St. Peter Indian Mission School began the 2025-2026 school year with all the students and faculty praying the rosary. Our high school students attended Mass. St. Peter Indian Mission students also attended Eucharistic Adoration throughout the week.

St. Peter Indian Mission Catholic School is in the center of the Gila River Indian Community in the Arizona Desert. Students from all six districts of the Reservation attend St. Peter Indian Mission School. It has truly become an inter-generational school. Chances are that if you are sitting in a classroom, your grandmother or grandfather sat in the same classroom decades earlier when they were in school.

St. Peter Indian Mission Catholic School is blessed in so many ways with happy students, involved parents and compassionate, enthusiastic and hard-working staff and faculty. One of the reasons for our success is that at the beginning of every school year, our school is blessed by the Franciscan Friars.

The Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit come every year and bless our entire school community. In a grand procession, the Friars bless the entire school. The blessing begins each year as the whole school community gathers in church. Our Lord Jesus Christ is placed in the monstrance on the altar. Father Antony carried the monstrance; Father Elijah held the Holy Water; Deacon Paul carried the blessed salt and the altar servers brought the incense. The group processed out of church saying the rosary. The procession stopped to bless each classroom along the way. Our 220 children in grades Pre K through 11th grade followed behind this group, praying the rosary and singing songs of praise and thanksgiving. All 17 classrooms were blessed, and our prayer is that each one of us will be a blessing to one another this school year.