"National Vocation Awareness Week is an annual week-long celebration of the Catholic Church in the United States dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life through prayer and education, and to renew our prayers and support for those who are considering one of these particular vocations." USCCB 2022. Please pray the rosary for vocations as a show of your support.
The Thanksgiving Project will kick off this weekend November 2nd and 3rd. The Thanksgiving project, with your help, provides a Thanksgiving meal for families in need.
How can you help? (1) Pick up a red bag and return it with the requested groceries. (2) Donate $15.00 for a turkey and/or (3) Donate $35.00 for a full meal. Please find the envelopes in the narthex (the back of the church). Click for more information.
The Circle of Grace program is mandated by the Archdiocese of Galveston Houton. Its goal is to help children and youth to "identify and maintain appropriate physical, emotional, spiritual, and sexual boundaries; recognize when boundary violations are about to occur; and demonstrate how to take action when boundary violations are threatened or violated." ARCH This program is presented to each grade annually. Each lesson is age appropriate.
Dear Heavenly Father, my parish is composed of people like me. I help make it what it is. It will be friendly, if I am. Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them. It will do great work, if I work. It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver. It will bring other people into worship and fellowship, if I invite and bring them. It will be a parish of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and faith, and a parish with a noble spirit, if I, who make it what it is, am filled with these same things. Therefore, with your help, O God, I shall dedicate myself to the task of being all things that I want my parish to be. Amen.
The Ash Wednesday Schedule is as follows: 8:30 a.m. (Mass + Ashes) 12:00 noon (Liturgy of the Word + Ashes) 6:00 p.m. English (Liturgy of the Word + Ashes) 7:30 p.m. Español (Liturgia de la Palabra)
RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) registration is now open. RCIA is designed for those discerning God's call to become Catholic through study, prayer, support of our community and the reception of the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist) or for those already baptized, to complete their initiation into the Catholic Church. Please contact Kathy at the Church office (936)295-8159 or by email [email protected]
Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court regarding abortion is showing the deep divide in our country. I have said for many years that the abortion decision created the “line in the sand” for this country. How to reconcile the two sides of the abortion issue when the 5th commandment is very clearly about murder. I am providing the statements by Cardinal DiNardo, the Texas bishops conference, and the American bishops conference regarding Friday’s decision. Following those comments, I am providing some action items that we, THE CHURCH, can do to build the kingdom of God. These action items are taken from the bishop’s document titled, Stading With Moms In Need.
The Junior High Youth Rally will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 10:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. at Sts. Simon and Jude Parish in The Woodlands. The dead line to turn in your Registration form is due January 20, 2019.
Don't forget to purchase your raffle tickets. This year we have many really great raffle prizes. (Must be over 18 years of age to purchase raffle tickets or win raffle prizes.)
Tonight our youth learned that it is healthy to ask questions regarding our faith. Doing so helps us grow in our faith. Questions require us to seek the truths of our faith through study, talking with people knowledgeable in our faith and prayer.
A priest in the archdiocese often asks me when I see him, “Do you have a vocation?” He presided at one of the first Masses at which I preached as a deacon. My question to the assembly that day was whether they had a vocation. The word “vocation” often makes us think of a priestly or religious vocation. But we all have a vocation to holiness. The call to holiness arises from the sacrament of baptism that we have received. Our discernment as we journey through our youthful years is to determine what path God wants us to follow in order to serve Him and to grow in holiness.