Cathedral of St. Peter

Please click the link below to sign up to attend Mass this week and the second link for next week.  There is a limit of people per Mass beginning.  PLEASE ARRIVE 10 MINUTES BEFORE MASS - ******* NO ONE WILL BE ALLOWED IN ONCE MASS HAS BEGUN AND THE DOORS WILL BE LOCKED******.  For the safety of everyone, please bring your mask.  We look forward to seeing you.

Mass Schedule 2-22-21 to 2-28-21

Mass Schedule 3-1-21 to 3-7-21

Mass Schedule 3-8-21 to 3-14-21

Dear Friends at St. Peter Cathedral,

We have ushered in a new year, and we pray that 2021 will bring in a time of healing, sanity, and peace, even as we continue to deal with the tensions in our society and the COVID restrictions on our social and community life.  The very personal love of God, whose name is Jesus, is our underpinning.  "Jesus" means "God saves!"  May our awareness of the blessings we have received in the past from our loving God encourage us as we journey into the unknown ahead of us. 

Certainly, turning a page in the calendar will not work magic for us.  We just do not know the future.  That isn't all bad, either.  It is always helpful, though, to keep exercising our trust in God's love and care for us. 

Late in Advent, I was searching on the computer for a friend of many years.  He had moved his family to San Diego, but we continued to keep in touch until the last few years.  He had relocated a couple of times, and I lost his contact information due to a computer bug.  Periodically I'd search the internet without success until just before Christmas.  I located a picture of him and eagerly clicked on it only to be led to his obituary.  Sudden death had intervened.  Now I meet him as a Christmas ghost-a ghost that I'm glad to welcome in.  Yes, I have regrets and want to kick myself.  Nonetheless, his friendship has been a gift for many years.  His energy and wild humor had given me much joy, and as I remember, I give thanks.  But not without regret. 

I am meditating on the prayer from the Mass on the last day of the old year.  "May your people, O Lord, whom you guide and sustain in many ways, experience, both now and in the future, the remedies which you bestow, that with the needed solace of things that pass away, they may strive with ever deepened trust for things eternal.  Amen."

I pray this for all of you.

Peace in Jesus,

Fr. Steve St. Jules
 

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Mass Request Form
Requests for Mass Intentions may be completed on the above form with a donation of $10 per Mass and returned to the church office.

Cantors Needed!

If you are interested in bringing your musical talents to our weekend Masses, please call our Music Director, Adam Singleton, or send an email to:  asingleton@cathedralofstpeter.org 

Feel free to visit Adam in the
Organ Loft after any of the Masses.

Ushers Needed!

Please contact the parish office if you are interested in volunteering for weekend and daily Masses, weddings, funerals and other events.
 

Parish Registration Form

409 N. First Street
Rockford, IL  61104

Phone: 815-962-8515
Fax: 815-962-8526

Please join us as we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
 
Friday,  Feb 26, March 5, March 12, March 19, and March 26 at 5:15 p.m. in the Church