During Lent, we prepare our hearts and purify our souls to receive Jesus at Easter. Our special guest, Fr. Jack Conley, CP, will be presenting a talk and celebrating Mass, prior to our Penance Service.

Please take this opportunity to receive God’s grace within Reconciliation. Our parish priests, along with guest priests from different Catholic churches, will be available to hear confessions.

Schedule

5:00 PM:
Talk on Reconciliation and God's Mercy

6:00 PM:
Eucharistic Liturgy

7:00 PM:
Sacrament of Penance

Special Guest: Fr. Jack Conley, CP

Fr. Jack was born in Chicago, IL, in 1949. He grew up in the Passionist Parish of the Immaculate Conception on the city's northwest side.

After college, at DePaul University, Chicago, Fr. Jack entered the Passionist Novitiate, and was professed as a Passionist in 1972.

In 1976, Fr. Jack completed his theological studies at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, where he received a Master of Divinity Degree. He was ordained a priest after graduation from Catholic Theological Union.

Fr. Jack has continued his studies in Liturgy, Preaching and Spirituality during his years of priesthood and Passionist Religious Life. 

Fr. Jack has also served in a variety of ministries: a retreat preacher, the coordinator of campus ministry for Bellarmine University (Louisville, KY), vocation director for the Passionists, associate director of Passionist Retreat Centers, and pastor of two Passionist Parishes (Chicago, IL and Louisville, KY).

At the present time, besides continuing as an itinerant preacher, Fr. Jack also serves as a member of the Provincial Council for Holy Cross Province. In that capacity he has conducted the formal, annual visitation to the Passionist Mission in India.