St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church

Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

Office: 1603 Avenue N * Huntsville, TX 77340 Church: 1323 16th St. * Huntsville, TX 77340

Ph. 936.295.8159 * Fax 936.295.3543 www.sain homashuntsville.org

"...there is no inequality of significance amongst us except holiness..." “No hay desigualdad de importancia entre nosotros excepto la santidad…”

Second Sunday of Lent March 17, 2019

Cruzada de Oración

Querida Familia de Nuestra Iglesia,

Nuestro Padre celestial ve nuestras necesidades y escucha

nuestras oraciones. Él sabe que nuestra parroquia necesita

un edificio donde tendremos clases de formación para

jóvenes y adultos y donde podremos celebrarlo con activid-

ades alegres sin importar el clima. Confiemos en la

promesa de Cristo de que si pedimos, recibiremos. La

oración es el fundamento de toda estructura duradera. Las

oraciones de nuestra Comunidad Católica del Apóstol San-

to Tomás para garantizar y construir el éxito de nuestra

campaña. Cuando la fundación de este edificio se forma a

partir de nuestras oraciones, se desarrollará y perdura-

rá. Por favor oren la oración diariamente para el éxito de

este esfuerzo.

Prayer Crusade Dear Church Family,

Our Heavenly Father sees our needs and hears our pray-

ers. He knows that our parish needs a building where we

will hold formation classes for youth and adults and where

we can celebrate with joyful activities regardless of the

weather. Let us rely upon Christ’s promise that if we ask,

we will receive. Prayer is the foundation of every lasting

structure. The prayers of our St. Thomas the Apostle

Catholic Community for the success of our building cam-

paign will ensure its success. When the foundation of this

building is formed from our prayers, it will unfold and

endure. Please pray the Campaign prayer daily for the

success of this endeavor.

Heavenly Father, We thank you for the many faithful servants who in the past have generously provided for the needs of our parish community today. Strengthened by the Holy Spirit and with Christ as our Shepherd, we seek your blessing as we continue their legacy through our campaign. Seeking to build for our present needs and looking to the future, may our generous partici-pation in this project give you glory and be pleas-ing in your sight. Glory be to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen

Padre celestial, Te agradecimos por los muchos fieles siervos que en el pasado han proporcionado generosamente las necesidades de nuestra comunidad parroquial de hoy. Fortalecidos por el Espíritu Santo y con Cristo como nuestro Pastor, buscamos tu bendición mien-tras continuamos su legado a través de nuestra cam-paña. Buscando construir para nuestras necesidades ac-tuales y mirando hacia el future, que nuestra partici-pación generosa en este proyecto te dé gloria y sea agradable para ti. Gloria a ti, Padre, Hijo y Espiritu Santo. Amen.

BUILDING For The PRESENT, LOOKING To Our FUTURE

CONSTRUYENDO Para El PRESENTE, MIRANDO Hacia Nuestro FUTURO

Mass Intentions Of The Week

Sat.

03/16

5:30 pm

Veronica Antwi (In thanksgiving)

Sun.

03/17

7:45 am

Ralph Losack, Sr.

10:45 am

Parishioners

12:30 pm

Guadalupe Cruz

5:30 pm

CSC

Mon.

03/18

No Mass

Wed

03/20

7:15 am

LLiving & Deceased members of Milam & Steely Families

Thurs.

03/21

7:15 am

Ken Larson

Fri.

03/22

7:15 am

John William & Carmen Heckler

Sat.

03/23

5:30 pm

All members of the DiStefano & Hightower Families

Sun.

03/24

7:45 am

Jim Stefaniak

10:45 am

Mary Gedelian (Special Int.)

12:30 pm

Parishioners

5:30 pm

CSC

Tues.

03/19

7:15 am

Tim Hillman (Birthday)

6:00 pm

Judy Adib, Veronica Antwi, James Aubey, Irma Avalos, Gwynetta Baker, Gene Barrett, Jordan Bergeron, Marie Blanchard, Chelsea Brown, Linda Buckley, Phillip Caito, Gary Coker, Wren Colligan, Sunni Cook, Terry Corral, Melanie Davis, Kathy Delouche,

Colin Dufour, David Duesing, Mary Gedelian, Floyd Gru-pa, Sylvia Hogenmiller, Dennis Huff, Billie Jenkins, San-dra Kilgore, Isabel Kirwin, Edwin Laake, Mary Ann Lampson, Corrina Lawrence, Al Losack, Katy Losack, Geno Mancuso, Don Marcotte, Lisa Miller, Mable Milliet, Donna Moore, MaryAnn Moore, Susan Montoya, Martin Moreno, Lourdes Mosqueda, Frank O’Donnell, Brenda Piñeda, Marty Reeder, Bob Riley, Nina Rozell, Andrea Scheel, Ana Marie Santos, John Sarlay, Jerry Seaton, Kayden Bryn Shipley, Nathan Shroyer, Cheryl Smith, John Paul Sorrell, Kathy Stoltz, Jean Stow, Ray Townley, Dorothy Townsend, Enrique Valadez, Maria Elena Va-lencia, Matthew Varnum, Shirley Villareal, Rusty Wallace, Bill Walton, Alma Williams, Nancy Winkler

March 10, 2019

Regular Sunday Donations: $6,316.87

Home Missions: $1,488.89

Ash Wednesday: $2,601.15

Thank you for your continued support!

Our gratefulness to God weekly offering

Readings for the Week

Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36 - 38

Tuesday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21 , 24a or Lk 2:41-51a

Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20: 17-28

Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31

Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16 -21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46

Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32

Sunday: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk 13:1-9

Do Not Neglect to SHARE

What You Have 2019 Diocesan Services Fund

DSF Report as of March 7, 2019

Parish Goal $37,000.00 Total Amount Paid $3,265.00 Total Amount Pledged $6,315.00 Number of Participants 26 Under Goal $33,735.00

MEN’S RETREAT . . . All men of St. Thomas are invited to attend the 2019 Retreat at the Holy Name Retreat Center, March 22 through March 24. The Retreat Center is lo-

cated at 430 Bunker Hill Road, Houston 77024. Phone: 713-464-0211. Guests can enjoy a peaceful chapel, library, outdoor Stations of the Cross, and beautiful gardens for prayer and fellowship. Accom-modations include private room with private bath. For more information visit the Website at Hol-ynameretreatcenter.com or call Parishioner Craig Hibbison 936-436-0362.

Stations of the Cross . . . 7 pm (English) in the church 7 pm (Spanish) in CCE Bldg

Knights of Columbus Fish Fry every Friday (except Good Friday) 5:00 -7:00 p.m. in the hall.

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7:00 pm (Ingles) en la Iglesia 7:00 pm (Español) en el salon de CCE Los Hombres de Colon tendran venta de pes-cado en el salon parroquial de 5 a 7 todos los viernes (excepto viernes santo).

LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE

SERVICE PENETENCIAL de CUARESMA

Day/Dia Date/Fecha Time/Hora Parish/Parroquia Language/Idioma

Tues/Martes 3/19 6:00 pm Christ Our Light . . Navasota Bilingual/Bilingue

Wed/Miercoles 3/27 6:30 pm Sacred Heart - Conroe Bilingual/Bilingue

Tues/Martes 4/02 6:30 pm St. Thomas . . Huntsville Bilingual/Bilingue

Wed/Miercoles 4/03 6:30 pm St.Matthias . . Magnolia Bilingual/Bilingue

Thurs/Jueves 4/11 6:30 pm St. Stanislaus - Anderson Bilingual/Bilingue

The St. Thomas Ladies organiza-tion is now accepting scholarship applications for the 19th Annual

Frances Munn Scholarship. All graduating high school seniors from St. Thomas the Apostle Parish are eligible to apply. Applications are available at the church office or from Kathy Boscarino. Please drop off or mail your completed application to the church office, attention St. Thomas Ladies. The completed applications are due no later than Friday, May 24, 2019.

Stewardship Reflection . . . That we invest equally in our heavenly home as we do in our earthly home. “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.” (Genesis 15:7) Just as the Lord gave Abraham, Moses and the Israelites a land to possess, He has also given each of us a home. Whether your home is grand or humble, it is a gift from God. Abraham prepared a great sacrifice to the Lord in gratitude for the home God gave him. How do you show your gratitude to God for the home He has given you? Do you make a sacrifice of any kind? Do you return any of your finances to God, investing equally in your eternal home just as you invest in your earthly home?

Reflexiones de Mayordomía . . . Que invertamos igualmente en nuestro hogar celestial como lo hacemos en nuestro hogar terrenal. "Y le dijo: ‘Yo soy Yahveh que te saqué de Ur de los caldeos, para darte esta tierra en propie-dad’." (Génesis 15:7) Así como el Señor le dio a Abraham, a Moisés y a los israelitas una tierra que poseer, Él también nos ha dado a cada uno de nosotros un hogar. Ya sea que tu hogar sea grande o humilde, es un regalo de Dios. Abraham preparó un gran sacrificio al Señor en gratitud por el hogar que Dios le dio. ¿Cómo demuestras tu gratitud a Dios por el hogar que Él te ha dado? ¿Haces un sacrificio de algún tipo? ¿Reintegras algo de tus ganancias a Dios, invirtiendo igualmente en tu hogar eterno, así como inviertes en tu hogar terrenal?

PRAY THE ROSARY FOR TRADIONAL MARRIGE Saturday, March 23rd, 12:00 P.M.

Gazebo at the Court House

Kathy Boscarino, DRE/YM

kboscarino@saintthomashuntsville.org

(936) 295-8159 (936) 520-6524

Www.sainthomashuntsville.org 7th –12th grades

For All 9th –12th Grades Wednesday Nights 6:30 pm—8:30 pm

Youth Minister—Kathy Boscarino

STAY 1st Communion 1st Row: Carmen, Cyndi, Xavier, Dora, Aurora 2nd Row: Carlos Hernandez, (Catechist) Fr. Fred and Lupita Hernandez (Catechist)

Mallory at Junior High Youth Rally

Lunch at 2019 Junior High Youth Rally

STAY Valentines Fundraiser Youth

The understanding of Community is better under-stood through an activity

For All 7th and 8th Graders 9:05-10:20 in the Parish Hall

Coordinators: Mike and Kirs Legerski

Sunday Schedule Horario de domingo

03/03/2019 Class/Clase 03/10/2019 No Class/clase 03/17/2019 Class/Clase 03/24/2019 Class/Clase 3/31/2019 Class/Clase

STAY Edge Night 2nd Thursday of Each Month

In the Youth Building From 6:00-7:15

Other Edge Opportunites

For 8th and 9th

Grades:

Witness Catholic-Mission Camp

Sunday 6/2/2019—Wednesday 6/5/19 Register Today

Ms. B @ 936-295-8159

Wednesday Schedule Horario de Miercoles

03/06/2019—No Class 03/13/2019—Class 03/20/2019—Class 3/27/2019—Class * Lenten retreat 3/13/2019 from 2:30-6:30 Class will follow.

Other Opportunities Witness Catholic Mission Camp: 8th-9th grades Sunday 6/2/2019—6/5/2019 Cost: $160.

Register TODAY

Confirmation Retreat for 10th –12th Grade. Required for 2nd year Confirmation Students June 21-23, 2019 AYC July 26-28, 2019 For 10th –12th grade Cost: $200

Coordinator: Donna Vazquez

Saint Thomas First Communion Communicants Retreat Saturday, March 02, 2019

• The Fire of Your Love: The First Commandment

By Will Oliver

The First Commandment, along with the next two, are about the primacy of God. These Commandments are how we are to worship God and serve Him all the days of our lives. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2083-2141), the First Commandment embraces faith, hope, and charity, but within these three theological virtues, we can fall away from God because of sin. If we lose our faith because we come to doubt (incredulity), or worse, we deny God, His truths, and our Catholic faith (heresy), we have sinned. If we start to despair, lose hope in His salvation and thus our trust in God, we have sinned. Still further, if we presume to know better than God or presume that He will grant us forgiveness, but do nothing to ask for it, then we have also sinned. And we can sin against God’s love for us if we become indifferent toward Him, cease to be grateful for His love, grow lazy about His love (acedia), or worse, finding ourselves having or showing hatred toward Him.

When it comes to serving the Lord, we must adore Him, offer our prayers, and be willing to sacrifice for His love. We sin if we make a vow before God and later break it or if we fail in our du-ties to serve Him as defined by His Commandments, His Son, and His Church.

The First Commandment also teaches us that we must worship no one but God. This includes the sin of idolatry, worshipping idols (graven images). The best example was when Moses went up Mount Sinai to receive the 10 Commandments - his followers created a golden calf and danced around it, worshipping the idol. When I was young, I thought that was one of the silliest ideas I had ever heard, and thought no one would ever do that today. Unfortunately, I am now older and know better – just look at the annual pagan festival each year in Nevada called “Burning Man,” – sadly, the sin lives on.

The sin of idolatry can also include the worship of money, which is often a problem in a coun-try as wealthy as ours. The sin of superstition also falls under this commandment, for if we believe some charm, object, or article of clothing, like a sport’s jersey, brings us or our team good luck, then we have sinned against God. Still further, divination and magic fall under this Commandment, so visiting palm readers, using tarot cards, or reading one’s horoscope in the newspaper, especially if one believes in them, is a sin.

We also violate the First Commandment if we become irreligious, such as testing God (“if you really love me, you will . . . “); committing profane acts in a place of worship, especially regard-ing the sacraments, and worst of all, the Eucharist; or buying and selling spiritual favors (simony). People who also deny God’s existence (atheists) or avoid Him altogether (agnostics), also violate this first of God’s Commandments.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bond-age. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jeal-ous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing merciful love to thousands of those who love me and keep my com-mandments” (Deuteronomy 5:6-10).

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To Register yourself or update your family information go to https://galveston.parishsoftfamilysuite.com If you have any questions please contact Kathy Bos-carino by email at kboscarino@saintthomashuntsville.org

Mi Propia Iglesia . . . . Para registrarse o actualizar su información familiar vaya a: https/galveston.parishsoftfamilysuite.com Si tiene alguna pregunta, contáctese con Kathy Boscarino por correo electrónico kboscarino@saintthomashuntsville.org

CHURCH SECURITY INFORMATION

Following the church shootings last year near San Antonio the parish's Security Committee has taken steps ensure the safety of all St. Thomas the Apostle parishioners. The first step restricts access to the church during liturgical services. Once Mass has begun all doors into the church will be locked from the inside with the exception of the double doors facing 16th Street. Anyone arriving late for Mass will only be able to enter the church through the 16th Street doors. Parishioners will be able to exit the church through any of the locked doors as well as the doors facing 16th Street. Signs will be posted around the church building to remind parishioners of the locked doors. The staff at St. Thomas the Apostle Church takes the safety and security of all the parishioners very seriously. We are confident that the steps taken at this time will minimize any problematic incidents.

INFORMACION DE SEGURIDAD DE LA IGLESIA

Después de los tiroteos de la iglesia el año pasado cerca de San Antonio, el Comité de Seguridad de la parroquia tomo medidas para garantizar la seguridad de los feligreses de Santo Tomás. El primer paso fue de restringir el acceso a la Iglesia durante los servicios litúrgicos. Cuando haya comenzado la misa, todas las puertas de la iglesia estarán cerradas de adentro con la excep-ción de las puertas dobles que dan a la calle 16. Personas que lleguen tarde a misa solo podrá entrar a través de las puer-tas de la calle 16. Los feligreses podrán salir a través de cualquiera de las puertas cerradas. Se colocarán letreros alrededor del edificio de la igle-sia para recordar a los feligreses de las puertas cerradas. El personal de la Igle-sia Santo Tomás toma muy en serio la segu-ridad de todos los feligreses. Estamos se-guros de que los pasos tomados minimizarán incidentes problemáticos.