14327 Highland Ave.
Orland Park, IL 60462
(708) 349-0903
contact@saintmike.com

Minister of Care Training – Jan 27 and Feb 3, 10

Minister of Care Training sponsored by Vicariate V Ministry Commission – Tuesdays, January 27 and February 3, 10, 2026 from 4:45 PM to 8:00 PM at Our Lady of the Woods, located at 10731 W. 131st Street in Orland Park, IL 60462 – Come to the Hospitality Room on the main floor of the Church – Starting with a light meal!

Participation in these sessions meets the Office for Divine Worship, Archdiocese of Chicago, requirements to be eligible for mandating as a parish Minister of Care, ministering to the sick and homebound members of the parish.

Participants must be approved and sent by a member of their parish Pastoral Team. The sessions will include such topics as spirituality of ministry, ministry to the aged, the experience of suffering, dying and death, pastoral listening skills, prayer and Eucharist, and the theological and practical dimensions of ministry. This seminar provides fresh theology and insights into the pastoral practice of the Ministry of Care.

Our presenter is Sr. Gael Gensler, who is presently the Pastoral Associate at St. Francis of Assisi Parish. She has been involved in parish ministry for over twenty-five years. She currently coordinates the Ministry of Care for the parish with Barbara Basila, who has been an experienced Parish Coordinator of Ministry of Care for 9 years and a minister for 20 years.

Commissioner – Sr. Gael Gensler – ggensler@sfaorland.org

Minister of Care Training Registration

About our Ministry of Care

Ministers of Care attend a training that enables them to bring Communion to those who are homebound, hospitalized or in Nursing Homes. If you or someone you love or know would like Communion brought to them, please call the parish office at 708-349-0903, and we will invite a Communion visitor to bring Communion to the person’s home on a regular basis.

If you are hospitalized, and you let us know, we will visit you or your loved one in the hospital. With the HIPPA laws the hospital cannot tell us if parishioners are there.

Ministers of Care love the opportunity to visit, to pray with, and bring Communion to anyone who is homebound and would like to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.