Full Text of HR0348 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to commend Father David Medow on his 19 | 4 | | years of service to St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield; | 5 | | and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Father Medow has served St. Mary Immaculate Parish | 7 | | since July of 1998, at which time the parish had 3,982 enrolled | 8 | | households; currently, the Parish has 8,158 enrolled | 9 | | households, having more than doubled since 1998; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Father Medow was born in the West Rogers Park | 11 | | neighborhood of Chicago and graduated from Mather High School | 12 | | in 1974; he received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown | 13 | | University in 1978 and his Master of Arts from Mansfield | 14 | | College, Oxford University in 1981; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Father Medow met Jane Rooney in England in 1979; | 16 | | she would become his wife, and together, they are the proud | 17 | | parents of Nikolai and Hannah; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Father Medow pursued his dream of becoming a | 19 | | Lutheran minister, returning to Chicago and studying at the | 20 | | Lutheran School of Theology; he was ordained as a Lutheran | 21 | | minister in 1985, and followed this pathway for over 11 years; |
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| 1 | | and | 2 | | WHEREAS, In the 1990s, Father Medow discovered a yearning | 3 | | for the Roman Catholic Church; he was received into the Church | 4 | | on November 1, 1996 by Bishop Joseph Imesch; he was granted | 5 | | permission by the Holy See to begin a course of study for the | 6 | | priesthood, and prepared for Catholic ordination from 1998 to | 7 | | 2001; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, During the course of his studies, Father Medow | 9 | | joined the staff of St. Mary Immaculate in July of 1998; he was | 10 | | granted permission to become a priest and was ordained in June | 11 | | of 2001; he became the Parochial Vicar of the St. Mary | 12 | | Immaculate Parish School in June of 2001, and became the Pastor | 13 | | of the Parish in June of 2005; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, As pastor of St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Father | 15 | | Medow has carried out a life of Christian service; his | 16 | | involvements are too numerous to list, but include the | 17 | | inauguration of a series of parish pilgrimages to Europe and | 18 | | the Holy Land, a mission trip to the African nation of Malawi, | 19 | | a series of outreach efforts to new parish members, a series of | 20 | | Harley Davidson Motorcycle Blessings, and the Relay for Life | 21 | | Plainfield Blessings, begun in 2004; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, Father Medow has been active in the |
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| 1 | | Plainfield-area interfaith community, serving in the | 2 | | Plainfield Ministerial Association from 2001 until the | 3 | | present; he established the Plainfield Interfaith Food Pantry | 4 | | and has, for the past six years, served as its president; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, After serving St. Mary Immaculate Parish for 12 | 6 | | years as its pastor, Father David Medow will be moving on to a | 7 | | new life of service in June of 2017; therefore, be it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 9 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 | | commend Father David Medow on his 19 years of service to St. | 11 | | Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield, and we wish him well as | 12 | | he moves on to a new life of service along with his wife; and be | 13 | | it further
| 14 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 | | presented to Father Medow as an expression of our esteem and | 16 | | respect.
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