Are you interested in advertising your business and promoting your company with a trusted resource that parish families use every day? This is a great opportunity to promote your business weekly, and support our parish at the same time! Your advertisement supports the publication of our weekly bulletin. The bulletin is the most trusted resource that parishioners use when they are in need of services. Contact Melissa, your bulletin publisher at The Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, at 205-382-4555.

Our hardworking Basilica sound technician, Mr. Kim Murfin, became extremely sick with COVID-19 and was admitted to the ER on August 26. After being on oxygen for several days, he was moved to Encompass Rehab Center, and on September 14 he was sent home to complete his therapy. He is grateful to have received the Anointing of the Sick and all the prayers. Please also pray that his wife Sheila, who has COPD, will not contract the disease.

In the spirit of the Visitation, would you consider bringing the joy of the Real Presence of Jesus to the homebound or hospital-bound? Training will be provided for current Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and those who are not yet enlisted as Extraordinary Ministers. Contact Dcn. Gaspar DeGaetano to join the Blessed Virgin Mary Visitation Guild in this mission of mercy. Click for details.

26th Annual Pilgrimage for Restoration - A Traditional Walking Pilgrimage - Friday to Sunday, September 24-26, 2021. The “Auriesville” Pilgrimage - Relocated to Eastern Pennsylvania to Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Shrine, Allentown, due to the continued lockdowns in New York State. Come to restore. The rest will come. Choir singers are also needed for the St. Cecilia Brigade on this pilgrimage. Sign-up and more information at pilgrimage-for-restoration.org. 610.435.2634 mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org.

Our Jubilate Deo Youth Schola resumes this fall for students in grades 2-12 with unchanged voices. Learn to read and sing the sacred music of the Church! Classes will be on Fridays from 4:30-5:30pm, beginning Sept. 10 for new students and Oct. 1 for returning students.

Now that Fr. Patrick Ryan’s remains are entombed at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a minimum of $25,000 is needed to bring his cause to Rome, in addition to the expenses already incurred during the exhumation and entombment. The Cause cannot move forward, and will remain at a standstill, until this expense has been met. All donations are greatly appreciated! Click for details on how to donate.

Parishioner Jim Stewart suffered a serious bike accident before Easter that resulted in a head injury and required a hip replacement. He has completed his rehab in Atlanta and is finally back in Chattanooga! His family has set up a Caring Bridge site to assist us in following his recovery and communicating support and encouragement to him. Please pray for Jim Stewart. Click for more info and to access the Caring Bridge site.

As a necessary step in the Cause for Sainthood for Father Patrick Ryan, the remains of Father Ryan will be exhumed beginning July 19 and moved to a new tomb at the basilica on July 31. The exhumation is a necessarily private event. However, all are invited to the July 31 events, including the procession from Mount Olivet to the Basilica, Memorial Mass, blessing of his new tomb, and reception. Click to view the invitation and listen to Jim Wogan's podcast interview with Fr. Carter and Dcn. Gaspar about this process.

Do you enjoy hearing and singing the traditional sacred music of the Mass? If you can sight read your voice part, sing on pitch, and join our Thursday 6:30pm rehearsals, please consider joining us. Click to find out more.

We would like to be able to re-open the Ombrellino Gift Shop, but we need several volunteers to keep it open on the weekend. Until we re-open, items can be purchased by contacting the parish office 9am-4pm Monday through Friday. For more info, contact Marina Delaney in the parish office at business@stspeterandpaulbasilica.com

Bishop Richard F. Stika has issued a pastoral letter on sin and the worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist. You can read the document here: http://dioknox.org/news/pastoral-letter-holy-eucharist

We are looking into offering hearing assistance devices during Mass for the hard of hearing. Before we can invest in this new system, we will need the support of volunteers to help with handing out the hearing devices at each Mass, and keeping them charged. If you are interested in supporting this effort to help fellow parishioners hear the Mass, please contact Maria Rist in the choir loft or through the parish office.

Bishop Stika has announced new priest assignments, which affect the Basilica. As of August 1, Fr. Moises Moreno will move to Gatlinburg to serve as Parochial Vicar of two parishes:  St. Mary in Gatlinburg and Holy Cross in Pigeon Forge, and he will lead their Hispanic communities. Click to read more.

The Joy of Tradition Award has been established at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to recognize members of our parish community who have demonstrated by their life and participation in our parish the joy that our Catholic faith brings. It is a testimony to their exemplary service to various aspects of our faith, and for their enthusiasm in promoting the sacred traditions in liturgy, ministry, and service to our parish. Fr. Carter has named Cathy Palisoc and Clervin Pérez as the 2021 recipients of the Joy of Tradition Award, presented on our parish anniversary weekend of June 27.

We have changed our sung Ordinary for the summer:  The Mass in honor of St. Isaac Jogues (English Masses), and Mass XI, Missa Orbis Factor (Latin Masses). Learn more and listen here!

Trail Life is in need of adult volunteers by July 1st in order to be able to field a troop this year. You do not have to be a parent of a Trailman to serve. Please prayerfully consider supporting this ministry for our boys and young men. (Click for details.)

Nicholas Hickman, Basilica veteran Altar Server and Youth Group member, has completed his first year of seminary at Conception Abbey (Fr. Carter's alma mater)to become a priest. We are happy to welcome him back to the Basilica this summer. Please keep Nicholas in your prayers!

Happy 9th Anniversary of priestly ordination to Fr. Nick Tran on May 12! Fr. Tran is Priest in Residence at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul and Pastor of the Vietnamese St. Faustina Public Association of the Faithful. You can read Fr. Tran's bio here to learn more about him. Please pray for Fr. Tran.  (Click for a special prayer for a priest on his anniversary.)

On April 24, 2021, Fr. Carter interviewed Sandy Pricer, Basilica parishioner, and the Founder and Co-Director of the St. Ambrose Catholic Homeschool Co-op. Click to read or watch the interview and for links to more information about our homeschool co-op.