Reflection by Sr. Stephanie Baliga Our Lady of the Angels has a beautiful history of religious sisters, starting with the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1904. For almost 100 years, the BVMs served the parish, particularly in the school. Sadly, the BVMs left OLA in 1999 when Our Lady of the…
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Congratulations, New Novices!
We are happy to share that Sr. Bridget, Sr. Kristine, and Sr. Anna entered the novitiate on May 20th! The novitiate is the second step of initial formation for religious life. In our community, novitiate lasts for two years. It is a time especially dedicated to growing in their life of prayer, their understanding of…
Theology Graduates!
We congratulate Sr. Macey and Sr. Emily on completing their master degrees in Theological Studies this May! It is a great gift to our formation to be able to study at the University of St. Mary of the Lake (USML). As Bishop Bob says, one of the greatest gifts that we can give to the…
OLA Notre Dame SLP student to be ordained a deacon!
Check out the wonderful article from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Catholic Telegraph, to hear more about Daniel Jasek’s journey to discovering his vocation to the priesthood and his upcoming ordination to the transitional diaconate that will amazingly take place alongside his father’s ordination to the permanent diaconate. Daniel spent two months at the Mission in…
Revive Podcast – Season 3
Did you know that Sr. Alicia has been helping to host a podcast for the National Eucharistic Revival? Catch up on all the episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgDeuVYSmzeSYzRO14bQh4TbsUtCjgov5 or wherever you like to listen to podcasts!
Community Lunches
Throughout the year, we offer many different kinds of events that provide us, our neighbors, and our volunteers an opportunity to come together and build up friendships while sharing in prayer and a good meal. Over the past few months, we’ve hosted two fun, themed Community Lunches – one in late January to celebrate the…
New video featuring Sr. Alicia
Sr. Alicia recently contributed a video to the current season of the Be Formed program offered by our friends in the Diocese of Joliet on The Annunciation and Mary, the Model of Discipleship. Check it out!
Another successful Confirmation Retreat in the books!
We recently hosted our 3rd annual GIANT Confirmation retreat for over 400 students from schools and parishes throughout the Archdiocese. This was our biggest retreat yet, and we have already heard back from so many students and chaperones about how much they received from the experience. The retreat included catechetical talks by Bishop Bob, Sr….