by edaday | Apr 15, 2014 | News Archives
It’s a tradition rooted in the early church, the Chrism Mass. That’s when the bishop blesses the holy oils — the oil of catechumens, oil of the sick, and oil of Chrism — to be used during the sacraments for the rest of the year. On Monday of...
by edaday | Apr 14, 2014 | News Archives
Back in 1973, graduating seniors at Saint Viator High School voted Jim Bristol to receive the Erdmann Award, as the student who most personified the spirit of Saint Viator. More than 40 years later, he still personifies that spirit and the entire Viatorian...
by edaday | Apr 11, 2014 | News Archives
The Chicago Wolves professional hockey team rolled out the red carpet on Sunday for Saint Viator High School senior Tim Gruensfelder, before the entire team congratulated him on the ice. The occasion? Tim was awarded the Tim Breslin Memorial Scholarship, which...
by edaday | Apr 11, 2014 | Lent, News Archives
We don’t know all the details about the life of St. Viator, but this much we know: he walked with Bishop Just, accompanying him in his desert journey, sharing times of prayer and penance. From the time of our founder, Father Louis Querbes, in various ways and in...
by edaday | Apr 3, 2014 | News Archives
Br. John Eustice, CSV, will be featured in an advertisement in the upcoming vocation discernment guide published by the Chicago-based Vision Vocation Network. He is one of the Viatorian’s long line of teaching brothers, driven to reach young people and educate...
by edaday | Apr 3, 2014 | News Archives
Throughout my childhood, the season of Lent was about giving up. As an adult, Lent, for me, has been about doing better. I have a magnet that says Live simply … love deeply … and travel lightly through life.* I have done fairly well with that first suggestion. I have...
