Generations of St. Peter School students gathered at St. Peter Church June 5 for a Mass of Appreciation for longtime teacher Cyndi Gonzalez who is retiring after 48 years with the Mission District school.
In a letter to the local church community at Smyrna penned in the year before his death, the early second-century martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch writes, “Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude (of the people) also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
Two years after the 2019 closure of its more than century-old grammar school, Star of the Sea Parish welcomed 53 students from preschool through eighth grade to the new Stella Maris Academy in August 2021.