Rutilio Grande, S.J. died with God’s name on his lips and his beloved community members at his side. Ordained in 1959 and martyred in 1977, Father Grande will be beatified in San Salvador on January 22, 2022, fulfilling the second step to sainthood. A fierce advocate for the poor and for liberatory justice for all, [...]
Recently some email providers, including Google’s Gmail, have made their filters more sensitive to mass emails. This has resulted in our parish emails ending up in the spam, junk, or “promotional” inboxes for many of our parishioners. IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE PARISH EMAILS, TAKE THE FOLLOWING STEPS! Add our “From” address (office@ssppjesuit.org) [...]
A Dancing God! The first two Advent Readings this Sunday are all about joy and rejoicing. The prophet Zephaniah even speaks of God dancing and singing with joy over us, because of the salvation he has been able to accomplish in us through love. These passages form a stark contrast with the dark shadow of [...]
The Green Team is inviting you to a Green Pledge opportunity for the Advent Season. As we prayerfully move through Advent with our wreaths and Wednesday night prayer service with its themes, it is our hope that each parishioner make a personal Green Pledge that they can sustain for the year. There will be an [...]
An Invitation to Fr. Gary’s Advent Series This Sunday we celebrate the “Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe,” the last Sunday of the Church’s liturgical year. This ending of course gives way to the beginning of a new liturgical cycle, with the beautiful season of Advent leading up to the celebrations [...]
I started this article intending to comment on the 15 delegates representing the Jesuits at COP26, the UN Conference on Climate Change currently under way, addressing the most critical challenge facing humankind today and expressing our Jesuit commitment to Pope Francis’s call to “Care for our Common Home.” But then another Jesuit story line unfolded [...]
SSPP – Sustainability Efforts 1) LED Lighting An ongoing objective of the Parish Facilities Team is to equip the SSPP campus with LED lighting. LED bulbs are presently installed in the following places: Church Hallway sconces, side entrance track lighting, lighting on pillars illuminating side and main altars, vestibule chandelier. Parish Office area Second [...]
Ss. Peter & Paul Jesuit Church 1st Quarter 2021-22 Fiscal Year Financial Report – July 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 We are pleased to report a net gain of $13,110 for the first quarter. The parish is on track towards meeting its Offertory and GIVE Appeal goals. We’ve also raised all the funds necessary for the [...]
Silence. Maybe that’s not the most engaging way to begin an article! But it is a crucial cornerstone of a robust spiritual life. Silence is the gateway to our interior world, to the inner spiritual landscape where we encounter our Creator at the roots of our own life. Countless spiritual guides across the ages and [...]
