Over Labor Day Weekend 2025, Bradford had their annual Labor Day festivities including a great parade. Saint John’s church entered a float to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Once the parade ended, the float was awarded a first place trophy! Congratulations to Angie Stange and her team.

WOW! What a successful parish festival! Everyone showed up for this FUN event; Bradford, Brimfield, Camp Grove, Toulon, Wyoming, and Princeville…we had over 300 people attend. There were softball games, Bags Tournament, BINGO, LOTS of FOOD, prizes and drawings, tons of people meeting people, socializing and so much FUN. Thank you to Amy Chastain, Anne Westart and Kelly Cowser who put in SO much time and effort to make this such a WONDERFUL time. We can’t wait until next year!

Please join us in congratulating Lily Garcia on her 1st Communion and Confirmation, Noah and Leo Hernandez on their 1st Communion and Keegan Forney on his Confirmation. The graces of God are true gifts. We thank Him everyday for all His precious Sacraments.

These 6 beautiful children received Christ for the first time at Mass on Sunday, May 11, 2025. Congratulations to Conner Bliss, Sofia Flores, Mariella Giarnella, Clay Huber, Isella Lopez, and Michael Newton.

Youth Group had a blast on their final outing of the school year at Starved Rock.  Thank you, Father Corey and Annie Bosch, for leading this group of teens. "Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, and conduct, in love, in faith and in purity." (1Timothy 4:12)

The Illinois March for Life in Springfield was kicked off with a beautiful Mass at the U of I Springfield Theatre. There we prayed for the intentions of those that have lost their lives to abortion, we also prayed for mothers contemplating abortion, and for those who think abortion is a choice and not a murderous crime. After Mass, we headed to the Rally in front of the State Capitol building where we listened to heartfelt stories from politicians and other leaders of organizations who support the Right to Life Campaign. It was very moving. After those speeches we walked and sang and rallied with our signs while wearing our matching blue sweatshirts that proudly advertised we are PRO-LIFE!

The 2nd annual Chili Supper was a success! We had 17 pots of chili entered into the competition. 1st place was Jacob Dye, 2nd place was Donna Cokel and 3rd place was Lyndsay Blank.  The kids (and some adults) watched the Wild Robot movie...while others played board games of all sorts.  Thank you to all who participated, decorated, cleaned up and ate LOTS of chili and fixins'!  Hope to see you all next year =)

Roseanne Urbanc led the children this year in a new program about the birth of our Lord and Savior. The children had many lines to learn and many songs to sing. The house was packed with parents, grandparents, and so many who came from near and far! Our parish is blessed with 80 children so thank you to Roseanne and Kathy and all the CCD teachers who helped make this new program a success!