Hispanic Ministry at Saint Michael Parish Orland Park

As mentioned in a previous post, I do a lot of volunteer work. I do all of this work through the Hispanic Ministry at Saint Michael Parish in Orland Park. Saint Michael’s Hispanic Ministry had only been around for a couple of years when I first started attending this parish. They established it because of the growing population of Spanish speaking parishioners who wanted to be able to attend masses and church events in the language they fully understood and were comfortable with. So, as this population continued to grow, the Hispanic Ministry did too. Now, we are a really well established group that participates in any and all things that occur at Saint Michael’s.

One of our biggest goals as a group is to celebrate our culture. We do this through countless of events like the Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Las Posadas, tamale fundraisers, and so much more. Each year the events we host are attended by more and more people. So, each year our events are bigger and better, and I could not be more proud. I love that the Spanish speaking community at Saint Michael’s is proud to participate in the celebrations and traditions of our cultures and that the non-Spanish speakers are more than happy to join us too. I think Saint Michael’s is doing a great job at making sure its parishioners all feel comfortable and welcome, and I am proud to be doing what I can to help make this happen. I am proud to help keep our culture alive.

"Las Mañanitas" for Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12th