LASALLE — The LaSalle Branch Office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria is selling raffle tickets to benefit agency programs. Tickets are $1 each and the winners will be announced at a drawing planned for Friday, June 24. The prizes include an overnight package at the Lincolnshire Marriott that includes dinner and theater […]
Continue readingThe Catholic Charismatic Renewal is offering a prayer workshop on Saturday, June 25, to prepare those who would like to pray with others at the group’s July conference, “The Father’s Promise.” Deacon Bob Pomazal will facilitate the workshop, which will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Spalding Pastoral Center, 419 N.E. Madison […]
Continue readingThe Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Diocese of Peoria is sponsoring a Pentecost Mass and potluck supper “in honor of the gift of the Holy Spirit” on Sunday, June 12, at St. Ann’s Church, 1010 S. Louisa St., in Peoria. Praise will begin at 4:15 p.m. Father Terry Cassidy, pastor, will celebrate the Mass, which […]
Continue readingNORMAL — First things first. “Votar” is Spanish for “Vote,” and to help a group of World Youth Day pilgrims-to-be from the Pope John Paul II Catholic Newman Center here win a global song contest, click “Votar” in the video link above. (The Spanish that comes up after voting invites you to rate the song […]
Continue readingGALESBURG — The Christ Child Society of Central Illinois has started to offer layettes to OSF St. Mary Medical Center and Cottage Hospital in Galesburg. The hospitals received their first layettes last Saturday, May 7. A group of Christ Child Society members, including Sharon Gerdes of Gridley, Joan Weber and Ingrid Ruscheinski of Peoria, and […]
Continue readingGolf Classic set June 3 in Danville DANVILLE — Catholic Charities programs throughout Vermilion County will benefit from the 12th Golf Classic to be hosted on Friday, June 3, at Turtle Run Golf Course here. Sponsored by Provena United Samaritans Medical Center, the Golf Classic has raised nearly $70,000 since 1999 to benefit the work […]
Continue readingFather John J. Dietzen, the foremost question-and-answer columnist in the Catholic press for 35 years and a former associate editor of The Catholic Post, has been nominated posthumously for the highest honor of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada. Father Dietzen, who died March 27 at the age of 83, is […]
Continue readingCalling Blessed Pope John Paul II “truly one of the greatest popes in history,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has invited Catholics throughout the Diocese of Peoria to celebrate his beatification by attending a Mass of Thanksgiving at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, May 7, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. More than one million faithful […]
Continue readingA funeral Mass was offered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Wednesday, April 20, for Msgr. Joseph A. Zube, 85, who served the Diocese of Peoria’s Marriage Tribunal for more than five decades. Msgr. Zube, who was also a former pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Camp Grove and St. Monica’s Parish in East […]
Continue readingTo assist Catholics of the diocese in their Holy Week journey, we offer this video reflection on the Stations of the Cross using meditations written by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. The 10-minute video features images of Stations from churches throughout the Diocese of Peoria. It was produced by The Catholic Post and is narrated […]
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