by edaday | Jul 28, 2016 | News Archives
Parishioners at Maternity BVM Church in Bourbonnais are used to seeing a statue of Mary, prominently featured on a curve on Marsile Street, visible to motorists approaching its church and school. This week, the 7 1/2-foot, 1,400-pound statue — made of iron and...
by edaday | Jul 21, 2016 | News Archives
For nearly 100 years, Viatorians have continued a devotion to St. Anne through a nine-day novena that culminates on her feast day, July 26. Viatorian priests have run the historic St. Anne Church — located in tiny St. Anne, IL and site of the nation’s...
by edaday | Jul 20, 2016 | News Archives
One of the Viatorian Community’s most sustainable projects got underway today, with the 7th annual Viatorian Youth Congress. Associate Karen Cutler directs the four-day conference, which immerses teenage delegates and their young adult leaders in faith...
by edaday | Jul 19, 2016 | News Archives
For the fifth straight summer, members of the Viatorian Community tended a garden on the Province Center grounds — with the sole purpose of donating its produce to the local food pantry for hungry families. Its ministry took on even more importance during the...
by edaday | Jul 18, 2016 | News Archives
In the latest issue of the Tablet, an international Catholic journal published in London, Fr. Mark Francis, CSV, has written the cover story, which asks: One direction? In it, Fr. Francis responds to a recent call by a Vatican prelate for the celebrant at Mass to face...
by edaday | Jul 15, 2016 | News Archives
Justin Johnson ’11, is one of the first Saint Viator alumni to qualify for the Olympic Trials — and he is the first to admit that the work ethic he learned in high school, got him there. The former standout in track and field — who broke five school...
