Preschool and select K–8 openings

available for Fall 2023

We look forward to meeting you to discuss our tremendous school at an Open House on January 29, 2023, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in both of our wonderful school buildings! Please consider going to 12:30 p.m. Mass at SSPP Church. 

Thank you for considering Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School!

2022 Tax Documents

End-of-year contribution statements for 2022 will be mailed by the end of January. You should receive your 2022 contribution statement by the second week of February.

Please note your 2022 contribution statements will NOT include the following types of donations:

• Charitable Trust
• Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from an IRA
• Employer Matching Contribution

If you have any questions, please contact either Rhonda Mucerino at 630-718-2109, or Mark Cummings at 630-718-2102.

Thank you for your generosity and support

Click the image below to view/print a paper registration form, or follow instructions below to register online. Paper registration forms are also available on the east wall of the Narthex.

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February 24-26, 2023 

An Ignatian, Silent Weekend Retreat for Adults

What are the Spiritual Exercises?

In an age where the Church was being ripped apart by theological debate, St. Ignatius Loyola was led by God to help people experience God’s love directly. Five hundred years later, Jesuit Priest Fr. Michael Sparough, SJ, and Episcopal Priest Fr. Al Johnson, are teaming up to share insights from their own experience of St Ignatius' soul enriching, life changing program of spiritual renewal. This is a retreat for both those new to The Spiritual Exercises as well as veterans of many retreats. Join these two dynamic preachers and prayer leaders in a deep ecumenical dive into the heart of Ignatian spirituality.

Acting on requests of several past Bellarmine women retreatants, the retreat has been opened to both men and women. It will not be a couples retreat although couples are invited.

January 2023

Dear Friends,

Soon our diocese will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. This national collection supports many pastoral projects that benefit the faithful in Latin America and the Caribbean.

An example of a beneficiary of this collection are the priests in the Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa, who traverse bad roads over rough terrain to bring the sacraments and the Word of God to the faithful living there. The mountainous territory that makes up 75% of the diocese’s total land area makes travel not only difficult but also more expensive for priests due to higher fuel consumption, vehicle maintenance, and repair costs compared to other regions.

Catholics like you who generously contribute to the Collection for the Church in Latin America help Guantánamo-Baracoa’s priests stay on the road with funds given to the diocese to offset fuel and vehicle repair costs. In places such as Cuba, you help bring the Good News to the poor when you participate in the collection.

An important fact that you must know is that 25% of this diocesan collection goes to support our own diocesan mission work. Since 1994 our diocese has sent missioners to Sucre, Bolivia to not only offer our support with concrete actions, but to build relationships with the people who are so grateful for our presence and work there. We are blessed to have our Bolivian friends.

Let us all become missionaries by strengthening the Church in Latin America with a donation to the second collection on the weekend of January 21–22.

Paz y bien,

Most Reverend Ronald A. Hicks

Bishop of Joliet

Join the Diocesan Mission Trip to the Navajo Nation in June

The Diocese of Joliet is pleased to announce its U.S. mission program in June with a two-week trip to the Navajo Nation located near Chinle, Arizona.

The June 3–16 trip will focus on construction projects for residents of the reservation, with volunteers helping with such jobs as framing a house, tearing down dilapidated buildings, repairing fencing, etc.

“It’s not just going to work for the people, but to be with them and experience their life and culture,” said diocesan missions coordinator Bruce Carlson.

The diocese has organized mission trips to the reservation since 2002, but paused the annual expeditions during 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The trip resumed this past summer.

For more information, email missions@dioceseofjoliet.org or call 815-221-6256.