Advent and Christmas Season
Join our Family of Five Parishes for a season of hope and anticipation as we await and then celebrate the birth of our Lord. Advent can be such a beautiful, prayerful season that can help us slow down and focus on Jesus. Looking for ideas? A few recommended by our…
November 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
November 30, 2025 – First Sunday of Advent Prepare the Manger of your Heart. Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year. As such, it is the commencement of a new beginning, but not just, “another beginning”. It is the beginning of the “Good News”. For Christians, Advent is…
October 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
October 26, 2025 – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Friends, As we continue to prepare for the new pastor/rector at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, the Archbishop has announced that Fr. Edward Sanchez will be starting January 1, 2026. We are meeting with him weekly until then…
Saturday 5:00 pm Mass Discontinued
The Saturday evening Mass at Ss. Peter & Paul is discontinued as of Saturday, October 4. Please join us for the Vigil Mass at any of the following:
September 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
September 28, 2025 – Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Sisters & Brothers, Conscience calls on a person to be authentic, especially to his or her deepest instincts for the good. In one’s conscience, we find interior motivation, not someone or something telling us what to do. Our conscience should…
August 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
August 24th, 2025 – Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Sisters and Brothers, I hope you are having an enjoyable Labor Day weekend. Each year, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee sponsors the Catholic Stewardship Appeal (CSA). Through the appeal, Catholics from across the ten counties of southeast Wisconsin are asked to…
Becoming Catholic
Dorothy Day writes, “The final word is love…To love we must know each other … and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more…We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that…
July 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
Sunday July 27th, 2025 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.” (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe) Dear Friends, After reading this Sunday’s first reading in which Abraham bargains with God, I realize how much I am like Abraham! From…
Bastille Days at the Cathedral
Explore the Cathedral Enjoy free tours of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Friday, July 18, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm and Saturday, July 19, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. We will host a French Mass on Saturday, July 19 at 5:15 pm. We will invite anyone to…
June 2025 Weekly Bulletin Messages
Sunday June 29th, 2025 – Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles “Unity in essentials,Liberty in doubtful things,Charity in everything.”(St. Augustine) Dear Friends, As we celebrate the feast of Ss. Peter & Paul, patrons of one of our Family of Five, we acknowledge and even celebrate what we could call…
