Please join us for an Open House on Sunday, January 26 after 10:30 Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School.  We serve students in grades Pre-K to Grade 8.  Enjoy this opportunity to tour the school and meet teachers, students and parents!  For additional information contact the school at (618) 344-5450

It’s that time of year again.  Please select your tag from the Giving Tree and make someone’s Christmas morning special! The tags have items listed from each individual’s wish list.  These lists are suggestions.  You may purchase something from this list or something of your own choice.  Each person in each family has 3 tags on the tree to represent the 3 gifts from the Magi to the Christ Child.  Please do not feel like you have to buy everything on the list. When you select a tag from the tree, please fill in the requested information on the...

On September 29, some Ss. Peter & Paul parishioners joined thousands from the St. Louis area and beyond to attend “Coming Home: A Final Celebration,” a concert of the St. Louis Jesuits: composers and leaders of Catholic pastoral music. The five men: Bob Dufford, SJ; John Foley, SJ; Tim Manion; Roc O’Connor, SJ; and Dan Schutte, who first met as Jesuit scholastics at St. Louis University in the seventies, began composing music for Catholic and Christian worship in the years that followed the Second Vatican Council. This allowed for the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular (the commonly...

September is Suicide Prevention Month and today, suicide is a growing epidemic affecting many people in our world, and even in our own parish. The damaging effects of suicide are long lasting but there is always healing and hope. Part of the journey of healing is doing our part to try to prevent suicide by learning about the resources available and how we can help. Maggie Brennan, Director of Pastoral Care at Ss. Peter & Paul, recently attended a seminar to learn about suicide prevention resources that are available and ways to discuss suicide with people who may be...