by edaday | Mar 4, 2014 | Lent, News Archives
Lent is a very quiet time. It starts when we receive ashes and are reminded that we are dust and to dust we shall return. The liturgical rites of the Lenten season are simple. Lent is this long time for us to spend in reflection and prayer. Our prayer is one of...
by edaday | Feb 27, 2014 | News Archives
Fr. Mark Francis, CSV, the former superior general of the Viatorians and current president of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, was quoted in a recent Chicago Tribune article on the upcoming publication of a book of essays by Pope Francis, called The Church...
by edaday | Feb 25, 2014 | News Archives
Fr. Corey Brost, CSV, Bart Hisgen, of the vocation ministry office for the Viatorians, and Chris Wells, director of alumni relations, made another college visit this winter, this time meeting up with Saint Viator High School alumni attending Marquette University in...
by edaday | Feb 10, 2014 | News Archives
Br. Daniel Lydon took the second step in his formation process toward the priesthood. Following the code of Canon Law, he received the ministry of acolyte from Fr. Thomas von Behren, CSV, during a private Mass at St. Viator Parish in Chicago. As the rite indicates, an...
by edaday | Feb 7, 2014 | News Archives
It has been 25 years since Griffin High School for boys — run by the Viatorians — merged with Sacred Heart Academy, run by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield. The decision resulted in Sacred Heart-Griffin High School, and 25 years later its original...
by edaday | Feb 6, 2014 | News Archives
St. Viator Parish was the place to be for more than 400 teens from the surrounding churches in Chicago — St. Bartholomew, St. Edward’s and St. John Bosco — who came on Super Bowl Sunday, no less, for a youth retreat. Through small group discussions,...
