Please see our updated Intentions guidelines below:

• We are currently scheduling Intentions for January through May 2024. Intention scheduling opens six months in advance on a rotating basis.
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• At this time, we are not accepting Intention requests for any dates after May 2024. We ask that you do not mail lists or checks with requests for future dates as we cannot hold them or reserve them in advance.
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• We will need to limit parishioners to 10 Mass intentions per year per family. Of the 10 Masses, only two can be Sunday Masses or 1 Sunday and 1 Holy Day.
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• Only 1 Mass can be prayed for an individual every 21 days.
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• The donation for each Mass is $12.
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• The donation for the Presence Lamp is $12.
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• The donation for the 4 Vigil Lights in the Adoration Chapel is $40.
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• A person can reserve Mass Intentions, Presence Lamp, or Vigil Lights online, in person, or by mail.
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• Payment for Mass Intentions, Presence Lamp, or Vigil Lights can be made online, in person, or by mail.
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• All Mass Intentions, Presence Lamp, and Vigil Lights requests are subject to approval by the parish.

Please contact the Parish Office if you have any questions (815) 633-6311.
 

Mass Intention Book
 

Mass Intentions are very popular and are frequently requested to remember and pray for a deceased loved one. Our desire is to be as generous as possible in fulfilling everyone’s requests, but we also have to be fair so that everyone has an opportunity to have Masses offered. In order to allow more people to have a Mass intention celebrated, we are offering a once-a-week “Collective Mass” at one of the weekend Masses. At this Collective Mass there will be up to three names connected with the Mass intention. It is permissible to have more than one intention for a Collective Mass as long as all of the donors give their consent.  

Since many people want a Mass said at one of the Sunday Mass times, we have chosen to rotate our Collective Mass each weekend at one of our weekend Masses (Saturday 4:30pm, Sunday 7:00am, Sunday 8:15am, and Sunday 11:30am). The Sunday 10:00am Mass intention will remain for the People of St. Bridget.  

The Collective Masses are posted in our online Mass Book. To request an intention at one of the predetermined Collective Masses, look at the Mass Intentions Book online and in the notes column watch for the label “COLLECTIVE MASS” where you will see three entries for the same Mass date and time. The intention for the Collective Mass can only be for one individual and not a couple or family. At the Collective Mass, we will announce all 3 individual names when the intentions are read at Mass.

Please contact the Parish Office if you have any questions (815) 633-6311.
 

Flame of Faith Intentions are for the Presence Lamp in the Sanctuary and the Vigil Lights in the Adoration Chapel. These candles burn starting on a Sunday through Saturday for someone. 

Please contact the Parish Office if you have any questions (815) 633-6311.