Opportunities

The Altar Guild hosts an annual garage sale to raise funds to purchase needed supplies for Saint Ann Catholic Church including hosts, wine, vestments, candles, etc. 

The Guild also collects monies each Advent and Lent to help decorate the altar for Christmas and Easter. 

Additionally, a subset of this ministry prepares a meal for grieving families after funerals held at Saint Ann Catholic Church.

Between the Masses on Sunday, Saint Ann Catholic Church encourages parishioners to enjoy time together as a community with Coffee and Fellowship.  Volunteers generously set-up Breen Hall, make coffee, and clean-up afterward to ensure this ministry continues.

Saint Ann Catholic Church has a team of married couples who volunteer to lead the Diocesan Engaged Couples' Retreat and share their ideals, attitudes, anecdotes and life experiences with the participating newly engaged couples.  The retreat is designed to help engaged couples prepare for the holy sacrament of Matrimony as well for a lifetime of living as a married couple. 

What is Totus Tuus?

TOTUS TUUS (Latin for Totally Yours) named after St. John Paul II's papal motto is a fun and energetic parish based summer catechetical program for both grade school age children and middle and high school youth. TOTUS TUUS gathers together college students and seminarians from across the United States onto teaching teams of four in order to train them and send them out on the road to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ in various participating parishes throughout the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The teachers’ youthfulness, energy, and ability to witness to the Faith make them particularly effective with children and young adults.

Grade School Program

The Totus Tuus Grade School Program is designed for children entering first through sixth grades in the upcoming school year. The Grade School Program runs Monday through Friday.

The students are encouraged to be clear and consistent in their faith. They are shown how to view their Lord as a good Father. This personal relationship gives them the confidence to be Christ’s witnesses in the world around them. Finally, Totus Tuus endeavors to show the youth that a humble and courageous desire to know God must be based upon a steadfast and disciplined life of prayer combined with the reception of the sacraments.

Junior and Senior High School Program

TOTUS TUUS offers an evening program for junior and senior high school youth. Junior High youth are those entering the 7th or 8th grades, and Senior High youth are those entering grades 9-12 for the upcoming school year. These grade levels meet Sunday through Thursday. 

The Totus Tuus Junior and Senior High School Program comprises instruction, small group discussions, quiet meditation, prayer, and fellowship. This is a great opportunity for teens to see older peers on fire for their faith and insight into discerning their vocation.

Each night there is time for fellowship, snacks, and presentations. Adoration and Reconciliation will also take place on one of the nights (usually Wednesday), and on Thursday there is an opportunity for a social night.

Do you love the outdoors? Join the Saint Ann Catholic Church yard detail and assist with keeping the Church grounds well-kept.  This includes planting flowers a couple of times a year and watering, weeding, raking leaves in the fall, occasional trimming of grass and some shrubs, and salting & shoveling during cold months. 

Contacts: Mandi & Jordan Reed; Kim Mangum (mandi@stannnash.org or 615-277-9663)

We invite all parishioners who are young at heart to help facilitate the Saint Ann Youth Group. This group provides fun and meaningful opportunities for the students in grades 7th-12th to learn together, serve together, pray together and play together. This is NOT catechetical in the sense of replacing religious education, but does provide a safe and caring environment surrounded by their peers who share the same desire to deepen their faith. Our meetings emphasize three aspects: faith formation, fun, and fellowship. Youth Group meets on the first and third Sundays of each month after the 11:00am Mass in Neidert Hall.