Parish Events and News
Adoration
Adoration is held every Tuesday at St. Mary's Church, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
A time for confessions is also available.
Growing Disciples - Pastoral Planning
We want to provide you an update regarding Bishop Tylka’s discernment process as part of the Growing Disciples initiative, the multi-year pastoral planning process for the Catholic Diocese of Peoria to renew discipleship and enhance relationships with Jesus Christ in every corner of our region. Bishop Tylka is reading, listening to and praying about all the feedback he is receiving. In the meantime, we want to share with you how he plans to announce his decisions.
On the weekend of May 18 and 19 (Pentecost weekend), each pastor will read a letter from the Bishop at every weekend Mass. The letter will include information specific to each parish and will be shared at all the Masses that weekend.
Between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday, May 18, the Diocese will be making the information public regarding all parish changes and priest announcements on its website (growingdisciplescdop.org).
Prayer
Holy Spirit, Divine Counselor,
I adore You as the one true God with the Father and the Son.
I give You my heart and I offer my thanksgiving for all the graces which You bestow on me.
Grant me the gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord, so that I may rightly direct all my actions, and thus renew the face of the earth. Recreate me as your true disciple so that the Church in Peoria will be renewed. Amen.
9-day Novena (to begin May 10th)
Day 1: We pray first for all disciples, at all stages on our journeys of faith.
Day 2: For all priests, and for the pastors who lead and guide our parishes.
Day 3: In thanksgiving for the gift of the Eucharist.
Day 4: We pray in thanksgiving for the example and life of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Day 5: We pray for all those who educate young people and hand down the Catholic Faith.
Day 6: We pray for all those who will benefit in the future from the decisions we are making today.
Day 7: We pray for all those discerning their path to holiness in this world, especially a vocation to the priesthood.
Day 8: We pray in thanksgiving for all the members of consecrated Religious Communities, Contemplatives and Religious Orders.
Day 9: Today we pray in a special way for Bishop Lou and all the Bishops of the Diocese of Peoria.
Mass and Sacraments
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil Mass: 5pm
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10am
Weekday Masses: 7am
First Communion
& Confirmation
Arranged through our CCD program for children. Adults please contact the church.
Confessions
Online confession guide here.
Saturday: 4-4:45pm
Sunday: 7:30-7:45am
First Friday: 5:15-6:00pm
Anointing of the Sick
Please contact the church anytime day or night.
Holy Matrimony
Contact the church to schedule and begin preparation at least eight months before the wedding.
Baptism
Contact the parish office to schedule an infant baptism.
For adults, our regional RCIA program meets in the fall.
On Holy Thursday, April 11, 1675, Francis Jacques Marquette offered the first parochial Mass in the Illinois Country at Utica in the presence of 5,000 Native Americans. Father Marquette and his companion Louis Joliet, took possession of this land in the name of Jesus Christ and founded the Mission of the Immaculate Conception. A monument in his honor stands in the northeast corner of the property.
That mission eventually became the Church of Saint Mary. In 1858 a small frame church was built which was destroyed by fire seventeen years later and a brick and stone church was built on the site of the former Saint Mary School.
In 1883 the Reverend Charles Xavier O'Neill was appointed the first pastor of Saint Mary's but never took up residence there. The Reverend Canon Jeremiah Moynihan was appointed the first resident pastor in 1884. The Reverend Francis J. O'Reilly succeeded Canon Moynihan in 1888 and in the same year erected the present church.
Take a look at the Memorial's 1951 Commemorative Booklet.
Historic St. Mary's
