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Ministerial Accreditations

• Roman Catholic
   Womenpriests
• Federation of Christian
   Ministries
• International Association
   of Women Ministers
• International Council of
   Community Churches

Community Affiliations and Outreach

• Holy Ground
• Catholic Action Network
• Trinity Hot Lunch Program
  (see parish calendar)
• Call To Action
• Women's Ordination
   Conference

Valuable Websites and Blogs

• National Catholic Reporter
• Huffington Post
• Tikkun
• Catholic Culture
• Catholica
• The Wild Reed
• A Seat at the Table
• Contemplative Catholic
• Bridget Mary's Blog
• Abby & Carol's Place

Therese of Divine Peace, a Roman Catholic parish where ALL are welcome, was born with the dawning of a new liturgical year on December 1, 2007, less than three weeks after her original co-pastors had been ordained Roman Catholic womenpriests in an historic and well-chronicled celebration in this city’s Jewish synagogue, Central Reform Congregation.

With the gracious cooperation of the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, the Therese community worships in Hope Chapel every Saturday at 5 o’clock p.m. We are a viable and growing Roman Catholic community that is neither condoned nor supported by the larger institution of the church we serve.

We are a small, warm & welcoming, and widely diverse community of equals. We are young & old, male & female, professional & blue-collar, white & black, straight & gay or lesbian, married & single or divorced. We have celebrated baptisms, weddings, anointings, admission to candidacy and ordination rites together. We have open-door community meetings, share potluck suppers, and attend social activities together. We engage in community outreach and in ecumenical & interreligious cooperation, in concert with neighborhood religious & justice groups. We stand in solidarity with all who are persecuted because of their courage in speaking truth to power. We stand in solidarity with all who have experienced alienation or abuse at the hands of others, especially others in religious institutions. We seek to be sacrament for one another: to live justly, love tenderly, walk humbly with our God; and to be a voice for those who are not heard. We invite you to stand with us, in prayer & worship, holy work, and joy-filled play.

Outreach

We are committed to being involved in our community through works of justice and of charity. We are members of the Holy Ground Collaborative, working in concert with Central West End places of worship to improve the neighborhood community and community relations, as well as celebrating together in prayer and in play. Our Therese Sacrificial Lamb program collects money throughout the year to be donated to mutually agreed upon causes. As a Holy Ground member, we regularly assist in the serving of hot lunches at Trinity Episcopal on Sunday afternoons, and participate in service projects with residents of the Parkside Nursing Home. We do an annual Christmas giving project in concert with Holy Ground congregations, and which has also included specific contributions to St. Louis Catholic Worker houses and Feed My People.

Therese Archives

Advent 2007
Epiphany 2008
Lent 2008
Epiphany 2009
(first year!)
July 2009
August 2009
Advent 2009
Epiphany 2010
Ash Wednesday 2010
Surrender 2010
Pentecost 2010
Advent 2010
Epiphany 2011
Epiphany 2012

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