Dear Parishioners,
“The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith’” (Luke 17:5).
Dear Parishioners,
In reading recently an old journal of mine from about ten years ago, I came across this quote from Léon Bloy that I wrote down:
"Such a movement of grace, which saves me from grave peril, could have been determined by an act of love that happened either just this morning or five hundred years ago by someone completely unknown, whose soul mysteriously communicated with mine, and who, in such a way, received his wages.”
Dear Parishioners,
When I was named pastor of Saint Juliana six years ago, my first time being pastor, I felt a lot of pressure. It was all self-imposed. I was 29-years old, it was a big responsibility, and I was afraid of failure. I didn’t want to disappoint or hurt the people I was serving, and likewise the Cardinal who appointed me. I found myself like the dishonest steward from our Lord’s parable today, who says to himself, “What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg” (Luke 16:3). If I fail at pastor, I thought to myself, what will I do with the rest of my life? Ah, yes, my ego was causing me much heaviness in those days.
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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