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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ St. Mary's Mass (normal schedule) has resumed. We will be following 6ft social distancing at 25% capacity. Wearing a mask is strongly requested. Please sanitize your hands before and after entering the church. There is hand sanitizer at the entrances of the church. Please Limit touching pews and surfaces as much as possible. No hand holding during the Our Father or sign of the peace by shaking of hands. All missals and song books have been removed. We encourage that you utilize your cell phones to follow with Mass readings or you are welcomed to take a missal with you but we ask that you please bring it back with you each day you attend Mass- do not take or use another missal because you forgot yours-we only have so many to go around. We are sanitizing pews and all surfaces after each Mass. Please stay after Mass if you can help with this process. Your help is needed and appreciated in helping each other keep healthy. Please call the parish office at 512-398-4649 for other policies and restrictions for weddings, quinceaneras, anniversaries, baptisms and funerals. At this time the parish hall is closed for any receptions, rentals and events. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament has also resumed. Thursday's 8am until 6pm in the chapel. Same restrictions apply follow 6ft social distancing, hand sanitizing, 25% capacity- Wearing a Mask is strongly suggested and appreciated +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Parish Family, I pray that you all are healthy and doing well. You continue to be in my prayers as we continue in the midst of these days of Covid 19. This pandemic continues to affect everyone and everything in our world and country today. We were hoping and praying that things would calm down and that we might be able to have a shorter version of Jamaica in November, but unfortunately our cases continue to rise. As we still face the uncertainty of COVID-19 and with the health of our community continues to be at the forefront of our minds, we have decided to cancel Jamaica for 2020. I want to thank each one of you who has continued to support the parish, whether financially or spiritually, during this trying time. Your generosity has been allowing us to weather this storm in the past 5 months. With that said, the Jamaica is our largest annual fundraiser for our parish, and the decision to cancel it will have financial consequences for our parish. Thus, we have set up a Jamaica relief fund and we humbly ask that if you are able, to give whatever you may have spent those two nights of Jamaica or give the value of the donations you would of given (such as the vip, $50-250 clubs, raffle prizes, bingo, auction etc.) to the relief fund. We recognize that this is an economically and psychologically difficult time for many in our community. So we ask you take care of yourself and your families first, then if possible give what you can to help your parish. We know that the Lord is faithful, and we each have a responsibility to do what we can to support one another during this time. Thank you for your willingness to work together to keep everyone safe and healthy. I miss seeing you at Mass, I miss our events and fellowship. Let us continue to pray for each other placing our trust in the Lord through the powerful intercession of St. Mary of the Visitation. You all continue in my thoughts and prayers. -Blessings, Fr. Ed Ordinary Time: August 9th
Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time  St. Matthew 14:22-33
Refection:
Lord, may Your will be done in my life in all things. I pray that I may always welcome You into the darkest challenges of my life and that I will keep my eyes fixed upon You and Your perfect plan. May I never give in to fear but allow You to dispel that fear with Your grace. Jesus, I trust in You. Reflections semanal: Señor, hágase tu voluntad en mi vida en todas las cosas. Oro para poder siempre darte la bienvenida a los desafíos más oscuros de mi vida y que mantenga mis ojos fijos en ti y en tu plan perfecto. Que nunca me rinda al miedo, sino que te permita disipar ese miedo con tu gracia. Jesús, confío en ti. Weekly Collect: Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Collect Semanal: Dios todopoderoso y eterno, a quien, enseñado por el Espíritu Santo, nos atrevemos a llamar nuestro Padre, trae, oramos, a la perfección en nuestros corazones el espíritu de adopción como tus hijos e hijas, para que podamos merecer entrar en la herencia. que has prometido. Por nuestro Señor Jesucristo, tu Hijo, que vive y reina contigo en la unidad del Espíritu Santo, un solo Dios, por los siglos de los siglos. Pope Francis' Prayer Intentions for the Month of August 2020 The Maritime World We pray for all those who work and live from the sea, among them sailors, fishermen and their families. Oración Intenciones del Papa Francisco para el mes de augusto 2020 El mundo marítimo Oramos por todos aquellos que trabajan y viven del mar, entre ellos marineros, pescadores y sus familias. Please pray for the souls of: Theresa Eureste Villalpando (65) passed away July 27th, d for Maria Inez Ortiz (89) passed away July 28th. Margie Garcia (66) passed away August 2nd . May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed…Rest in Peace. Please pray for those in our Parish who are ill, home bound or in the nursing homes but especially for: For all those suffering from Covid; Santos Garcia Jr., Cecil B. Cruz Gary C. Cruz, Deacon Lupe Aguilar, Janie Pastrano Garcia, Ofelia Lozano, Maria Ortiz,John Anthony Leija; Brndon & Tawanna Mayo; Taiz Reuter; Ernest B.Delgado; Pablo Caudillo, Rudy Caudillo, Richard “Ricky” Mendez, Concepcion Trevino, Fr. Adam Martinez; Lucy Serrato, Domitila Juarez, Miguel Alonzo, Ramona Serrato, Jimmy Rector, Gregorio & Nieves Briceno. ++May the Lord comfort & send his healing grace upon them. Let us pray for & thank the military men and women who are deployed & who serve our country so bravely. We especially salute and pray for those of our own parish family: Xavier Benitez-US Army; Lance Corporal Phillip Nolan Yanez-US Marines; SPC Marissa Mendez-US Army; Major Jonathan Sanders-US Air Force; Major Brian L. Ramirez-US Army; Major David Sides-US Army; Sergeant Xavier T. Espinoza USMC; Sergeant Jessica Estrada Nowotny-US Air Force & Lieutenant Colonel Kurt French-USAR. +May God watch over them & bring them home safely. 
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Daily Readings
Week of August 9 – August 16, 2020 Sunday, August 9th Readings: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 Monday, August 10th Readings: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9; Jn 12:24-26 Tuesday, August 11th Readings: Ez 2:8-3:4; Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday, August 12th Readings: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22; Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Mt 18:15-20 Thursday, August 13th Readings: Ez 12:1-12; Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 61-62; Mt 18:21-19:1 Friday, August 14th Readings: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or Ez 16:59-63; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6; Mt 19:3-12 Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Saturday, August 15th Readings: Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10, 11, 12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Sunday, August 16th Readings: Is 56:1, 6-7; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28+++++++++++++++ Thank the following parishioners who have made their donation to the Jamaica Relief fund:
Ladd & Audra Moering, Jim & Josie DeLaCruz, Mary Yolanda Mendez, Janie Castillo, Charlie & Mary Copeland, Vince & Sylvia Rodriguez, Waldo & Janie Villarreal. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. |
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Liturgy of the Hours-"Praying the Breviary""Seven times a day I praise you, because your judgments are righteous." PS 119:164“From ancient times the Church has had the custom of celebrating each day the liturgy of the hours. In this way the Church fulfills the Lord’s precept to pray without ceasing, at once offering its praise to God the Father and interceding for the salvation of the world.”
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