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 4-5-21 to 4-11-21

Mass Schedule 4-12-21 to 4-18-21

Mass Schedule 4-19-21 to 4-25-21


 

Dear Friends at St. Peter Cathedral,

We have celebrated Holy Week and Easter Sunday in fine fashion at the Cathedral.  Prayerful liturgies and beautiful music.  God blessed us with beautiful Easter sunshine, and all along Church Street the daffodils are in full bloom and shining bright. The Easter Vigil was particularly festive with the Baptism and Confirmation of two catechumens, Keele Wiggins and Leah Zahn, and the reception and Confirmation Michael Anderson and Douglas Koch. Congratulations and Welcome to them!  It was heartening to see so many people able to attend the celebrations.

Easter is such an important celebration always, but we need it in these times of the pandemic exacerbated by the social upheaval, political animosity, the ugliness of racial injustice, and rampant violence.  A long year of curtailment of our normal social lives and the attending loneliness and anxiety have taken their toll as well.  In the face of everything we boldly proclaim, “Jesus Christ has risen from the dead!”  He has conquered everything that destroys our life, everything that is the bitter fruit of sin, even death itself.  Sure, we have a lot to face in the time ahead, but we do not face it on our own. We can keep in our hearts the words of Jesus: “In the world, you will have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).  Let’s draw on our Confirmation and that gift of the Holy Spirit which is Courage.  

Easter cannot be limited by earthly, calendar time.  That is why we celebrate the feast as a day composed of eight days, a full week plus one. It cannot be contained by time but bursts through into eternity.  Let us celebrate by contemplating what great Love has rescued us from all dark and negative powers.  Let us bring into all our encounters and relationships the forgiveness and peace Christ has won for us.

Happy Easter,

Fr. Steve St. Jules

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409 N. First Street
Rockford, IL  61104

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