By: By Sharon Priester Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Aug. 2 Exodus 16:2-4,12-15; Psalm 78:3-4,23-24,25,54; Ephesians 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35 —– Bread — a staple of life. For centuries, bread has sustained people. When I was growing up, we always had bread at breakfast, lunch and dinner. My dad, who worked in a tannery, took at least […]
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Photo Caption: Paul Rudd stars in a scene from the movie “Ant-Man.” The Catholic News Service classification, A-II — adults and adolescents. Rating: By Catholic News Service The following movie reviews are supplied by Catholic News Service in conjunction with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Film and Broadcasting. For full reviews […]
Continue readingGALESBURG — Knox County Right to Life has planned events on Friday, Aug. 7, and Saturday, Aug. 8, to give high school students and adults the tools they need to stand up for life. Both will be held at Costa Catholic Academy, 2726 Costa Drive. The Joshua Seminar, a pro-life educational evening for adults, will […]
Continue readingPrayer is a powerful way to support priests in their ministry and the Bishop’s Commission on Women in the Church and in Society is encouraging that with a Holy Hour on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at the Spalding Renewal Center in Peoria. It will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help […]
Continue readingGALESBURG — The Women’s Pregnancy Center of Galesburg and the Women’s Care Center of Peoria will benefit from the Community Baby Shower and Brunch, which will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. in Lake Storey Shelter No. 3. Volunteers from both centers will be honored during the event, which is sponsored […]
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Rehearsals have started, but it isn’t too late to join the St. Anthony Camerata Chorale and St. Mary’s Cathedral Schola for a choir pilgrimage to “Majestic Italy” at the end of the year, according to Mary Ann Fahey-Darling. “We can take people until mid-August,” said Fahey-Darling, director of the chorale, which is based at St. […]
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By: By Tom Dermody Faithful Catholics should respond to persons with same-sex attraction with love and responsibility, not labels, and to those who advocate same-sex marriage with questions and truth, a priest told Catholic young adults at a crowded Theology on Tap session in Peoria on July 1. “There can be no compassion — and […]
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Photo Caption: Dr. Jillian Stalling will be the featured speaker at evenings in Bloomington (July 23) and Peoria (July 30) on “Unlock the Mystery: Natural Option for Family Planning and Gynecological Health.” By: By Tom Dermody Dr. Jillian Stalling tries to keep in mind how the Divine Physician would approach a person as she treats […]
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Photo Caption: The medical center’s Cancer Center will be renamed in honor of Bobette Steely Hegeler (pictured), the late wife of donor Julius W. Hegeler II. DANVILLE — Presence United Samaritans Medical Center has received a planned gift of $3 million from Julius W. Hegeler II that not only honors his late wife, but will […]
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Photo Caption: St. Mary’s Hospital, located at 111 Spring St. in Streator, was founded by three Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Springfield in 1887. STREATOR — Citing a desire to make certain high quality health care services will continue to be available in this LaSalle County community, Hospital Sisters Health […]
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