On Thursday, April 20 at 7 p.m., members of St. Gabriel’s Parish Refugee Committee will be speaking about the ways that our Parish community can support their efforts in hosting Ukrainian families. We are excited to welcome to them St. Peter’s. Please join us to learn about this exciting and important collaboration. For more information, contact Sister Gabriel Riddle at the Parish office.
Have you ever noticed how people speak to one another when they fall in love? Once they have first gained the courage to tell the other person that they love him or her, they begin to use this expression quite frequently. As it begins to lose some of its impact, they begin to use expressions like “very much,” or “very, very much.” Ultimately, people who are in love tell the other person that they love the other so much that they will love them “forever,” or for “all eternity.” In fact, if the person you love ever tells you that they love you so much that they will love you until next Thursday, you can be pretty sure that your relationship is in trouble. Continue reading
Bulletin for week of April 16, 2023
We offer many thanks to all who worked so hard to support the Winter Welcome Table program in providing meals to the unfortunate and needy. Much gratitude is extended to all involved. In addition, thank you to the many parishioners of St. Peter’s who have donated so generously to support this program.
Many Thanks for the Holy Week & Easter Celebrations to:
We congratulate and welcome Albina Almetova, Bruce Laregina, Larry Obinna Ejikeme, Alexander Toller Mulligan, Andrea Gonzalez, Cesar Omar Zuniga Amador, Susan Duff, Hugh Considine, Confirmed, Newly baptized, and Initiated to our parish community.
The parish will celebrate this Solemnity at all of our regular Sunday Masses on April 15-16, Saturday at 5:00 PM and Sunday at 9:00 AM and 11:15 AM.
May the victory of the Risen Christ and His conquering over death bring Peace and Happiness to you and those you most hold dear!
~~~ HAPPY EASTER ~~~
Father Michael and the Parish Staff
There was a popular song that was written in the 1960’s that proclaimed: “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, it’s the only thing that there is just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No not just for some, but for everyone.” Even though this song is now more than fifty years old, it is hard to think of a song that better describes what it is that our present world, city, and our own hearts are in need of, better than this song.
When we listen to the news, go out into the streets, or even examine our own hearts, it is clear that since the pandemic, the world has become a crueler place and humanity has become a bit unhinged from its foundations. The stories in the news are of war, random acts of violence and a coldness toward others that looms large over our entire society. I am sure that many of us thought that once the pandemic was over, and the mask and vaccine mandates were lifted, we would go back to the way that world was. That has not been the case. Something about the world; something about us has changed—and not for the better. Continue reading
