Announcing COREnotes
The Office for Catechesis of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is proud to unveil the first issue of COREnotes, our new catechetical newsletter. We’ll be releasing COREnotes four times a year. We’re still working on automated sign-up; if you’d like to receive an email notice every time a new issue is available, leave a comment (be sure to fill in your email address) and I’ll add you to the...
Read More‘Greater love than this’
In the War, two friends were out with a night patrol together. When the party returned under heavy fire to their trenches, one of the friends was found to be missing. By this time it was getting light, and almost certain death to be out on top, but the one friend insisted on crawling out to look for the other, and reluctantly the officer gave permission. He was watched slowly working his way into no-man’s-land, from shell-hole to shell-hole, and at last could be seen no more. When it became dusk again he crawled back and dropped into the trench, himself mortally wounded. While the...
Read MoreHaiti Earthquake Response
Catholic Relief Services has launched a major aid operation to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. CRS has been working in Haiti since 1954. The CRS team in Haiti is in place to distribute emergency relief. Donations can be made online at www.crs.org or sent directly to them at: 228 W. Lexington Baltimore, MD 21201-3413. Prayers, of course, are absolutely needed. Many people from the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois have traveled to Haiti over the years with the diocese, Eastern Illinois University Newman Center, Quincy University, and through their sister parish relationships or...
Read MoreFive Reading Picks for the New Year
There has been much written in the past few years about the “death of the book.” Certainly with the advent of the Kindle and new ways of conveying writing online we are changing the way we read. But I think it’s premature to write the book’s obituary yet. Instead I think we’ll see a shift in the way books are published – away from large publishing houses to smaller niches publishers. In addition, print-on-demand solutions will allow anyone to publish a book quickly and cheaply. To ensure that the book has a few more years of life, I’d like to recommend the following books that I...
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