Liturgical Celebrations
| Monday – Saturday | 8:15am |
| Saturday | 4:00pm |
| Sunday | 7:30am, 9:30am (choir with incense) & 11:30am |
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)
| Saturday | 9:00 - 10:00am |
| Other times by appointment |
Upcoming Events
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SJA Centennial
Throughout this anniversary year, we will have a variety of events to bring us together as a community of faith in order to thank Almighty God for our one hundred years of parochial service to the church.
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Ask Your Important Questions About Faith, Life & Living a Faithful Life In An Ever Changing World
Have a question about the Catholic faith or how it relates to modern life? This is the place for you! Submit your questions [anonymously if you like], and we’ll address them in homilies, videos, and parish events.
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SJA is serving dinner at DuPage Pads
St Joan of Arc volunteers will prepare and distribute about 200 meals to our neighbors at the DuPage Pads Interim Housing Center in Downers Grove. Please note Room is now 118.
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Bible Study: Discover the Parables of Jesus
Join us for an enriching journey through the Parables of Jesus, starting this October! This Bible study will guide us through the teachings of Christ, exploring how His parables can inspire and transform our daily lives.
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SJA is serving dinner at DuPage Pads
St Joan of Arc volunteers will prepare and distribute about 200 meals to our neighbors at the DuPage Pads Interim Housing Center in Downers Grove. Please note Room is now 118.
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November 1 All Saints Holy Day
Mass times 8:15am, 12:00pm, 7:00pm
*No Vigil Mass on Thu, Oct 31. -
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Eucharistic Encounter Evening
Join us for Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Sunday Vespers (evening prayer), and silent Adoration, concluded by Benediction.
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Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed
Please join us on this evening as we remember all our loved ones who have gone before us.
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SJA Paint Party
Create a wonderful Christmas art piece when you join us for a guided canvas painting party. Just $25 per person for all the supplies to create your art PLUS refreshments.
Tradition with Vision
Our work is to share in the mission of Jesus continued through the Church. The goal is to make the Kingdom of God visible in our community by seeking human wholeness, peace, and a bond of charity in our relationships with one another.
As members of Christ’s Church, we seek to affirm, celebrate and share the liturgy for the glory of God and the good of the Church, the family and the individual with our liturgical worship as the center of all parish life. We are a community to proclaim the good news and to serve. We build community and foster Christian personhood in order that we might serve and celebrate Christ’s presence in our Catholic Doctrine by providing formation in understanding and traditions.
A Message from Our Pastor
All Saints Day / All Souls Day
10-27-2024 | Rev. Gabriel Baltes, O.S.B.Dear Parishioners,
Our upcoming celebrations of Halloween (Oct. 31), All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) remind us of one the most fundamental aspects of our Christian faith – it rests on the belief in the supernatural. This belief is so fundamental that we may unknowingly take it for granted and think very little about it. Or perhaps our culture has tamed or domesticated religion (and its practices) to where we dismiss the notion of anything that is beyond the natural. There might also be the possibility that somewhere deep within our human psyche we fear the prospect of another world besides our own – a world that is unseen and over which we have little or no control. Rather than befriend this unseen reality, we may choose to trivialize it or pretend it does not exist, thereby freeing us from the need to interact with it.
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