Welcome to St. Gertrude Parish
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Welcome to Our Parish! Here is the Latest News:
Mass Schedule & Rectory Hours
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
St. Gertrude’s Virtual Auction!
St. Gertrude’s Virtual Auction!
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
St. Gertrude’s Virtual Auction!
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
Masses - How to Watch Online & Where to Sign up to Attend Mass in Person
Masses - How to Watch Online & Where to Sign up to Attend Mass in Person
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
Make a Donation to Support our Parish & our Ministries
Masses - How to Watch Online & Where to Sign up to Attend Mass in Person
Make a Donation to Support our Parish & our Ministries
Join our Parish
Masses - How to Watch Online & Where to Sign up to Attend Mass in Person
Make a Donation to Support our Parish & our Ministries
Rectory Hours
The Rectory office is open from 9:00 am-2:30 pm Monday-Saturday, and 8:30-11:30 am on Sunday.
Please call us at 773.764.3621 before coming.
In-Person and Live-Streamed Masses
Weekday and Weekend Mass Times & Registration Links
Monday-Saturday at 7:30 am - Click HERE for reservations.
Saturday at 5:00 pm - Click HERE for reservations
Sunday at 8:00 am - Click HERE for reservations.
Sunday at10:30 am - Church Click HERE for reservations.
Click HERE for our parishioner guidelines for attending Mass in Church. Each service may have up to 150 people in attendance.
Every Sunday at 10:30 am, we live-stream Mass from St. Gertrude Church using Facebook Live. Please click HERE to be connected to our parish Facebook page. After Mass, we upload the video to our YouTube channel.
St. Gertrude’s Virtual Auction!
Fundraiser Planned for February 2021
We’re still looking for help! If you can make some phone calls, please let us know! We also need people to pick up donations (and deliver them after the auction.)
If you can help, please email us at auction21@stgertrudechicago.org.
Don’t forget to donate a bottle of wine (approx $20 value) for our Wine Spectacular. (Binny’s in Evanston will give you a 15% discount and store the bottle for us – just mention St. Gertrude Auction 2021.)
A sampling of some of the items we have gotten to date include:
- A behind-the-scenes tour of the television series, Chicago Fire
- Gift certificates to local restaurants
- A beautiful vintage handmade quilt
You can also upload information about your donation to our auction website HERE.
Thank you to those who have donated!
Gratefully,
The St. Gertrude Parish 2021 Auction Committee Fr. Rich Prendergast, Kathy Krokar, Laura Pigozzi, David Sullivan
For more information about the Auction 2021, including what donations we are looking for, please click HERE.
Renew My Church Announcement
Decision Announced about the Future of St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome
The Archdiocese shared the final decision about St. Gertrude, St. Ignatius, and St. Jerome on their website on Friday, December 18.
The link below takes you to a letter from Father Rich outlining the decision and an announcement from the Archdiocese. There is also a link to a video of the meeting, including responses to questions asked by viewers who watched the event live.
Recent Live-Streams
Sunday, January 17 - Mass at 10:30 am
Sunday, January 10 - Mass at 10:30 am
St. Gertrude Feast Day "All Are Welcome" Concert - Take 2 (rerecorded)
Mary Clare Barker, our wonderfully talented music minister, rerecorded the November All are Welcome Feast Day concert, as the original broadcast had sound issues.
This recital/lecture features the music of three Chicago African-American Women composers, Florence Price and her protégé, Margaret Bonds, and Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife of famed trumpeter Louis Armstrong.
All of these artists were very strong women much like our patroness, St. Gertrude, who used their gifts to make significant cultural contributions in a white, male-dominated field.
St. Gertrude Pet Blessing
Our parish's pets were blessed on Sunday, October 4!
Video from the Refugee & Immigrant Ministry
Check out this great video from our amazing Refugee & Immigrant Ministry!! Donate here: https://www.givecentral.org/location/8/event/20998
St. Gertrude Chicago YouTube Channel
All Masses can be found on our YouTube channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuc-q8Bc2I-y2q83FbYJAA
Thank You to our Musicians
A Note from Mary Clare Barker
Mary Clare Barker, our talented Music Minister, wrote a special note for her volunteers:
I want to extend a heartfelt and sincere thank you to all of the cantors and musicians who contributed mightily to the beauty of our Christmas liturgies. We are so blessed at St. Gertrude to have so many talented musicians who give so freely of their time and share their prodigious talents with our community. I am deeply appreciative of all that they do.
Thank You for Supporting Our Refugee Ministry
Thank you for all your extraordinary support of the Refugee Ministry. Because of your generosity, we have been able to once again extend a helping hand.
The Giving Tree resulted in over $4,000 in gift cards to our ministry! We are going to share gift cards with the three families we are currently helping, offer some to Catholic Charities for other refugee families, and keep the rest for our next families.
This is yet another example of how, with the generosity of our fellow parishioners, we have been able to sustain our ministry and help so many people over the last four years. It's truly a wonder! Our families are listed below, and now seems like a good time to reflect on the goodness in the world and to pray for their continued success.
Your support has helped these families:
Official sponsorship with Catholic Charities:
- A Rohingya couple with three kids – January 2016
- A Rohingya couple with a daughter – Rohingya – August 2016
- An ethnically Nepalese family from Bhutan, a husband/wife/child plus their parents and an aunt – March 2017
- A couple from Afghanistan – April 2018
- A single Rohingya mother and three kids – August 2018
- A Rohingya couple with kids – November 2018
- Khadidja and two kids, Central African Republic – April 2019
- A Rohingya couple with three kids, including 2-year-old twins - September 2020
Unofficial sponsorship:
- Bruce - we didn't support him officially, but Tomas was an essential early friend. Bruce is doing great, working and going to school
- Syrian family and kids, a security deposit for an apartment, two adults, four kids
- Congolese family, rent support, one adult, four kids
May the good work we have begun together continue into the new year!
~ Denise Goodman on behalf of the Refugee Ministry
Thank You for Supporting our St. Gertrude's Giving Tree
More Than $7,000 Raised
A very special thanks to all who helped in any way with our Giving Tree! The collection totaled $7,343! All the gift cards collected went to support Care for Real and families that are part of our Refugee Ministry.
St. Gertrude's Refugee Ministry collected a total of $3,961! Our donations were:
- $2,705.00 in Target gift cards
- $1,150 in Jewel gift cards
- $100 in Aldi gift cards
- $6.00 in cash
Our collection for Care for Real totaled $3,382! Donations were:
- $3,320 in Target gift cards
- $62 in cash
Additionally, throughout the year, St. Gertrude serves as a strong supporter of Care for Real through our sharing program. This past fiscal year, we raised $2,886.70 for Care for Real.
Thank you for your generosity!
Thank You for Your Support
Parish's Greenery Sales a Success!
Our annual Balsam Pine Sale was a success! Last Friday, we sold out of our entire inventory of trees and garland, as well as our 18”, 24", and 36" wreaths.
We are so grateful to Steve Peavler, Mike Tentler, Art Blumberg, and Robert Clarke, who organized this sale, their amazing delivery team, and the supporters of our balsam pine sale! The team made $3,413.50 in revenue for the parish, with 106 individual deliveries made over two weekends! We appreciate their great work!
Thank You to Our COVID-19 Team
Recipients of the 2020 Parish Service Award
On Thanksgiving Day, we we gathered together to give thanks to God for our many blessings. We also honored the recipients of this year's Parish Service Award - all the volunteers from our newly established COVID-19 team!
This extraordinary corps of volunteers makes it possible for us to have masses, funerals, weddings, and baptisms every week! Without them greeting every member or guest who comes into church, checking names, or having people not already on the reservation list sign in, taking temperatures and spritzing sanitizers on hands, directing traffic during Communion time, and cleaning up after every mass and service, we couldn’t have services in church. Not only have they provided this excellent ministry, but many of them have also served almost every week since we re-opened for services in June. Truly much for us to give thanks for this year.
- Patrick Robinson
- Joan Dowdle
- Michael Kowalsky
- Hallie Burhoe
- Debra Novak
- Marty McDermott
- Brigid Cronin
- Claire Bushey
- Dorothea Tobin
- Michelle Kuehlhorn
- Carol Ann Munro
- Barb Daly
- Dan Kilelea
- Ginevra Clark
- Nancy Kuhn
- Deborah Kern
- Ann Casey & sons
- Mark Kollar
- Jeff Dunning
- Erika Dunning
- Joseph Dunning
- Elizabeth Dunning
- Thomas O'Brien
- Troy McMillian
- Mark Huffman
- Katie Huffman
- Rich Martin
- Peter Morin
- Brian DeVarenne
- Suzan Cibulskis
- Peter Cashman
- Sheila Cashman
- Allen Stryczek
- Denise Plunkett
- Victoria Healy
- Jane Palomar
- Monica Wyman
Thank You for Participating in Our Thanksgiving Food Drive
ECRA Thanksgiving Service a Wonderful Time
Thank you to all parishioners who joined in the virtual ECRA Interfaith Thanksgiving Service this past Sunday! Special thanks go to the Resounding Wayves, a men's group made up of several parishioners, and Mary Clare Barker, our music minister, for their hard work.
All of the food collected at St. Gertrude over the course of the past two weekends and Thanksgiving Day will be donated to Care for Real.
Thank you for your generosity to our neighbors in need!
Feast Day Celebrations - Note: Concert Rerecorded
Watch the Recorded Recital/Lecture Featuring Works of Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Lil Hardin
Mary Clare Barker, our incredibly talented Music Minister, put on an amazing recital and lecture to celebrate the Feast of St. Gertrude on Saturday, November 14. It featured the music of three Chicago African-American Women composers, Florence Price and her protégé, Margaret Bonds, and Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife of famed trumpeter Louis Armstrong. All of these artists were very strong women much like our patroness, St. Gertrude, who used their gifts to make significant cultural contributions in a white, male-dominated field.
The concert can be viewed on our parish Facebook page and on our parish YouTube channel. The video was recorded on Thursday, December 17 as trhe inital video had sound issues.
Florence Price was the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major American symphony. Her Symphony in E Minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in 1933 at the Chicago World's Fair. Margaret Bonds was the first African-American woman to play as a soloist with the CSO.
Both Price and Bonds enjoyed successful careers as composers, teachers, and performers and drew heavily from the rich African-American musical traditions in their compositions. Both women were prolific composers of over 200 works each and composed in nearly every genre. Particular attention will be devoted to providing insight into the social climate and attitudes toward women in music and the obstacles that each composer had to overcome.
Lil Hardin Armstrong was a sought after pianist in Chicago’s vibrant jazz scene of the 1920s. At a time when women, especially black women, were relegated to being singers or dancers in a chorus line, Lil had a serious career as a jazz composer, pianist, bandleader, singer, and arranger.
Mary Clare Barker compiled a list of resources to learn more about these women. The list contains songs they wrote, books and articles written about them, and YouTube links to performances.
Spirit of St. Gertrude Award Given to Renew My Church Team
We celebrated our parish feast day the weekend of November 14-15 at all the Masses.
The Spirit of St. Gertrude Award was presented to the Renew My Church Parish team: Denise Goodman, Lisa Erceg, Rob Sierzega, Mark Huffman, Kim McInerney, and Tim Harrington.
These parishioners have given many hours for meetings and a lot of homework to participate in the discussion with the other members of our grouping parishes in order to make a recommendation to the Cardinal for our future configuration in the Rogers Park/Edgewater community.
They have provided extraordinary leadership not only for St. Gertrude Parish, but for the entire grouping of representatives from St. Jerome, St. Ignatius, and St. Gertrude parishes.
Thank You From Fr. Mike!
Thank you to everyone for supporting me throughout the 26.2 miles of my personal marathon for Heart to Heart on Sunday, October 11! Your prayers, along with the wonderful support of parishioners cheering me on, helped me get to the finish line in 5 hours and 8 minutes.
I am so thankful that so many volunteers and parishioners came out to cheer me on and to help staff the different stations around our Edgewater neighborhood. I am grateful also to the staff of St. Gertrude Parish for their assistance and encouragement.
As of November 1, more than 300 people have donated $23,661.15 to Heart to Heart for my run! Thank you for your generous support and your contributions to Heart to Heart.
Gratefully,
Father Mike Bradley
Click HERE for a photo gallery from Fr. Mike's Run for Heart to Heart
Click HERE to donate to Fr. Mike's Run
