National Vocation Awareness Week (NVAW) is an annual week-long celebration of the Catholic Church in the United States, dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.

Did you know the Mother Teresa Shelter feeds between 250 - 300 people everyday?  Breakfast, brunch, and a heavy snack for the shelter clients, as well as dinner for the residents of the Mother Teresa Transitional Housing for Men are served daily. We are in need of meat - chicken, pork, beef, sausage, exotic game...any kind of meat or monetary donations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Call (361) 883-7372 for more information.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

For the 2018 Coastal Bend Day of Giving, 25 matching funders have come together to provide a matching fund of $900,000, enabling each of the 50 participating nonprofits to raise at least $36,000 if they make the match in individual online donations!

This community give-together begins at 12 a.m. and will last for 24 hours on November 13 with a minimum gift of only $10. Administered by the Coastal Bend Community Foundation, it is a community-wide event to show off the Coastal Bend's spirit of giving, raise awareness about local nonprofits, and celebrate the collective effort it takes to make this area great. 

To participate, simply log on to www.coastalbenddayofgiving.org on November 13, complete a few blanks, select your nonprofit(s) using the shopping cart feature, and make a donation using your credit or, debit card, or utilize eChecks ($10 minimum).

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers will present a 2-hour Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience™ at Corpus Christi Cathedral on Saturday, November 10 at 10 AM.  As part of this spiritual opportunity to draw nearer to God with Our Lady and St. Bernadette you will:                                  

• Immerse yourself in the Gospel Message of Lourdes as given by Our Lady to St. Bernadette
• Have the opportunity to touch the Grotto Rock and to experience the healing grace of Lourdes Water
• Receive a Eucharistic blessing and pray the Rosary  
• Receive a bottle of Lourdes Water 
• Prepare a petition to be placed in the Grotto in Lourdes, France

Come and encounter the healing grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ through His Immaculate Mother.  Invite your family, children and friends!   Our Lady extends her invitation to all!  The next best thing to visiting Lourdes itself is a Pilgrimage journey without the travel!   A Plenary Indulgence is granted to all the faithful, under the usual conditions, who attend this Experience!  For more information, please call the Parish Office at 361-883-4213.                              
 

DAILY MASS (Emmanuel Chapel)*

*First Friday Anointings in the Main Church

SUNDAY VIGIL MASS
Saturday Evening at 5:30 PM

SUNDAY MASSES

HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION

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Every Thursday after the 7:00 AM Mass until 5:30 PM in the Emmanuel Chapel.  Benediction 5:20 - 5:30 PM.

Through this practice, we are invited to spend time alone with God in His real, physical form, and to bring to Jesus all our cares, concerns, prayers, hopes, and thoughts. We set aside a special time, a respite from our hectic modern lives, to create a personal space in which to meet our God.

Biblical reason for wanting to spend One Hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament:
 

The worship of Christ present in the Eucharist is not just a personal, solitary “Jesus and Me” experience but involves the entire Church! 
(Blessed Pope John XXIII - 1958 to 1963)

This week, the Sanctuary Lamps are burning for:

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* Adorers are needed to sit before the Blessed Sacrament and adore Jesus on Thursdays from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Call the Parish Office at (361) 883.4213
 

O God, Who wish all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of Your truth: send, we beg You, laborers into Your harvest, and grant them grace to speak Your word with all boldness; so that Your word may spread and be glorified, and all nations may know You, the only God, and Him Whom You have sent, Jesus Christ Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns world without end. Amen.

Below are seven ways to pray for vocations:

1. Pray Before the Eucharist
2. Pray with Mary
3. Pray when You’re Sick
4. Pray with St. Faustina
5. Pray with Catholics worldwide
6. Pray at Dinnertime
7. Pray with Pope Francis

Just as we know one hour a week isn’t enough to live our Catholic Faith, one day a year isn’t enough to pray for vocations. On April 17, renew your daily resolve—or launch a new movement in your parish—to pray year-round for holy priests and religious. (Article from vianneyvocations.com)


God hears our prayer for more priests and religious!

Join thousands of Catholics by pledging to pray daily or weekly for vocations at: InvisibleMonastery.com

 

A Prayer for Christian Fathers

Prayer to St. John the Baptist

Memorare