“successful” to describe the Mission of our Lady of the Angels in
Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. “i prefer to say we have been
blessed by God with what is going
on here,” he says. “But we have an
awful lot of work to do.”
We Tr u st...
Telling it like it is
He’s done a lot already. in five short
years Lombardo has taken several
uninhabitable buildings and created
a ministry that serves 700 families a
month with food, clothing, tutoring,
after-school activities, Bible study,
and retreats. The church, which had
We have been
blessed by God with
what is going on here.
But we have an awful
lot of work to do.”
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T.O.R. MISSION STATEMENT…
We strive to live the Gospel through GENTLENESS HOSPITALITY
and SERVICE.
Following Christ in the footsteps of Saint Francis, we are a FRATERNIT Yof
men who freely vow ourselves to living in COMMUNION as brothers.
We seek to address the changing needs bof the Church and the world by calling
ourselves and others to PR AYER and CONVERSION.
been rented to a Protestant denomi-
nation, is nearly renovated and will
open soon for 24-hour eucharistic
adoration.
Lombardo gives all the credit to
the “notre dame network” of alumni
and friends who provided the funds,
to the hundreds of volunteers who
help out, and to partnerships with
the yMCA and the Greater Chicago
Food depository—and to God, of
course.
The divine also is responsible
for the five young women and men
who have joined or are in discernment to join the Franciscans of the
Eucharist, a new community to
which Lombardo serves as an advi-
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