Join us at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago every Friday at noon until further notice. We will pray all 15 decades of the Rosary and the Litany of Loreto.
There is not a lot of space in front of Holy Name and the Police are there watching us, so it is very crucial that we maintain social distancing at all times. This means we may need to wrap around the block.
Even though this means that those not in front of the Cathedral won't be able to hear, and may have to pray the Rosary in groups, wouldn't it be cool to surround the whole block??? :)
Hello Joe,
The benefit of having this forum is so that those who feel strongly about the need to open our churches and restore the Sacraments can easily reach others and work together to achieve this goal. We support grassroots activism, the cornerstone of which is prayer.
Thus, I am glad that you have put so much energy and prayer into this, and wish to share it here. I hope that you will be able to get signatures for your petition, and that it may do good. I don’t see a link in any of your messages; do provide one if you wish for people to sign it.
The St. Charles Borromeo Society was formed specifically to defend the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ; when one member is harmed, the rest are harmed. By being denied the Sacraments, we have been neglected and starved; therefore we have been forced to cry out to our shepherds and insist that they feed us.
Because some of our shepherds sadly have responded like hirelings, we have had to insist rather loudly. However, it is necessary to tread carefully in order to properly fulfill our mission and not harm the Mystical Body of Christ in the name of restoring it. No matter how obvious his intentions may be, we overstep our bounds if we allow our anger at Cupich’s treatment of us to change our mission into specifically targeting him.
As long as he is the Archbishop of Chicago, we must deal with him as befits his office. When he first revealed his plan to reopen the Archdiocesan churches, we reacted strongly to its measures because they deserved such a reaction. Further proof of this can be found in the fact that, of the roughly 300 churches in the Chicago Archdiocese, less than a dozen so far have troubled themselves to jump through these draconian hoops in order to open.
In the coming months, we will need to keep pressure on our clergy to make sure that restrictions and barriers and badges of fear are truly done away with in a timely manner, lest the defacing of the sacramental character of the Sacraments continue. Let us continue to work and pray toward this goal.
“And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.” (Gal 6:9-10)