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Fr. Mike McMahon recently updated the Wedding Preparation Guide for engaged couples who are preparing for marriage, but it contains a listing of resources that any married couple would benefit from. Read more for a list of videos, podcasts, and books that will enrich and inform you and your spouse.

This parish pro-life fundraiser takes place from Mother’s Day (May 8) until Father’s Day (June 19). Proceeds will support the life-saving work of Waterleaf, an Aurora-based Catholic pregnancy center serving the Diocese of Joliet, which offers a pregnancy medical clinic and education center.

The Knights of Columbus are working to support our councils in Poland and Ukraine which are 10,000 members strong. The need to support refugees continues to grow.

The SSPP Moms parish group is hosting weekly playdates at a different local playground each Friday this summer.

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church will host its annual Memorial Day Mass at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery (911 E. North Ave.) at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 30. Rev. John McGeean will preside over the Mass at the cemetery’s Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles (see map). In the event of inclement weather, the Mass will move to Saints Peter and Paul Church (36 N. Ellsworth St.).

On Pentecost Sunday, June 4, 1922, the church was completely destroyed by a fire that still remains the worst in Naperville’s history. Out of the ashes, the 350 families that comprised Saints Peter and Paul parish at that time built the magnificent church we have today.

Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Father Lennon. Rite of reception will take place on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus, 604 N. Raynor Ave, Joliet, IL 60435. Rev. Lennon will lie in state at the Cathedral from 2 until 8 p.m., and on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, from 9 until 10:45 a.m.; Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. Interment following Mass at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Romeoville.

This parish pro-life fundraiser takes place from Mother’s Day (May 8) until Father’s Day (June 19).