September 13, 2025 - People’s Mass for Justice + Peace
DATE: Saturday, September 13, 2025
TIME: 10 AM
Park on the concrete pad at 2124 Sheridan Road.
PARK AND MEET US AT: 910 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, North Chicago, IL
We encourage you to carpool, ride the METRA or join us on a bus:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Melrose Park: 8 AM
San Oscar Romero - San Miguel: 8 AM
St. James - Wabash: 8:30 AM
Email gabriel@csplaction.org to RSVP for the bus
METRA: Take the UP-N to Great Lakes. Schedules here.
People’s Mass for Justice + Peace — Faith Rising
This is a moment for political holiness - the call to follow in the footsteps of the prophets, saints, and movement leaders who came before us, teaching us that nonviolent action can achieve a world more reflective of God’s love. Today, we take up that same call. On September 13th at 10AM outside of the Great Lake Naval Base, we invite you to gather with us for an outdoor People’s Mass in prayerful resistance, united in our commitment to justice, mercy, and liberation.
We encourage you to carpool or join us on a bus (info above)
What to bring: For the offertory, please bring pictures of those deported or symbolically meaningful items. Bring signs with Catholic/faith-rooted messages, rosaries, water, chairs, and umbrellas.
Please RSVP on Facebook, and share the Facebook event along with a personal invitation to as many friends and family members as you can.
Message ideas for your signs:
Pray. Protest. Protect Immigrants.
Holy Fire Melts ICE-y Hearts
“God has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.” - Luke 1:52
Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Not the Deporters
“You shall love the foreigner as yourself; for you too were once foreigners…” - Leviticus 19:34
“Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the resident alien or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.” - Zechariah 7:9-10
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me.” - Matthew 25:35
Human Rights have no borders
The Holy Family were refugees
“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women, and men who leave or are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more.” - Pope Francis
“The Church without frontiers, Mother to all, spreads throughout the world a culture of acceptance and solidarity, in which no one is seen as useless, out of place, or disposable.” - Pope Francis
Indeed, migrants demonstrate this daily through their resilience and trust in God, as they face adversity while seeking a future in which they glimpse that integral human development and happiness are possible - Pope Leo XIV
