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Spiritual Life This spiritual group meets to pray for family members and friends who have fallen away from the Catholic Church. The meetings are on the first Saturday of each month at 8:15am in the Bridal Room. The meeting is followed by the First Saturday Mass at 9:00am. All are welcome. This powerful ministry requires dedication to prayer for the needs of others and their special intentions. A phone tree, e-mail or letter are the means of contact to the prayer warrior with prayer requests. Many intentions have been answered as a result of the dedicated prayers of this group. Adoration of Jesus in the Adoration Chapel is at the heart of life at Saints Peter and Paul Parish. Adorers commit to one scheduled hour a week before the Blessed Sacrament. This is a wonderful way to grow in our faith and devotion to our Lord. This is a special time to read spiritual literature, pray for family or others, pray the rosary and/or just talk to Jesus - a perfect time to share our lives and thoughts with Him. You might even try an hour temporarily to see if this means of prayer is what you can do on a more permanent basis. The Sts. Peter and Paul Legion of Mary meets each Monday at 11:00am in Mary’s Room (church basement). In addition to this meeting, the members spend two hours each week in active work, i.e. visits to shut-ins at home, nursing homes or hospitals; evangelization by teaching and helping others to know the faith, to pray the rosary before Masses, spend time in adoration and encourages devotion to the Lord through the Blessed Mother. One can also become an auxiliary member of the Legion by praying the rosary and Legion prayers daily. This organization was formed in 2005, and its purpose is to encourage prayer and study time for all families which includes mothers, fathers, children, grandparents and other family members. Our Blessed Mother asks us to pray the rosary and offer our sufferings and sacrifices for peace in our hearts, in our homes and in the world. “Families that pray together, stay together.” This group presently meets at a Holy Hour in the Adoration Chapel every Wednesday from 10:00am to 11:00am to pray for the end to abortion, peace in the world, for our Holy Father, all priests, the Poor Souls and many other intentions. Please come join us in prayer, everyone is encouraged to attend. Is a prayerful ministry for vocations to the priesthood. Each participant prays a decade of the rosary daily in their home in union with others for our priests. |
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Programs Food is collected over the Thanksgiving holiday for distribution to needy families in our community. Volunteers are needed during the Christmas holiday season to sort and assemble boxes of food for pickup and/or delivery. This program is supported by many parishes in the Archdiocese. Approximately three times a year, our parish family provides sack lunches to those in need in downtown Denver. Lunch bags are made available to the parish which are taken home and returned the following week with sandwiches, fruit and cookies. Volunteers are needed to help collect the sacks after each weekend Mass until all are collected by 11:00am on Sunday for delivery. The chairman and/or his designated volunteer are then responsible for delivery to the downtown VOA center. Each member of the church shares in responsibility for its mission; each is called to practice stewardship of the church. Christians are to place themselves at the service of the entire human community, especially those who are most in need. These are the organizations that help our parishioners achieve this goal. If you have any questions or an interest in participating in any of these ministries, please call Joelle Pacheco in the parish office. This organization is dedicated to promote the Church’s teachings in conjunction with the Archdiocese of Denver’s Right to Life office with regard to the sanctity of all human life. Presently, this group meets the first Saturday of each month at 11:00am in BigMac. Our Respect Life organization is involved in prayer, legislative awareness, pro-life campaigns and education to our parish by use of Respect Life literature, parish bulletin and bulletin boards as well as sermons from the altar by our pastor and deacons. |
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Family Life Coffee, donuts and bagels are served to the parish on the fourth Sunday of each month after each of the Sunday Masses (from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm) in BigMac. The chairperson is always looking for someone to help her with donut pick up to helping with set-up, serving and clean-up afterwards. Be sure to stop by and join us for a great snack on these Sunday's. Soup suppers are served just before Stations of the Cross each Friday throughout the Lenten season at 5:30pm in BigMac. The chairperson is always looking for help with preparation of food, serving and clean-up. If you are interested in helping, call the parish office. The parish library has hundreds of religious books available for checkout. The library categories run from, Bibles to Bible studies, angels, biographies, church history and teachings, Encyclicals, the Eucharist, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, Christian living, Mary, the Mass, Mother Theresa, the Popes, Prayer, the Rosary, the Sacraments, Fulton J. Sheen, Spiritual Development, the Saints, etc. We are in the process of organizing the library and are in need of people to help on Friday or Saturday mornings and to man the library on the first weekend of the month after all Masses. Our parish school is one of the most important missions at Sts. Peter & Paul Parish. There are many opportunities to volunteer from classroom, to kitchen, daycare, sports, religious education, school coffee & donut day, office help, etc. Call the school office for more information (303)424-0402. (Any volunteer working with children, must attend Safe Environment Training on how to protect our children. Council #13961 of the Knights of Columbus was introduced to our Parish in 2006. The Knights motto is “Unity and charity, unity in order to gain strength to be charitable to each other…” The general meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in McMahon Center (Big Mac). The Knights are a Catholic fraternal organization that supports the Catholic Church and our Priests and clergy. We raise funds for our parish, school and Seminarians and for the mentally handicapped. To do this we sponsor fund raisers i.e. Christmas card sales, Our Lady of Guadalupe dinners, dances, Chili Cook offs, and Tootsie Roll drives. If you have questions or have an interest in becoming a member of the Knights and want to be of help in these activities, call the church office and leave your name and phone number and one of the Knights will call you back. This ministry is to assist in special events i.e. parish festival, summer picnic and special parties. This is a sporadic minstry depending upon events that require help with logistics, adminstrative, set up and clean-up, food and beverage serving, table busing, games and enterainment. If you would like to be put on a listing of available volunteers for this miscellaneous work, call the parish office and ask for the Volunteer Coordinator and also watch in the parish bulletins as requests go out periodically for volunteers for upcoming parish events. This ministry is important for the purpose of maintaining the beauty of our parish church. The volunteers meet throughout the year every other Monday after the 8:00am Mass. In order to maintain the interior of the church we perform routine dusting and polishing and twice a year we oil the pews and clean the glass altar votive light holders. |
