By: By Jennifer Willems STREATOR — With every death comes new life and that is the hope the Streator Catholic Community was encouraged to hold on to as parishioners came together for the last Masses at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the Church of St. Stephen and the Church of St. Anthony last weekend. […]
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 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 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 Jennifer Willems MOLINE — It didn’t happen on the world stage, but over the last two weeks about 100 Muslim and Christian women in the Quad Cities proved that simple, open dialogue can make all the difference in the world when it comes to peace. “Only with dialogue comes understanding and only with […]
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 readingBy: By Tom Dermody Participants in the “40 Days for Life” campaign to end abortion that opens Sept. 22 in Peoria, Champaign, and around the U.S. were challenged to be “sentinels of hope” to their communities during a prayerful kickoff event on the banks of the Illinois River on Sunday evening. “We are here because […]
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 […]
Continue readingIn most parish religious education programs, sacramental preparation covers first reconciliation, first Communion and confirmation, but this year’s theme for Catechetical Sunday focuses on “Matrimony: Sacrament of Enduring Love.” Don’t start planning any weddings, however. “Most of the kids we have in those classes will get married, so I think we have to talk about […]
Continue readingEnvironmental ethics and a spiritual discipline for those promoting peace are among the topics to be discussed at the Diocese of Peoria’s Institute for Catholic Social Ministry on Saturday, Oct. 9. The institute — open to all interested persons and coordinated by Msgr. Doug Hennessy and Father Dick Bresnahan, diocesan co-moderators of social justice — […]
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