Dear Parishioners,
“Would that we had died at the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread!" (Exodus 16:3). The Israelites grumbling about their food in our first reading reminds me when I was a child and how I used to complain when my mom made pot roast for dinner. "Ugh, I'd rather die, mom, than eat this pot roast! Can't we not get White Castle instead?"
Dear Parishioners,
Today, July 25th, is my birthday. More importantly, it is the feast of Saint James (the Greater). Yes, this is how I received my name. I was born on the feast of Saint James.
Dear Parishioners,
We struggle to rest. It sounds crazy, doesn't it? We think we enjoy relaxing, and we think we desire it, and yet it unsettles us to just be and do nothing. How many of you arrive on your vacation, near a beautiful lake or wherever, and immediately need to get up and do something, go somewhere? Why is that?
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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