Rambler Families Answer the Call to Serve at Annual Family Mass & Morning of Service

4/15/2025

On Sunday, April 13, nearly 300 Rambler parents, guardians, and students participated in the annual Family Mass & Morning of Service, sponsored by the Rambler Parent Organization (RPO). The Family Mass & Morning of Service has been a Loyola tradition since 2013 and is one of the many ways the Loyola community heeds the call to be women and men for others.

This year, the RPO partnered with two outside organizations and developed five service projects designed to make an impact both on campus and beyond. These projects included:

Packing College-Bound Bags for Loyola's tuition-assisted seniors who are preparing for college
A neighborhood cleanup around Lake and Laramie
Sorting and organizing hundreds of donated items in the Loyola Academy uniform closet
Decorating Cards of Cheer and collecting, sorting, and bundling diapers to be distributed by Keeping Families Covered, a Waukegan-based organization that distributes products to Illinois families in need
Assembling care package boxes and writing Cards of Hope, which will be delivered to cancer patients by Phil's Friends, a Wheaton-based organization that provides Christ-centered support and encouragement to those affected by cancer

The morning of the event kicked off with a beautiful Mass said by Campus Ministers Rev. Stan Czarnecki, SJ and Rev. Arek Ciemiega, SJ, in Loyola's Chapel. From there, Rambler families filled the West Gym, where they were assigned to stations for each service project. By the end of the day, nearly 300 bundles of diapers were prepared, 40 care package boxes were decorated, dozens of Cards of Hope and Cheer were written, and College-Bound Bags were put together for over 50 students.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this wonderful day! We are especially grateful to Fr. Stan and Fr. Arek for presiding over Mass and to our event chairs Silvija Jakubowski P '28, Michelle Mellinger P '26, Elizabeth Stucker P '26, '28, and Mary Trehan P '25.

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