Once each year, the girls have the opportunity to earn the My Promise, My Faith pin. Earning this award helps the girls explore how Girl Scouting and their faith offer similar ideas about how to act and how Girl Scouting can tie into their faith. Congratulations to the Girl Scouts for earning the MPMF pin!

The Parish Office will be relocating to the first floor of Manning Hall on Wednesday, February 3.  The office will be closed for routine business on that day.  For urgent matters, call 345-4343.  The office will return to normal hours on February 4.  The new address is 239 N. Morrison.  Phone numbers are the same.

At all Masses the weekend of January 23-24, we will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. In Peru, the 14 villages of Chazuta, in Moyobamba are all located away from the city center, with the most remote only accessible by boat. The faithful in these communities do not have access to catechetical formation, and members often feel separated from the life of the universal Church. Through a grant from the Collection for the Church in Latin America, the religious congregation of the Missionaries of Jesus was able to provide faith formation, spiritual retreats, and workshops...

The Three Kings with Father John came to bless our school to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, Tuesday, January 5, 2016.           Melchior, carrying Gold, was Jonah Mitan. Caspar, carrying Frankincense, was Quinton Ball. Balthasar, carrying Myrrh, was Paul Falbe.  

Now we look to a new year…2016. For our parish it signals that we have be-gun our 160th year as a parish family in Collinsville (officially when we received our first Pastor…but Catholics were here long before that date). It also signals that our parish church will celebrate its 50th anniversary…Nov. 6th, 1966! We might think and reflect on the many, many families who have worshiped here and generously served God and others with their lives. They prayed through the times of the Civil War and all the political turmoil of the many wars that would follow. They kept...