The Latest Cathedral News
Hymns and Pimms
July 12, 2023
World-renowned organist and church musician Bruce Neswick joins Stephen Buzard to lead a good old-fashioned hymn-sing on August 13 at 2 p.m. Escape the summer heat with a cool drink in our beautiful air-conditioned Cathedral. This afternoon of musical and spiritual refreshment is not to be missed!
Free admission with donations solicited for refreshments and hymn requests. Proceeds will benefit the Cathedral organ project.
GO HERE to submit a hymn.
GO HERE to make a donation.
Learn more about the Organ Project.
Cathedral Prayer List for the Week of June 18
June 14, 2023
Submit a prayer request.
Please keep the following people in your prayers:
FOR THOSE COMMENDED TO THE PRAYER OF THE CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY: Shirley, Sarah, John, Brenda, Ellen, Thomas, Bob, Diana, Roger, Richard, Nancy, Harriette, Mary, Maliha, Craig, Matthew, Deanna, Cristal
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AND HAVE BEEN COMMENDED TO THE PRAYERS OF THE CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY: Bill Card, Richard Jenkins
FOR ALL THOSE WHO DIED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO IN THE PAST WEEK INCLUDING: Dontrell, Zeriel, Kevin, Michael, Maurice
DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER: Congregations in the Peoria Deanery: Grace in Galesburg, St. John’s in Kewanee, St. James in Lewiston, St. George’s in Macomb Companion Dioceses of SE Mexico and Renk: Jesús de Nazaret near Tuxtepec; St. Barnabas in Geiger South
British Catholicism in Music and the Legacy of St. John Henry Newman
June 12, 2023
On Sunday, June 18 at 3 p.m., the Cathedral Choir will sing a concert featuring composers from John Taverner through Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and Edward Elgar to James MacMillan, and hymns based on texts by St. Newman. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Chicago-Birmingham Sister Cities Committee 30th Anniversary Year.