Photo Caption: Actor Leonardo Defilippis portrays St. Maximilian Kolbe in a scene from from “Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz,” coming this month to Carthage, Galesburg, Canton, LaSalle, Champaign and Moline. Six locations in the Diocese of Peoria this month will host “Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz,” a 90-minute production performed live by Leonardo Defilippis. Among the performances […]
Continue readingIt’s not often that the grand Wicks organ at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria is played by more than one person at a time. On Friday, Oct. 18, however, Dr. Sherry Seckler, director of sacred music for the Diocese of Peoria, will share the bench with one of her former students, Jonathan Kroepel, to present […]
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ROCK ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of St. Mary Monastery here for Sister Cabrini A. Rael, OSB, who taught at several schools in the Diocese of Peoria. Sister Cabrini died on Monday, Oct. 14, at UnityPoint Health-Trinity in Rock Island. She was 85. […]
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FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — A funeral Mass was celebrated at Ascension Church here on Oct. 14 for Father Richard E. Raney, 100, the priest with the most seniority in the Diocese of Peoria. Father Raney, a former pastor of parishes in Ottawa, Chatsworth, Chillicothe, and Moline, died on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Fort […]
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By: By Tim Irwin Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 13 2 Kings 5:14-17; Psalm 98:1,2-3,3-4; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 The readings for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time challenge us to see the forest and not just the trees. The first reading recounts the climax of the cleansing of Naaman the leper. Despite […]
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Photo Caption: Brian Kearney of El Paso is shown with students in Uganda. He shares experiences of his monthlong trip on an online blog here. EL PASO — This summer, 17-year-old Brian Kearney said goodbye to his parents and girlfriend and boarded an airplane alone on a journey that would take him for a month […]
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By: By Tom Dermody On a night when optimism and hope were recurring themes, wonderful news was announced at the annual Respect Life Dinner in Peoria before keynote speaker David Andrusko reached the microphone. In a report on the work of the Family Resources Center, the pro-life outreach in downtown Peoria supported by the dinner, […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses a classroom of the new St. Jude School in Peoria following a Mass of Thanksgiving at the parish on Oct. 5. Winnie Pratt, principal, looks on. By: By Jennifer Willems As he looked around the gymnasium brimming with young families and longtime parishioners at the new St. […]
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Photo Caption: In what Bishop Jenky terms an “exciting and historic event,” a first class relic of Blessed John Paul II will be coming to Peoria and Normal next month. Catholics in the Diocese of Peoria will have a special way to share the joy of the canonization of Blessed John Paul II months before […]
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Photo Caption: Abbot Philip Davey, OSB, of St. Bede Abbey in Peru and project leaders break ground for Abbey Fields of St. Bede, an assisted living and memory care community coming to Spring Valley. By: By Jennifer Willems SPRING VALLEY — For many years the monks at St. Bede Abbey have dreamed of how they […]
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