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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2009 -
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Seeing flashing lights in the rearview mirror is something that makes most people’s hearts stop, but for Peg Shipley a recent traffic stop turned out to be a heartwarming experience. Returning to Bloomington from a meeting in Peoria one stormy night, she was stopped for driving over the center line. When the officer asked her […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2009 -
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One of the most powerful tools in building membership in an organization is something everyone can handle. “You need to smile,” Jody Watermann told the 80 women who gathered at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria this month for a daylong program of leadership training that was developed by the National Council of Catholic Women. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2009 -
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Theology on Tap, a popular diocesan outreach for young adults, is returning to Peoria this summer. Starting on July 14, the 2009 Summer Series of Theology on Tap will take place on four consecutive Tuesday evenings at Kelleher’s Irish Pub, 619 S.W. Water St. The gatherings begin at 6:30 p.m. Theology on Tap is offered […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2009 -
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PEORIA HEIGHTS — Sarah K. Johnson hadn’t been at Peoria Notre Dame High School for very long before she found out her life was going to change forever — and not in all the usual ways high school does that. What put Johnson’s life on a radically different course was Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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It’s not easy to put a century of Catholic parish life on hold. Just ask any member of five faith communities in the Diocese of Peoria — totaling more than 500 years of collective history — who last weekend took part in the final regularly scheduled Masses in their familiar, tradition-laden churches. “God knows the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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LASALLE — “Human beings are hungry beings,” and only God’s love can fully and permanently satisfy us, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, told hundreds of Catholics from 21 faith communities who gathered at St. Hyacinth’s Church in LaSalle Sunday afternoon for a public witness of their faith in and love for Christ’s presence in the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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On Sunday, July 5, St. Joseph’s Church in Peoria will join the list of central Illinois faith communities that regularly offer Mass in the extraordinary form, also known as the Tridentine rite. This is the liturgy celebrated in Latin according to the Roman Missal of 1962. Father Michael Driscoll, chaplain at OSF Saint Francis Medical […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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I Am With You Always, Christ’s words of reassurance to his disciples after his resurrection, is the theme for the 23rd annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference, which is planned for July 17 and 18 at the Holiday Inn City Centre in Peoria. The speakers who will be breaking open that theme, which comes from Matthew […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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LINCOLN — With a formal ribbon cutting and a blessing last Thursday, a new era began for the Lincoln branch office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria at newer and more spacious office facilities at 2110 W. Fifth St. In past years, Catholic Charities operated out of a former residence located at 310 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 19, 2009 -
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A cell phone rang last Friday evening just as Christian musician John Michael Talbot was lyrically inviting about 500 concert-goers at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Peoria to “come to the quiet.” “That had better be God calling,” dead-panned Talbot, continuing the soothing melody on his six-string guitar. Many of those attending the concert […]
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