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07/13/2008 |
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Daily events throughout the Springfield diocese.
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07/13/2008 |
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Bishop George J. Lucas has received a letter thanking the people of the
Diocese of Springfield in Illinois for a contribution of $71,200 to the
2008 Good Friday collection to the Commissariat of the Holy Land.
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07/13/2008 |
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Knights of Columbus Springfield Council 364 has awarded $1,000
scholarships to two recent eighth-grade graduates: Leo Johnston from
St. Agnes Parish and Jennifer Fliege from St. Aloysius Parish.
Both will continue their Catholic education this fall at Sacred
Heart-Griffin High School in Springfield.
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07/13/2008 |
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As people grow older, sometimes the list of medications they require
grows as well. That's why it's important for seniors to not only be
familiar with the medications they are taking, but to write down and
share that information with a few trusted family members or friends.
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07/13/2008 |
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 Terry Farmer, owner of Terry Farmer Photography, Inc. in Springfield,
spent nine days in Santa Cruz, Bolivia this spring, capturing
life-changing transformations made possible through Operation Smile.
Operation Smile is a worldwide medical charity dedicated to helping
children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other
facial deformities.
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07/13/2008 |
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 Sister M. Rosann Monyak, OSF, age 84, of the Hospital Sisters of the
Third Order of St. Francis, died June 25 at St. Francis Convent,
Springfield.
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07/13/2008 |
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St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary Volunteers were honored June 23 at a
recognition dinner at which volunteers by increments of 100 hours of
service were given special recognition. In 2007 auxiliary volunteers
logged 5,215 hours of service, and junior volunteers logged 771 hours.
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07/13/2008 |
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 When a friend suggested to Patty Redpath last year that she look into
Habitat for Humanity as a possible way for the single mother of seven
to move her family out of their double-wide mobile home into a house,
Redpath's first thought was her income might make her ineligible. After
all, with her master's degree and full-time employment as a county
school social worker, the 48-year-old makes a decent living.
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07/13/2008 |
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Holy Family Church in Granite City will host Glenmary Father Francois
Pellissier during Masses on July 12-13. Masses are at 4 p.m. on
Saturday and at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. He will be speaking at
the invitation of the Office for the Missions to share information
about Glenmary Home Missioners and their ministry in Appalachia, the
South and Southwest.
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07/13/2008 |
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St. Anthony of Padua schools inducted their first Hall of Fame members
June 13 during the St. Anthony Feast Day Celebration at the Knights of
Columbus Hall in Effingham. Seven academic and 30 athletic awards were
presented throughout the evening with over 400 people in attendance.
During the ceremony, Msgr. Leo Enlow, pastor, was presented, by Father
Daren Zehnle, parochial vicar, a pontifical blessing scroll from Pope
Benedict XVI on St. Anthony's sesquicentennial celebration.
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07/13/2008 |
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 Only one church suffered damage due to flooding on the Mississippi
River, and Catholic Charities in the Springfield diocese is prepared
and doing all it can to assist flood victims in the diocese along the
Mississippi and Wabash rivers.
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