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By: Tom Dermody - December 15, 2022 -
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Forty parish music directors, choir directors, and organists shared their favorite Christmas hymns in a Catholic Post survey this month. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are expanded responses given by parish music leaders, choir directors, and accompanists to a survey conducted by The Catholic Post in December seeking their favorite Christmas hymns and the reason behind their selection. We thank all respondents for their time and, more importantly, for sharing their musical gifts. Click on the titles of […]
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By: Tom Dermody - December 15, 2022 -
Featured Article
Forty parish music directors, choir directors, and organists shared their favorite Christmas hymns in a Catholic Post survey this month. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
“O Holy Night” edged out “Silent Night” as the favorite Christmas hymn or carol in a Catholic Post survey of parish music directors, choir directors, or organists/accompanists from across the Diocese of Peoria. “I have heard it sung by so many different singers, and each rendition is beautiful in its own way,” said Mary Edgerley, […]
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By: Tom Dermody - December 3, 2022 -
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Bishop Louis Tylka is surrounded by the 20 permanent deacons he ordained Dec. 3 at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria. On his right is Msgr. Philip Halfacre, vicar general, and on his left is Msgr. Tim Nolan, episcopal vicar for the permanent diaconate. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
In ordaining 20 permanent deacons for the Diocese of Peoria on Saturday at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Bishop Louis Tylka asked them not to see the joy-filled liturgy as the culmination of more than five years of preparation, but rather “the beginning of what is to come” in their life of service. “The world looks to […]
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By: Tom Dermody - December 2, 2022 -
News Article
Peoria Notre Dame soccer players and coaches pose with the IHSA Class 2A boys trophy they earned with a 3-1 win over Chatham Glenwood to cap a 23-3-1 season. The title match was played at Hoffman Estates High School on Nov. 5. (Provided photo/Cindy Dermody)
Peoria Notre Dame again proved it has one of the state’s elite high school soccer programs with a 3-1 win over Chatham Glenwood on Nov. 5 to claim the Illinois High School Association boys Class 2A title. The Irish earned their fifth boys soccer state championship by prevailing in a game played in 30 mph […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 16, 2022 -
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Following a talk, Abide in Me retreatants are led on a "trust walk" around the parish grounds and into St. Mary of Lourdes Church in Germantown Hills by Karen Hertzner, one of the presenters who also served as masters of ceremonies for the weekend. (Provided photo/Katie Bogner)
GERMANTOWN HILLS — Lindsey Britton encountered God’s love in a personal way at the Abide in Me diocese-wide youth retreat Nov. 5-6 hosted by St. Mary of Lourdes Parish here. But the freshman at Alleman High School in Rock Island got an unexpected bonus. “I met God, but also met myself and who God wants […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 9, 2022 -
Book Review, News Article
Lindsey and Kevin Spangler are pictured moments after being handed their 3-day-old, newly adopted daughter Naomi Louise outside a medical center in Mississippi on April 9, 2020. Lindsey is author of a new book, "We Were Always Meant to Be." (Provided photo)
“We Were Always Meant to Be,” a new children’s book by Lindsey Spangler, was written and created for a readership of one — the Spanglers’ adopted daughter, Naomi Louise, now age 2 years and 7 months. “I wanted a book for when she gets a little bit older to get the conversation started on adoption,” […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 2, 2022 -
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Bishop Louis Tylka blesses the newly renovated chapel at Resurrection Mausoleum in Peoria at the start of a noon Mass on All Souls Day, Nov. 2. The bishop announced the chapel will now be named the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
All Souls Day is not a sad day, said Bishop Louis Tylka, because “death is not the end” and “we are a people of hope waiting for that day when we will all be united in God’s eternal kingdom.” Bishop Tylka was the principal celebrant of a Mass on Nov. 2 — the Commemoration of […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 14, 2022 -
News Article
The CD cover of "Psalms," a newly released music project by Father Charles Klamut, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Bartonville.
Many of the words are familiar. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts . . . Create in me a clean heart, oh God . . . The Lord is my shepherd . . . But the accompanying music is fresh, composed and arranged by Father Charles Klamut and now being shared […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 13, 2022 -
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Installed as officers of the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women by Msgr. Dale Wellman during the group's biennial convention on Oct. 8 are, continuing from left, Melissa Appell of St. Jude Parish, Peoria, treasurer; April Adams of St. Mary Parish, Metamora, vice president; Mary Ann Hughes of St. Mary Parish, Westville, president; and Barbara Harzman of St. Paul Parish, Macomb, secretary. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
PRINCETON — The National Eucharistic Revival is challenging Catholics first to deepen their own relationship with and reverence for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and then model and share that core belief of our faith with others. That was among the messages heard by members of the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women as they […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 12, 2022 -
News Article
Father Scott Potthoff, pastor of The Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Spring Valley, leads a prayer service outside the former Immaculate Conception Church on Oct. 1. The 105-year-old church has been closed since 2019 and the service helped former Immaculate Conception parishioners say goodbye as the church will either be sold or razed. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
SPRING VALLEY — Beneath mature sycamore trees near the church entrance, about 20 Catholics with their own deep roots at Immaculate Conception Church gathered to pray a farewell to the edifice that has been a symbol of faith in downtown Spring Valley for more than a century. “We give gratitude for the many blessings God […]
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