In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award Recipient Col. Jaime Torres, St. Louis Rams players, Chase Reynolds, Gary Gibson and the St. Louis Rams mascot visited students at St. Cecilia School & Academy on September 27. After opening remarks made by Col. Torres, the Rams players answered students' questions about their careers and discussed the importance of physical fitness and making good choices. The event ended with physical activities outside and in the school gymnasium. It was a great experience for the students and faculty alike!

Our upcoming soccer season looks to be as successful as last year. Please come to the games and support our students.

Today we were greatful to have a large group of students and fathers from SLUH, as well as a number of other volunteers start our demolition project. Fr. Vatterott proudly announced, "Progress! The floor will house a nursery and the Washington University Latino Mentoring/Tutoring program, as demolition of the old St.Cecilia convent began today". A huge thank also to BSI for all their support and donated equipment.

Despite the unscheduled weather for our event, we enjoyed record crowds that came to enjoy our "Famous Mexican Fish Fry". Thank you so much for all who support us in coming and enjoying our special event. We would like to express our gratitude for all of the families who work so tirelessly, without them our Fish Fry would not be possible. We hope to see everyone next year, A special thank you to Heather Sieve who Father so eloquently bestowed a new title "our lady of Lent".

Sincerely, Fr. William Vatterott, and all our Parish Staff & Volunteers

"Jornadas is a young adult group formed by 3 different parishes that includes Saint Cecilia and every lent season they helps us to reflect on social justice issues and how the affect us through the eyes of the main characters in this powerful story of the passion of our Lord. This past Palm Sunday they performed the passion of our Lord during our spanish masses as they have done it in other communities like Saint Gabriel, Saint Clement, etc
We are grateful for their ministry."

In our attempt to gather archive photos for the church website, we would like to ask anyone having old photographs of our church, school etc., to please contact the Rectory(351-1318 x 201) so that we may add the photos to our archive gallery.

We recognize the Feast of Saint Jude, that he is the patron saint of desperate cases. Modern societies have made many speedy and major changes, putting human beings under tremendous stress in daily living. People have difficulty handling that stress and come to realize that newness and change and technology do not relieve stress and do not give hope and comfort. Prayer and petition to St. Jude stirs him to help, to provide hope and to provide help no matter how seemingly hopeless is the situation.

Today the kids had a field day that started with Mass at the Pavillion at Carondelet Park. After the Mass there were games and fun for all.

So many have volunteered & given so much of their time and effort to help our parish establish this Youth Room. We would like to thank everyone who has offered their help, it is greatly appreciated. Fr. Vatterott