Full Text of HR0513 95th General Assembly
HR0513 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Very Reverend | 4 |
| John Elias Kuchta and the congregation of St. Nicholas Orthodox | 5 |
| Church in Joliet on the 100th anniversary of the church; and
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| WHEREAS, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Joliet, Illinois, | 7 |
| will celebrate 100 years of Orthodoxy on Sunday, September 23, | 8 |
| 2007, with His Eminence, The Most Reverend Job, Archbishop of | 9 |
| Chicago and Diocese of the Midwest, concelebrating | 10 |
| Hierarchical Vespers on Saturday, September 22, 2007, and | 11 |
| Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday, September 23, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Joliet's oldest Orthodox church was founded in | 13 |
| 1907 to minister to the Russian, Serbian, and Greek immigrants | 14 |
| who settled in Joliet after leaving their native lands because | 15 |
| of oppression and difficult economic conditions; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, Church founders and benefactors made many | 17 |
| sacrifices to build and support the parish; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, St. Nicholas is among those pioneer parishes that | 19 |
| provided a spiritual and cultural home for thousands of | 20 |
| immigrants who left homelands in the old country around the | 21 |
| turn of the century to settle in America; and |
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| WHEREAS, From very modest beginnings, the St. Nicholas | 2 |
| parish persevered through two World Wars and a great depression | 3 |
| and succeeded in preserving and nurturing the faith and | 4 |
| spiritual life of five generations of Orthodox faithful; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, In 1909, parishioners began worshipping in a | 6 |
| church building at 208 Clay Street, which became the first | 7 |
| Orthodox Church building in the city of Joliet; in 1959, the | 8 |
| parish purchased land for a new church, and in 1966 moved into | 9 |
| their current St. Nicholas Orthodox Church building at 1000 | 10 |
| Barber Lane in Joliet; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, The Very Reverend John Elias Kuchta came to St. | 12 |
| Nicholas Orthodox Church in 1956 as a young priest serving his | 13 |
| first parish, and has served the parishioners of St. Nicholas | 14 |
| for over 50 years while selflessly carrying out his duties, and | 15 |
| earning the love, respect, and admiration of the St. Nicholas | 16 |
| parishioners and his fellow clergyman; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| congratulate the Very Reverend John Elias Kuchta and the | 20 |
| congregation of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Joliet on its | 21 |
| 100th Anniversary of the church; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the Very Reverend John Elias Kuchta as a symbol | 3 |
| our esteem.
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