The Catholic Post Month: January 2025

Mission Day brings Peoria diocesan and parish staff together in discipleship

By: The Catholic Post - January 30, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

Bishop Louis Tylka and participants gather for a photo at the close of the Peoria diocesan-parish staff Mission Day at the Spalding Pastoral Center on Jan. 29.

Julianne Stanz’s grandmother was the bell-ringer at her church in the village of Hacketstown, County Carlow, Ireland for over 50 years. As Julianne related “the day the bells did not toll, is the day my grandmother passed away.” Her granddaughter has carried on ringing the bell for the Lord across the United States (now her […]

Catholic Schools Week about celebrating blessings, evangelizing – and unity

By: The Catholic Post - January 28, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

Jerry Sanderson, superintendent of schools, Diocese of Peoria

Jerry Sanderson, superintendent of diocesan schools, said there are a couple of very good reasons why Catholic Schools Week – which has been held for over 40 years – begins on the last Sunday of January. One of those core reasons is about thanksgiving, and the other is about hope. Regarding the element of thanksgiving, […]

Catholic Schools Week celebrates “salvific mission” Jan. 26 – Feb. 1

By: The Catholic Post - January 27, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

Catholic Schools Week is Jan. 26 – Feb. 1, 2025 Jerry Sanderson, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Peoria, says Catholic School Week is a time when parents and students, teachers, pastors, principals, parishioners, “all come together to celebrate this great salvific mission that we’ve been entrusted with in our schools.” The various days […]

Msgr. Charles Beebe, who carried highest rank of monsignor, dies at age 80

By: The Catholic Post - January 24, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Peoria for Msgr. Charles Beebe, who served diocesan schools, parishes, and the permanent diaconate for 55 years. Most Rev. Louis Tylka, Bishop of Peoria, and Abbot Michael Calhoun will officiate. Msgr. […]

Letting the light of the Eucharist lead us into Lent

By: The Catholic Post - January 22, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

All are invited – women, men and families – to join together as a diocesan family on Feb. 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria to let the light of the Eucharist lead us into Lent. The program begins at 9:30 a.m., and consists of Eucharistic adoration, confession, meditative music, and a Eucharistic procession followed […]

Rock Island’s Alleman rocks flags and football

By: The Catholic Post - January 21, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

(Left) One of the Top 10 entries for the Illinois State Flag Redesign Competition has been submitted by Alleman High grad Brady Senatra. (Right) Alleman alumni Charles Jagusah – here holding Orange Bowl jacket – was Notre Dame’s starting left tackle in the College Football Playoff National Championship game Jan. 20.

ROCK ISLAND – Flag football is a growing sport worldwide, sponsored by the NFL and set to be part of the 2028 Olympics. However, a different combination of flag and football has been making news for Alleman High School alumni in recent days. Charles Jagusah (’23), played for Notre Dame against Ohio State in the […]

Central Catholic Vision Campaign – $10M+ in under a year

By: The Catholic Post - January 16, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

BLOOMINGTON – Central Catholic High School’s $10M Vision campaign reached and exceeded its lofty goal in less than one year. Following Central Catholic’s Saints Alive dinner auction last fall, the Catholic Post Online reported on a $1M donation for student mental health announced at the event as part of the campaign (“Central Catholic Celebrates $1M […]

A tale of gentle evangelization in Peoria

By: The Catholic Post - January 15, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

I met Tom Durkee as we were both waiting in the check-out at Lagron-Miller religious book and goods store in Peoria just before Christmas. Tom is retired, closing his career with 25 years as an RN and home hospice nurse with OSF HealthCare. Tom’s wife Sharon Flynn Durkee passed away three years ago. Sharon was […]

Bread Monk talks bread, education and community

By: The Catholic Post - January 14, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

Father Dominic Garramone – “The Bread Monk” prays before breaking bread with visiting members of the National Evangelization Team (NET) and Saint Bede Academy students at St. Bede Abbey’s Bethany House. (Supplied photo)

Father Dominic Garramone, OSB – aka the “Bread Monk” – has a lot cooking. He has written 11 cookbooks (not counting second editions), and served as the host of the PBS cooking show “Breaking Bread with Father Garramone” from 1999-2001. He’s also an also an award-winning children’s book author (“Brother Jerome and the Angels in […]

Deacon Greg Serangeli, Pere Marquette honoree, dies at 87

By: The Catholic Post - January 13, 2025 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 11 a.m. at St. Edward Church, Chillicothe for Deacon Greg Serangeli, who served as a deacon in the Diocese of Peoria for 42 years. Deacon Greg, age 87, of Peoria, passed away on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 at Methodist Hospital in Peoria. […]

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