Clergy & Staff Directory

Rachel Espinoza Director of Children and Family Catechesis

Rachel Espinoza joined the Saint Clement staff in June 2015. She directs the religious education program for parish children, sacramental preparation, Liturgy of the Word for Children, and family catechesis. She offers training and support for the catechists at Saint Clement and collaborates in providing adult faith formation in the parish. She also guides the Faith Formation Committee called Faith in the Next Generation.

Rachel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Catechetics from Franciscan University and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame. She has worked professionally in parish ministry for five years and is a certified Pastoral Associate of the Archdiocese of Chicago. She is also an author for Liturgy Training Publications and wrote Sunday Prayer for Catholic School Teachers (2015-2016) and Sunday Prayer for Teens (2016-2017).

“The question of how we are educating in faith is not rhetorical, it is essential. The response calls for courage, creativity and the decision to take paths which are at times yet uncharted. The catechesis, as a component of the process of evangelization, needs to go beyond the simple realm of scholastics, in order to educate believers, beginning with children, to encounter Christ, living and working in his Church. It is the encounter with [Christ] that gives rise to the desire to know him better and thus to follow Him to become his disciples.” ~ Pope Francis, May 29, 2015

Gabriel Mayhugh Director of Liturgy

Gabe serves on the Saint Clement staff as Director of Liturgy, where he works with the pastor in overseeing liturgy and music as well as the liturgy staff. He also serves as one of the parish organists and works with the Jubilate children’s choir. He studied sacred music and organ performance at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and graduated with a B.M. in organ performance and sacred music. Following undergraduate work at Duquesne, Gabe studied liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, and graduated with a M.A. in theology, concentrating in liturgical studies.

Gabe grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a small town located on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. He had a fascination with organ at church and had a great love of the liturgy. Gabe began playing organ for Stations of the Cross and Masses in eighth grade and has since dedicated his life to liturgy and music in the church. In 2002, Gabe began work on the Saint Clement staff as Director of Liturgy. He departed Saint Clement in 2006 to work at Loyola University Chicago. Gabe spent three years working at Loyola University Chicago before returning to Saint Clement in 2009 to serve in this current position. Gabe lives in on the Northside with his wife and their two Wire Fox Terriers, Buster and Stewie.

Gael Day Receptionist & Wedding Coordinator

Gael joined Saint Clement in February 2007 as our Parish Receptionist and Wedding Coordinator. In her role as Parish Receptionist, she provides both welcome and hospitality to all who come to the Parish Office. In addition, Gael is the person on staff who assists with facility scheduling and coordination, keeps all the sacramental records, and supports the parish ministry to our homeless guests.

As Wedding Coordinator, Gael works with couples wishing to be married here, beginning with scheduling the wedding and Marriage Information Night through record keeping and recording. Before joining Saint Clement, Gael worked as an executive assistant to key executives for such companies as Pan American World Airways, Washington National Insurance Company, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. She was born and raised in New York City, is the proud grandmother of two grandchildren, and loves to spend time with them.   

Trina Heffley Parish & School Anchor Ball Coordinator

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Geraldine White Director of Operations

Geraldine (“Dine”) joined the Saint Clement staff as Director of Operations in 2018. As Director of Operations Dine is our professional administrator and parish leader, reporting to the pastor, being accountable to him for parish finance, administration, plant management and stewardship. In addition, Dine managers our pastoral and administrative staff compliance with all personnel policies of the Archdiocese and is the staff liaison to the Financial Council and the Building & Grounds Committee.  She also oversees and supervises our Director of Plant Management, the Data Base Manager, Receptionist, and Communications Specialist.

Dine comes to us from Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and the National Shrine of St. Jude on Chicago’s far south side where she was Business Manager.  In that capacity, Geraldine oversaw all operations at the parish, the school and a religious goods store affiliated with the Shrine. As that parish’s Business Manager, Dine navigated a series of complicated transitional issues, including the sale of obsolete equipment, installation of more up-to-date accounting practices and point-of-sale software and the replacement of a school principal.  

Prior to joining the Archdiocese at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Geraldine worked as a pharmacologic research analyst for the London and Philadelphia offices of The Research Partnership.  She is an alumna of Knox College and of the University of Chicago’s Booth Graduate School of Business and a licensed CPA.  Before devoting full time to raising six children with her attorney husband, Geraldine worked as a small business consultant with Deloitte, Touche (now Deloitte) doing client reviews, and also was involved with bond offerings and with mid-size company mergers. All six of her children are graduates of private colleges and universities, five of them Catholic and the sixth a part of the so-called “new” Ivy League. 

Passionate about college access for high schoolers, Dine is also the founder and principal of CollegeNow Advising, which provides high-level admissions and financial aid counselling to college bound high schoolers.