The CROSSROADS Old St. Patrick’s Bulletin A Catholic Community in Chicago's West Loop SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021 Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over 2 | OSP Chef's Kitchen them; from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” Suddenly, 3 | Awakenings looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them. 4 | Green Team - Mk 9:7-8 6 | Happenings 7 | Evenings with Encore 8 | Giving 9 | Immigrant & Refugee Ministry 10 | Online Chapels 11 | Community Life 12 | First Friday Second Sunday of Lent Sunday, February 28, 2021 13 | Hearts & Prayers 14 | Directory old st. patrick’s church oldstpats oldstpatschicago directory chef's kitchen chef's Virtual Happy Hour and Cooking Demo Wednesday - March 10 5PM CST Cook along with Fr. Hurley and Chefs from Chicago’s own The Kerryman and The Gage. Learn how to make scrumptious St. Paddy’s Day specialities! Enjoy entertainment by Trinity Irish Dance, Fiddler Patricia Treacy, and Irish Diva Catherine O’Connell and More! Help us feed Chicago homeless on St. Patrick’s Day by visiting bit.ly/ospchefskitchen to register and/or donate to the event. The event is FREE! However we are SUGGESTED DONATION -$5 asking for good-will donations towards our ambitious goal to provide Donate $25 or more and meals for as many homeless shelters you will receive an as possible in Chicago on Old St. Pat’s custom apron! St. Patricks Day! Your donation will help us feed the homeless and support the local restaurants that are providing the meals. 2 visit us at oldstpats.org directory BELOVED IS WHERE WE BEGIN awakenings If you would enter But I can tell you into the wilderness, that on this path do not begin there will be help. without a blessing. I can tell you that on this way Do not leave there will be rest. without hearing who you are: I can tell you Beloved, that you will know named by the One the strange graces who has traveled this path that come to our aid before you. only on a road such as this, Do not go that fly to meet us without letting it echo bearing comfort in your ears, and strength, and if you find that come alongside us it is hard for no other cause to let it into your heart, than to lean themselves do not despair. toward our ear That is what and with their this journey is for. curious insistence whisper our name: I cannot promise this blessing will free you Beloved. from danger, Beloved. from fear, Beloved. from hunger or thirst, —Jan Richardson from the scorching from Circle of Grace: of sun A Book of Blessings for the Seasons or the fall of the night. visit us at oldstpats.org 3 GREEN NOTES FROM THE OSP GREEN TEAM: green team green Meet Hazel Johnson, Chicago’s environmental justice heroine “One thing about the environmental justice movement…is that nobody wants to drink contaminated water. Nobody wants to breathe polluted air. And we don’t want our homes and land contaminated. That’s the commonality we have as human beings, and that we always have to protect.” – Cheryl Johnson, daughter of Hazel Johnson, mother of the Environmental Justice Movement One of the most remarkable figures in the environmental justice movement lived in the Altgeld Apartments complex on the southeast side of Chicago, starting in 1962 and until her death in 2011. Hazel Johnson’s interest in environmental justice began with an event in her own life: the very early death of her husband at age 51 from lung cancer despite a minimal smoking history. Soon she began noticing other health issues in her friends and neighbors: breathing and skin problems, and high incidence of cancers. As she studied these issues, she learned that SE Chicago, where she lived, had the highest cancer incidence of any area in the city. In 1979, Johnson founded the non-profit People for Community Recovery to address housing and environmental issues in her community. In the early 80’s, she used a citizen science approach to gather data about health and the environment, enlisting friends in surveying their neighbors. Together they discovered that almost everyone knew someone who was the victim of cancer between the ages of 35 and 55. In the mid 80’s, she worked with a young community organizer named Barack Obama; together they revealed that her home, Altgeld Gardens, was built on a Pullman Palace Car Company dump contaminated by asbestos. She lobbied the Chicago Housing Authority tirelessly to get the site cleaned up. She began to suspect connections between the heavily industrialized areas that surrounded SE Chicago and the health problems low income and minority area residents were experiencing. She coined the phrase “the toxic doughnut” to poisonous geography that surrounded her home. In the early 90’s, she began to travel and join with other people of color across the country who were making the same connections between health problems, and abandoned/polluted industrial areas around low-income residential spaces. In the beginning, she was often the only Black person at the environmental conferences she attended; but gradually the environmental justice movement attracted more followers. She gained well deserved national recognition for her efforts, and was present in 1994 when President Clinton signed the Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898. This order directed federal agencies to identify and address the disproportionally high human health effects of environmental pollution on people of color. Johnson was also a pioneer in noting changing weather patterns that we now refer to as climate change. Throughout her life, Johnson encouraged a “culture of care” and supported the sense that we live in a common home entrusted to us by God, as Pope Francis eloquently describes in Laudato Si. The nonprofit Johnson founded, People for Community Recovery, continues her work today in SE Chicago, led by her daughter Cheryl Johnson. The solidarity that we as human beings experience with each other because we share common needs and a common home animated Hazel Johnson’s life, and continues to motivate us today. Visit the organization webpage: www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org SAVE THE DATE: One Earth Film Festival | March 5- 14 Join in for a virtual film and discussion centered on environmental justice during the screenings of One Earth Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary Season. View film selections, dates and registration details at oneearthfilmfest.org/films-by-date 4 visit us at oldstpats.org MEATLESS MONDAYS: LENT EDITION green team green During the Season of Creation 2020, we invited members of the OSP community to learn about the impact our food choices have on the world around us. Many of you accepted the Meatless Mondays challenge and refrained from eating meat on Monday for six weeks of the Season of Creation. As is our Catholic tradition, we abstain from meat on Friday during the Lenten season. We invite you to participate in our Lenten edition of Meatless Mondays by abstaining from meat two days per week: Mondays & Fridays. We invite you to use this sacred time to explore how your food choices can improve your health and the health of the planet. MEATLESS MONDAY MUNCHES Here’s a mouth-watering, meatless recipe to try out this week: Chickpea Curry [The Buddhist Chef] thebuddhistchef.com/recipe/chickpea-curry INGREDIENTS PREPARATION 1 chopped onion 1 In a large skillet over medium-high heat, sauté the onion and bell 1 red pepper cut into strips pepper in the oil for 5 to 10 minutes. 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 Add the curry powder, crushed red pepper, cane sugar, nutritional 1 tablespoon curry powder yeast, tomato paste and chickpeas. 1/4 teaspoon crushed red peppers 3 Sauté for about 3 minutes 1 tablespoon cane sugar 4 Stir in the coconut milk, add the salt and continue to cook the 4 tablespoons nutritional yeast (15 g) mixture, stirring occasionally, until thick and creamy (10 to 15 1 tablespoon tomato paste minutes). 1 can of (19oz) 540 ml chickpeas, drained and rinsed 5 Serve on basmati rice and garnish with basil leaves 1 can of (13,5 oz) 400 ml coconut milk salt to taste (I suggest 1/2 to 1 teaspoon) 10 REASONS TO OPT OUT OF INDUSTRIAL MEAT View this PDF in full at bit.ly/optout-industrialmeat OSP Green Team Welcomes You! Are you inspired by the message of Laudato Si? Want to be a faithful steward of our common home? OSP Green Team shares your inspiration. To learn more, contact Kayla Jackson at (312) 798-2399 or [email protected] visit us at oldstpats.org 5 happenings OLD ST. PAT'S RACIAL EQUITY & JUSTICE INITIATIVE Lenten Equity Resource Old St. Pat’s newly formed Racial Equity & Justice Initiative invites us to use this sacred time to educate, contemplate and activate around the themes of racial equity. Week 1 of the Lenten Equity Resource can be accessed at oldstpats.org/reji SUNDAY, MARCH 7 10 am & 5 pm Livestream Masses Please join us for 10 am and 5 pm Livestream Masses next Sunday at livestream.com/oldstpats! WATCH MASSES ANY TIME! Archived Masses are always available at bit.ly/osp-livestream "SEE YOU ON THE STEPS" Every Sunday after the 10 am Livestream! Do you sometimes wish you could just catch up with people after Mass like in the days before the pandemic? Well, now we can! Every Sunday after the 10 am Livestream anyone interested in chatting with others can join us “on the steps" of the church. An OSP leader will be there on Zoom to welcome us and send us into small groups to chat about the liturgy and the season we are in.