Quad-Mission: (Church of the Holy Spirit, St. Hubert, St. Marcelline, St. Matthew)
Classic Stories of the Resurrection:
Sunday, March 8: “Open My Eyes, Lord” Woman at the Well (John 4) - - -
Monday, March 9: “I Once was Blind but Now I See - - -
Tuesday, March 10: “Hope of the Resurrection” Raising of Lazarus (John 11)
Franciscan Father Ed Shea is the third of eight children from St. Giles Parish in Oak Park.
A 1974 graduate of Fenwick High School and a 1978 graduate of the University of Notre Dame,
Father Shea joined the Franciscans in 1980 and was ordained a priest in 1987. Father Ed has spent most of his priesthood in parish work, including four years as the priest-presider for the St. Giles Family Mass Community in Oak Park, IL and five years as the pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Joliet, IL. He was also pastor of St. Joseph Parish, a predominantly Hispanic community in Chicago’s famous Back of the Yards neighborhood. Father Ed has served on his Provincial Council and as Director of Vocations and Formation for the Franciscans of the Sacred Heart Province.
Fr. Ed is currently stationed at St. Peter’s Church in downtown Chicago, and he’s been there since 2011. During the past several years he has done a good deal of itinerant preaching, in the Chicago area and beyond; he has spent some time living and working in Teutopolis, IL, and he even went on a couple of pilgrimages to Tanzania, Africa!
A Franciscan priest who loves to sing and tell stories, more than anything he thrives on
celebrating the sacraments of the Church. A true follower of St. Francis.