Monday and Wednesday - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Eucharistic Adoration takes place on Tuesdays from 12:45 pm - 7:00 pm in the Catholic Center Chapel during the Fall and Spring Semester.
If you would like to reserve a Mass intention or obtain a Mass card, please contact Colleen, at 732-545-6663 x 12 or email [email protected]. Mass intentions will be offered once the stipend fee (s) is received.
St. Peter the Apostle University & Community Parish provides a spiritual home to the diverse local and university communities and proclaims the Gospel through worship, formation, outreach, and service in order to foster a faithful, loving, dynamic, and lifelong relationship with Jesus Christ.
The first recorded visit of a Catholic priest to New Brunswick occurred in 1825, when a Fr. McDonough who was traveling from New York to Philadelphia stopped to visit a Catholic family here. That same year, Father John Powers, from St. Peter’s Parish in New York City, came and celebrated Mass. He began offering Mass here monthly, first in a private home and then in a large room over a wheelwright’s shop on George Street.
In 1829, the Bishop of New York, John Dubois, sent Father Joseph Schneller to continue the monthly visits to New Brunswick. Bishop Dubois erected Ss. Peter & Paul Parish in 1829, and a simple brick church was built on Bayard Street in New Brunswick in 1831, although not without difficulty. Anti-Catholic sentiment made it necessary for Father Schneller to use creative means to obtain land for the new church. Read more here.