Little Sisters of the Poor

This home has been in Palatine for almost 50 years! How many people know that there is a convent right in the middle of Palatine? This place is Heaven in the middle of Palatine! The Sisters absolutely love the residents at the nursing home. They treat them with such kindness and the residents always have fun activities to do. If you volunteer there, they offer volunteers an option to buy lunch once a week, and the food is DELICIOUS, especially considering the food the nuns get are usually donations. The sisters have a begging tradition that has spanned over 150 years that they still rely on the Providence of God to provide for their needs. The sisters are so hospitalable with employees, volunteers, visitors and benefactors alike. If you are looking for a place to go for some quiet time, the chapel is glorious and awesome! They usually have daily Mass in the morning, but I would call before arriving since they don’t have a live in chaplain and it’s visitng priests who say Mass. If you observe the residents and employees, you will hardly ever see a frown. The sisters provide an awesome atmospere; it almost doesn’t even feel like a nursing home. Also, they have a really cute gift shop with reasonable gifts, stuff I’ve seen for more money at retail stores and also they sell baked goods at the front door. I am giving them 5 stars because I love volunteering here!!!