Preschool Graduation: Fri., May 28th, 9:00 am
Kindergarten Graduation: Thurs., June 10th, 9:00 am
8th Grade Graduation: Thurs., June 10th, 6:00 pm

Wednesday, June 2nd
Lehighton Pizza Hut, Route 443/Blakeslee Blvd
Pizza Hut will donate 20% of all your purchases on the "Fun"draiser day & night to our school. You will need to have the ticket that appears in the parish bulletin. Click here for an online printable version of the bulletin..

Friday, June 4th
Blue Ridge Country Club, Palmerton, Pa
Please return registration form along with your check -- some openings still available.
Question? Call Kim Roberti at (888) 828-4853
or email Kim.
Click here for a registration form brochure.

Friday, June 11th, 11 am to 10 pm
Please join us for…

A Special SS Peter & Paul Day
At the
Beacon 443 Restaurant
Rt. 443, Lehighton
10% of all sales Eat-in or Take-out, will be donated to SS Peter & Paul School!!

Let’s all celebrate the last day of school together with an end of the year lunch or dinner! Invite your family & friends! Gather all the moms and your child’s classmates together to kick off the summer!

June 21 to July 16
Join the Fun!
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 pm
Camp is open to children ages 5-13.
All Denominations Welcome.

These are the programs and field trips planned throughout the course of the camp:

SuperScience and Amazing Art with Cathy Seachrist, Tech Stars Movie Making Program, Wildland Conservancy, Cooking with the Playful Chef, Mad Science: Sparking Imaginative Learning", Climb-a Lot Clubhouse, Tumble With Denise, Crystal Cave Park, The Planetarium at the Reading Public Museum, Bear Mountain Butterfly Sanctuary, No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum, Bowling at Cypress Lanes, Mountain Karate Academy, DaVinci Center, Bounce U, Disc Golf at Blue Mountain, Ice Cream World Lab, Mock Turtle Marionette Theater, Pleasant Valley Riding Stables, Balloons with Jolly Holly, Tuff Camp, Muhlenberg Summer Music Theater, and Pizza Buffet at Cici's Pizza.

Cost:
Per Week: $145 for the first child, $140 for each additional sibling.
Per Day: $34 for the first child, $31 for each additional sibling.

Click here for a registration form.
Click here for a brochure with complete schedule.

June 29
Feast Day of our patron saints, Peter and Paul.

from AmericanCatholic.org:

Peter: St. Mark ends the first half of his Gospel with a triumphant climax. He has recorded doubt, misunderstanding and the opposition of many to Jesus. Now Peter makes his great confession of faith: "You are the Messiah" (Mark 8:29b). It was one of the many glorious moments in Peter's life, beginning with the day he was called from his nets along the Sea of Galilee to become a fisher of men for Jesus. The New Testament clearly shows Peter as the leader of the apostles, chosen by Jesus to have a special relationship with him. With James and John he was privileged to witness the Transfiguration, the raising of a dead child to life and the agony in Gethsemane. His mother-in-law was cured by Jesus. He was sent with John to prepare for the last Passover before Jesus' death. His name is first on every list of apostles.

And to Peter only did Jesus say, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the nether world shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 16:17b-19).

But the Gospels prove their own veracity by the unflattering details they include about Peter. He clearly had no public relations person. It is a great comfort for ordinary mortals to know that Peter also has his human weakness, even in the presence of Jesus.

He generously gave up all things, yet he can ask in childish self-regard, "What are we going to get for all this?" (see Matthew 19:27). He receives the full force of Christ's anger when he objects to the idea of a suffering Messiah: "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do" (Matthew 16:23b).

Peter is willing to accept Jesus' doctrine of forgiveness, but suggests a limit of seven times. He walks on the water in faith, but sinks in doubt. He refuses to let Jesus wash his feet, then wants his whole body cleansed. He swears at the Last Supper that he will never deny Jesus, and then swears to a servant maid that he has never known the man. He loyally resists the first attempt to arrest Jesus by cutting off Malchus's ear, but in the end he runs away with the others. In the depth of his sorrow, Jesus looks on him and forgives him, and he goes out and sheds bitter tears.


Paul: If Billy Graham suddenly began preaching that the United States should adopt Marxism and not rely on the Constitution, the angry reaction would help us understand Paul's life when he started preaching that Christ alone can save us. He had been the most Pharisaic of Pharisees, the most legalistic of Mosaic lawyers. Now he suddenly appears to other Jews as a heretical welcomer of Gentiles, a traitor and apostate.

Paul's central conviction was simple and absolute: Only God can save humanity. No human effort—even the most scrupulous observance of law—can create a human good which we can bring to God as reparation for sin and payment for grace. To be saved from itself, from sin, from the devil and from death, humanity must open itself completely to the saving power of Jesus.

Paul never lost his love for his Jewish family, though he carried on a lifelong debate with them about the uselessness of the Law without Christ. He reminded the Gentiles that they were grafted on the parent stock of the Jews, who were still God's chosen people, the children of the promise.

In light of his preaching and teaching skills, Paul's name has surfaced (among others) as a possible patron of the Internet.

Comment:

We would probably go to confession to Peter sooner than to any of the other apostles. He is perhaps a more striking example of the simple fact of holiness. Jesus says to us as he said, in effect, to Peter: "It is not you who have chosen me, but I who have chosen you. Peter, it is not human wisdom that makes it possible for you to believe, but my Father's revelation. I, not you, build my Church." Paul's experience of the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus was the driving force that made him one of the most zealous, dynamic and courageous ambassadors of Christ the Church has ever had. But persecution, humiliation and weakness became his day-by-day carrying of the cross, material for further transformation. The dying Christ was in him; the living Christ was his life.