Depending on the weather, Mass may be celebrated tomorrow at noon. There's still no heat so we may hold it at the Mother of The Americas Center. Due to the unusual and very cold weather we're having, and the hardship it has caused so many, the Archbishop has granted dispensation from fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday, as well as the ability to receive ashes during weekend Masses. Please be safe and look out for each other. God bless all of you.
Annually, each parish of the Archdiocese of San Antonio is invited to honor a parishioner or a couple who shows in a special way the light of Christ through their devotion and service. Congratulations and God Bless Rafael and Norma Galdeano and their beautiful children!
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Public Sunday Liturgy will resume the weekend of the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, May 23-24, 2020, and we will begin celebrating Public Daily Mass on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Please view the guidelines for attending Mass.
St. Joseph's Altar Society Clean up Anyone welcome to help volunteer and clean up the church. Please bring dust rags and friends! We need as much help as we can get!
"HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER" 665 Christ's Ascension marks the definitive entrance of Jesus' humanity into God's heavenly domain, whence he will come again (cf. Acts 1:11); this humanity in the meantime hides him from the eyes of men (cf. Col 3:3).
This Sunday, we will have arrived at the 101st anniversary of the Fatima apparitions. Devotion to Fatima surely grew during the 100th anniversary last year. When I made my way through some of the latest books about Fatima, something struck me about Our Lady’s message in Fatima. When Our Lady appeared monthly from May to October 1917 she consistently made promises to the three shepherd children, Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia. As Mary spoke those words to the children, she revealed not only to them, but to all of us that she is a woman of her word. In Fatima, Mary not only revealed herself as the Queen of the Rosary but also as the Woman of the Promise, a title not confined to the apparition alone but also to Mary’s very identity.
It is very important to me that the next Synod of Bishops, which relates to “Young people, faith and vocational discernment”, is prepared by truly listening to the young. And I can testify that this is being done. You also demonstrate this to me, with the work that is going on in your diocese. And when I say “truly listening” I also mean the willingness to change something, to walk together, to share dreams, as that young man said. But I want to ask you a question, too. You rightly ask yourself if we bishops are willing to really listen to you and change something in the Church. And I ask you: are you willing to listen to Jesus and change something about yourself? If you are here, I think it is so, but I can not and I do not want to take it for granted. Each of you, reflect on this within yourself, in your heart: Am I willing to make Jesus’ dreams my own? Or am I afraid that His dreams can “disturb” my dreams?
