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 11-23-20 to 11-29-20

Mass schedule 11-30-20 to 12-6-20

Mass schedule 12-7-20 to 12-13-20

Dear Friends at St. Peter Cathedral,

In preparing to celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints this Sunday, I read an article about the latest candidate for sainthood.  Earlier this month in St. Francis’ town of Assisi,  Pope Francis beatified a 15-year-old computer whiz from Milan named Carlo Acutis.  Beatification is the step prior to canonization.  Carlo, a deeply religious and generous to the poor, used his computer skills to spread the teachings of the Church until he died of leukemia in 2006.  Pope Francis praised the youth’s use of the internet to “communicate values of beauty” and proposed this as an antidote to the dangers of social media in an age of vitriol.

Holiness is every Christian’s baptismal vocation.  That means that God is generous in his grace, and we are all called to be saints.  The last century has given the Church an astounding number of martyr saints—those who were killed because of their witness to Jesus Christ.  Many of these were at the same time witnessing to the unique value of human life, like St. Maximilien Kolbe.

Many others have found their way to sainthood through a particularly generous and loving way of living the ordinary callings of Christian life—as mother, father, priest, sister, artist, scholar, scientist, or, indeed, computer tech.  Saints are all around us. 

The great increase in the number of canonizations that began with Pope Paul VI may well be the Church’s way of reminding us that God is generous in his grace, and that we are all called to be saints.  Because God in Christ has entered into this world, each of our lives holds more possibilities and consequences than we can imagine. 

Pope Francis called youth (and all of us) to take seriously a phrase coined by the newly Blessed Carlo Acutis, “Everyone is born an original, but many die like photocopies.”  The Pope concluded, “Don’t let this happen to you.” 

Blessings,

Fr. Steve St. Jules
 

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SUNDAY:         7:00 AM
MONDAY:        8:45 AM
TUESDAY:       7:30 PM (Men's Rosary)

409 N. First Street
Rockford, IL  61104

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

The Cathedral has once again adopted local grade schools including All Saints Catholic Academy to provide gifts of clothing  for their students in need.  
 
The tree will be set up outside Fellowship Hall.   Please stop by and select a tag from the tree which shows what is needed by the child.   PLEASE PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!  
 
Please record your name in the book next to the tag/tags you take.  Your wrapped gifts need to be returned no later than 12:30 pm on Sunday, December 13 so they can be delivered to the schools.   
 
Can’t make it in– contact the Parish Office and a tag can be selected for you.  The office number is 815-965-2765. 
 

Your generosity is always
greatly appreciated!!