By: By Barbara Roedel Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 3 Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4; Psalm 95:1-2,6-7,8-9; 2 Timothy 1:6-8,13-14; Luke 17:5-10 Jesus’ disciples experienced challenges and difficulties in following him. Thinking they had too little faith, the disciples asked Jesus for more faith. Jesus’ response must have shocked them. He tells the disciples to use […]
Continue readingJerry Klein was given a standing ovation by the student body of Peoria Notre Dame High School when he accepted the school’s 2010 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award Sept. 24. But the longtime writer with the Peoria Journal Star who is now a columnist with The Catholic Post told the […]
Continue readingMONTICELLO — Gathered around the baptismal font at St. Philomena’s Church, 18 little faces looked up at Angi Jones as they pondered the question: “Do you remember your baptism?” Not one of the first-graders could say they did, since they had been baptized as infants. “I do,” their teacher said. “I was baptized when I […]
Continue readingHealth care workers are invited to consider “Personal Integration of Faith in Clinical Practice: Offering Hope and Perspective” at this year’s annual Diocesan Health Care Conference, which is planned for Tuesday, Oct. 19. It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Spalding Pastoral Center, 419 N.E. Madison Ave., Peoria. “We wanted […]
Continue readingBy: By Sandra Post Their life stories are varied, but 150 couples celebrating golden or silver anniversaries in 2010 who gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria last Sunday share common bonds of faith, values, and commitment. “Jesus established marriage as a sacrament, an outward sign, and married couples show us what Christian love is […]
Continue readingNORMAL — The first feast day of the newly beatified Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman will be a big day at the newly expanded St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Newman Center here, and everyone is invited on Saturday, Oct. 9. A day of activities begins with 9 a.m. Mass in honor of Blessed Newman celebrated in […]
Continue readingExtra Masses in Farmingtonduring Spoon River Drive FARMINGTON — To assist those who will be taking the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive over the next two weekends, St. Matthew’s Church is adding two extra Masses to its schedule. Father Bruce King, IC, pastor, said he will be celebrating Mass at 6 p.m. in addition to […]
Continue readingWith Catholic Charities USA celebrating its 100th anniversary Sept. 25-28 during its annual convention in Washington, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has proclaimed this Sunday, Sept. 26, as Catholic Charities Sunday throughout the Diocese of Peoria. In the Diocese of Peoria, Catholic Charities was incorporated in 1942, though individual and group endeavors to help the […]
Continue readingMoral and Character Education in Catholic Schools will be the topic of a presentation in the University of Notre Dame Club of Peoria’s Hesburgh Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Peoria. The speaker will be Dr. Daniel K. Lapsley, a professor and chair in the department […]
Continue readingThe Measure of Love Is to Love Without Measure is the theme for this year’s observance of Respect Life Sunday and parishioners across the Diocese of Peoria will be demonstrating that love in a variety of ways on Sunday, Oct. 3. One of those activities will take men, women and children to the streets to […]
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