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:
 

“Every time we come before the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus He touches the heart of all humanity. The Eucharist is the heartbeat of evangelization!” (‘The Sacred Eucharistic Heart of Jesus’ audio tape)

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

Bishop Mulvey and the Diocese of Corpus Christi would like to invite YOU to attend Living Love in Truth Conference on Saturday, October 20th from 8 AM to 4 PM, at the Richard Borchard Area in Robstown. Living Love in Truth is a diocesan conference designed to help us all start asking the questions about how God made us and why true freedom is expressed in the virtue of chastity. Hudson Byblow, an international speaker featured in Ascension Press’s YOU Theology of the Body youth education program and Eric Genuis, pianist, composer, and international performer will help provide inspiration to these conversations. Doors open at 7:30 AM, and the events of the day begin with Mass celebrated by Bishop Mulvey at 8 am. Cost is $20/person (including meals) if registering before September 20. After September 20, cost increases to $35/person, and food is not guaranteed. Clergy and Consecrated Religious: No charge (but please let us know in advance so we can have food available).  To register, please visit diocesecc.org/livinglovetruth. For more information, please contact Nellie Serna nserna@diocesecc.org or Heath Garcia hgarcia@diocesecc.org or by calling (361) 882-6191.

August 29, 2018 by Bishop Michael Mulvey Diocese of Corpus Christi

Dear Brothers and sisters,

I want to continue to address the current situation of sexual abuse, the abuse of silence and the unacceptable coverup by bishops and chancery personnel. The alarming revelations surrounding Archbishop McCarrick’s behavior of abuse are more than disgusting, and the fact that accusations of negligence in his case reach to the highest level of the Church makes it more alarming. I have read the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report and the profiles of many of the clergy involved. I have also read the eleven-page testimony of Archbishop Viganò and I cringe. I assure you that every report I read and hear saddens me and profoundly touches the core of my being.

I know that as a bishop of the Church, the actions or lack of action of one bishop reflects upon all bishops, myself included. In that sense, again I express my sadness and say I am deeply sorry to all victims who have suffered at the hands of Church clergy and ministers. I realize too that suffering is doubled if you feel that you were not heard or helped.

Cardinal DiNardo, on behalf of the USCCB, has said “the questions raised (by the Viganò testimony) deserve answers that are conclusive and based on evidence. Without those answers, innocent men may be tainted by false accusation and the guilty may be left to repeat the sins of the past.” I firmly hold to what I mentioned in my previous statement, “No one, regardless of position, should be exempt from the solemn pledge that we have made to provide a safe environment for all of God’s people, especially innocent children.” 

Today and tomorrow our parish Safe Environment Coordinators are meeting with the members of our Office of Safe Environment and Child & Family Resources. I want to thank each of them and you for your dedication and vigilance. As I told them this is an area of our ministry that must be given full and increased attention. We cannot allow these atrocities to reoccur anywhere in the Church. 

In a post on the USCCB website http://www.usccb.org/news/2018/18-144.cfm, The National Review Board as a board comprised only of the laity proposes to be the best entity to hold bishops accountable in their handling of abuse cases in their diocese. I am in favor of that proposal. Also in our local Church, I am working with our staff to expand the purview of our Diocesan Review Board to review all forms of abuse. 

With all this in mind, brothers and sisters, I can assure you that the road ahead will be difficult and blemished. But, I will walk with you in this darkest hour. The words of Jesus continue to resound in my head and heart: “I will not leave you orphans” (John 14:18); I am with you always until the end of time” (Matthew 28:20). 

Each morning I renew my hope in this darkness. Some of you are familiar with the monthly Word of Life that I read on KLUX. This month the words from Jeremiah are a light: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jer 31:3). I believe this and invite you to join me in reaffirming our faith in God’s love for each one of us, no matter what situation we are facing.

God bless you and may Mary, Mother of the Church, accompany you to her Son.

Bishop Michael Mulvey
Bishop of Corpus Christi