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This year, Frassati Catholic High School is celebrating its 10th anniversary with their largest student body to date, with an enrollment of 286 students, including 85 freshmen and 14 new students.OnAug. 22, Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro joined the Frassati community to celebrate its 10th anniversary Mass. The school also plans to host 10th anniversarythemed gatherings throughout the year, including Homecoming, the annual Blue and Gray Gala, and the Charles Maguire
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HOUSTON — With the 2022-2023 school year on the way, the 12 high schools in the Archdiocese are in different stages as they welcome the Class of 2026.
HOUSTON — A group of deacons, now mostly in their 80s, recently celebrated being among the first diaconate class of 1972 ordained in the Archdiocese, sharing Jesus throughout their lives for the past 50 years.They came from all walks of life and education, from a printing press manager to an engineer. They thought themselves unworthy of being ministers who could preside over Sacraments to “baptize, marry and bury” their families and fellow parishioners.Butthey followed God’s call. Only seven of the original class of 38 ordained remain living — Deacons Emiliano Gonzales, Paul Hunsucker, Alvin Matthys, John Pistone, Thomas Richards, Phil Wiles and Dale Steffes. Now the diaconate program these past 50 years has blossomed into almost 400 deacons serving among the 146 parishes and other ministries,
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Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, at left, greets a deacon during a Mass of Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate in 2021. Nearly 400 permanent deacons currently serve in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in many roles from parishes to ministries.
In Dickinson, back to school and back to normal
“Churches get a twofer with deacons because usually, their wives are just as active in church ministry, and we work as a team.”
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“You’re heading to practice? Alright, take a seat there. We’ll get you there soon,” one teacher tells a buzzing group of junior high students with duffle bags
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Deacons ordained for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston from the first diaconate class of 1972 had 38 members, including George Sheltz Sr., the father of the late Auxiliary Bishop George A. Sheltz.
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The school bell rang, and quickly students at True Cross Catholic School in Dickinson took a seat at tables in the school cafeteria. Or at least several of them tried to. The students hung every surprisingly possible way on their chairs, with water bottles clattering on tabletops and backpacks swinging around chairbacks.Onebyone, their names were called by a teacher running the end-of-school show, with several more inside helping keep the students in line and on time.
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Leonardo Cardinal Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, said his elevation is a sign of Pope Francis’s tender concern for the Amazon and that he wants the “dreams” and guidance he outlined following the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon to become a reality.
“Inclusion is part of Catholic doctrine” and the Gospel, he said. “This emphasis on reaching out to people at the margins is not something that people just came up with after the Second Vatican Council. It is in the call of Christ; it’s in the continuing work of the Church and the message of theEnglishChurch.”cardinal, Arthur Cardinal Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, told CNS it was “unexpected” and “an enormous honor” to be named a cardinal.
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With his work at the dicastery, first as secretary, then as prefect, “I have met every episcopal conference in the world, and you begin to build up a picture of what is important, what is problematic, where ... there’s a need for greater assistance on our part to the bishops,” he said.
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The cardinal said the small, tight-knit communities in the Amazon already live the kind of synodality and “fraternal relationships” the pope has been indicating for the entire Church.
The cardinal said it would be wrong to believe a pastoral approach of inclusion and a position of doctrinal rigor were in opposition to each other.
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Lay people, priests and bishops have various gatherings, “and this synodal spirit is very much present. I hope to be able to help in this sense,” he said.
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“There is a great emphasis on inclusion and on understanding the work of the Church as a field hospital,” that everyone “is wounded in various ways, everyone needs healing.” This image does not divide people into different groups, he said; instead, “it’s a journey in which we help one another and help one another to heal with God’s grace.”
For example, Cardinal McElroy said, the diocese has already held synods on marriage and family life and on young adults; now, it is carrying out a three-year process on synodality.
The youngest new cardinal, Giorgio Cardinal Marengo of Italy, apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, told CNS that even though he plans on learning from the more experienced members, he would like to share his perspective of serving a tiny Catholic minority. †
Part of a cardinal’s role is to help advise the pope, he said. Working in the Roman Curia for the past 10 years has given him “a very special insight into the work of the Church,” which will be very important in offering the pope a broader view, he said.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Becoming a member of the broad, unique body of the College of Cardinals is both a great honor and an invitation to help promote a renewal of the Catholic Church’s mission of evangelization, some new cardinals said.With 20 newly created cardinals representing 16 countries and with the entire college of 226 members representing more than 90 countries, including Daniel Cardinal DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, some also said they see their elevation as a way to help their home dioceses better comprehend the universality of the Catholic Church.
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Before the ceremony for the creation of new cardinals at the Vatican Aug. 27, a handful of those named by Pope Francis shared how they see their new role as a cardinal.Robert Cardinal McElroy of San Diego, California, said it gives him a chance to “build up unity within the universal Church” and to point to the global nature of the Church, “that we are not simply parochial, local churches, but we are part of a communion” that is worldwide.Whenasked why he thought Pope Francis wanted the bishop of San Diego to become a cardinal, he said, on the one hand, “we are a border diocese. Fundamentally, our identity is a diocese of immigrants and on the border between Latin America and the United States, and those are issues that are greatly dear to theOnpope.”the other hand, he said, it may also be because the diocese has long been working to “plant some of the seeds of the pastoral renewal that Pope Francis has brought into the life of the Church.”
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Since the first sisters answered him by sailing from France to Galveston as missionaries, this call continues to inspire and shape the life of the CCVI in Houston and elsewhere in the U.S., as well as in the four other countries where they now live and minister, Kenya, Guatemala, Ireland and El Salvador.
The sisters’ work extends as well to spiritual healing through their ministry at the Ruah Spirituality Center in Houston and retreat centers in Kenya and Guatemala. They offer relief to the poor and vulnerable, immigrants, refugees and survivors of human trafficking through their education and social concern ministries, as well as social services provided at St. Austin Center in Houston. Amid the climate crisis, of particular concern is caring for the Earth, which Pope Francis has described in Laudato Si’ as, “among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor.”
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Blue Mass set for Sept. 25
HOUSTON — The Office for Young Adult and Campus Ministry will host the next Café Catholica Lite at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, located at 10330 Hillcroft St. in Houston, on Sept. 22 from 7 to 8:45 p.m.
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The speaker for the in-person event is SOLT Sister Mary Claire Strasser, and her talk will be, “Facing Doubt: The Message of Eucharist Miracles.” The night will include light snacks, the talk, a Q&A and communal prayer. The talk will be available to view online as well at www.archgh.org/ cafecatholica.TheCaféCatholica program seeks to help young adults ages 18 to 39 encounter Christ and His Church. All young adults are invited to join us for Café Catholica Lite throughout theForyear.more information, contact the Office for Young Adult and Campus Ministry at yacm@archgh.org or 713-741-8778. †
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This school year, St. Catherine’s Montessori High School will focus on community service and supporting students in defining their role in contributing to the school community inside and outside of the classroom.
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Strake Jesuit College Preparatory continues to expand its athletics program. With UIL officially adopting waterpolo, the Strake Jesuit waterpolo team will now be able to compete in the league. The high school is also adding roundnet (also known by brand name, spikeball). Additionally, the athletic stadium field was re-turfed with a big cross at center field to match their baseball field, which is also turf. † teachers, staff return to school with Mass
its sixth year of partnership with the high school, the students learned the basics of their labs’ work, techniques and completed impressive experiments, all before confidently presenting their results.
Welcoming a new head of school, Lina Delgado, the high school expanded creative expression offerings, giving the students an opportunity to contribute to school communications and the yearbook while learning the basics of photography.
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The high school also is exploring the launch of a Coffee Cart. This enterprise would serve the entire school community and introduce students to the concepts of production and exchanges, an integral component of a Montessori adolescent program. Additionally, students have added a conversation portion to their morning prayer and reading to delve deeper into the meanings of the Gospel and make connections to what is happening in the world around them.
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“We have had a lovely start of school at St. Catherine’s Montessori,” Delgado said. “It has been wonderful enjoying laughter in the hallways, welcoming new students, watching after-school sports practices, and helping our community adjust to the new school year.”
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“We’ve sent about 20 students over the years, and two have been juniors. The rest have been seniors in the summer after graduation,” Rispin said. “The program is designed to be a medical school pipeline initiative, so we look for students interested in careers in medicine or the sciences who have a combination of exceptional academic ability and maturity.”
Memorial Golf Tournament. Additionally, this will be the first year that Frassati Catholic will have true home football games with the success of the Home Field Advantage Capital Campaign — a project to build a stadium on campus. The construction of the football field is underway and scheduled for completion ahead of the Oct. 22 Homecoming Weekend.
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The five-day immersion, named for the institution’s patron St. Thomas Aquinas, originated in 2017 and has expanded to incorporate the Eagle house system. Unplugged from electronics and technology, students develop character, community, and culture and, most importantly, gain an authentic understanding that a leader’s greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.St.Thomas High School president, Father James Murphy, CSB, said he welcomes the Class of 2026 with great confidence and enthusiasm as they join returning families and scholars.
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Before the fall semester, St. Thomas High School freshmen were able to participate in the Camp Aquinas initiative. Held at Camp Cho-Yeh outside of Livingston, it provides a measurable impact on individual students and extends to the daily engagement of the campus community.
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Their Cristo Rey Jesuit science teacher, Peter Rispin, said the program is extremely challenging, at a level students won’t see until they’re juniors in college or above.
Cristo Rey College Preparatory students were also busy during the summer. Students wanting to make their mark in the medical field participated in extensive scientific research during a summer internship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. They worked in the areas of leukemia, ovarian and lung cancer research, as well as bio-engineering drug delivery using cell structures.
Ahead of the upcoming fall semester, St. Thomas High School freshmen were able to participate in the Camp Aquinas, a five-day camp held at at Camp Cho-Yeh outside of Livingston. Part of the activities included a ropes course.
“A St. Thomas experience forms the whole person. I have the pleasure of seeing this happen every day in our classrooms, in our House System, our fine arts labs and in our athletic pursuits,” he said. “Our abiding commitment to Catholic Basilian education grows from this lively pursuit of goodness, discipline and knowledge, this abundant
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their belts, True Cross junior high school students rotated between their rooms during the final class exchange of the day. One grade went to art, another to music and another would close the day with physical education in the school gym.
A screech of tennis shoes hitting the gym floor turned Agrella’s gaze back down the hallway to the group of students, just a portion of the students that she and her faculty now led, ones that just might soon add another record to the books or another trophy to the case.
Then eight months later, another unthinkable tragedy shook the Dickinson community to its core. Ten people died, and 14 people were injured in a terrible shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe. While True Cross isn’t the closest parish to Santa Fe — that would be Our Lady of Lourdes in Hitchcock — many at True Cross have families close to Santa Fe, often making the trek between the tight-knit communities of Santa Fe, Hitchcock, La Marque and Texas City.
The historic storm began a pattern of change and adaptation for True Cross School Principal Yolanda Agrella and her staff, as well as their students and families. The storm forced the school to temporarily meet at Our Lady of Fatima School in League City, some 15 minutes away from the Dickinson campus. Weekly renovation meetings pulled Agrella in every direction as she tried to shepherd her students, faculty and staff during a time of recovery. Many of her students’ families were also doing the same exact thing: rebuilding their homes and trying to start over.
When students returned after the school shuttered for the rest of the 2020 school year, and in the years since, Agrella said she noticed the students had unexpected struggles. Some had never been in school and were missing some of the academic experiences and socialization skills learned when in school with other very young students. In other cases, it was students who received semesters of patchwork homeschooling from families who weren’t equipped to teach at home.
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She said her teachers were working harder to break the learning curve the students were struggling with and remained focused on improving their
in tow.With each crackle of the wireless loudspeaker, name by name, the students shuffled towards the back of the school campus, out the door and into the refuge of a parent’s or guardian’s vehicle. It’s hard to imagine that just five years ago, the school campus and the Shrine of the True Cross parish became a water-logged highway for boats flying by on FM 517 and neighboring Dickinson Bayou that borders the school and parish grounds.
Students who were in the first grade when Harvey came were now entering junior high. Many of these students were young and very impressionable when they were rescued by boat, by helicopter and by “There’strucks.a sadness about them,” Agrella said. “They’re cautious. They’re always suspect of something happening to them, and [Harvey] really did affect them.They remember everything,” she said. The students had to realize and perhaps relearn that the school was a safe space, a place where they could feel welcome and secure, even in the wake of the Santa Fe shooting.
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A number of students at True Cross school and parish had either family or children at the high school, so when that terrible day in May arrived, very few lives were untouched. Agrella’s own sister had been principal at nearby Kubacak Elementary School.
Then, after a year marked by flux and change, True Cross students made a homecoming and returned to the Dickinson campus in August of 2018, a year after the flood made them leave. Throughout the ordeal, the school offered their students and families clear and consistent access to mental health resources, including having counselors and therapists available to the youngsters, many of whom still winced and cried at the sound of thunder and rain.
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And even now, Agrella said, with a hint of sadness marked by a resolute commitment to school safety, the school’s next project was to shore up its security across the campus, especially another school shooting tragedy in Uvalde.
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“It was one thing after another, and we’ve accepted it. It’s just how it is, and we’re problem solvers,” she said. “We never ask for what’s next, we just take what is in front of us, and we did. And we just take care of it.”
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With the passing of the fifth anniversary of Harvey, Agrella also recognized that there are now five years of students who were born after the storm and never knew the fear of the
Art teacher Pam Cabada leads a drawing lesson with junior high students at True Cross Catholic School in Dickinson on Aug. 30. The school, which was devastated five years earlier during Hurricane Harvey, began the new school year last month.
Dickinson flashed across headlines around the world when a photo of a flooded retirement home, one that’s just down the road from True Cross, went viral on social media, showing elderly residents floating in deep floodwater. The photo prompted boat and airlift rescues, many of which whizzed by the True Cross campus for days as the water receded over the next several days. Dickinson saw at least 50 inches of rain during the storm, which flooded nearly 80% of the city, according to reports.
flood. But even to this day, the principal still sees a difference in the students who were rescued during Harvey. She had estimated that a quarter of her students were displaced by Harvey.
Five years ago, Hurricane Harvey brought its historic rains to the Texas Gulf Coast and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage, second only to Hurricane Katrina. The storm also claimed at least 68 lives in Texas.
Joining other schools around the world that turned on a dime to remote teaching and virtual learning, Agrella saw it as just another challenge.
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In art, the teacher guided them in a complex drawing of an apple. In music, students learned pitches from a pitch pipe. And in the gym, pretty much any sport was played: volleyball, basketball, soccer and even ping pong.
And then, when the True Cross community appeared to catch its breath, the world flipped upside down with the COVID-19 pandemic. Not even two full years back on the school campus, the community experienced another exodus, like the rest of the world, during the pandemic shutdown.
In between each class, the school principal quietly inspected the school’s large floor-to-ceiling trophy case, filled with generations of schools’ successes, all recorded and celebrated by nearly every plaque, ribbon and multi-tiered column trophy imaginable. Once hidden away after Harvey, now spruced and sparkling from the storm’s floodwaters, photos of beaming students at various championships and academic events once mingled with sparkling medallions and permanent recognitions.
On a recent late August school day, with nearly a month of school under
learning skills in nearly every aspect. But still, even with the occasional COVID-19 hiccup, school was back in session, and their students couldn’t be happier to be back together in the classroom. At least most of them.
“I had major concerns about my ability to do the scholastic work required for the program and my ability to manage my time with work, family and seminary requirements,” he recalled. “I realized that God was continuing to call me to this ministry, and He would provide the tools for me to succeed. It was only my faith in God to do all things that allowed me to begin this Deaconjourney.”Pistone, who served both at St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica and now at Holy Family parish, also credits his wife Blanche and three of his now-deceased fellow brothers in the diaconate who helped him to succeed.
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“Without the assistance of these three very educated men — Tommy Hunter, W.J. Bobb and Richard Haller — I would not have made it through the“Weseminary.would all ride together from Galveston to Houston twice a week for evening class and once a month on Saturday for all-day classes,” Deacon Pistone said.“In that one-hour journey, each man would take turns explaining the lessons to me and helped me prepare for that night’s class,” Pistone acknowledged. “God sent me three angels in the form of these men to prepare me and ensure that I completed my formation as a deacon.”Headded, “I had the great honor of being ordained with these three special men at Sacred Heart Church in Galveston by Bishop John L. Morkovsky on June 6, 1972, for the first class of permanent deacons in this diocese.”
When Steffes attended a men’s retreat in 1970 at Holy Name Retreat Center, one of the other men attending, Al Henry of St. Francis Xavier parish, was on the committee starting the Diaconate in Galveston-Houston and shared information with the retreatants.
Deacon Steffes said after discussing the possible ministry with his wife Sandy, she agreed. They made an appointment with their pastor for approval since the church usually pays for the tuition during formation.
The pastor “said okay, but he said he did not think I would make it,” Deacon Steffes said and chuckled.“Churches get a twofer with deacons because usually, their wives are just as active in church ministry, and we work as a team.”
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Pistone said, “I thank God for the 50 years He has allowed me to serve the people of God. I pray for more time to increase in holiness and become a more perfect instrument to do His will here on earth for as many years as He sees fit to grant me.”
Deacon Phillip Jackson, director of the Permanent Diaconate, said, “These last few years have been a challenge as we have learned to navigate through a global pandemic” impacting deacons and those they serve as chaplains.
taught.Cardinal DiNardo said to an overflowing auditorium, “The past two years have been kind of bumpy. It’s magnificent to see you deacons and your wives!”“You all are the renewal! You are part of the reforming and reanimating of the diaconate. You do important work,” Cardinal DiNardo told the crowd that included about 300 deacons and their wives, along with 120 volunteers from the ongoing classes of 2023 and 2025.
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A fellow classmate of 1972, Deacon Dale Steffes of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in west Houston, is also celebrating 50 years of dedicated service. An engineer who worked in the oil and gas industry, Deacon Steffes estimates that he has baptized more than 2,000 and has witnessed more than 300 weddings and hundreds more funerals. He was the only one of the original seven left standing who attended the convocation and was congratulated by Cardinal DiNardo.
St. John Vianney’s current pastor, Father Troy Gately, praised Deacon Steffes to parishioners in a recent church bulletin and during a church celebration for his 50thFatheranniversary.Gately said Deacon Steffes “continues to faithfully lead the Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help every Wednesday evening, he is constant in his devotion to Eucharistic Adoration… he is at Morning Prayer every day at 6:30 a.m. and Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m. Dales continues to reach out to the sick and homebound…He remains a vital and contributing member of the Pastoral Council, is involved with the Knights of Columbus and That Man is You men’s fellowship. He truly has a deacon’s heart of charity.”“Yetnone of this would have been possible without the love, generosity, support, faithfulness and encouragement of his wonderful wife Sandy and their (five) children.Their sacrifices and understanding have enabled Deacon Dale to serve tens of thousands of Christ’s faithful over these 50 years of ordained ministry,” Father Gately said in congratulations to the deacon and hisAnotherfamily.
Recently preparing to travel to England and Wales to speak at their 50th anniversary of the diaconate, Deacon DuPont added, “The United States has 38% of the total deacons in the world. At one point, we had over 65%. More and more, the diaconate is growing in the rest of the world, which is the work that IDC does.” †
It was over half a century ago when the diaconate was resurrected. Reforms in the 1960s from the Second Vatican Council had bishops calling to restore permanent deacons in the Church to help the dwindling number of priests, said DeaconPreviously,Jackson.the diaconate, which allows married men in the permanent order, had gone into decline in the fourth century, reduced to an exclusively transitional order of seminarians on their path to priesthood.Deacon John S. Pistone of Galveston is among the first ordained from the diaconate class of 1972 and remembers his thought and prayer process from 50 yearsFromago.the time his pastor announced at
attending the convocation, Deacon Gerald DuPont, former director of the local office of the Permanent Diaconate, was the first deacon to serve in that director role previously filled by priests. Still active as president of the International Diaconate Centre, Deacon DuPont said there are more than 48,000 ordained Catholic deacons in the world, sharing their dedication with parishioners and communities.
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After two years of classes spread over two nights a week plus some Saturdays, Deacon Steffes earned college credit and was awarded a Bachelor of Theology degree from the University of St. Thomas. He was then ordained by Bishop Morkovsky on June 4, 1972, at St. John Vianney Catholic Church along with two other men of the parish, Deacon Anthony Aiuvalasit and Deacon Fred Brinkman, both now deceased.
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo (center) and Deacon Phillip Jackson, Archdioc esan director of the Office of the Permanent Diaconate, (right) congratu late Deacon Dale Steffes (left) on his 50th anniversary of being among the first ordained in the local diaconate class of 1972.
Mass that the Church was beginning to look for men for the permanent diaconate, “I couldn’t get the thought out of my mind,” Deacon Pistone said, who was then working at the newspaper printing press for the Houston Chronicle.
“Hospitals, nursing homes, correctional institutions, immigration centers, and even our access to ships at the ports have been closed to us” and are only slowly reopening, he said.
The Archdiocesan Catholic School Office has been working with the St. Peter Board of Trustees to raise up to an $11.3 million goal to renovate, furnish and equip the former St. Peter the Apostle Catholic School into a state-of-the-art career and technical high school.
Catholic secondary school experience.”
“At Holy Ghost, Shea assisted with technology, water fountains, paint and athletic equipment,” Haney said. “At St. Mary’s, they outfitted the school playground surrounding it with artificial turf and enhanced the technology in the school’s program… making a huge difference in the lives of the students and teachers.”St.Peter is located on a 10-acre campus off Old Spanish Trail near the 610 Freeway. The two-story brick building will offer careers first in information technology and web development; business, marketing and finance; education and training; and architecture andTheconstruction.schoolisdesigned to accommodate up to 200 students during Phase 1, beginning with an incoming freshman class of 50 students. As enrollment grows,
“I am even more thrilled about the inclusivity that the school will provide for any student who wants a Catholic secondary school experience.”
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More than $7 million raised so far for St. Peter Catholic High School renovations
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Shea Homes Houston Division President Keith Luechtefeld said, “Shea Homes is proud to partner with the Archdiocese to provide high school students with an opportunity to obtain a technical education while also focusing on character-building and faith formation.”
Phase 3 would add health, science and pharmacyHands-ontechnology.experience with industrystandard software and technology will be
available for students to be professionally competent in their chosen career paths, Haney“Studentssaid. can choose to go on to associate degree programs, four-year colleges, or they can go directly into the workforce with certifications to do jobs that are needed by industry,” she said.
There are also naming rights available for donors, including the gymnasium, science labs, classrooms and other areas.
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HOUSTON — Strides continue for the new St. Peter Catholic – A Career and Technical High School with more than $7 million raised so far from foundations, businesses, a large anonymous donor and multiple individuals.
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The Scanlan Foundation has awarded $2 million for the project to be the first Catholic school of its kind in Texas. Shea Homes also recently made a generous award for classroom renovations to update the building and install technology.Archdiocesan School Superintendent Dr. Debra Haney said, “I am excited about the partnerships, including Shea and Scanlan, with our Catholic schools. I am so grateful for their generosity to us already!”Sheadded, “I am overwhelmed by how excited the community is about this new high school. I am even more thrilled about the inclusivity that the school will provide for any student who wants a
Phase 2 would add a transportation, distribution and logistics career path.
Previously, Shea Homes completed renovation projects for Holy Ghost Catholic School in southwest Houston and St. Mary of the Purification Catholic School in central Houston.
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The new principal for the school, Dr. Marc Martinez, recently hired in August, has also been working with the school’s board of Constructiontrustees.is set to begin prior to the scheduled 2023-24 school opening. Possible partnerships with interested businesses can offer internships to students. Companies can have opportunities for their own experts to be specialized instructors at the school to train students for the workplace.
Her daughter Olga Campos Benz, who lives in Austin, said,“Knowing our mother is now living in a faith-based senior community provides us with true peace of mind.”Sheadded, “It is the number one reason we encouraged her to move to St. DominicInvitingVillage.”thefamilies of residents along with the public interested in visiting the facilities, St. Dominic Village staff celebrated the Feast Day of St. Dominic on Aug. 8 with tours, a Mass with Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro and dinner in its auditorium.AmyShields, C.E.O., L.N.F.A., the Village’s chief executive officer and skilled nursing facility administrator, said, “I would describe the event as an amazing success as we celebrated the Feast of St. Dominic.”
HOUSTON — Hispanic community icon Esther Campos, who served as a Houston school board trustee for 10 years, researched her new way of life as thoroughly as she did public policy.
But downsizing was still difficult for her. She has gifted many of her possessions, including most of the 100-plus handmade quilts that Campos had created over the years. The remaining 50 quilts will be sold, with proceeds going to Texas Children’s
“We have not been able to have this annual event the last three years (because of the pandemic). We were so pleased to welcome 200 people to the celebration of Mass with Bishop Dell’Oro, dinner afterward and Bingo,” she said. †
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ThereDominic.isalso an Assisted Living building as well as a Rehabilitation and Nursing Center and the Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza Priest Residence on the St. Dominic campus.
Hospital.Other items, including furnishings, two sets of china and photos of Campos with former Congressional members Mickey Leland, Barbara Jordan and President Jimmy Carter will be divided among her two surviving daughters, one son, seven grandchildren and 14 greatgrandchildren.Camposwas just 25 — married to her late husband Jesse Campos, with four young children — when she enrolled at the University of Houston’s College of Education in 1959. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in Spanish. Campos went on to become one of the first bilingual education teachers in
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The faith-based, nonprofit senior care retirement community is a ministry of the Archdiocese and offers daily Mass at its chapel, which Campos, who now uses a walker, said she at times attends. Yet residents do not have to be Catholic.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. DOMINIC VILLAGE Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro visits with St. Dominic Village residents and their families after celebrating Mass at the senior retirement community on behalf of the feast day of St. Dominic Aug. 8.
Her bright blue eyes and naturally pink cheeks belied her age, while McCaffrey enthusiastically talked about serving the poor in Ghana and even providing care for a stint among lepers.
The 91-year-old decided it was time for her to downsize and move from her East End neighborhood, where she had lived since 1959, off Weaver Street.
“I had ‘auditions’ and toured at least five or six different residential facilities for those who are older,” Campos said. “I did not want to be in the possible hurricane evacuation site south of I-45.”
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“I do feel isolated sometimes,” Campos said after leaving her home to move into St. Dominic this past June. “But a priest I talked with told me that I would most likely feel isolated from my previous life wherever I move to,” Campos said and nodded her head slowly.
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“This area is so well-situated, and they offer you transportation to your doctor’s appointments and shopping,”Campos said of her Independent Living arrangements at St.
She instead chose to have an individual apartment in the centrally located St. Dominic Village on a 27-acre, park-like campus off Holcombe near the Texas Medical Center.
To keep busy, she praises the activities that St. Dominic offers, including scheduled talks by residents called “Tell Your Story,” art classes and a drumming session that she is interested in finding out moreWhenabout.having lunch recently at the main St. Dominic’s dining hall, Campos sat with retired Sister Ursula McCaffrey, 83, who worked in west Africa with the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries.
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Former Houston school district trustee Esther Campos recently moved into the Archdiocese’s St. Dominic Village senior housing near the Texas Medical Center. She visits the statue of St. Dominic with a fresh bouquet of flowers on his feast day Aug. 8.
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and North Carolina, while her son was an active Harley Davidson motorcycle rider until he suffered a stroke and remains in rehabilitation himself at 67, she said.
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Campos said, “So many people here have lived such interesting lives.”
the Houston Independent School District (HISD).Shelater worked as a counselor and an assistant principal before being voted in as an HISD school board trustee in 1993, serving for a decade through 2003 supporting anti-bullying legislation as well as the state certification of school police officers — still relevant issues today. Last year, the University of Houston awarded Campos an honorary doctorate degree for her life’s achievements and community service.Herhusband of 57 years passed away in 2011 after they both traveled the world together. One daughter lives in Austin, and another divides her time between Houston
HOUSTON — The words continued to reverberate in the mind of the archbishop as he left the first session of the Second Vatican Council: “Every opportunity should be given the laity to share zealously in the salvific work of the Church…”Forthe late Joseph Cardinal Ritter, these words inspired him to explore ways by which dioceses might come together to discuss, exchange ideas and share information on how to involve the laity in the life of the Church in a profoundly newTheseway. early gatherings marked the beginnings of the International Catholic Stewardship Council (ICSC), which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary.
There is the paradoxical truth, hallowed in the New Testament, that by giving ourselves to someone or something beyond ourselves, we discover our own best self: “He who loses himself for my sake will find himself” (Mt 10:39). Living as Christian stewards should bring a deeper and greater joy, and confidence about being disciples Christ Jesus.
BY MICHAEL MURPHY Special to the Herald
The United States bishops identified this response as “stewardship” in their 1992 pastoral letter, “Stewardship, A Disciple’s Response.” The mission of ICSC is to promote and support the bishops’ teaching on stewardship, which is not simply an appeal for funds but an expression of how we live our lives in response to the call of Jesus Christ.
Sean O’Driscoll, senior communications manager of the Archdiocesan communications office, presents during a recent development and communications conference for parishes at St. Laurence Catholic Church in Sugar Land.
“mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16) and interact with creation and its inhabitants as “ambassadors of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:20). The United States bishops bring this Gospel imperative to life in their pastoral letter.
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The term stewardship is used quite frequently in the public square and the marketplace. Leaders of government, corporations, universities and other
Take time for prayer; nurture relationships with family and friends; participate in the life of the parish community; act out of loving compassion toward others in the world.
What God does in Jesus’s human life is a much-magnified version of what happens when one’s personal schedule
Ultimately, stewardship comes down to personal decisions about how each of us lives out our commitment to discipleship and how each of us will use God’s gifts based on our experience, self-knowledge and the call of God’s grace.
secular organizations speak of their stewardship responsibilities. Indeed, leaders of these institutions may have a broader understanding of the term than many Catholic leaders, for whom stewardship is understood as only being aboutSecularmoney.institutions understand that the term “stewardship” has far greater implications than the management of money — which is only one important aspect of stewardship. Moreover, an increasing number of people, especially young people, are using the language of stewardship to express their concerns about the earth, its inhabitants, and its resources.Formany Catholic communities, stewardship is understood as most, if not solely, about parishioners’ money — their “treasure.” Other parishes have expanded that understanding to include “time” and “talent” as their definition of “holistic” stewardship.Butthe gospel imperative of stewardship transcends these simple characterizations. Stewardship concerns itself with how Christian disciples embrace God’s created order with the
He understood that this 22nd great council of the Church acknowledged “the laity’s special and indispensable role in the Church’s mission” (Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, n1) and was making an earnest appeal of the laity to respond enthusiastically “to the voice of Christ” (Decree, n 33).
The bishops’ stewardship pastoral teaches that the best way to respond to God’s loving generosity is by extending that generosity day by day.
ICSC welcomes parish leaders, those involved in a variety of parish ministries, and Catholic school administrators to attend its 60th-anniversary conference to be held in Anaheim, California, from Oct. 2 toThe5. theme, Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response, is taken from the bishops’ pastoral letter and offers participants a chance to gather and reflect on the spirituality of stewardship in the Catholic Church and its implications for our Catholic life of faith. †
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is rearranged to be with someone who is lonely or despairing, when creative ways are devised to volunteer talents for the parish, or when family budgets and spending habits are reprioritized in light of the Gospel. The stewardship question is not, “Should I do these things?” but rather, “How much should I do?”
Cardinal Ritter was the archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, at the time, and the words that continued to inspire him came directly from chapter IV of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church pertaining to the laity (n33).
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“These efforts strengthen the clergy and parish leaders’ skills and knowledge of aging resources available,” said Ciesielski. “We offer education and planning to help leaders know how to tap into the gifts of older adults for their parish communities. The formation also helps leaders better understand the reality families face with older adults and how to minister to their needs more effectively.”“Theend results,” Ciesielski continued, “are parishes enriched with the gifts and talents of older adults, as well as tools to help older adults age with dignity and honor.”The ministry’s current reach includes 81 active parish senior clubs slowly rebounding from the pandemic. The office also offers direct assistance to 400 seniors through its annual days of prayer,
The 2022 Diocesan Services Fund theme draws from 1 Corinthians: “All For the Glory of God.” DSF operates in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston each year to help the Church carry out the ministries of teaching and sanctifying. DSF brings the needed financial resources to carry out 60-plus ministries.
Julia Klawinski, a St. Edward Senior Saints member, had a similar experience attending a northern Senior Senate meeting 10 years ago.
Delois Semien, senior at Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, and Bob Mitchell, senior at St. Catherine of Sienna Parish, both agree Senior Senate meetings provide them with opportunities to engage socially with other parish senior groups and exchange ideas and share resources.“In2012, another senior invited me to the central Senior Senate meeting hosted by the Office of Aging Ministry, to socialize monthly with seniors from other parishes,” said Semien. “We exchanged ideas, activities, events and educational resources for engaging and supporting seniors at our home parishes. We also visited other parish clubs and benefited from sharing their social and spiritual events.”
To encourage communication between parish senior groups across the Archdiocese, Ciesielski said the original “Senior Senate” structure created in 1976 by Office of Aging Ministry founders, Sisters Teresita Partin, CVI, and Dorothy Sachnik, CVI, exists today. This includes three Senior Senates — northern, central, and southwest — governed by a set of by-laws with officers and parish representatives who meet regularly.
The Office of Aging Ministry recently completed a survey of every parish in the Archdiocese to identify how to assist parish staff in responding to requests from families with older adults.
“I witnessed the benefits of these educational presenters talking to seniors at my own parish on topics that included fall prevention, transportation support, memory care and caregiving,” said Klawinski. “I personally benefited from attending regional seminars presented by the Office of Aging Ministry on how to support aging within your own home.”
“The Office of Aging Ministry provides seniors with updates for educational speakers and area senior activities, plus a helpful newsletter,” said Mitchell. “As a Marine veteran, I was pleased when asked by the Office to secure a color guard for a seminar on Veterans’ benefits for older veterans and widows of veterans.”
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HOUSTON — The population of people aged 55 and over within the boundaries of the Archdiocese is projected to grow to 2.1 million in 2026, up from a reported 1.5 million in 2016, a 4.4% increase.
Mitchell said he also first encountered the Office of Aging in 2012 when he became president of his parish senior club and attended the southwest Senior Senate meetings. He feels he would not have had access to these resources if his parish senior ministry operated on its own.
“Requests range for help with memory care and other caregiving support to pastoral ministry for end-of-life care,”said Ciesielski. “A need was identified to serve older adults who predominantly speak Spanish. In response, we are piloting an October training program in English and Spanish to help parish staffs know how to make good referrals to community service providers for their older adults. In turn, live and virtual training options will be available to every parish in the Archdiocese on making referrals.”Ciesielski said the Office of Aging Ministry partners with community service organizations and Archdiocesan ministries to provide a more comprehensive picture of how various ministries and community services work together for the needs of families with older adults. By inviting these partnerships in seminars, the Catholic community can understand how the pieces of ministry and service fit together.“For example, Catholic Charities Senior Services brings a direct service component to the table,” said Ciesielski. “The Offices of Worship, Pro-Life Activities, and Catholic Cemeteries can address end-of-life and funeral planning, while the Office of Family Life can address a ministry of consolation, wedding anniversary celebrations, and the role of grandparents. These Archdiocesan ministries and community provider services can also help parishes more easily access educational, formational, and direct services for families with older adults.”The Office of Aging Ministry is one of more than 60 ministries that benefit from the Diocesan Services Fund (DSF), mainly for staff positions that coordinate multiple services and activities offered to parishes and community providers. With additional funding, Ciesielski said he would hire a dedicated staff person to help parishes recognize and develop the wealth of older adults’ gifts and talents to benefit the parish, as well as discover more outreach services to underserved parishes without senior groups.
Klawinski said her adult children attended the sessions with her and learned how to better support their parents as they age, which also better prepared them for their own futures.
Assisting older adult populations on the rise to age with dignity, honor
A presenter speaks to members of the northern Senior Senate of the Archdiocese on Aug. 8.
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senior senates, and regional seminars about issues like caregiving, Veterans’ Administration benefits, aging in place support, and end-of-life planning. He said an additional 200 seniors are given referrals to community providers to help them with specific needs.
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This projection shows both an abundance of wisdom and gifts available for the service of the Church from this growing community and the need to respond to challenges these aging congregations face today and in the foreseeable future.
Mark Ciesielski, director of the Office of Aging Ministry, said the ministry provides clergy support and formation of parish staff/leaders engaged in older adult ministry to address these issues for their aging parishioners.
BY KERRY MCGUIRE Herald Correspondent
HOUSTON — Whether in dance, song, craft or prayer, dozens of parishes around the Archdiocese hosted vacation Bible schools to draw young children closer to Jesus Christ and the GospelUsingmessage.avariety of tools, including arts and crafts, games, activities and more, these annual summer sessions bring the students into a unique encounter with Jesus Christ and His Church. Many hosted by parish volunteers and ministers, including high school and college students, the summer sessions featured themes that highlighted the impact of Jesus and how He “pulls us through life’s ups and downs,” and “celebrating God’s monumental greatness.”
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Father Joseph Thu Le, pastor of St. Christopher Catholic Church and School, blesses a group of St. Christopher School students at the beginning of the new semester. Catholic schools all across the Archdiocese began the fall semester last month, with as many as 16,000 students returning to the classroom. FOR MORE PHOTOS, VISIT WWW.ARCHGH.ORG/SCHOOL2022.
Cardinal DiNardo and Dr. Debra Haney, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese, presented service and recognition awards to teachers and principals:
At the conclusion of the Mass, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Dr. Debra Haney, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese, presented service and recognition awards to teachers and principals. At top left, Father Albert Zanatta, C.R.S., and John Bates at Assumption Catholic School receive the St. Peter and St. Paul Award. At top right, Katie Cole at St. Martha Catholic School in Kingwood receives the Sally Landram Excellence in Education Award. Above, at left, Grace Kwong at St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Houston receive the Archdiocesan Leadership Award. Above, at right, Father Bill Bueche, C.Ss.R., and Deborah Crowe receive the Catholic Impact Award.
Drew Hudson, interim principal of Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston, was promoted to principal. Cathy Stephen, formerly of the Catholic Schools Office, now leads Incarnate Word Academy. St. Peter Catholic named Dr. Marc Martinez as principal. Deborah Whalen was named president at St. Agnes Academy, while Sister Donna Pollard, OP, was named interim president at St. Pius X High School. †
Five Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese also named new leadership for the 2022 school year.
- Katie Cole at St. Martha Catholic School in Kingwood received the Sally Landram Excellence in Education Award.
HOUSTON — More than 1,200 Catholic School educators gathered for Mass on Aug. 12 with Daniel Cardinal DiNardo at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, signaling the arrival of the fall school semester.
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They are as follows: Corpus Christi: Cindy Barranco, principal; Holy Family in Galveston: Jeanna Porter, principal; Holy Rosary in Rosenberg: Adrienne Rodriguez, principal; Our Lady of Fatima in Texas City: Cheryl Aucoin, principal; Regis School of the Sacred Heart: Stephen Turner, principal; Resurrection: Cindy Suarez, principal; St. Catherine Montessori: Lina Delgado, principal; St. Mary Magdalene in Humble: Lois Goudeau, principal; St. Mary of the Purification: Jarae’ Miles, principal; St. Theresa in Memorial Park: Sarah Fox, principal; and St. Theresa in Sugar Land: Francesca Rice, principal.
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HOUSTON — Eleven Catholic school institutions across the Archdiocese are welcoming new leadership for the new school year.
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These members of the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese, all teachers, faculty and staff at the 45 Catholic primary schools and 12 Catholic high schools, met to pray for and celebrate the new school year.Cardinal DiNardo applauded their efforts, reminding them of the long legacy of Catholic education in the Archdiocese, which began 175 years ago, and continues today.
- Father Albert Zanatta, C.R.S., and John Bates at Assumption Catholic School received the St. Peter and St. Paul Award.-Grace Kwong at St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Houston received the Archdiocesan Leadership Award.
- Father Bill Bueche, C.Ss.R., and Deborah Crowe received the Catholic ImpactMoreAward.than 16,000 students attend Catholic schools across the Archdiocese, with many who began their semesters the week of Aug. 15. †
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No matter which statistic one looks at, you notice a trend of youth leaving the Church or not being engaged. All the data one finds will be prior to COVID-19. I can only imagine what the statistics would be now. I speak and travel nationally and have noticed that most events are less in numbers than years prior. Of course, some dioceses and parishes are doing amazing things, but, as a whole, it is safe to say that youth have left or will leave. So, what is the answer? I am not going to try to say I have “the” answer, but I know I have noticed “an” answer, and it’s right in front of us if we stop and listen. I want to introduce you to Tom. His mother came in because he was going to a private Christian high school and was getting a lot of pressure from his Protestant friends and questioning a lot of things. What they were doing to him was working but reached a plateau. His mother asked for advice from the new youth minister, who was heavily tattoed and listened to Christian hip hop. I told her to just let him come in, and the Holy Spirit would do the rest. He definitely
Pat Gunning, Campus Minister
The thread that ties the youth to the Church
Doris M. Barrow, III, Campus Minister
Carl Erickson, Campus Minister
Father Ray Cook, O.M.I., Chaplain and Director
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Mimi Tran, Campus Minister
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Mary Impelman, Campus Minister Rice University St. Mary’s Chapel and Catholic Student Center 713-526-3809 | www.ricecatholics.wordpress.commimpelman@archgh.org
Alex Gotay is the coordinator of youth and young adult evangelization at Prince of Peace Catholic Church.
did. Tom was engaged at the parish and involved in everything. He decided to study youth ministry in college, and he is presently a youth minister at a parish working on a graduate degree in theology. His father is on his way to becoming a permanent deacon.Thenext is Tammy. Her family is culturally Catholic and barely participated in the Sacraments. I met her on a retreat. I noticed when I started playing Christian hip hop, she began moving her head and started dancing. She ended up becoming the DJ for our parish youth group. Her involvement was so odd to her family that they thought she was lying about going to church “again.” Her involvement got her parents back to Church. She also studied youth ministry in college. She is married to her childhood sweetheart, and both are heavily involved in the
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I hope, by now, you see the common “thread” in all these stories. It is the family. Youth will imitate what their parents do when it comes to faith. The conversations between the parents about the church, the Pope, the pastor, the music, etc., are heard and taken in. The habits of Mass, Bible reading, learning and challenging to grow are noticed. Engaging youth ministry is needed. Engaging parents are needed even more. An engaging youth ministry cannot be the only thing that teens need. Faithful parents who are willing to engage their youth and walk alongside them are also needed. In looking at the youth and Church, it is the domestic Church that is an invaluable resource (CCC 2207) that we really need to factor in. †
Father Paul English, C.S.B., Chaplain
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Simon Powell, Campus Minister
The Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry seeks to provide a home for young adults within the Catholic Church and accompany young adults in their journey with Christ through their late teens, 20s, and 30s. The office seeks to bring a Catholic presence to the colleges and universities located within the archdiocese.Throughempowering Catholic Newman Centers, we seek to create environments where Catholic students can find community, encounter Christ in prayer, and be formed as disciples of Jesus. We also seek to evangelize the entire academic community and invite others into the joy, fulfillment, and truth of living theForGospel.more information, contact the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry at 713-741-8778, yacm@archgh.org, or visit to www.archgh.org/yacm
Church.Tabitha is next. Her family is Catholic, and her mother was heavily involved in the charismatic movement. She had an amazing experience at church and began coming to everything. Much like Tammy, her parents thought she was lying about going to the parish “again.” Her parents would ground her from going to church. Yes, you heard that right. This is a normal response, in my experience, from a lot of parents when they have a child who is not interested, becomes interested, and does more than go to Mass during the week. She graduated from high school and began to work. The last time I saw her was a few years after she graduated. She was not attending Mass and is still away from the Church.
Vespers for A New Year: A day of renewal for music ministers
Perhaps most important of all is this reminder from Pope Francis: “Your dedication to the Liturgy and its music represents a way of evangelization at all levels, from children to adults. In fact, the Liturgy is the first ‘teacher’ of catechism. Do not forget this: the Liturgy is the first ‘teacher’ of catechism.” †
• Make an appointment with a spiritual director to help discern prayer practices.
• Research Adoration hours at your parish and visit for prayer.
Melissa Alvarez is an assistant associ ate director with the Office of Evangeli zation and Catechesis.
We join with Pope Francis the vision of opening the door of beauty to God through the arts and, in particular, the gift of sacred music as he said in his address to the Scholae Cantorum of the Italian Santa Cecilia Association in September 2019: “Not just any music, but holy music, because rituals are holy; endowed with the nobility of art, because God must be given the best; universal, so that everyone can understand and celebrate. Above all, clearly distinct and different from that used for other purposes.”
The day of renewal, with music preparation and spiritual reflection, culminated in an afternoon celebration of vespers with Daniel Cardinal DiNardo as the celebrant.
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• Journal a prayerful letter to God before bedtime.
COLUMNISTS
One thing is clear, both occasions call us to prayer. Likewise, both strike a variety of emotions and actions, but what about our prayer life? Where is the quiet and stillness factored into our day for prayer? Where have we planned to make time in our day for that peaceful encounter with our creator?
• Research confession hours at your
is still the commitment that I ask of you today: to help ...ministers, cantors, artists musicians to cooperate so that the Liturgy may be the ‘font and the summit of the vitality of the Church.’”
If we go back a little further, over a hundred years ago, on Sept. 13, 1917, in Portugal, Our Lady came to visit three children. She had visited the children four times before then, asking them to pray the Rosary for world peace. But some people who heard of the seers and the apparitions were doubtful and asked for a sign. Soon, Our Lady gave them a
We are often quick to plan family time with a sports event or movie night, but why not make prayer a time in our
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• Play a video of the Rosary or your favorite prayer on a car ride.
parish and stay for prayer after reconciliation.
First, we just passed the anniversary of September 11, 2001, and the event we witnessed that day with all the lives lost and those affected. I remember I was in college, and our professor dismissed class early that day.
For some of us, making that time for prayer can be a little tricky, especially when there are young children or a spouse, but that’s a great opportunity for praying. We can pray by incorporating that one-on-one time with Our Lord into our family time.
day? And I’m not speaking of praying over the meals of our day — yes, that’s beautiful, and we should do that — but I’m referring to designated time in our day. Here are some helpful tips you might consider when planning for prayer time:
• Read a prayer book before lunch.
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Puttingbreak.into practice all that we are called to do while on this earth keeps us close to Our Lord. Therefore, we will notice God’s works when prayer is part of our daily lives. †
great miracle. You will have to research or watch the recent 2020 film Fatima to know what happened at the last apparition on Oct. 13, 1917.
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Held at the University of St. Thomas’ Jerabeck Center, the bilingual event was an opportunity for revitalization and fellowship for all Catholic music ministers from the 145 parishes in our Archdiocesan community. We came together post-COVID-19 to embrace the art that touches our spirits and rekindles our love of God through sacred music and music ministry.
The guest music director for the day was a very well-known author, composer and lecturer Dr. Steven Janco, the director of the program for Music and Liturgy at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The program offers summer and online Master of Arts in music and Liturgy, as well as workshops, webinars and other training and enrichment opportunities for liturgical planners, ministers and musicians.Thegreatest problem we face both inside and outside the Church is the loss of the sense of the sacred. In a busy and distracted society, people from all walks of life hunger for deep meaning, for the timeless, for the transcendent. They hunger for the presence of God. We follow the call of Pope Francis, “This
• Pray the Rosary together as a family before or after dinner.
• Journal your prayer during your lunch
• Wake up 30 minutes before your usual time and pray.
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How often do you pray?
Parish music ministers and members of their parish music programs on Saturday, Sept. 10 attended a day of prayer, preparation and renewal for their new year of music ministry.
September is full of a variety of preparations. A new season will be around the corner. A change in weather will soon come, and all the while, we will continue our daily lives. There is so much we are called to do and are reminded of in our journey.
Dr. Rick Lopez is an associate director for the Office of Worship and director of the Archdiocesan Choir.
• Arrive 30 minutes early to Mass and pray the Rosary.
Classes restarted across Ukraine Sept. 1 after months of disruption caused by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, amid warnings that children needed protection against shells and bombs.
“There are many such tragic, very painful stories, and it’s not clear how priests can help — if the situation worsens, there will probably be no fulltime education,” Bishop Honcharuk said.
Bishop Sobilo said there was no possibility of Catholic catechism classes in Russian-occupied areas, where children were now being “formed in an anti-Catholic, anti-Ukrainian spirit with Orthodox Church assistance.”
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“TheCNS. Russians prepared earlier for dealing with schools under their occupation, meeting teachers who came over to their side and forcing others to teach Russian-language programs and ensure Ukrainian children were educated in a decidedly pro-Russian way,” he said. †
“If anyone is still stuck in the fantasy that Russia only bombs military facilities, they are not just mistaken but badly deluded. Hospitals, businesses, schools, universities, kindergartens and homes have all been destroyed.”
“A great campaign is underway to destroy all objects of social and cultural importance and to make it uncomfortable for local people and families to stay. Once they’re forced to flee, the towns are left defenseless.”Inapastoral letter scheduled to be read in churches Sept. 4, bishops said education was “necessary and essential” to a “fulfilled life under any territoriesmedia,attempted1.7destroyedandPavloininternational“revealtoSept.death,sadness”thatDioceseMeanwhile,circumstances.”theKharkiv-Zaporizhzhiawarnedonawebsitemessageyoungpeoplefaceda“permanentbroughtonby“horrorsofwar,sufferingandinjustice,”anditsaid1to7wouldbea“weekofeducation”strengthentheirsacramentallifeandtheCatholicvisionofhappiness.”InanAug.26interviewwiththecharityAidtotheChurchNeed,thediocese’sordinary,BishopHoncharuk,saidatleast20schoolsnumerouskindergartenshadbeenbymissilesinKharkiv,acityofmillionclosetothefrontline.HeaddedthatCatholicclergyhadtostayintouch,viasocialwithparishionersinoccupiedofeasternUkrainebutsaid
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych also praised teachers and administrators for bringing back “faceto-face education” and said he hoped schooling would be assured for the 4.8 million children, more than half Ukraine’s total, estimated by UNICEF to be displaced within the country or in exile abroad.
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“Although the war drags on, there are basic things we must provide them with, including the possibility of being educated. Children can best help Ukraine and their families by studying for their homeland’s future.”
“For centuries, Russia has fostered the view that its culture is the most important,” the bishop told CNS.
“The new school curriculum takes account of this and ensures children will grasp the meaning of racism, collaboration and Russian domination. These terms have all appeared for the first time in our teaching programs, so children will understand how they were brought to Ukraine by Russian soldiers.”
bomb shelters” for schoolchildren.
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UKRAINE (CNS) — Ukrainian bishops welcomed efforts to restart classes for a new school year and offered church basements as emergency air raid shelters for“Thechildren.Ukrainian authorities know education is vital for the country’s future, so everything is being done to get youngsters back to school, even while our soldiers are fighting at the front,” Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia told Catholic News Service (CNS) Sept. 1.
children had been separated from their parents in Russian-run “filtration camps.”
Ukrainian bishops praise efforts to restart schooling disrupted by war
CNS PHOTO A student attends a ceremony to mark the start of the school year in Bucha, Ukraine, Sept. 1.
“We are very happy to do this, and I’ve invited school principals to see what we have, so they can think how best to equip these basements for children to study in safety,” the archbishop said in an Aug. 29 statement.“Social protection of the family is a joint matter for both church and state. In war conditions, I think the need and prospect of a pro-family policy become even more acute.”
He added that Ukraine’s Education Ministry had asked churches and convents to make cellars available as “certified
“As in Luhansk after 2014, they will certainly try over time to eliminate the Catholic Church completely,” the bishop told
Bishop Sobilo said schools unable to provide quick access to air raid shelters when sirens sounded had arranged for pupils to study virtually from home.
He added that teaching programs had been adjusted to ease the anxiety of children with fathers serving in the war, as well to “combat Moscow’s propaganda” by removing Russian writers such as Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin from compulsory reading lists.
“Besides preventing education, they are targeting all forms of infrastructure important to Ukraine, to destabilize daily
The schools reopened as inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Ukraine’s Russianoccupied nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia, and as Ukrainian forces claimed to have broken through Russian lines in a bid to recapture the southern port of BishopKherson.Sobilo said he had taken refuge in a church basement with his congregation during a Russian bombing raid in July, adding that many older church buildings with large cellars were now listed as municipal shelters.
life,” Bishop Sobilo said.
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He said invading forces routinely targeted and destroyed educational institutions, with assistance from local informers, on the pretext that Ukrainian soldiers hid inside them.
STATE & NATION
The day, Sept. 1, is set aside by Christian churches and people of faith to reflect on the gift of creation. It launches the Season of Creation, which runs through Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology.
the integrity of creation speaks to us,” the bishops said.
IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The initial aid from Catholic Relief Services in response to the devastating floods in Pakistan has gotten to families that need it most. About 2,300 families have received cash assistance from CRS, said Megan Gilbert, a CRS spokeswoman. The cash can help those families buy food and water and make repairs to flood-damaged homes, Gilbert said.
Hopeful responses to the pope’s invitation have come about in several ways, the bishops said. They pointed to the synodal process that involves listening to each other that is occurring throughout the Church worldwide in preparation for the 2023 world Synod of Bishops on synodality.
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Cre ation, which is set aside by Christian churches and people of faith to reflect on the gift of creation, began Sept. 1 and runs through Oct. 4.
“The people living in the districts I visited were already marginalized,” said Gul Wali Khan, CRS emergency response coordinator in Pakistan, in a message to his CRS colleagues in the United States. †
While such efforts give the bishops hope, they said the actions are “far from sufficient to meeting the challenges of our times.” They also spoke of the need to safeguard against “complacency and hubris” by participating “in a listening faith, always aware of God’s action preceding and increasing our own efforts.”“This Season of Creation,” the bishops concluded, “we give thanks to the professionals and everyday citizens who work to protect the environment and promote the common good.” †
CRS gets aid to first families devastated by Pakistani floods
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The statement also noted the U.S. bishops’ adoption last November of new socially responsible investment guidelines and that the section on climate-related concerns had the largest number of revisions.
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Stressing that listening for God’s call to discipleship is integral to faith, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees invited people to also listen to the call of the earth during the observance of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
CRS is working with the Pakistani government and local partners, including Caritas Pakistan, to meet the most urgent needs of the people impacted by the persistent heavy rains in the provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan. The toll continues to climb. There were 1,191 confirmed dead as of Aug. 31 as a result of the flooding, and the number of Pakistanis who have lost their homes to the flooding is nearing 1 million. An estimated 2 million have been displaced, and one-third of the country’s territory is believed to be under water. The rains and flooding began in July and have continued to hammer the country on the Asian subcontinent for more than a month.
satellite image shows Tropical Storm Nicholas in the Gulf
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CNS PHOTO of Sept. The Season of
“With careful attentiveness, the Holy Father rightly identifies a dissonance in the world, also resoundingly true in the United States. The beauty of the natural world and the harmony that comes from
“Yet we also hear the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor,’ the ‘little ones’ being wounded by a throwaway culture fueled by greed, over-consumption, technocratic power, and indifference. We continue to experience the destructive force of natural disasters, floods, fires and heat waves and the consequent suffering of people, animals and ecosystems,” they said.The prelates suggested that despite such challenges, by listening attentively, “we can also catch the sound of hope emerging from our collective actions to protect creation, perhaps surprisingly, from our national politics and within our pilgrimCitingChurch.”PopeFrancis’s invitation in his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” to “a better kind of politics,” the bishops said the pope implicitly appeals to “a better kind of ‘ecopolitics’ that protects rather than exploits the environment and green ideologies for partisan gain.”
In addition, Archbishop Coakley and Bishop Malloy referred to efforts by “liberal and conservative lawmakers who share concerns about both the world’s climate and the welfare of our nation.”“They are doing the hard work of considering bipartisan policies that can preserve the environment, promote energy security, and grow the economy. We pray now, and in the future, both parties will continue to put forward their best environmental policies and work together to protect ‘our common home which God has entrusted to us,’” the bishops said, quoting Pope Francis’ encyclical “‘Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”
“We must learn the art of listening to sustain our faith, lest we end up among those, as the Old Testament prophets wrote, ‘who have ears, but hear not.’ We must also learn the art of listening to protect the environment,” said the Sept. 1 statement from Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, chairman of the Committee on International Justice andThePeace.bishops cited Pope Francis’s invitation to reflect on the season’s theme, “Listen to the voice of creation,” as an important starting point to recognize the vital need to protect the environment.
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Bishops urge listening to the call of the earth during Season of Creation
They also summarized the steps by other entities, such as the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Charities USA member agencies, Catholic Rural Life and Catholic Relief Services for their work to address environmental concerns.
En un continuo esfuerzo por facilitar atención pastoral a las victimas de abuso sexual del clero o del personal de la Iglesia, el Cardenal DiNardo gustaría recordar a los fieles de la Arquidiócesis la disponibilidad del Coordinador de Ayuda a Víctimas. Si alguien ha sido victim de abuso sexual del clero o del personal de la Iglesia, se les anima llamar a la Diane Vines al 713-654-5799. Por favor rece por la sanación de las víctimas del abuso y por todos los que sufren de alguna manera.
• Investigar el horario de confesiones y quedarse a rezar después de la
• Madrugar media hora antes de nuestro horario normal y así poder rezar.
• Leer un libro de oración durante el almuerzo.
por
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — Han pasado 50 años desde que San Pablo VI instituyó los ministerios de lector y acólito, abriéndolos a los laicos, y el papa Francisco quiere un “diálogo” formal con las conferencias episcopales del mundo para discutir sus experiencias con la promoción continua de los ministerios de la iglesia, fomentando así unidad y evangelización.ElSantoPadre hizo la propuesta de diálogo en un mensaje publicado por el Vaticano el 24 de agosto y fechado el 15 de agosto, que es el 50 aniversario de la carta apostólica, “Ministeria quaedam”, de su predecesor. Ese documento de 1972 determinó que las “órdenes menores” se llamaran “ministerios” y que estos ministerios — de lector y acólito — estuvieran abiertos a los laicos y ya no reservados exclusivamente para candidatos a la ordenación.Desdeentonces, el papa Francisco ha instituido más cambios: enmendar el derecho canónico para que las mujeres puedan ser instaladas formalmente como lectoras y acólitas e instituir el ministerio de catequista como oficio formal y vocación en la iglesia.
“Todo ministerio es un llamado de Dios para el bien de la comunidad”, escribió el papa Francisco.Lacomunidad
cristiana está llamada a discernir con atención lo que el Espíritu Santo está suscitando en relación con la situación concreta de cada comunidad, añadió.
Septiembre está lleno de una variedad de preparaciones. Una nueva temporada está a la vuelta de la esquina. Un cambio en el tiempo vendrá pronto mientras continuamos con nuestra vida diaria. Hay tantas cosas que estamos llamados hacer y recordar mientras vamos por nuestroRecordamoscamino.Septiembre 11, 2001, donde fuimos testigos de ese evento en el que muchos perdieron la vida y/o fueron afectados. Recuerdo estar ese día en el colegio y la profesora nos despidió temprano.Siregresamos un poco al pasado, más de 100 años para ser exactos, en el 13 septiembre del 1917; Nuestra Señora vino a visitar a unos pequeños en Portugal. La Virgen se les había aparecido a los tres niños cuatro veces antes, aun así algunas personas que se enteraron de las apariciones tenían dudas y pidieron una señal. Dentro de poco nuestra madre les daría un milagro. Tendrán que investigar o ver una
uno en uno durante el tiempo con nuestra familia. Muchas de las veces describimos el tiempo familiar con un evento de deportes o un viaje al cine. ¿Pero porque no mejor hacemos tiempo de rezo en nuestro día? Y no me refiero a cuando rezamos sobre nuestros alimentos, si claro, es hermoso rezar antes de comer y deberíamos de hacerlo; pero yo me refiero a designar tiempo específicamente para rezar en el día a día. Aquí tenemos unos consejos que podríamos considerar al organizar el tiempo para nuestro rezo:
• Hacer cita con un director espiritual para discernir prácticas actuales de rezo.
• Escribir rezos en un diario durante el almuerzo.Poniendo en práctica todo lo que estamos llamados a hacer en este mundo nos coloca más cercanos a Dios. Por lo tanto, podremos notar las obras de Dios en cuanto el rezar sea parte de nuestra vida diaria. †
Por eso, escribió, “la mejor manera de celebrar el aniversario de hoy es precisamente seguir profundizando en la reflexión sobre los ministerios que inició San Pablo VI”.
reconciliación.
• Llegar media hora antes a misa y rezar el Rosario.
IN BRIEF
¿Qué tan seguido rezas?
En su mensaje, el papa dijo que estas dos últimas intervenciones “no deben interpretarse como una superación de la doctrina anterior, sino como un mayor desarrollo hecho posible porque (el cambio) se basa en los mismos principios, en consonancia con la reflexión del Concilio Vaticano II, que inspiró ‘Ministeria quaedam’”.
• Escribir en un diario cartas a nuestro Señor antes de dormir.
APOYO PASTORAL A VÍCTIMAS DE ABUSO SEXUAL DEL CLERO
• Durante el viaje en el automóvil escuchar un vídeo del Rosario o tu oración favorita.
nuestro día? ¿En qué momento del día hemos planificado tiempo para ese encuentro de paz con nuestro creador? Para unos de nosotros tal vez sea algo complicado planear tiempo para rezar, especialmente cuando hay niños chiquitos o cónyuges, pero es allí cuando se abre una oportunidad para rezar juntos. Podríamos rezar incorporando ese tiempo que hacemos con Dios de
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Papa quiere diálogo con obispos sobre ministerios de la iglesia
Una cosa es clara, los dos eventos nos llaman a rezar. Asi mismo, los dos eventos también causan emociones y acciones, pero quietudfactorizadovidas.sobrepreguntémonoselrezoennuestrasDóndeestáelsilencioypararezaren
• Investigar el horario de adoración en su parroquia y visitarla para rezar.
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reciente película titulada Fátima para enterarse que pasó en la última aparición el 13 de Octubre 1917.
“Toda estructura ministerial que surge de este discernimiento es dinámica, viva, y flexible, como la acción del Espíritu”, y cada estructura debe profundizar aún más sus raíces en el Espíritu Santo “para evitar el riesgo de que este dinamismo se convierta en confusión, la viveza se reduzca a improvisación extemporánea, y la flexibilidad se transforme en adaptaciones arbitrarias e ideológicas”. †
• Rezar el Rosario como familia antes o después de cenar.
MUNDO CATÓLICO
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Melissa Alvarez es la subdirectora asociada de el Ministerio con Personas con Discapacidad en la Oficina de Evan gelización y Catequesis. ALVAREZMELISSA
That morning, the choir group was transferred to the pier for a boat transfer to the famous St. Mark’s Square to explore the Adriatic Coast. The choir members marveled at like a giant maze, with its tiny alleys and hidden piazzas linked by narrow footbridges over the many large and small canals.
the
The group later went to Florence, where they visited the Academia Gallery, which holds “David” by Michelangelo. Their travels followed to Padua, visiting the Basilica of St. Anthony with its famous Chapel of the Relics, which contains the actual tongue and lower jawbone of the Saint.
MOVIE RATINGS
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With St. Teresa of Kolkata’s death 25 years ago, there is an entire generation of young men and women who did not see much about her life and legacy, serving “the poorest of the poor.”
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That meant it was time to put her back in the spotlight, said a panel of those who were promoting a new documentary about the life of this saint, known popularly as Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charity.
On June 29, the group visited St. Peter’s Square to attend the Mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, celebrated by Pope Francis. They also toured the Papal Basilicas of Rome and the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo’s “Pieta.”The choir also visited Assisi, situated on a mountaintop with narrow lanes and basilicas. Much of the beautiful art in Assisi is dedicated to its young friar St. Francis, a rich young man who turned to God after an illness and established an order that has grown stronger over the centuries.Thechoir arrived and performed for
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A trip worthy of a song: Archdiocesan Choir performs during pilgrimage around Italy
Mass at the Basilica of St. Francis. After Mass, their local guide took the group on a tour of the basilica complex, which is composed of two churches built one atop the other. Beneath both churches is the crypt that houses the tomb of St. Francis. After lunch, the choir visited the Basilica of St. Clare, the first and most important heroine of the Franciscan movement.
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ROME — After a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Archdiocesan Choir pilgrimage to Italy, including Vatican City, finally took place over the summer. The choir took a panoramic tour of Rome.
release to more than 900 theaters on Oct. 3 and 4. “Thank you for all the efforts made to capture the life of this saint, whose life and testimony have borne much fruit,” wrote Pope Francis, who canonized her at the Vatican in 2016.
Mother Teresa was “an icon of the good Samaritan” who went “everywhere to serve Christ in the poorest of the poor. Not even conflict and war could stand in her way,” the late pope said. Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly said at a news conference hosted at Vatican Radio on Aug. 31 that the Knights made this film “to reach a new generation with the witness and example of Mother Teresa” and to inspire them.
Produced by the Knights of Columbus, “Mother Teresa: No Greater Love” had its Vatican premiere on Aug. 31, ahead of its
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARCHDIOCESAN CHOIR During their Italian pilgrimage, the Archdiocesan Choir performed in a number of sacred spaces in Rome and the Vatican, including The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola near the Pantheon. Teresa film puts spotlight back on saint, in theaters Oct. 3 - 4
The first performance was the Solemn Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter’s, celebrated by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P., an American originally from New York, now adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It was followed by performances at the Church of St. Ignatius and the Basilica of St. Francis.
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Filmmaker David Naglieri talks with a Missionaries of Charity nun after a private screening of the documentary film, “Mother Teresa: No Greater Love,” in Rome Sept. 1, 2022. Produced by the Knights of Columbus, the film will be released in more than 900 theaters Oct. 3 and 4.
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(800 South Main St., Highlands). $10 per plate (to-go boxes), $1 hot dogs, nachos, Frito pies, fruit cups, sodas and fruit drinks (Aguas Frescas), and snow cones. Also, the event will include cakes and pies; whole desserts for sale, prices will vary. Silent auction begins at 1 p.m. All-day wrist bands are $10, or $0.50/ticket, for petting zoo, pony rides, train rides, face painting and balloon clown. Music by DJ and raffle. More info: 281-843-2422; stjudebus@ comcast.net.
, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., St. Stanislaus Kostka (1511 Hwy. 90 South, Anderson). Mass at 10 a.m. starts the 68th annual homecoming and bazaar, followed by barbecue dinner at 11 a.m., games, booths, kid’s area, homemade items, auction, free 150-year history books, 1917 church open for viewing, live Polish music and dancing with Brian Marshall and the Texas Paradise Band. More info: 936-873-2291; www. saintstans.org.
FESTIVAL , 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Queen of Peace (626 Laurel St., La Marque). Event includes a raffle, cake booth, games, vendors, food, beer garden and both live and silent auctions. More info: 409-938-7000.
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Steven Jensen, UST Professor of Philosophy followed by a panel discussion. Free, open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP: www.tinyurl.com/septlecture. More info: maxcenter@stthom.edu.
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SEPT. BAZAAR25 , 11 a.m., Christ Our Light (9677 Hwy. 6, Navasota). Barbeque and sausage dinners; drive thru available. Event includes live and silent auctions, food booths, games for all ages, kids activities, a raffle and more.
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FESTIVAL, St. Faustina (28102 FM 1093, Fulshear). Saturday: 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday features a ticketed fajita dinner, live music and dancing. Sunday features a Knights of Columbus barbecue, live music, games, inflatables, rockwall, train, live and silent auctions, raffle and saintfaustinachurch.org/parish-festival.more.
Registration for these classes will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18 and 25 from 10 to 11 a.m. and again from 12 to 1 p.m. Classes will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Sunday at Markofsky Hall on the St. Dominic’s Village campus, located at 2403 Holcombe Blvd. in Houston. At the same time, classes in American Sign Language and English as a Second Language will be held for parents whose children are registered for classes.
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, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., St. Maximilian Kolbe (10135 West Rd.). Event includes barbecue dinner, cake wheel, silent auction, flea market tent, crafters, vendors, raffles, music and more. More info: stmaxvendors@gmail.com; 281-7489463.
FESTIVAL , 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Holy Family (1510 Fifth St., Missouri City). Event includes barbecue, sausage on a stick, hamburgers, international cuisine along with games, Bingo, silent auction, raffle and more. Free admission.
BAZAAR , 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sacred Heart of Jesus, (6502 County Rd. 48, Manvel). Barbecue plate plus other food booths, market tent, children’s games and activities, raffle, live and silent auctions. Free Admission. More info: Sacredheartmanvel.org; admin@sacredheartmanvel.org.281-489-8720;
, 5:30 p.m., Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe (704 Old Montgomery Rd., Conroe). The USTMAX Luminary Lecture on End of Life Bioethics will be presented by Dr.
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BAZAAR, Saturday: 12 to 6 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., St. Christopher (8150 Park Place Blvd., Houston). Games, music, international food (barbecue, Vietnamese, Hispanic and Nigerian) and more activities. Raffle tickets: $5, $20 per book. dtorres@stchristopherhouston. org; 713-645-6614.
MIRACLES CONFERENCE, St. Theresa (705 St. Theresa Blvd., Sugar Land). Eucharistic Miracles of the World conference will be held in Spanish from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and in English from 1 to 5 p.m. along with the Vatican International Eucharistic Miracles of the World Exhibition in both English and Spanish. Free. More info: akrieg0915@gmail.com.
FESTIVAL, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., St. Jerome (8825 Kempwood Dr., Houston – GPS address: 2749 Hollister Rd., Houston). Event is free and open to the public. More info: 713-468-9555.
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BAZAAR, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. Peter the Apostle (6220 La Salette Dr., Houston). Barbeque dinner, music, Bingo, prizes, games, kids activities and more. Live raffle drawing at 4:30 p.m. Raffle tickets still available for purchase. More info: 713-747-7800.
HOUSTON — St. Dominic’s Deaf Center will be holding CCE classes for children who are deaf or hearing-impaired starting Sept. 25.
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St. Dominic’s Deaf Center offers an opportunity for children and their families to gain knowledge regarding living and growing in faith with particular attention to the communication needs of the entire family. Masses are held on Sundays at 11:15 a.m. and are offered in American Sign Language with a voice interpreter as well as a monthly Mass in Spanish and American Sign Language. †
HOUSTON — The Archdiocese is hosting a pilgrimage to World Youth Day for young adults ages 18 to 39 coming up from July 26 to Aug. 7, 2023. This trip includes visits to Madrid, Avila, Toledo and Fatima before heading to Lisbon for World Youth Day with Pope Francis.
To sign up, all pilgrims need to make a $300 deposit. Spaces are almost full. Register by Sept. 30. Fundraising opportunities will be available this fall.
ONLINE SESSION ON BOOK LAUNCHES, 7 to 8:15 p.m. Claire Fullerton offers instruction and advice on the process of promoting and publishing a book in the current literary market. Online Zoom class costs $35. Register online, and view upcoming classes at www.catholicliteraryarts. org/classes. More info: cathla.org@gmail.com.
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, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sts. Cyril and Methodius (603 Parrott Ave., Damon). $12 half barbecue chicken and sausage plates. Barbecue beef, ribs, chicken and sausage available by the pound at the pit. Auction begins at noon. Also includes a silent auction, Bingo, raffle with various gifts, pastries, concessions, music by the M&M Playboys and more. More info: 979-742-3383.
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BAZAAR, St. Albert of Trapani (11027 S. Gessner Rd., Houston). Saturday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday activities include soccer tournament, food and Bingo (2 to 6 p.m.). Sunday activities include soccer finals, international food (American, Filipino, Hispanic and Nigerian), Bingo (2 to 5 p.m.), Loteria, children’s games, inflatables, live music, DJ, and raffle. More info: 713-771-3596.
OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY, Holy Rosary (3617 Milam St., Houston). Friday, 5:15 to 10 p.m., Pontifical Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago with homily by Dominican Friar Lawrence Lew, O.P. Catered dinner follows with a talk by Father Donald Calloway. Tickets: www. holyrosaryparish.org/patronalfeast. Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rosary procession followed by Mass. Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS, followed by food, fun and activities. More info: 713-529-4854 ext. 105.
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