The Catholic Post Tag: Father Ronald Margherio

Support St. Bede chaplain, 70, and students as they ‘polar plunge’ for Special Olympics

By: Tom Dermody - February 12, 2020 - News Article Father Ronald Margherio, Mendota, OSB, polar plunge, St. Bede Academy

Father Ronald Margherio, OSB, chaplain of St. Bede Academy in Peru, leaps with students into the chilly Illinois River during a polar plunge last year. Father Ronald, who just turned 70, will take the plunge again -- joined by 40 St. Bede students -- on Feb. 29 in Mendota to raise money for Special Olympics. (Provided photo)

PERU — What better way for a priest to celebrate turning 70 than by running fully clothed into a lake of frigid water on the last day of February? “It should be fun,” said Father Ronald Margherio, OSB, chaplain of St. Bede Academy in Peru, in anticipating a Leap Day plunge into Lake Mendota on […]

Gospel parable comes to life as $200 in gifts return $1,921 at St. Bede Academy

By: Jennifer Willems - January 31, 2019 - News Article Father Logan Zeglis, Father Ronald Margherio, Olivia Smith, parable, St. Bede Academy, talents

Sophomore Logan Zeglis and senior Olivia Smith got creative and had fun with their projects. (Provided photo)

PERU — Making the Gospel come alive often leads to programs involving committees, meetings, and great sums of money. But could you do it with $20? That’s what Father Ronald Margherio, OSB, challenged eight students and two teachers at St. Bede Academy to do between Thanksgiving and the time they returned from Christmas break on […]

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Support St. Bede chaplain, 70, and students as they ‘polar plunge’ for Special Olympics

Gospel parable comes to life as $200 in gifts return $1,921 at St. Bede Academy