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By: Tom Dermody - February 14, 2018 -
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Danville, OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center, OSFHealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center, Urbana, welcoming program
Longtime and new OSF HealthCare mission partners applaud a speaker during a welcoming program Feb. 1 at the newly renamed OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
While transitioning two medical centers to new ownership was a complicated task that involved months of preparation across the business spectrum, the common Catholic health care traditions and missions of the facilities in Urbana and Danville also made it a time of grace. “We have so much in common,” said Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, […]
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By: Tom Dermody - February 12, 2018 -
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Msgr. Gregory Ketcham
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are excerpts from the homily at the funeral Mass at St. Patrick Church of Merna on Feb. 12 for Msgr. Gregory Ketcham. (See his obituary here.) The homilist was Father James J. Seitz, a priest of the Diocese of Winona and longtime friend. I have a new family. You have adopted me. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
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This picture of Jesus "is a copy of the one I had hanging in my house when the tornado hit.," said Lisa Hines. "When I found it among the rubble it was still intact. It is again hanging on my living room wall and continues to be the Jesus that I go to."
By Lisa Hines EUREKA — Christmas 2014 was a Christmas like no other. On Nov. 17, 2014, a tornado hit Washington, Illinois, at approximately 11:05 a.m. and destroyed our house. That day our world was literally turned upside down. My husband, John, my dad, Leo, 91 (who had been living with us since 2011), and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
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Longtime collaborators Sonny Huffman and Carol Wake do what they loved to do most --- make music together. Her death devastated him, but her last Christmas present to him gave him hope. Provided photo
FROM THE EDITOR: In the following reflection, Sonny Huffman talks about his friend, Carol Wake, a longtime music teacher and church musician who served at St. Bernard and St. Vincent de Paul, both in Peoria, until her death. He continues to live in Peoria and minister as an organist for Masses at St. Vincent de […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 29, 2017 -
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Connie Lake, Distinguished Pastor, Distinguished Teacher, Monmouth, Msgr. Thomas Mack, Nauvoo
In addition to Distinguished Principal Maureen Bentley, two other “distinguished” members of Catholic school communities in central Illinois are being honored by the Diocese of Peoria’s Office of Catholic Schools this year. They are: Distinguished Pastor: Msgr. Thomas Mack of Immaculate Conception School, Monmouth. He has been pastor at the Monmouth parish, as well as […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 29, 2017 -
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Sharon Priester
By Sharon Priester First Sunday of Advent/Dec. 3 Isaiah 63:16b-17,19b; 64:2-7; Psalm 80:2-3,15-16,18-19; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9; Mark 13:33-37 During this Advent season, we are preparing for the celebration of the birth of Christ, renewing our desire for “His second coming.” Each of the readings this Sunday, and those for the next three weeks, helps us focus […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - August 24, 2017 -
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Bloomington, Holy Trinity, Newman Center, Normal, relic, St. John Paul II
Amy Snell, a member of Immaculate Conception Parish in Monmouth, contemplates the relic of St. John Paul II as it rests in the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel at the St. John Paul II Catholic Newman Center in Normal Aug. 18. The traveling relic has been entrusted to the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who minister at the Newman Center. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
BLOOMINGTON — As he did in life, St. John Paul II continued to inspire people to pray and draw closer to Jesus when a first class relic, a vial of his blood encased in a Book of the Gospels, was brought to the Bloomington-Normal area on Aug. 18. At the Newman Center that bears his […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 23, 2017 -
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evangelization and faith formatoin, Galesburg, Karley Bates, Peoria
Karley Bates
Karley Bates, a native of Galesburg and now a member of St. Jude Parish in Peoria, has joined the diocesan Office of Evangelization and Faith Formation as programs coordinator. “We’re excited to have Karley on board,” said Shirley Plaag, director. “She’s extremely enthusiastic about working here.” Bates, a product of Costa Catholic Academy in Galesburg […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 23, 2017 -
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Cecilia Soñé, Diocese of Peoria, respect life, Sone
Cecilia Soñé
The answer to what St. John Paul II and others have called the “culture of death” can be found in the Diocese of Peoria, according to the new Director of Respect Life. “We have a response here and we have the providers — health care, psychological, and spiritual,” said Cecilia Soñé. “It’s just a matter […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 23, 2017 -
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Diocese of Peoria, Hispanic ministry, SCTJM, Sister Isabel Romero, Spanish
Sister Isabel Romero, SCTJM
Asked what non-Spanish speaking Catholics of the Diocese of Peoria should know about the region’s growing Hispanic population, Sister Isabel Romero, SCJTM, had a ready reply: “We are more than what you think we are,” said the diocese’s new Director of Hispanic Ministry, pointing to a recent census that puts the figure at 50,000 — […]
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