This week, Chris and Ryan discuss the recent decision to close St. Kieran Catholic School in Chicago Heights. Also, an unnerving reminder to go over basic safety rules with your kids.
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A broken wrist for Brandon has become a blessing for the Homewood Cancer Support Center.
Like plenty of other fifth-grade boys, Brandon Kelly likes basketball, football and bouncy slides. He also likes pink. After breaking his right wrist while playing football, Brandon decided to pull the positive out of the pain. Sporting a bright pink cast to St. Kieran School every day, Brandon found a creative way to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness month. "I’ve been seeing all the football players wear pink, and the pink ribbons around trees at my house," Brandon said, sitting on a couch in the principal's office. "When I was getting this cast on, I told my mom, 'I wish there was a way every signature could be a donation.'" Ideas soon became reality and Brandon was wearing a sleeve of signatures, many of which came with helpful …
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Later this month, Catholics will start using new missals at Mass. The Chicago Archdiocese has been aiding local churches with the transition. A Chicago Heights pastor talks about the change.
It has been a process over a year in the making, according to Todd Williamson, director of the Chicago Archdiocese's office of divine worship, who hopes local Catholics are ready for some of the changes to the new Roman Missal. The Roman Missal is an assembly of prayers, chants and directions used to celebrate Mass. The missal, originally translated from Latin to English in the 1970s, has been updated. All Catholic churches will begin using the new text later this month. Williamson says that the initial translation was never intended to be permanent. "That most important thing, the Mass, is going to have some profound changes for the first time since 1975," Williamson said. "It is pretty momentous in the life of the church in this country…
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9:38 pm on Monday, November 14, 2011
Just think of it as another "gift" from "saint" JPII. more ›
Elisa (Joy) Ekstrom-McKnight
3:08 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hope when my son is your age he has a heart for others just like you ! more ›