By: By Tom Dermody GENESEO — With prayers of gratitude, songs of joy, tours, and plenty of home cooking, members of St. Malachy’s Parish here celebrated the dedication and blessing of a new parish center last Friday. “May all who come here know the presence of Christ, experience the joy of his friendship, and grow […]
Continue readingBy: By Jennifer Willems God gifts each person to do what he asks, but there’s a catch. “With every gift comes a responsibility to use what we have received for the glory of God and the service of our neighbor,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, told the parish respect life coordinators from around the Diocese […]
Continue readingHENRY — God created human beings to live in an “obligatory matrix” of time, space, things and relationships, and at death we leave three of them behind, said a Franciscan priest and scientist who recently addressed the senior priests of the Diocese of Peoria at their annual gathering at Nazareth House. “When we pass through […]
Continue readingWith the Vatican’s approval of the new translation of the Roman missal and the implementation date set for the First Sunday of Advent 2011 comes an invitation, according to the director of the diocesan Office of Divine Worship. “This is not just a matter of opening the book and reading different words,” said Msgr. Stanley […]
Continue readingBy: By Jennifer Willems MOLINE — Walking down “memory lane” can bring great joy. It can also bring great sadness. Sister Charlotte Seubert, FSPA, pastoral associate at Christ the King Parish found both when she returned to El Salvador in August as part of a group from the Moline parish. They traveled to El Salvador […]
Continue readingAs Catholics around the world celebrated the 100th birthday of Blessed Mother Teresa on Aug. 26 (see stories, next page), the Diocese of Peoria received a priceless gift from the religious community the late nun founded. The Missionaries of Charity have given the diocese a first-class relic of their foundress — a lock of Mother […]
Continue readingA private, anonymous donation of $2 million has revitalized plans for a proposed OSF Hospice Home to serve terminally ill patients and support their families in the Peoria area. The donation to OSF Home Care Services, which intends to build the area’s first hospice home near the OSF Center for Health on Route 91 northwest […]
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NORMAL — St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Newman Center had a very special welcome for new and returning Catholic students to Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan universities last weekend: A new spiritual home. The first Masses were celebrated Sunday, Aug. 22, in the new Chapel of St. Robert Bellarmine, located at 501 S. Main. “Everyone’s very […]
Continue readingSister Rose Therese Mann, OSF, knew from the time she was 13 that she wanted to enter religious life and she wanted to do it as a member of a Franciscan community. While she communicated with several of them in high school and college, it took just one visit to the East Peoria motherhouse of […]
Continue readingThere was no doubt that the principals and pastors of Catholic schools who gathered at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria on Aug. 12 believe in Catholic education, according to a fellow educator and the chief catechist of the Diocese of Peoria. “We know how necessary for our faith, for our communities, for our state, […]
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