Dear Parishioners, Praise God it is happening! On Thursday this last week Venerable Fulton Sheen was officially declared a Blessed of the Church! That is the second to last step before canonization as a Saint! In September 2010, Bonnie Engstrom delivered her son James at home near Peoria, Illinois. He was born without a pulse and was not breathing. Emergency responders rushed him to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, the same city where Sheen had been ordained al

When St. Francis of Assisi was praying before the crucifix in the little church of San Damiano, he heard Christ say to him, “Francis, go and repair my house, which, as you see, is falling into ruin.” Francis initially understood those words in a very practical way. San Damiano was in poor condition, so he began repairing the physical church with his own hands. But eventually Francis came to understand that Christ was asking something much greater of him: to help rebuild the C

Dear parishioners, This week our Confraternity of Christian Mothers will be having their annual induction for new members this Sunday. The Confraternity of Christian Mothers is a pious association intended for mothers, which has for its special object the promotion of the good Christian and Catholic education of their children. The members join their hearts in love with the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of Sorrows, and unite under her patronage in m