Polish-CLC (PCLC) Chicago celebrated its annual commitment ceremony at Mass on Sunday, September 10, 2017 at the Sacred Heart Mission Chapel, 4105 North Avers Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Sacred Heart Mission is staffed by a community of Jesuits of the South Poland Province. The liturgy also marked the beginning of a new year of formation for the PCLC-Chicago group. Mass was concelebrated by Jesuit Community Superior, Fr. Tomasz Oleniacz, SJ and PCLC Ecclesial Assistant, Fr. Jerzy Mordarski, SJ.

Please click on the blue heading text above to join in answering Pope Francis’ urgent call in Laudato Si, I pledge to: • Pray for and with creation • Live more simply • Advocate to protect our common home.

Please click on the blue text heading above to be taken to a Spanish language site where you can electronically send a letter of petition to help save the indigenous park in Bolivia: Enter your name and email address in the box at top right of the page, then copy the suggested message from the bottom of the page (translation below) and past it inside the box labeled “comentario.” Make sure you re-type your name at the top of the message. Click on FIRMAR (Sign) to send your message. To: Evo Morales From: (Your name) Mr. President, In the name of our faith and the call of Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato Si 'on the care of creation, we ask you to prevent the TIPNIS from being damaged. We ask you to say NO to the cancellation of the intangibility of the TIPNIS and that it will not allow private individuals to take advantage of their natural resources. Thank you very much!