St. Thomas the Apostle Church
Our Facilities

 

A completely handicapped accessible building featuring:

  • Reconfigured worship area, including a ramp to the altar, and a family room (crying room)
  • Improved and additional classrooms
  • Administrative offices for staff
  • Gathering and hospitality space
  • Expanded Robertson Room for church dinners
  • Warming kitchen
  • Blessed Sacrament Chapel
  • Sunday Nursery Space
  • Air conditioning
  • Adequate storage space
Everything we do as a parish community — worship, work, learn and celebrate — is under one roof.
 
Above: The view as one enters the sanctuary.

 

For additional views of our facilities, click on any image below.
Gathering Space
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Robertson Room
Family Room
Kitchen (north end)
Kitchen (south end)

As the Project Committee had agreed in their many planning meetings of the new building, names would be given to all of the education and meeting rooms. As a result of this decision, a committee was formed and they met on October 28, 2000 to make their decisions. It was their consensus to name the rooms after Saints and Holy People as follows:

  • Room 1: Elizabeth Ann Seton - She founded the Sisters of Charity in Baltimore. Her community established orphanages and hospitals and the parochial school system.
  • Room 2: St. Francis of Assisi - Francis went from town to town telling everyone about God. Francis said that people and animals and all living things are created by God.
  • Room 3: Archbishop Oscar Romero - Archbishop Romero spoke out for peace and worked for justice among the poor in El Salvador. Many people of El Salvador consider him a martyr.
  • Room 4: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha - In 1980, Pope John Paul II beatified Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha as a model for all Christians. Kateri, as a Native American, lived very simply and went out of her way to care for others.
  • Room 5: Mother Katherine Drexel - Mother Drexal spent her energy and her fortune on America's suffering minorities (Native American and African American communities).
  • Room 6: Holy Family - The Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph and the Divine Child.
  • Room 7: Mother Theresa of Calcutta - Mother Theresa took care of the men, women and children who were the poorest or had no family to care for them in Calcutta, India.
  • Room 8: Dorothy Day - Dorothy started a newspaper for workers called, "The Catholic Worker". She opened a "House of Hospitality" for the poor. Poor people could come there for free food, clothes, and a place to stay.
  • Room 9: St. Peter and Paul - These Apostles of Jesus traveled and preached to everyone about who Jesus is and what his life means for us.
  • Nursery: Guardian Angel - Angels for our Angels.

The committee also decided to call the entire education/meeting wing "Wirth's Hall" in honor of Fr. Dick Wirth and all his work and dedication to the new building project. We presented our report to the Project Committee and they agreed the rooms would be designated with icons. Also, two plaques will be purchased for the Robertson Room (named after our founding pastor, Fr. Tom Robertson) and Wirth Hall.

Contact the parish office:

  • Phone: 651-738-0677
  • Fax: 651-738-6492
  • e-mail

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