Training is required. Bereavement Support Group meetings are provided with a 6-session series several times a year. Nicodemus ministers perform services at the wake and cemetery if a priest is unable to preside. The purpose of this ministry is to identify justice issues and determine how the parish might become actively involved. Peace and Justice ministry meets monthly .
Topics range from health issues to gang and drug prevention.
The St. Vincent De Paul Society helps people in need of financial assistance when they have become victims of circumstances beyond their control. A displaced individual, a family who may have lost their home in a fire, a hungry person, would find some consolation in this group. The Society has provided the rectory with food certificates and C.T.A. fare tokens for the homeless, distributed Christmas baskets to families, and help out in various ways with The Common Pantry at 3744 N. Damen. Sharing Parish Committee Members of this committee organize social events, prayer, Christmas giving tree and other events between St. Benedict's and our sharing parish, Our Lady Help of Christians. It is a wonderful way to share in the cultural diversity of another parish.