady of Tepeyac and St. Roman parishes in Little Village gathered for Mass and a street procession on Nov. 3, 2018, in remembrance of youth lost to gang violence this year. The event was sponsored by Padres Angeles and Imago Dei, two organizations offering support and accompaniment to families in the Little Village community.
Churches in South Chicago unite to pray for peace in community Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Immaculate Conception Parish in the South Chicago neighborhood regularly held peace marches to pray for its community. With its march on the evening of Oct. 5, the now united Immaculate Conception-St. Michael Parish joined with nearby Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish to revive the event.
‘We pray that this peace walk touches someone’s heart’ Students at the Academy of St. Benedict the African, 6020 S. Laflin St., sang and prayed for peace as they led donors, parents and other community members around their block Oct. 19.
Block Masses bring ‘the church out of the church’ When Father Marco Antonio Franco celebrated Mass in the middle of Spaulding Avenue on the evening of July 27, on a day when temperatures topped 90 degrees and the heat radiated off the asphalt, more than 100 people gathered to pray together, to support one another, to demonstrate their faith publicly and to bring the church out into the neighborhood.