Dear Parishioners,
About a month or so ago I attended an event on criminal justice reform. I randomly (and providentially) sat next to one of the featured speakers of the evening, a woman named Jeanne Bishop.
Dear Parishioners,
I heard a song the other day that I hadn’t heard since I was a kid: Michael Bolton’s How Can We Be Lovers If We Can’t Be Friends?
How about that for starting an Easter letter? Michael Bolton? Wow, Father James, it looks like your fast over the Triduum has messed with your head. Hear me out. The title of the song is true and totally applicable to our relationship with God. We can’t really love God if we’re not friends with him.
Dear Parishioners,
I was doing Stations of the Cross a couple weeks ago with our Religious Education classes, and one of the 4th graders asked me how Jesus was able to hang on the cross. I told the student that the nails fixed him in place: one in each hand and one through his feet. Then the student asked if ropes were used to hold Jesus in place. I said the Roman soldiers might have used ropes around his wrists, but we’re not sure. We know they used nails.
Father James Wallace grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Sts. Faith Hope and Charity grammar school, New Trier High School, and then The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 2007. He attended seminary at The Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2012 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In addition to being the pastor of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish, he serves as a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese, a dean in Vicariate II, and a professor of canon law and spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary. He is also one of the featured Mercy Home Sunday Mass celebrants, airing Sundays at 9:30am on WGN.
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