Cause of Our Joy / By Katie Faley October is a month of saints. I’m a big fan of turning ordinary things into mini-retreats. So, to celebrate this mega-month to the full, I thought I’d put together a little October Saint Guide, which can serve as a bit of a self-guided saint retreat. (For a […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love / By Lindsey Weishar Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with some friends for a group reading of a Flannery O’Connor short story I hadn’t encountered before, “Parker’s Back.” Though I admire that O’Connor was able to write stories that speak to both Catholics and non-Catholics alike, I have had […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar In a review he wrote for J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” books, C.S. Lewis says something quite profound about the world Tolkien has built: “Despite many a snug fireside and many an hour of good cheer to gratify the Hobbit in each of us, anguish is, for […]
Continue readingCause of Our Joy l Katie Faley It’s no secret that Central Illinois has a pretty rich Catholic history. I mean, Fulton Sheen is our hometown boy, after all. Born in El Paso, and raised in Peoria, his Irish immigrant ancestors were some of many who helped establish a thriving Catholic community here. And while the […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar In the daily Mass readings, July has been a movement through Genesis and Exodus. Part of what makes the Bible ever new is how its books and chapters speak to us at different seasons of our lives. The catching of our attention upon a particular part of the Scripture […]
Continue readingCause of Our Joy l Katie Faley I’ve always been a devourer of books. I’ll read just about anything, but I especially love non-fiction stories of World War II and the Holocaust. I’ve picked up on a recurring theme throughout many of these WWII and Holocaust stories I’ve read. Having faith takes work. The book […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar Like many, the more public revelation and celebration of the group that calls itself the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — which has been in operation since the late 1970s — saddened me. In the midst of calls to boycott organizations that support mockery of faith, may we even […]
Continue readingCause of Our Joy l Katie Faley I was recently in a situation where nobody listened to me. I explained a plan I was making. But when it came time to actually execute that plan, nobody was on the same page at all. I know that they heard me when I first explained the plan. […]
Continue readingCouncil Comments l Barbara Harzman Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for all the donations that have been given to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria to dispense through the St. Nicholas Charity on Wheels. Each month the St. Nicholas van travels throughout the Diocese of Peoria providing assistance and spiritual enrichment to more […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar A few years back, I used this space to talk about goodbyes. We’ve once again arrived at May, a month of many transitions. This was the time of year grade-school me loathed to leave my teachers and move to the next grade. I deeply desired to stay with my […]
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