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8500 Cross Mountain Trail | San Antonio TX 78255 | seaschurch.com.

MASS TIMES

Saturday Vigil 5 pm Sunday 8 :00 am, 9:30 am ,11:30 am 1:00 pm (SPANISH), 5 pm, 7 pm Daily Mass 8 am Reconciliation Saturday, 4 pm Adoration Wednesday, 8:30 am - 8 pm

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church

Welcome! We are so happy that you have joined us, and we hope that you will find our church to be the spiritu-al home you desire. We are blessed with a com-munity of sincere and caring people who want to make you feel at home. To register as a parish-ioner go to www.seaschurch.com.

Baptism: Our next Baptism Class is February 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Day Chapel. Please call the office to register. For the sacraments of marriage and anointing of the sick please call the parish office. RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Faith or considering becoming a Catholic? Please call the parish office for more information. Funerals: If you have a loved one who has passed away, please call the parish office to let us know so that we can pray for that loved one or to arrange a funeral. Prayers for the Sick : We ask God to bless all those who are ill and have asked us to pray for them. To have the Ministers of Care pray for your loved one by name, please email an-na@seaschurch.com or call the parish office.

Sacraments

Rev. Msgr. Conor J. McGrath Pastor Fr. Roberto V. Rosales Parochial Vicar Lee Jan Deacon deaconlee@seaschurch.com Ed Gordon Liturgical Ministry Coordinator ed@seaschurch.com Sarah Rehkopf Pastoral Coordinator sarah@seaschurch.com Susan Ramsower Music Director susan@seaschurch.com Michelle Marroquin Communications michelle@seaschurch.com Deana Giuliani Parish Accountant deana@seaschurch.com Anna Cantu Administrative Assistant anna@seaschurch.com A J Rabel Plant Manager ajrabel@seaschurch.com Dr. Maria Leavy Hoelscher Counseling 210-364-2215

Staff Hours M-Th 8:30 am –2:30 pm

Valerie Trevino Faith Formation Administrator valerie@seaschurch.com Ana Holbrook Administrative Assistant ana@seaschurch.com Elena Menchero Good Shepherd Coordinator elena@seaschurch.com Heidi Neuenfeldt Elementary Coordinator heidi@seaschurch.com Luis Ramirez Middle School Coordinator luis@seaschurch.com Lisa Casas High School Coordinator lisa@seaschurch.com Dina Selva Confirmation Coordinator dina@seaschurch.com

Pastoral Office

Faith Formation Office

8:00 am Monday March 4 Tony Dettling † Rigoberto Gonzalez De La Torre 8:00 am Tuesday March 5 Msgr. Alois Goertz † 8:00 am Wednesday March 6 Richard Lazzari † 8:00 am Thursday March 7 Fr. James Barlow † Fr. Frances Baeten 8:00 am Friday, March 8 George Gomez † Jose Olivo † 5:00 pm Saturday, March 9 Mario Da Silva † Scott & Jack LoBue † Sunday, March 10 8:00 am John Ryan Burton † 9:30 am Ted R. Kenyon † Jose Madrigal † 11:30 am Al Baker 1:00 pm Manuel & Concepcion Pina † 7:00 pm Deanna Sutton †

5:00 pm Saturday, March 9 Fr. Conor Sunday, March 10 8:00 am Fr. Kinney 9:30 am Fr. Kinney 11:30 am Fr. Conor 1:00 pm Fr. Conor 5:00 pm Fr. Robert 7:00 pm Fr. Robert

Please note that the clergy schedule is subject to change

Monday, March 4 6:30 pm Alter Server Trng. Church 7:00 pm Apostleship of the Cross Seton H. Tuesday, March 5 9:30 am Rosary Making Seton H. 6:00 pm Men’s ACTS Seton H. Wednesday, March 6 All Day Ash Wednesday 8:30 am Adoration 6:00 pm Women’s ACTS Tm Mtg. Cana/Emmaus Thursday, March 7 5:30 am Men’s Fellowship Seton H. 6:00 pm CDA Meeting Marron Ctr. 7:00 pm Spanish Bishop Barron Cana/Emmaus Friday, March 8 8:30 am Ministry of Care 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross Church Saturday, March 9 8:00 am SVDP Distribution Activity Ctr. 6:00 pm Knights Social Marron Ctr. Sunday, March 10 DAY LIGHT SAVING TIME STARTS All Day 1st Sunday of Lent 8:45 am RCIA Seton H.

Mass Intentions

Faith Formation

This Week at SEAS

Mass Presiders

Offertory for February 23/24 $30,245.67

Sunday,March 3 Good Shepherd (Level 1) 4:00-6:00 pm Good Shepherd (Level 2) 4:00-5:30 pm Elementary 4:30-5:30 pm Life Teen (Mass and Class) 5:00-8:15 pm Monday, March 4 Elementary 6:30-7:30 pm Tuesday, March 5 Good Shepherd (1 & 2) 6:00-7:30 pm Shove Pancake Dinner for all Tuesday Night Faith Formation Families Wednesday, March 6 Good Shepherd (1 & 2 espanol) 5:00-7:30 pm Confirmation Class NO CLASS Thursday, March 7 Good Shepherd (3-6) 4:00-5:30pm

No Faith Formation Classes during Spring Break, 3/10-3/14. Classes resume 3/17. We wish everyone a fun and relaxing

Spring Break!

THANK YOU SEAS! Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio would like to thank the parishioners of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for their contribu on of $22,000 toward the building of the new house. 100% of donor contribu ons go directly to the home building program. Since its founding, Habitat has completed the construc on of 1,081 affordable homes in San Antonio. Most importantly, your contribu on helps the children of homeowners because children of homeowners do be er in school, have less behav-ioral problems and are more likely to go to college. Would you like to con nue to help with this project? We are feeding construc on crews March 8 &9, and March 15 & 16. We are in need of volunteers to help with this by preparing or purchasing food items, or delivering the meal to the jobsite and serving our hungry workers. We will also accept monetary dona ons so that we can purchase drinks, snacks, supplies. If you are interested in helping with this food endeavor in any way, please contact Ruth Pledger at 318-426-4581. We con nue to need construc on volunteers. All the informa on you need to sign up is on the website at sea-schurch.com. Please come out and join the rewarding work of helping to make the dreams of the Way family a reality. THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING!

First Communion Retreat First Communion students and their parents recently gathered to learn about the importance of go-ing to Mass, how to receive the Body and Blood of Christ, and created commemorative banners celebrating their First Commun-ion. A special thank you to our amazing teachers, Helen Balvin, Maria Garcia, Marisol Fuentes and Rebecca West as well as our Faith Formation staff, Heidi Neunfeldt and Valerie Trevino.

ASH WEDNESDAY March 6

Mass with Ashes 8 am, noon, 7 pm

Prayer Service with Ashes

5 pm

Please go to seaschurch.com/lent for additional Lenten re-

sources and our Stations of the

Are you doing some Spring Cleaning? Beginning this weekend and continuing through 3/23-3/24 we will be collecting items for our annual SEAS Flea Market after all the daytime masses. Volunteers will be on hand for 15-20 minutes after the masses at the Activity Center down by the ballfields. Check your hideaways for such treasures as col-lectables, sports items, books (no encyclopedias,, please), jewelry, housewares, Christmas decora-tion (no trees), toys, linens, ars and crafs, furni-ture, lawn/garden accessories and live plants.

REMEMBER OUR HEROES Afghanistan: Linda Benavides Iraq: Robert Castillo, Pe-ter Greenburg, Roy Vaughn, Matt Pryor, Miguel T. Sotel-lo, Ron Wyble Germany: Bruce Balvin, Luis A. Ramos, Zac Gerner, Jordan Bittner, Jerome Benavudes and An-thony Delgado, Jr., Christopher Le Comte Columbia: Mack Peter Ethiopia: Zachary Williams S. Korea: Austin Reyes Okinawa Japan: Dylan Johnson

SUPPORT OUR DEPLOYED TROOPS: Wear a red shirt on Fridays. RED represents Remember Everyone Deployed.

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time This week, Jesus tells us that we must examine our own inner selves, our attitudes and dispositions, virtues and faults, rather than judging others. What is in our hearts comes out in what and how we speak. If our hearts are filled with kindness and compas-sion, those qualities will be evident in our speaking, just as beautiful, wholesome fruit comes only from healthy trees. And vice-versa. The Wisdom writer Sirach in the first reading agrees with this concept—that we will be judged by our words. Paul reminds us that the reward of discipleship is eternal life. To-day’s psalm of thanksgiving and praise reminds us of God’s kindness and faithfulness, which we are to emulate in our thoughts, words, and deeds. We are known, each of us, by our own fruit. WORDS AND FRUIT What do these two things have in common? In Luke’s Gospel today, Jesus uses the image of a fruit tree to explain the importance of speaking with care. If the tree is healthy (that is, good), we expect to en-joy tasty fruit, but no one would pick the fruit of a tree that appears to be diseased. Good fruit is like good words that indicate one’s spiritual growth and maturity—a person whose heart and words are filled with goodness. We will be known as good or evil by the qualities—of mercy and compassion, or pride and selfishness—that come from our hearts and enter the world through our mouth. We hear similar advice from the book of Sirach in our first reading. Just as the fruit will indicate whether or not the tree from which it came was healthy, so too do our words indicate what we think, how we view the world and our neighbors. Words are important, indeed. ACTIONS AND VICTORY But what about our actions? These surely are also signs of goodness or the opposite, aren’t they? Today’s psalm sings about the just ones who will be like trees flourishing in the house of the Lord, bear-ing fruit throughout their lives. Justice implies ac-tion—mercy, compassion, love. In the second read-ing, Paul advises the Corinthians to devote them-selves to the work of the Lord, that their labors would not be in vain, because the reward of acting with integrity is victory over sin and death. The per-son of justice and integrity acts and speaks from a new heart, made possible by Jesus’ sacrifice. Do actions speak louder than words? Maybe be-tween this Gospel and last week’s, when Jesus told us to love our enemies, Jesus is showing us that both are vital and essential aspects of following the life of discipleship. May our fruit always reflect the sweet-ness of living a good life. Today’s Readings: Sir 27:4–7; Ps 92:2–3, 13–14, 15–16; 1 Cor 15:54–58; Lk 6:39–45 Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Sir 17:20-24; Ps 32:1-2, 5-7; Mk 10:17-27 Tuesday: Sir 35:1-12; Ps 50:5-8, 14, 23; Mk 10:28-31 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 — 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Dt 26:4-10; Ps 91:1-2, 10-15; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Many Catholics who are not active in the Church will still seek out ashes this Wednesday. Likewise, many Jews who are not other-wise observant will follow the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, with great exactness, fasting and refraining from work and entertain-ment. People customarily dress in white as a symbol of purity and a reminder of God’s promise that our sins will be made white as snow. While the overture to Ash Wednesday for Christians may be a fes-tive Mardi Gras celebration, for Jews it is the New Year feast of Rosh Hashanah. Ten days before the Day of Atonement to God, people are expected to repair breaks in human life. These are days for offering forgiveness and seeking to repair harmed relationships with family, friends, or coworkers. Everyone is expected to seek out someone and “clear the air” by asking for understanding for any mean words or thoughtless deeds in the past year. Perhaps the ashes you receive will be invested with deeper meaning if you follow a similar plan. This year, Rosh Hashanah will be September 29, and Yom Kippur October 8. A conversation with some Jewish friends or neighbors about their experience of a season of repentance may be a blessing on your Lent. —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Octavo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario PALABRAS Y FRUTO ¿Qué tienen en común estas dos cosas? En el Evange-lio de Lucas de hoy, Jesús utiliza la imagen de un ár-bol frutal para explicar la importancia de hablar con cuidado. Si el árbol es saludable (que es bueno), espe-ramos disfrutar de un árbol delicioso, pero nadie cose-charía el fruto de un árbol que parezca enfermo. El fruto bueno es como las palabras buenas que indican la madurez y el crecimiento espiritual de una persona, una persona cuyo corazón y palabras están llenas de bondad. Seremos conocidos como buenos o malos por las cualidades, de misericordia y compasión, u orgullo y egoísmo, que vienen de nuestro corazón y entran al mundo por medio de nuestra boca. Escuchamos un consejo similar del libro de Eclesiásti-co en la primera lectura. Así como el fruto indicará si el árbol del que viene está saludable, así también lo hacen nuestras palabras que indican lo que pensamos, cómo vemos al mundo y a nuestro prójimo. En efecto, las palabras son importantes. ACCIONES Y VICTORIA ¿Pero qué hay de nuestras acciones? Seguramente es-tas son signo de la bondad o lo opuesto, ¿cierto? El salmo de hoy canta acerca de los justos que serán co-mo árboles floreciendo en la casa del Señor, produ-ciendo fruto durante todas sus vidas. La justicia impli-ca acción, misericordia, compasión, amor. En la se-gunda lectura, Pablo aconseja a los corintios a dedicar-se al trabajo del Señor, que sus esfuerzos no serán en vano, porque la recompensa de comportarse con inte-gridad es la victoria sobre el pecado y la muerte. La persona de justicia e integridad se comportan y hablan a causa de un nuevo corazón, hecho posible por el sa-crificio de Jesús. ¿Las acciones hablan más fuerte que las palabras? Quizá entre este Evangelio y el de la semana pasada, cuando Jesús nos dijo amar a nuestros enemigos, Jesús nos está mostrando que ambos son vitales y aspectos esenciales del seguimiento de la vida del discipulado. Qué nuestro fruto siempre refleje la dulzura de vivir una buena vida. Lecturas de hoy: Eclo 27:4–7; Sal 92 (91):2–3, 13–14, 15–16; 1 Cor 15:54–58; Lc 6:39–45 Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

LOS SANTOS Y OTRAS CELEBRACIONES Domingo: Octavo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario Lunes: San Casimiro Martes: Mardi Gras; Carnaval Miércoles: Miércoles de Ceniza; Ayuno y Abstinen cia; Ayudar Jueves: Santas Perpetua y Felicitas Viernes: San Juan de Dios; Abstinencia Sábado: Santa Francisca Romana

GRACIAS No hay deber más urgente que el de dar las gracias. —Ambrosio de Milán

TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE Cuando era niño mi padre me llevaba al rancho de mi abuelito en México. En una de esas visitas mi abuelo y mis tíos estaban quemando la tierra en su rancho. Mientras el fuego ardía, papa Manuel nos explicaba que era necesario reducir todo en cenizas para que la tierra recobrara sus fuerzas y quedará más fértil. Sin saberlo, mi abuelo me dio la imagen que hasta hoy sostiene mi concepto del Miércoles de Cenizas y de la Cuaresma. El Miércoles de Cenizas es la fiesta cristiana que por lo menos doce siglos ha señalado el co-mienzo de la Cuaresma. No cabe duda que para los latinos este día es de particular atracción. Es uno de los pocos días del año litúrgico en cual llega-mos al templo en masa con tal de recibir las ceni-zas en la frente. Nosotros somos un pueblo enraizado en la tie-rra y sabemos que la tierra necesita quemarse de vez en cuando para seguir produciendo. Nosotros como la tierra necesitamos dominarnos y cultivar-nos para producir frutos y flores para el Señor y los demás. —Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church #515402 8500 Cross Mountain Trail San Antonio, TX 78255 TELEPHONE 210 698-1941 CONTACT PERSON Michelle Marroquin EMAIL: michelle@seaschurch.com SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat XI Windows 10 TRANSMISSION TIME Friday1:45 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION March 3, 2019 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS