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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives wish to commend Father David Medow on his 19
4years of service to St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield;
5and
 
6    WHEREAS, Father Medow has served St. Mary Immaculate Parish
7since July of 1998, at which time the parish had 3,982 enrolled
8households; currently, the Parish has 8,158 enrolled
9households, having more than doubled since 1998; and
 
10    WHEREAS, Father Medow was born in the West Rogers Park
11neighborhood of Chicago and graduated from Mather High School
12in 1974; he received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown
13University in 1978 and his Master of Arts from Mansfield
14College, Oxford University in 1981; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Father Medow met Jane Rooney in England in 1979;
16she would become his wife, and together, they are the proud
17parents of Nikolai and Hannah; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Father Medow pursued his dream of becoming a
19Lutheran minister, returning to Chicago and studying at the
20Lutheran School of Theology; he was ordained as a Lutheran
21minister in 1985, and followed this pathway for over 11 years;

 

 

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2    WHEREAS, In the 1990s, Father Medow discovered a yearning
3for the Roman Catholic Church; he was received into the Church
4on November 1, 1996 by Bishop Joseph Imesch; he was granted
5permission by the Holy See to begin a course of study for the
6priesthood, and prepared for Catholic ordination from 1998 to
72001; and
 
8    WHEREAS, During the course of his studies, Father Medow
9joined the staff of St. Mary Immaculate in July of 1998; he was
10granted permission to become a priest and was ordained in June
11of 2001; he became the Parochial Vicar of the St. Mary
12Immaculate Parish School in June of 2001, and became the Pastor
13of the Parish in June of 2005; and
 
14    WHEREAS, As pastor of St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Father
15Medow has carried out a life of Christian service; his
16involvements are too numerous to list, but include the
17inauguration of a series of parish pilgrimages to Europe and
18the Holy Land, a mission trip to the African nation of Malawi,
19a series of outreach efforts to new parish members, a series of
20Harley Davidson Motorcycle Blessings, and the Relay for Life
21Plainfield Blessings, begun in 2004; and
 
22    WHEREAS, Father Medow has been active in the

 

 

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1Plainfield-area interfaith community, serving in the
2Plainfield Ministerial Association from 2001 until the
3present; he established the Plainfield Interfaith Food Pantry
4and has, for the past six years, served as its president; and
 
5    WHEREAS, After serving St. Mary Immaculate Parish for 12
6years as its pastor, Father David Medow will be moving on to a
7new life of service in June of 2017; therefore, be it
 
8    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
9HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
10commend Father David Medow on his 19 years of service to St.
11Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield, and we wish him well as
12he moves on to a new life of service along with his wife; and be
13it further
 
14    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
15presented to Father Medow as an expression of our esteem and
16respect.