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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. The meeting is followed by the First Saturday Mass at 9:00am. All are welcome to join, just meet us on the first Saturday of each month at the scheduled time in LittleMac. 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 prayers 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, just west of BigMac. 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, help at funerals, distribute religious articles and sponsor the yearly Global Rosary. 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. |
Outreach
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 and refrigerate in our kitchen 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 Karen Radcliffe, Volunteer Coordinator. 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 second Saturday of each month at 9:00am in BigMac. Our Respect Life organization will be involved in prayer, legislative awareness and write-ins, pro-life campaigns and education of 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. The Women’s Guild is an organization for the women of Saints Peter and Paul Parish. This group has just recently been refocused to be more of an outreach group. Events to include gathering and mailing items to our soldiers in Iraq, bake sales, collecting food through the year for Compa, the gift Giving Tree at Christmas, help with bereavement lunches and Lenten soup suppers. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm in BigMac. If you are interested in joining this group, join us at one of the meetings. |
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Family Life This is a newly formed group for the seniors of our parish. As age is a state of mind, we will not discriminate against those who may be on the up-side of 55. All will be welcome to attend any of our events. The senior group is being established to include our spiritual needs and well as fun-filled events. This group presently is meeting on the first Saturday of each month at 10:00am in BigMac and just after the 9:00am First Saturday Mass. Each quarter the Saturday meeting will include planning activities for the next three months. Events include going to coffee, potlucks, plays, tours, charity works, lectures, speakers, videos of saints and travels of St. Paul, etc. If you are interested in attending, come to one of the monthly meetings. We have two families who give welcoming packets to our new parishioners. The packets include religious articles as well as an invitation to a free welcoming breakfast to one of the Meet-N-Eat Sunday parish breakfasts. Coffee, donuts and bagels are served to the parish on the fourth Sunday of each month after each of the morning Masses (from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm in BigMac. The chairperson is always looking for someone to help her with donut pick up at the grocery store, to helping with set-up, serving and clean-up afterwards. Be sure to stop by and join us for a great snack on this Sunday. 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, God bless you. 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 presently in the process of reorganizing the library and are in need of people to help alphabetize, categorize, insert and adhere labeling, etc. We will soon be opening the library and are in need of people to man the library at various times throughout the month. 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 Virtus Training which is training on how to protect our children.) A new Chapter (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 third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm in McMahon Center. The Knights raise funds for our parish, for the mentally handicapped, Special Olympics, community health, child car seats, etc. To do this they sponsor fund raisers i.e. breakfasts, dinners, fish fry’s, Tootsie Roll drives, community health screenings, blood drives and carseat clinics. If you have questions or have an interest in being a member of the Knights and want to be of help in these activities, come to one of the meetings. This organization exists for the support of the Sts. P&P Knights and also supports projects of choice which will be spiritual, charitable and social. The Ladies’ Auxiliary is open to all ladies of our parish 18 years and older. When the Knights plan a parish activity, the Ladies’ Auxiliary is involved which greatly helps to make that event even more successful and fun-filled. Meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Brides’ Room which is in the east entrance of the church. If you are interested in information or in joining, come to one of the meetings. This ministry is to assist in special events i.e. parish festival, summer picnic and special parties. This is a sporadic ministry depending upon events that require help with logistics, administrative, set-up and clean-up, food and beverage serving, table busing, games and entertainment. 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 bulletin 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. |
