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After a year apart, PDCCW gathers volunteers for Mass, awards for service

By: Jennifer Willems - May 5, 2021 - Featured Article

Seventeen of the 25 women recognized with certificates of appreciation at the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s Volunteer Appreciation Mass celebrate by having their photo taken with Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka, who presided at the April 29 liturgy at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

While the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women was forced to cancel last year’s Volunteer Appreciation Mass and Luncheon due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the good work done by women around the Diocese of Peoria continued. That service was recognized at a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on April 29. Certain aspects of […]

Conversion to Christ is a Divine gift

By: Tom Dermody - May 5, 2021 - Living the Word

Father R. Michael Schaab

By Father R. Michael Schaab Sixth Sunday of Easter/May 9 Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48; Psalm 98:1,2-3,3-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 All the readings chosen for this Sunday reinforce the fundamental principle that in matters of faith, first God acts and then we freely respond. Even in conversion, first God gives a person the grace needed to convert, […]

Paul Moore: I beg your indulgence while I research the church’s plenary process

By: The Catholic Post - May 5, 2021 - Columnists

In My Father’s House / Paul Moore My wife and I recently went through the process to receive a plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday in April. We did the prescribed things: confession, Communion, and in a spirit (we pray) that was “completely detached from sin,” recited the Our Father, the Creed, and the invocation, […]

Funeral in Odell for Msgr. Watson; pastor at St. Thomas, Peoria Heights for 34 years

By: The Catholic Post - May 5, 2021 - News Article

Msgr. William Watson

ODELL — A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Paul Church here on May 3 for Msgr. William Watson, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria who served as pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Peoria Heights for 34 years. Msgr. Watson died on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Pontiac. He was […]

The full text of the homily at the funeral Mass in Odell for Msgr. William Watson

By: The Catholic Post - May 5, 2021 - Uncategorized

Father Thomas Taylor gives the homily at the May 3 funeral Mass for Msgr. William Watson at St. Paul Church in Odell. (Screenshot from Watson-Thomas Funeral Home livestream)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the full text of the homily at the May 3 funeral Mass at St. Paul Church in Odell for Msgr. William Watson. (See obituary here.) The homilist was Father Thomas Taylor, who served with Msgr. Watson at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Peoria Heights for 12 years. An archived video […]

Intentionally set fire won’t stop the mission of Women’s Care Center in Peoria

By: Tom Dermody - May 4, 2021 - Featured Article

Local and state fire inspectors examine the damage from an early morning fire May 3 at the Women's Care Center, 7319 N. University in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

“Our doors are open. We just don’t have any doors.” That’s how Connie McClure, director of client care at the Women’s Care Center in Peoria, assured a shocked pro-life community that the pregnancy center’s mission continues despite an early morning fire on May 3 that gutted its facility at 7319 N. University St. Fire investigators […]

Deacon Frank G. Randazzo, 83, dies; member of diocese’s first deacon class

By: The Catholic Post - April 30, 2021 - News Article

Deacon Frank G. Randazzo

ROCK ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial was offered at St. Ambrose Church here on April 30 for Deacon Frank G. Randazzo, a Rock Island resident and member of the first class of permanent deacons ordained for the Diocese of Peoria. Deacon Randazzo, who served St. Ambrose Parish for many years as well as […]

Join Bishop Tylka in praying for these parishes of the diocese during May

By: The Catholic Post - April 30, 2021 - News Article

St. Mary in El Paso is one of several parishes under the Blessed Mother's patronage that are on Bishop Tylka's prayer list for May. He will specially remember the El Paso faith community on May 12.

Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka has been praying for each parish in the Diocese of Peoria by name, thanks to a calendar he developed with the assistance of Sister Linda Burkitt of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception (Heading Avenue Franciscans). The prayer calendar also includes days special to the religious communities active […]

Msgr. William Watson dies; visitations set in Peoria Heights, Odell, funeral Monday

By: The Catholic Post - April 29, 2021 - Uncategorized

Msgr. William Watson

ODELL — A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Paul Church here at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 3, for Msgr. William Watson, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria who served as pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Peoria Heights for 34 years. Msgr. Watson died on Tuesday, April 27, […]

St. Mary Church in Lexington damaged by fire; Masses temporarily moved to Chenoa

By: Tom Dermody - April 28, 2021 - Featured Article

Charred pews, smoked-stained walls and holes in the flooring are seen following the April 28 fire at St. Mary Church in Lexington. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

LEXINGTON — An early morning fire on April 28 caused extensive smoke and flooring damage to St. Mary Church here and will likely close the church for several months of restoration. “There’s a lot of disbelief — total shock” said Father David Sabel, pastor, in describing initial parishioner reaction to the apparently deliberately set fire […]

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