Upcoming Service Opportunities
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Saint Clement offers periodic and ongoing opportunities for parishioners to live their call to stewardship and justice by generously sharing their time, gifts, and talents in service with and for others. Please see below for upcoming opportunities!
For more information, or to sign up for any of these opportunities, please contact the staff member listed.
Sign up for our monthly Service Opportunities e-newsletter here. See past issues of this newsletter here.
Support for Migrants
Catholic social teaching holds that people have the right to migrate to support themselves and their families. The city has been challenged to find shelter for the recent waves of migrants and community organizations across Chicago need more supplies to provide for their basic needs.
Please see further below about the Catholic Charities Soup Kitchen opportunities!
Learn about our Partnership with Catholic Charities to reopen the Madonna House for asylum-seeking women + children here! Sign up for the Madonna House MEAL TRAIN here.
For further ways to get involved, please click here.
Everyone has a right to the necessities of life -- food, clothing, shelter -- as well as the right to education, medical care, religion, and the expression of one's culture. Please join us in our efforts to support and care for the families who have newly found themselves in Chicago. Contact Martina Ricca with questions.
Friday Sack Lunches & Hospitality
For many years, Saint Clement parishioners have generously prepared sack lunches for the hungry, which are distributed from the parish every Friday morning.
Before we distribute the lunches, we provide breakfast and hospitality to our brothers and sisters in need as they wait in line.
Monthly Food Drive
Help feed the hungry in our community! Saint Clement will continue its monthly food drive on the last weekend of every month. Donations of nonperishable food items can be placed in the labeled bin in the parish office during open hours. Donations will be distributed to local food pantries in need. Thank you for your support!
Lincoln Park Community Services
Twice a month, Saint Clement volunteers serve dinner for the Guests at LPCS! Volunteers can participate by cooking onsite at LPCS or by preparing part of a meal at home and dropping it off. Contact Martina Ricca to sign-up.
1521 N. Sedgwick location
Monday, June 10 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
600 W. Fullerton location
Friday, June 21 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Friday, July 19 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Catholic Charities Soup Kitchen
On the 3rd Friday of the month, Saint Clement volunteers assist volunteers from Holy Name Cathedral in serving Catholic Charities' Friday supper. Please note, Catholic Charities is in desperate need of volunteers for their supper program at this time. They are serving over 200 individuals and need help packaging and distributing dinner meals. Because of this situation, additional volunteers are greatly needed and will have a strong impact. Volunteers are to report to Catholic Charities (721 N. La Salle) by 4:00 p.m., will begin serving at 5:00 p.m., and be wrapping up by 6:30 at the latest. For more information and to sign up, contact Martina Ricca.
Date: Friday, June 21 and Friday, July 19
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: 721 N. LaSalle, between Huron & Superior
Saint Clement Wedding Ministry Could Use Your Help!
Are you interested in working with engaged couples on their wedding weekend? Saint Clement wedding ministry is looking for an addition to our roster of wedding attendants. Availability on Friday for rehearsals and Saturdays for wedding required.
If you would like to learn more, please contact Catherine Shaffer.
Become a Clement Navigator!
Adult parishioners are invited to become Saint Clement Navigators.
What is the the Navigator Program?
It is a parish-wide initiative to match new parishioners to an established parishioner who will:
Provide a personal face of welcome.
Get to know the new parishioner and their hopes/desires for engagement with the parish and for discipleship in the parish.
Provide guidance, navigation, and invitations to parish events over the newcomer’s first 6 months as a parishioner.
Love Your Neighbor Ministry
Love Your Neighbor is a ministry created especially for our parish family. We strive to fulfill the spiritual and material needs of our community and foster a sense of family support. We invite all members of our community to join us in growing together as a parish family. Opportunities include Ministry of Care and more.
Our Lady of the Angels
Our Lady of the Angels is located in the Humboldt Park area of the city providing resources to those who are materially poor and sharing the Gospel with those they encounter. Right now, Our Lady of the Angels is needing volunteers on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays. Volunteer opportunities include working in the food pantries and after school programs. At this time, they are only allowing for adult volunteers. Please visit their volunteer page to sign-up!
St. Mary of the Lake service opportunity
Saint Mary of the Lake in Uptown runs a weekly soup kitchen on Wednesday nights. With the growing number of refugees from South and Central America, the needs of the pantry continue to grow. As a part of this program, volunteers also provide sack lunches to the guests at the soup kitchen. These sack lunches ensure each guest who comes to the soup kitchen for dinner may also have a meal to-go. Volunteers may signup to provide 5 sack lunches by emailing Darlene Kelly.