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March 17, 2024Dear Friends,
It is with great joy that I am able to share with you that there is a new pastor for SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish, and his name is Fr. Tomy Abraham. Fr. Tomy is currently the Associate Pastor at St. Edna Parish in Arlington Heights and will begin his assignment at SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish on Sunday, April 14th. This is an especially welcomed development, as it was my presumption the new pastor would be beginning his term on July 1st, along with all the other newly named pastors.
Fr. Tomy and I were able to meet with each other recently, and he and Fr. Matt met separately over lunch to help give Fr. Tomy some insights on the “lay of the land.” Fr. Tomy strikes me as a very faithful, kind, gentle and confident priest and I believe he will make an excellent pastor here. Fr. Tomy is sharing a little about himself in this week’s bulletin, and I invite you to welcome him when he begins his term on April 14th. Please pray for Fr. Tomy. It is never easy to move and say goodbye to a community you have come to love, but he is very enthusiastic and excited to begin his ministry at Ss. Matthew and Hubert Parish!
I would also like to thank His Eminence, Cardinal Cupich, Fr. Mike Knotec and the Priest Placement Board for discerning Fr. Tomy’s assignment here and for granting us the grace of having him begin his term as pastor before July 1st. The assignment process for priests gets more difficult every year as fewer and fewer priests are available to move, so their work at finding good men for parishes is truly guided by the Holy Spirit.
Because of Fr. Tomy’s imminent move to SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish, the Archdiocese of Chicago Presbyteral Council recommended at their meeting in March that the name of our parish be selected at their next meeting in May or the one after that in September. You can read the letter in its entirety in this bulletin, but they wanted to give Fr. Tomy an opportunity to understand what each of the possibilities for a name means to the parish.
Of note in the letter is the recommendation that a new patron be chosen for the parish, as other pastors on the Presbyteral Council who have gone through parish unification processes already have observed that combined names, such as the current name of our parish, are more challenging in building unity and an identity as a new parish. This means that SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish will not be considered as a name for the parish in the future. However, it is important to remember that each church building and the school will retain their current names. At the next Presbyteral Council meeting in May or September, they will then consider the other two names presented to them for our parish as voted on by all of you… St. Clare of Assisi Parish or Holy Archangels Parish.
Next week, March 18-20 at 7:00 pm at St. Theresa Church in Palatine, you are all invited to participate in our yearly Lenten Mission. The mission will be given by Fr. Nicholas Kostyk and is titled, “O Lord, I am Not Worthy - Biblical Approaches to Communion.”
The mission will examine three scenes from the Gospel that teach us how to approach Our Lord in the manner He wishes to be approached and will focus especially on the implication of those scenes for a fruitful and worthy meeting with Him in the Holy Eucharist. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated at the conclusion of every evening, and confessions will be heard on each night of the mission.
· Monday, March 18: Do you know what you are asking? - The Rich Young Man
· Tuesday, March 19: How do you see yourself before your neighbor? - The Publican and the Pharisee
· Wednesday, March 20: How do you see yourself before God? - The Roman Centurion
Fr. Nicholas Kostyk is a native of the southwest side of Chicago, and a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Nicholas. He holds an S.T.L. in Sacramental Theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake, and is currently working on his doctorate in Patristics at the Ukrainian Catholic University of L’viv. He is director of the Eparchial Mission Institute and an associate pastor at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Chicago.
Fr. Tim
Dear Friends,
It is with great joy that I am able to share with you that there is a new pastor for SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish, and his name is Fr. Tomy Abraham. Fr. Tomy is currently the Associate Pastor at St. Edna Parish in Arlington Heights and will begin his assignment at SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish on Sunday, April 14th. This is an especially welcomed development, as it was my presumption the new pastor would be beginning his term on July 1st, along with all the other newly named pastors.
Fr. Tomy and I were able to meet with each other recently, and he and Fr. Matt met separately over lunch to help give Fr. Tomy some insights on the “lay of the land.” Fr. Tomy strikes me as a very faithful, kind, gentle and confident priest and I believe he will make an excellent pastor here. Fr. Tomy is sharing a little about himself in this week’s bulletin, and I invite you to welcome him when he begins his term on April 14th. Please pray for Fr. Tomy. It is never easy to move and say goodbye to a community you have come to love, but he is very enthusiastic and excited to begin his ministry at Ss. Matthew and Hubert Parish!
I would also like to thank His Eminence, Cardinal Cupich, Fr. Mike Knotec and the Priest Placement Board for discerning Fr. Tomy’s assignment here and for granting us the grace of having him begin his term as pastor before July 1st. The assignment process for priests gets more difficult every year as fewer and fewer priests are available to move, so their work at finding good men for parishes is truly guided by the Holy Spirit.
Because of Fr. Tomy’s imminent move to SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish, the Archdiocese of Chicago Presbyteral Council recommended at their meeting in March that the name of our parish be selected at their next meeting in May or the one after that in September. You can read the letter in its entirety in this bulletin, but they wanted to give Fr. Tomy an opportunity to understand what each of the possibilities for a name means to the parish.
Of note in the letter is the recommendation that a new patron be chosen for the parish, as other pastors on the Presbyteral Council who have gone through parish unification processes already have observed that combined names, such as the current name of our parish, are more challenging in building unity and an identity as a new parish. This means that SS. Matthew & Hubert Parish will not be considered as a name for the parish in the future. However, it is important to remember that each church building and the school will retain their current names. At the next Presbyteral Council meeting in May or September, they will then consider the other two names presented to them for our parish as voted on by all of you… St. Clare of Assisi Parish or Holy Archangels Parish.
Next week, March 18-20 at 7:00 pm at St. Theresa Church in Palatine, you are all invited to participate in our yearly Lenten Mission. The mission will be given by Fr. Nicholas Kostyk and is titled, “O Lord, I am Not Worthy - Biblical Approaches to Communion.”
The mission will examine three scenes from the Gospel that teach us how to approach Our Lord in the manner He wishes to be approached and will focus especially on the implication of those scenes for a fruitful and worthy meeting with Him in the Holy Eucharist. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated at the conclusion of every evening, and confessions will be heard on each night of the mission.- Monday, March 18: Do you know what you are asking? - The Rich Young Man
- Tuesday, March 19: How do you see yourself before your neighbor? - The Publican and the Pharisee
- Wednesday, March 20: How do you see yourself before God? - The Roman Centurion
Fr. Tim