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About Christa Rooks
Christa Rooks is the Communications Coordinator at Mercy Home for Boys & Girls. Christa was previously the editor of a weekly newspaper on the North Shore of Chicago, where she covered everything local news. When not writing, she can be found declaring her love for Diet Coke to anyone who will listen.
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Honoring Our Young Women
March 30, 2017 /1 Comment/in Home Updates campus, could relate, coworkers, description, each young, elizabeth, history, history month, important, inspirational women, labrie, learning center, relate, walsh campus, woman, women, women's, women's history, women's history month, young women /by Christa RooksChapels of Mercy Home: Tichenor Chapel
March 16, 2017 /0 Comments/in Home Updates, Sunday Mass campus, chapel, chicago, designed, expansion, family, family chapel, loop campus, mercy, mercy home, prayer, tichenor, tichenor family, tichenor family chapel, tiffany, tiffany dome, west loop, west loop campus, windows Optional /by Christa RooksNestled at the entrance of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls’ West Loop Campus in Chicago is the Tichenor Chapel, which provides a sacred space in the city.
Celebrating Black History Month
March 8, 2017 /0 Comments/in Home Updates activities, background during dinner, black history, black history month, boys campus, campus, civil rights, dinner, dinner featuring, each home, food dinner, history, history month, played in the background, put together, slave trade, soul food, soul food dinner, together, walsh campus Optional /by Christa RooksCelebrating 25 Years of Sunday Mass at Mercy Home
February 9, 2017 /2 Comments/in Home Updates, Sunday Mass 25 years, broadcast, catholic, celebrants, faithful, mass at mercy, mass at mercy home, mercy, mercy home, sunday, sunday mass, sunday mass at mercy, sunday mass at mercy home, unable, viewers Optional /by Christa RooksSunday Mass at Mercy Home has reached an important milestone: 25 years of being celebrated at our Home and broadcast to homebound Catholics throughout Chicagoland.
Honoring Dr. King Through Service
February 7, 2017 /0 Comments/in Home Updates luther, luther king, martin, martin luther, martin luther king, pavilion, people, spent the day, walgreen, young men /by Christa RooksHoops to Homework Kicks Off
February 2, 2017 /1 Comment/in Events, Home Updates appreciation, basketball, bittorf, bob love, chicago bulls, coaches, commitment, coworkers, homework, hoops to homework, hoopslink, jersey, mercy home, patrick, season, skwarek, sunday, transunion, vice president, young men /by Christa RooksMercy Home Offers Haven from Trouble and Gangs
September 13, 2016 /7 Comments/in Stories /by Christa RooksHealthy Alternatives to Junk Food
July 21, 2016 /0 Comments/in Resources /by Christa RooksIn celebration of National Junk Food Day we at Mercy Home are celebrating by recommending some healthy alternatives to junk food.
Why are Priests called Father?
June 17, 2016 /0 Comments/in Blog bishops, called father, congregation, early, father figures, father figures in our lives, figures, figures in our lives, leaders, parish, priest, priests, referred, religious, spiritual, titles, various Optional /by Christa RooksExplore the origins of calling priests “father.”
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