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Looking for a Lenten fish fry? Check our list of dinners around the diocese

By: The Catholic Post - February 15, 2018 - News Article fish fry, Lent

A young volunteer displays food prepared for dinners served at a Friday evening fish fry. CNS/Jim West

The following list was compiled from information provided to The Catholic Post. New listings will be added as they are received. To make us aware of your fish fry, email details to cathpost@cdop.org. Click here for a roundup of Lenten spiritual offerings. EAST PEORIA: There will be a Knights of Columbus fish fry on Friday, […]

Opportunities for spiritual enrichment offered around diocese as Lent begins

By: The Catholic Post - February 15, 2018 - Featured Article Bible study, Lent, retreats, Scripture

Bible studies, parish missions, and retreats are just some of the offerings parishes and institutions have planned to help Catholics on their Lenten journey. (CNS/Octavio Duran)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Parishes and Catholic organizations around the Diocese of Peoria are planning special activities for the penitential season of Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14. Following are just some of the opportunities made known to The Catholic Post, listed in order of date. This round-up will be updated as new activities are […]

Diocese-wide Bingo game is coming; grand prize, how to enter revealed here

By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 - News Article

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If you have yet to renew your subscription to The Catholic Post, allow us to offer one more reason to do so in 2018. Actually, we’ll offer 5,000 reasons. A gift to The Catholic Post’s 2018 Delivering Unity Campaign not only brings this award-winning diocesan newspaper to your home throughout the year, it is also […]

‘We have so much in common,’ new OSF mission partners in Urbana, Danville told

By: Tom Dermody - February 14, 2018 - Uncategorized Danville, OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center, OSFHealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center, Urbana, welcoming program

Longtime and new OSF HealthCare mission partners applaud a speaker during a welcoming program Feb. 1 at the newly renamed OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

While transitioning two medical centers to new ownership was a complicated task that involved months of preparation across the business spectrum, the common Catholic health care traditions and missions of the facilities in Urbana and Danville also made it a time of grace. “We have so much in common,” said Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, […]

Mass, programs welcome Urbana and Danville medical centers into OSF ‘family’

By: Tom Dermody - February 14, 2018 - Featured Article Danville, OSF, OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center, OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center, Presence Health, Urbana

Msgr. Mark Merdian, episcopal vicar for health care in the Diocese of Peoria, accepts a framed portrait of Mother M. Frances Krasse, foundress of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, from Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF. A Celebration Mass on Feb. 1 marked the transition of Catholic medical centers in Urbana and Danville into the OSF HealthCare System and honored the religious communities that are part of their histories. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

Intense overnight preparation led to a morning of celebratory prayer as Catholic medical centers in Urbana and Danville were welcomed into the OSF HealthCare family on Feb. 1. “Throughout the history of religious orders in the church, one order has completed its mission and another carries it forward. This is the setting in which we […]

“Fifty Shades Freed” (Universal)

By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 - Movie Review

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star in a scene from the movie "Fifty Shades Freed." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS photo/Universal)

By Catholic News Service Absurdities alternate with exploitative sex scenes in this screen version of the third novel in E.L. James’ tawdry trilogy. With their sadomasochistic relationship now solemnized by marriage, a fabulously wealthy, controlling tycoon (Jamie Dornan) and his mousy book editor of a bride (Dakota Johnson) look forward to a life of private […]

Nearly 300 to take next step in faith journey during Rites of Election

By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 - News Article Rite of Election, St. Mary's Cathedral

Sister Paulette Joerger, OP, of St. Malachy Parish in Rantoul introduces a candidate to Bishop Jenky during the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion last spring. This year's ceremonies will take place Feb. 18 and Feb. 25. (The Catholic Post file/Jennifer Willems)

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will welcome nearly 300 children, women and men to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria over the next two weekends as they begin the final period of preparation to be received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion will be celebrated […]

God pursues us, again and again, inviting and guiding us to what is good

By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 - Living the Word

Shawn Reeves

By Shawn Reeves First Sunday of Lent/Feb. 18 Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-5,6-7,8-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 Catholics are often accused of a mentality of “earning” our salvation, of emphasizing our response to God as if we were the singular cause of graces received. However, my observation is that all Christians fall prey to an exaggeration […]

Homily excerpts from the funeral Mass in Bloomington for Msgr. Gregory Ketcham

By: Tom Dermody - February 12, 2018 - Uncategorized

Msgr. Gregory Ketcham

EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are excerpts from the homily at the funeral Mass at St. Patrick Church of Merna on Feb. 12 for Msgr. Gregory Ketcham. (See his obituary here.) The homilist was Father James J. Seitz, a priest of the Diocese of Winona and longtime friend. I have a new family. You have adopted me. […]

“The 15:17 to Paris” (Warner Bros.)

By: The Catholic Post - February 8, 2018 - Movie Review

Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone portray themselves in the movie "15:17 to Paris." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/courtesy Warner Bros.)

By Catholic News Service Uneven drama recounting the circumstances that led up to the thwarting, in August 2015, of a terrorist attack and potential massacre on the train of the title. Traveling from Amsterdam to the French capital as tourists, a trio of Americans (Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone all portraying themselves), two […]

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