Photo Caption: “Imagine if stewardship became the norm in your parish,” said Mary Foley, keynote speaker. “What would be different?” By: By Tom Dermody Mary Foley has a dream she would love to see come true at your parish. “In a perfect world,” she said at the Diocese of Peoria’s recent Stewardship Conference, “I dream […]
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By: Special to The Catholic Post “True joy we experience only if we center on the Lord — He must increase, I must decrease.” — Mother Vaclava Ballon, foundress and superior of the Franciscan Sisters of John the Baptist (pictured above at their Peoria Heights motherhouse) —– EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the ninth in a […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The seven Catholic high schools and academies in the Diocese of Peoria have completed commencement exercises. Following are brief biographies of the valedictorians and salutatorians at each school. We congratulate them and all graduates. We invited the top students to answer two questions: 1) “How would you describe the advantages of attending a […]
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LACON — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church here at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 12, for Father Arthur D. Meyer, a former hospital chaplain and pastor, including for 17 years at St. Mary Parish, Canton. Father Meyer died on Friday, June 5, 2015. He was 84. Bishop Daniel […]
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Photo Caption: The Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception (Heading Avenue Franciscans) gather in the chapel of their motherhouse in West Peoria for Mass. By: By Sister Sarah Elizabeth Roy, OSF EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the eighth in a series featuring religious communities and other forms of consecrated life around the Diocese of […]
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By: Text and photo by Jennifer Willems WILLIAMSFIELD — It isn’t unusual to see furniture or equipment hauled to a new location on the back of a flatbed truck, but what was moved through the streets of this Knox County village earlier this week was much more precious to the people who followed in procession. […]
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Photo Caption: Donna Dobbels poses with a student from her first class, daughter Julie Dwyer, and her last student, Olivia Brown, who received her First Communion on April 26. By: By Jennifer Willems CAMBRIDGE — As a new Catholic, Donna Dobbels was invited to help prepare the children of St. John Vianney Parish for their […]
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Photo Caption: Visitors to the motherhouse of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis on Saturday, June 13, will be invited to “Come and Serve with the Sisters” in three of their outreaches. EAST PEORIA — The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis are opening the doors of their motherhouse again […]
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ROCK ISLAND — Nearly 40 women religious from six communities were thanked and celebrated during an evening in their honor on May 24 hosted by the Faith in Action Committee of St. Pius X Parish. “Thank you for your ministry to the church, your service to the poor, to children, to youth, the elderly, those […]
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Photo Caption: Abbot Roger served as the sixth abbot of St. Bede Abbey in Peru from 1990 to 2003. PERU — A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on May 27 at St. Bede Abbey Church here for Abbot Roger Corpus, OSB, retired abbot of St. Bede Abbey and former pastor of St. Mary Parish, […]
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