Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses the assembly at the conclusion of the Mass he celebrated beneath a tent on the grounds of the Erin Feis Irish festival in downtown Peoria on Aug. 26. Following is the full text of the homily by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, at the Mass celebrated on […]
Continue readingThe Bloomington Circle of the Christ Child Society of Central Illinois will meet on Friday Sept. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the home of Sharon Gerdes, 103 E. Gridley Road, Gridley, and Thursday, Sept. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church of Merna, 1001 N. Towanda Barnes Road. For […]
Continue readingCHILLICOTHE — Spiritual gifts and forgiveness are two of the topics that will be addressed at a workshop on Saturday, Sept. 8, at St. Edward’s Church, 1216 N. Sixth St. Sponsored by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Diocese of Peoria, the workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The speakers are Deacon […]
Continue readingBy: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 2 Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-8; Psalm 15:2-3,3-4,4-5; James 1:17-18,21b-22,27; Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 If there is any set of readings that speak to us in a practical way, it is clearly the readings for this weekend! Who among us has not struggled with being judgmental of others? […]
Continue readingCardinal Timothy Dolan of New York this week invited the Republican and Democratic candidates for president and vice president to sign a petition seeking civil dialogue and to refrain from personal attacks in the two months remaining in the campaign leading up to the November election. No word by our deadline whether any of the […]
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Photo Caption: Bev Tomblin pulls a bin of sandwiches from the failing refrigeration unit at Sophia’s Offerings from Angels Kitchen while Rita Loyd holds the door. Having a working refrigerator — and a pretty big one at that — isn’t really an option when you’re serving meals to between 400 and 500 people every day. […]
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Photo Caption: After they were married at Sacred Heart Church in Peoria on Aug. 11, Rachel and Jared Lucas returned to Peoria notre Dame high School where they started dating in 2004. Rachel Merriman and Jared Lucas have known each other since junior high and started dating as seniors at Peoria Notre Dame High School […]
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Photo Caption: John Grillot of Washington kneels on the grass the Aug. 26 Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, on the grounds of the Erin Feis festival in Peoria. Catholics in the United States are at a “defining moment of testing” in which they must live their faith and not “cave in” to […]
Continue readingNew administrators or leadership configurations were waiting for students at schools in Bloomington, Champaign, East Moline, Kewanee, Metamora and Odell when classes started in August. One of those new configurations is taking place at Holy Trinity School in Bloomington, where Gayla Moore will be the interim principal of the elementary school and Christina Ellis will […]
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PERU — After nearly four months of operating at reduced power, WSOG-FM Catholic radio is again broadcasting at full strength at 88.1 FM. The station’s former 4,000-watt transmitter was destroyed in a late April fire in the small building that housed it at the radio tower, located along I-39 near Cedar Point. A 200-watt transmitter […]
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