4-decade-long pastorate comes to a close
The Rev. Timothy Campoli, the pastor of Blessed Sacrament and Holy Trinity churches in Greenfield, is retiring this week. STAFF PHOTO/MAX MARCUS
Published: 4/25/2021 4:13:44 PM
GREENFIELD The line was out the door to say goodbye to the Rev. Timothy Campoli after church this Sunday. After 40 years in Greenfield, he is retiring this week. Sunday was his last service.
Pastors typically move between churches, but Campoli spent his entire career in Greenfield. He started at Holy Trinity Church in 1981, then moved after two years to Blessed Sacrament, where he has been ever since.
Since 2017, he has been the pastor of both churches, as the Springfield Diocese has moved to merge the two into a single parish.
SPRINGFIELD â Like many parents in the summer of 2020, Donna Skelton was curious as to how her local school district, Ball-Chatham, would navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic in the fall.
She and her husband Terry are working parents of two children, 10-year-old Adrianne and 8-year-old Addison. After spending the spring of 2020 working through the district s online learning, she awaited the plan for returning kids full-time to the classroom. Chatham was looking at several different things, Skelton said. They weren t set on something, it kept changing (and) everybody was trying to figure out something that worked.
Eventually, the Ball-Chatham School Board decided to begin the 2020-21 school year with a hybrid model where students would attend in-person for half the day on certain days. However, the Skelton children would still have had to do some virtual learning, an option that wasn t the best for the family.
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Effingham, IL -(Effingham Radio)- Sacred Heart School is excited to share that our sixth grade teacher, Shauna Albert, has been selected as a Top 5 Finalist for the St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Award in the Diocese of Springfield.
The award is named in honor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton, who founded Catholic Schools in the United States. Nominees are Catholic teachers who are making a difference in the classroom. They go above and beyond, making a deep and personal impact on their students, parents and coworkers. They are authentically living out what it means to be Catholic and are instilling their faith in their students’ lives.
Bishop says his Back to Better pastoral meant to be a message of hope On: 4/16/2021, By Rebecca Drake, , In: Nation
.Bishop William D. Byrne of Springfield, Mass., delivers his homily during the televised Easter Mass April, 4, 2021, at St. Michael s Cathedral in Springfield. Bishop Byrne has issued his first pastoral letter as Springfield s bishop since his Dec. 14, 2020, episcopal ordination and installation as head of the diocese. (CNS photo/Mary Jeanne Tash via Diocese of Springfield)
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (CNS) Shortly after delivering an Easter homily in which he said the Resurrection is a call to build a culture of life, a culture of love. . We can t cancel, we counsel, Bishop William D. Byrne issued his first pastoral letter as Springfield s bishop.