This year (July 2024-June 2025), our Parish will celebrate it’s 125th Anniversary with a lot of revelry!

In the coming months, we will have many opportunities to gather as a parish family to celebrate and give thanks to God for all the blessings given to this community over the past 125 years. Here are a few things that are planned as we celebrate our Quasquicentennial:

• Sunday, September 22 – Stewardship Awareness Sunday & Stewardship Fair
• Sunday, October 20, 12:00noon – SMOS Church Tour with Peter Hesed
• Saturday, November 16, 4:30pm Mass and following – Feast on Flad
• Sunday, November 24, 10am Mass – Fr. Ken Brown presides
• Sunday, December 1, 2:00pm – Music & Storytelling with Kate Basi
• Sunday, December 8, 10am Mass – Bishop Mark Rivituso presides
• Christmas Eve: Tuesday, December 24, 10:00pm – Archbishop Rozanski presides
• Sunday, January 5, 2:00pm – Organ Recital with David Sinden
• Sunday, January 12, 10am Mass – Fr. Matt O’Toole presides
• Monday, April 28, 6:30pm – SMOS Church Tour with Peter Hesed
• Saturday, May 10, 2:00pm – Bach Society of St. Louis Young Artists Recital
• Saturday, May 10 – Parish & School Dinner Auction

We are especially happy to welcome Archbishop Rozanski to St. Margaret on Christmas Eve, the anniversary of our parish. We look forward to return visits from Bishop Rivituso, Fr. Brown, and Fr. O’Toole. Our Director of Music Emeritus Peter Hesed will lead two Church tours, this fall and next spring, for all of us to take a fresh look at our beautiful worship space. Our Director of Music & Liturgy, Orin Johnson, has arranged a number of concerts over the coming months. And our Fall Feast on Flad and Spring Dinner Auction will celebrate our 125th Anniversary in a special way. You will be hearing more about all these events as they draw near, though you can always mark your calendar now!