Category: Pastor’s Weekly Letter

Pastor’s Letter: July 24, 2022

Pastor’s Letter: July 24, 2022

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The July 24 bulletin is now available online.  Dear friend, I’ve had several people ask when the summer assignment ends for Deacon Daniel Dionesotes. His last Sunday at St. Philomena will be next week, Sunday, July 31. The summer assignments always progress so quickly. Summer around the parish is quite different from the school academic year and the seminarians have...

Pastor’s Letter: July 17

Pastor’s Letter: July 17

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Dear friend, This week I was with the Junior Clergy of the Diocese of Peoria at the Sacre-Coeur Retreat Center in Henry, Illinois. The Junior Clergy are the Peoria priests ordained ten years or less. I help run a retreat for them each summer and organize some ongoing formation/education. Fr. Brett Brannen was the retreat director this week. He is...

Pastor’s Letter: July 10, 2022

Pastor’s Letter: July 10, 2022

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The July 10 bulletin is available online.  Dear friend, On this 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we read about a Jewish Scholar of the Law testing Jesus. The Gospel stories typically involve two types of classes within the Jewish community. Jesus engages and discusses the faith with the Jewish religious authority and the general populous. The Jewish religious authority are...