We meet every Thursday for our Bible Study series, More Than Words at St. Joe’s New Parish Hall and the 3rd Tuesday for our speaker series called Pious Pints at 109 Brewhouse (located at Page Extension & Hwy K).

Download the myParish App and look for the Advent Wreath icon to read daily reflections to prepare yourself for the Coming of the Light.

It is not too late! What would it take to have the Best Advent Ever? Dynamic Catholic will send you short 5 minute videos to help you reflect and prepare this Advent for the Coming of the Light.

You're invited to the annual Pastoral Assembly 2017, October 21 from 9:00-3:00pm. For those of you that have never been or aren't familiar, it's an all day event that will include talks and discussion of new and innovative ways to be evangelizers, disciples, and disciple-makers in your parish! This year's theme focuses on the joy of the Gospel and bringing that joy back to our parish communities. To register, click the picture!

Immaculate Conception Parish families have the opportunity to gather in guided prayer with your family throughout the week to pray together for vocations. Click here for more information or to use the online scheduling form to schedule your family's week of prayer.

Registration in progress for the next school year. Register your player by May 15th by logging on to Immaculate Conception's Athletic Association's registration page using your account information.

Erin Prendergast asked the students at Immaculate Conception School if they would be willing to help out her 'Count It All Joy' project. This project is set up to help raise funds to build homes for the families that live in Haiti. The students took on the challenge and was able to raise over $4,000.00. Erin gave a wad of fake dollar bills to the IC students at her former elementary school. Erin, a junior at St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon, received the real thing in return. The students attached the fake money to four waist-high cardboard houses Erin and her mom brought to the school. The houses represent homes being built in Haiti through Count It All Joy, part of a charity called Partners in Development. The fake dollars represented the real money given to Erin for the home-building -- $3,811, with more expected to be donated later. At first, Erin and her mom figured 500 of the fake dollars would be way more than enough to cover the donations from the school of 176 students. The amount raised is a credit to the Immaculate Conception students' generosity as well as the commitment Erin has made to the cause. Several weeks ago, she gave a presentation to Immaculate Conception students, focusing on a visit she made to Haiti last summer with her aunt, Marie Freise. A physician's assistant and physical therapist, Freise has made several trips to Haiti, purchased land and spearheaded the building of modest, three-room cinder-block homes. Erin will return to Haiti in June and plans to report back to the Immaculate Conception students about the home construction. "I could not have imagined that they would raise this much," Erin said. "It's a cause very near and dear to my heart. They're changing the world, changing a family's life. I can't thank them enough." Janice Palmer, principal of Immaculate Conception, called the school "an amazing, giving community. ... They obviously saw the passion in Erin when she visited." Erin's faith has grown since she went to Haiti. "I had a really good relationship with God, but after Haiti, I've learned to live out my calling to help build God's kingdom," she said. "If I can change one person's life, that's all that matters." Erin also raised $700 at St. Dominic High School just by showing a video she made about the project. Freise, a member of the Catholic Student Center community at Washington University, has made numerous trips to Haiti since 1991 and even lived there on and off for six months in a four-year span, volunteering with the Missionaries of Charity. She helped a 6-year-old Haitian girl, Dieula, come to St. Louis Children's Hospital for heart surgery under a program at Children's Hospital. Dieula spent eight weeks in recovery with the Prendergast family. Dieula's recovery went well, but she was killed in the massive earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. The third home to be built will house Dieula's family. They had been living in deplorable one- or two-room structures after their home was destroyed. Funding for the land was provided after tributes to honor Erin's grandfather, Edward Freise, owner of Freise Construction Co., were directed to Count It All Joy/Partners in Development in 2013. The homes cost $9,000 apiece, are built by Haitian laborers and share a well with safe drinking water. One home has solar-powered electricity through a hookup provided by a St. Louis electrical engineer, Kathy Winfrey. The people Freise met in Haiti "have become like family to me," she said, and the squalor of their living conditions inspired her to help. "This has been quite a journey of love," Erin's mom, Ellen Prendergast, said. Erin's belief that God has set her on a path to helping the people of Haiti was reaffirmed recently when she attended a luncheon as one of the recipients of the KMOX Radio/Southeast Missouri State Student of Achievement awards. The keynote speaker was former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kyle McClellan, who formed an organization called Brace for Impact and raised more than $162,000 to help orphans in Haiti. "To share our common love of Haiti was awesome," Erin said.