St.
Catherine of Siena was a mystic and an activist and finally a
reformer in the Church. Over six centuries later, we are a suburban
parish of 1100 families, under her patronage who seek to be prayerful-
as she was active in good works and prophetic by being open
to conversion and reform.
Many of the people who founded St.
Catherine’s in 1960 are still here and many recent arrivals
especially the Mexican families. We are a trilingual parish because
the nine-thirty Mass during the school year is signed in deaf
language.
Our school is a warm community of
learning and faith with one class per grade. Students and teachers
of all grades get to know one another. There are openings in K
through 6 grades.
Four hundred children attend our
religious education/Christian formation. Our high school youth and
middle school youth groups stay active and do work-camps in the
summer. For those families speaking Spanish, we have a
bilingual program.
We work at being a faith Community
where each person is regarded as sacred. The key to this is the life
of prayer: in our liturgies, in our families, and in our personal
lives. Little by little we come to find God in all things.
Call us. You will always find a live
person. Our secretaries are really pastoral agents: they will
welcome you and offer God’s peace. Even our answering service is
on the team: if you have an emergency, they will track us down. Stop
by our office, but be careful: if you obviously don’t have
anything to do, you may end up filing papers or even caulking the
bathroom – or even teaching third grade CCD.
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