Cardinal presents Mt. Prospect man with award; honors others

Ron Frost of St. Thomas Becket Parish in Mount Prospect was one of six individuals to receive the Bishop Quarter Award during ceremonies at Holy Name Cathedral on Oct. 7 for service to the ministry of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I., archbishop of Chicago, presented the awards that recognize outstanding Catholics who exhibit an understanding of church teachings and use their talents to deepen the life of the church in the six vicariates of the archdiocese.

Frost is a member of the Ministry Commission for Vicariate I that includes the Northwest portion of Cook County and all of Lake County, and has been a parish Minister of Care for over 22 years.

The Quarter awards are named in honor of the Rt. Rev. William Quarter, who was Chicago's first Bishop from 1844 to 1848.

This is the fifth year these awards have been presented following a nomination process that included input from auxiliary bishops, pastors and parish council members.

During the ceremony, Cardinal George also conferred 52 Christifideles Awards on Archdiocesan Catholics who reside in Vicariate I and have demonstrated a personal, ministerial renewal and responsibility for the Church's life at the parish level. These awards are named after Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Exhortation, Christifideles Laici, on the role of the laity in the Church's mission to the world.

The 2007 Christifideles honorees for Vicariate I are:

• Steve and Michelle Hayes of Mount Prospect -- St. Alphonsus Liguori Parish, Prospect Heights.

• George and Mary Lou Spaeth of Waukegan -- St. Anastasia Parish

• Peggy Sobolewski of Barrington -- St. Anne Parish

• Elizabeth Wendt of Hanover Park -- St. Ansgar Parish

• Jacqueline Raslawski of Ingleside -- St. Bede Parish

• Esther Foropoulos of Rolling Meadows -- St. Colette Parish

Other area residents also received Christifideles Awards

• Bob and Ginny Gillis of Buffalo Grove -- St. Edna Parish, Arlington Heights.

• John and Mary Rausch of Hoffman Estates -- St. Hubert Parish

• Eileen Egan of Mount Prospect -- St. Cecilia Parish

• Kay Karrigan of Hainesville -- St. Gilbert Parish, Grayslake

• Ursula Zinger of Waukegan -- Holy Family Parish, Waukegan

• Leon and Shirley Blum of Schaumburg -- Church of the Holy Spirit

• Joyce Hodnett of Mount Prospect -- St. Emily Parish

• Jo Anne Muhr of Arlington Heights .-- St. James Parish

• Jerome and Sandra Dudzik of Streamwood -- St. John the Evangelist Parish

• Mary Pat Williams of Lake Zurich -- St. Francis de Sales Parish

• Barb and Kurt Knuth of Barrington -- Holy Family Parish, Inverness

• Winnie Cox of Round Lake -- St. Joseph Parish

• (The late) Sharon Ward, of Hanover Park -- St. Marcelline Parish, Schaumburg

• Daniel and Jane Sherlock of Buffalo Grove -- St. Mary Parish

• Carolyn Reinertson of Mundelein -- St. Mary of Vernon Parish, Indian Creek

• Tish Petricca of Schaumburg -- St. Matthew Parish

• Jack and Arden Robinson of Kenosha, Wis. -- Our Lady of Humility Parish, Zion

• Helga Neubauer of Grayslake -- St. Patrick Parish, Wadsworth

• Tom and Kathy Pavlik of Bartlett -- St. Peter Damian Parish

• Elizabeth and Jacqueline Gammel of Grayslake -- St. Peter Parish, Volo

• John and Joan Delisi of Lake Villa -- Prince of Peace Parish

• John Crigler of Mundelein -- Santa Maria del Popolo Parish

• Jeff and Laura Prostko of Mount Prospect -- St. Thomas Becket Parish

• Patrick and Lorraine Gaughan of Island Lake -- Transfiguration Parish, Wauconda

• Michael and Susan Meehan of Des Plaines -- St. Zachary Parish

• Marion Henderson of Grayslake -- Queen of Peace Parish, North Chicago

• Pastor Martinez of Waukegan -- Immaculate Conception Parish

• Alice Valentine of Lake Forest -- St. Mary Parish

• Wayne Dean of Des Plaines -- St. Stephen Protomartyr Parish

• Michael and Nancy Knight of Libertyville -- St. Joseph Parish