St. Kieran

Catholic Church

Chicago Heights,  IL  

Index - 2007

Jul 1  (Fr. Joe's First Week) - Dear sisters and brothers in the Lord, I wanted to take this opportunity to express my...

Jul 8 - Halfway into his public ministry, with thousands of people following him, Jesus took seventy disciples aside and...

Jul 15 - Saint Benedict was born around the year 480 in the district of Nursia (present-day Norcia), in Umbria, central...

Jul 22 - All too often we get caught up in the details of living our lives and often lose sight of why we are here and where...

Jul 29 - We do need a basic level of food, rest, shelter, tools for effective living, and perception of control over our...

Aug 5 - Higher order simplicity is creative simplicity.  It begins with asking the questions "What truly matters to me?...

Aug 12 - As we develop the capacity to live a simple, pleasant and fully engaged life, we continue to stretch for what...

Aug 19 - The new school year 2007/08 begins on Wednesday.  Please join in praying that God bless the coming...

Aug 26 - On June 24 we celebrated the Birth of John the Baptist; this week on Wednesday we celebrate the...

Sep 2  Labor Day - Labor Day is a national legal holiday that is over 100 years old. Over the years, it has evolved...

Sep 9 - Today, September 9th is the patronal feast day of our parish. Saint Kieran was the son of Beoit, a carpenter...

Sep 16 - The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in his haunting painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, brilliantly...

Sep 23 - This week (Saturday, 9/29) the Church celebrates the Feast of the holy Archangels: Michael, Gabriel and...

Sep 30 - As I prepare myself to ‘officially’ assume the duties and responsibilities as your pastor, I am profoundly...

Oct 7 - This Sunday is Respect Life Sunday.  I offer this article by Father Thomas D. Williams, Dean of Theology...

Oct 14 - A third factor separating abortion from other justice issues is its legal status. Unlike other instances of massive...

Oct 21 - This past week we celebrated significant feast days and memorials of those holy men and women we call saints...

Oct 28 - Since the 16th century, Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. Pope Leo XIII...

Nov 4 - November 3rd and 4th have been designated as “Catholic Cemetery Sunday;” a day to reaffirm every...

Nov 11 - If I or someone else asked you the question, “What are the only two things that exist?” how would...

Nov 18 - Last week I explained that when someone we love dies we are thrown into a whirlpool of turbulent...

Nov 25  (Feast of Christ the King) - Pope Pius XI instituted The Feast of Christ the King in 1925 in his encyclical...

Dec 2 (First Week of Advent) - Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the Western...

Dec 9 (Second Week of Advent) - Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of...

Dec 16 (Third Week of Advent) - The Third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday, the 'pink candle' Sunday, the...

Dec 23 (Fourth Week of Advent) - The liturgical texts for Christmas are among some of the most wonderful prayers...

Dec 30 - Christians have traditionally celebrated Christmas not just on one day of the year but as a season, from...