Friday, August 30, 2013

Brackett ISD Administration elects to have classes Labor Day ...

But!

In return, everybody gets the entire Thanksgiving week as a Holiday!

Way to go, guys! :)

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Father Clay Hunt III, Dean of the Uvalde, Texas Deanery:

Pongan a sus niños en el catecismo!" 

"Al regresar a la escuela, también es tiempo para registrarse para el catecismo.

"Les pido que registren a sus niños durante este año de la fe, y animo a los demás que también registren a sus niños.

"El Papa y la Iglesia han dicho que la catequesis es el  objetivo principal de este año.

"Les pido que respondan a este llamado del Papa..."

De acuerdo, Padre Clay! :)

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Brackettville, Texas 78832

 Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church.

"Mass Collection August 17 and 18, 2013. Total = $2,289.31

"Announcement

"St. Mary Magdalene CCD program will begin on September 4. 2013.

"For registration, please come by the CCD Office with Mrs. Alex Rosas in Wednesday, August 28th from 5:30 - 7:30pm and Sunday, September 1st after each Mass.

"For further information please contact the Parish office.

"If you have School supplies or money donations for the CCD program, please bring them by the Parish Office Mon  -  Fri, 8am - 12 and 1-5pm."

Way to go great people! :)

UT El Paso Fall  2013 Semester now in full swing!

¡Ora, UTEP!

¡Ora, MEChA

¡Adelante, Destino!

Good luck, everyone! :)

Monday, August 26, 2013

San Angelo Diocesan Seminarian Praveen Lakki's favorite quote:

"God does not play games when he calls a man for the priesthood because there are very serious consequences for the man's response.

"If that man is meant to be a priest, there are literally hundreds and perhaps thousands of souls who are depending on that fiat..."

From his article "Lord, why me?" in Today's Catholic. Friday, August 23, 2013.

Saturday 5:30 pm Mass well - supported, at Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church.

Brackettville, Texas 78832.
   
Saturday. August 24, 2013. 5:30p.m. English Mass.

Celebrant -- Right Reverend Lambert S. Bily.

Deacon of the Mass -- Reverend Mr. James Bader.

Homilist -- Monsignor Bily. Luke 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow gate..." Father tells us: "There are three types of Catholic Christians!

"One -- Tugboat Catholic Christians. These strive all they can to carry Jesus to their neighbors. No matter the cost.

"Two -- Sailboat Catholic Christians. They blow every which way at one and the same time.

"Three -- Raft Catholic Christians. They just drift and float.

"Guess which ones make it through the narrow gate?" :) 

Altar Server -- Mr. Moses Hernandez, Jr.

Transport - team Mom -- Chica.

EMHCs -- K of C Mr. John Carlson and Mr. Jim Burns.

Lector -- Mrs. Susan Davis.

Ushers -- Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino "Lingo" Sandoval.

Before - Mass 5 - Decade Rosary Leader -- Mr. George Nicolai.

Choir Director -- Mr. George Nicolai.

Way to go, great and wonderful good people! :)

September 3. Feast Day of Pope Saint Gregory the Great - Doctor of the Church.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Last Saturday's 5:30 p.m. Mass celebrated by  

Father Johnson Machado.

Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church.

Brackettville, Texas 78832.

Saturday. August 17, 2013. 5:30p.m. English Mass.

Deacon of the Mass -- Reverend Mr. James Bader.

Homilist -- Father Machado. From Luke 12:49 - 53. Jesus tells us "Do you suppose that I come to give peace on earth?  I tell you not at all, but rather division..."

Father Machado explained: "Brothers and sisters! Jesus is not preaching His Jihad or Holy War like the Muslims versus the Crusaders or China versus India.

"Instead Jesus' Jihad is the way each and everyone of us must be at war with Satan every single day -- against the Seven Deadly Sins [here he lists and defines each one!]. 

"This Holy War takes place inside each and everyone of us -- all day long ... !"

Way to go, padre! :)  

Servers -- Mr. Justin Hidalgo.

Transport - team Mom -- Patti.

EMHCs -- Mrs. Mary Sam York and K of C Mr. John Carlson.

Lector -- Ms. Patti Hidalgo.

Ushers -- Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino Sandoval.

Before - Mass 5 - Decade Rosary Leader -- Mr. George Nicolai.

Choir Director -- Mr. George Nicolai.

Way to go, great and wonderful good people! :)

August 28. Feast Day of Bishop Saint Augustine - Doctor of the Church.

August 29. Feast Day of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist.

August 31. Blessed Virgin Mary.

September 1. Twenty - second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

September 2. Labor Day USA.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Feast of the Assumption 5:00 pm bi - lingual Mass celebrated by Uvalde Deanery head Father Clay Hunt III!

Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church

Brackettville, Texas 78832.

Deacon of the Mass - Reverend Mr. James Bader.

Homilist - Father Hunt. Theme  -- "The Blessed Virgin Mary is Assumed into Heaven, Body and Soul. Reunited with her Divine Son Jesus, she still fights to protect us from Satan as any good mother defending her little children from evil and harm does..."

Altar Servers - Ms. BrittanyCastilla, Mr. JT Rosas and Mr. Roman Rosas.

Transport - TEAM Moms -- Frances and Alex.


EMHCs -- Mr. and Mrs. F. Clark.

Lector - Ms. Elena Luna.

Offertory Gifts - Las damas Guadalupanas -- fueron la Señora Celestina Hernandez y la Señora Estela Valdez.  

Ushers - Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino Sandoval.

Before Mass 5 - Decade Rosary Leader - Mr. George Nicolai.

Choir - Mrs. Lynn McNew.

Way to go, great and wonderful good people! :)

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

August 19. Feast Day of Saint John Eudes - Priest.

August 19. Feast Day of Bishop Saint Louis of Toulouse, France.

August 20. Feast Day of Saint Bernard - Abbot and Doctor of the Church.

August 21. Feast Day of Pope Saint Pius X.

August 22. Feast Day of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

August 23. Feast Day of Saint Rose of Lima - Virgin.

August 24. Feast Day of the Apostle Saint Bartholomew

August 25. Twenty - first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

August 27. Feast Day of Saint Monica.

Monday, August 12, 2013

RIP Severely combat wounded US Army veteran of the Viet Nam War Mr. Clifford Roy Fry 1953 - 2013.

He was preceded in death by such family members as Clifford Eugene Fry, John Charles "Cooter" Estep and brothers Edward Hedlund and Robert Lee Essary.  

He is survived by one brother and several sisters and his son Clifford Dale Fry, daughter Amber Weibe and several grandchildren.

Among his many friends here in Brackettville, Texas are Dennis and Donna Dodson, Moses Hernandez, Sr., Eddie Travieso, Rev. Mr. Joe Goebel, Deacon plus  Chuck Hall, Rosa Shepherd, Jonnie Salmon, Joaquin Clark, yours truly and many more ...

Saturday afternoon Altar - server - less Mass still well - supported!

Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church.

Brackettville, Texas 78832.

Saturday. August 10, 2013. 5:30 p.m. English Mass.

Celebrant -- Monsignor Steuben. "I was first here in 1956. Your pastor was an old French Canadian OMI priest who kept a pet monkey tied up on the old rectory back porch..." :)

Deacon of the Mass -- Rev. Mr. James Bader.

Homilist -- Monsignor Steuben. Theme: No one knows at what hour the Son of Man may come. ...

"How many of you know right now that you're going to die in the next three days?

"Raise your hand! :)

"Remember: if we can't look back over the last five or ten years and see where we've improved in all things spiritual, beware of today's Gospel warning in Luke...

"Because we can die at any time whatsoever..." 


EMHCs -- K of C Mr. John Carlson and Mr. Jim Burns plus one other fine gentleman.


Lector -- Ms. Carole Whitworth.

Before - Mass 5 - Decade Rosary Leader -- Mr. George Nicolai.

Ushers -- Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Jim Burns.

Choir Director --  Mrs. Lynn McNew.

Way to go, great and wonderful good people! :)

Thursday, August 08, 2013

August 12. Feast Day of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal - Religious.

August 13. Feast Day of Pope Saint Pontian - Martyr.

August 13. Feast Day of Saint Hippolytus - Priest and Martyr.

August 14. Feast Day of  Saint Maximilian Kolbe - Priest - he was Martyred in the Arbeit Mach Frei NAZI Death Camp in WW II.

August 15. Feast Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - "Body and Soul."

August 16. Feast Day of  Saint Stephen of Hungary.

August 17. Blessed Virgin Mary.

August 18. Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Pope Francis on corrupt politicians receiving Holy Communion from his hands:

"I don't want that those people come to me for a photo - op..."

The Latin Mass magazine's Alessandro Zangrano quotes Italian blogger Sandro Magister in the current Summer 2013 issue.

"On March 19, 2013 at the inaugural Mass of Pope Francis' pontificate, Vice - President Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi did receive communion, but Pope Francis remained seated behind the altar..."

As the now - pope said in his 2010 book, while still in his native Argentina:

"I don't want that those people come to me for a photo - op..."

Way to go, Holy Father! :)

Monday, August 05, 2013

"Why Be Catholic?" VII

The undisputed evangelical truth ...

"Through the Church's quality of being both united and universal, we celebrate its diversity as well."

"The Church's practice welcomes a variety of schools of spirituality, from the Benedictine focus on liturgical prayer balanced with work to the Franciscan emphasis on poverty and humility, from the Carmelite concentration on contemplation to the Ignatian embrace of the intellect and of surrender to God's will.

"Those who pray in the extraordinary form of the Mass are as welcome as are those who participate in the charismatic movement or those who follow the Catholic Worker movement.

"Though Jesus is the only way, truth, and life, Catholics come to Jesus by a variety of routes ..."

Way to go, Father Clay Hunt III, Dean of the vast mostly underpopulated Uvalde Deanery -- over 100 miles from East to West! :) 

August 7. Feast Day of Pope Saint Sixtus II and Companions -- all martyrs.

August 7. Feast Day of Saint Cajetan - Priest.

August 8. Feast Day of Saint Dominic - Priest.

August 9. Feast Day of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - Virgin -- Martyred by NAZIs.

August 10. Feast Day of Saint Lawrence - Deacon and Martyr.

August 11. Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Saturday's afternoon liturgy well - supported!

At Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church.

Brackettville, Texas 78832.


Saturday. August 3, 2013. 5:30 pm English Mass.

Celebrant -- Father Johnson "I'm from India," he tells us!

Deacon of the Mass -- Rev. Mr. James Bader.

Homilist -- Father Johnson. Theme from St. Paul in the Day's Readings: "Brothers and sisters, quit lying to each other!

"Martin Luther said as long as we have faith we're saved. He tells us to go forth and sin boldly.

"This is a lie as are all such heresies.

"Our Faith must also be combined with good works...!"

Server Team -- Mr. Justin Hidalgo.

Transport - team Mom -- Patti

EMHCs -- Mrs. Julia C. Terrazas and Mr. Jim Burns.

Lector -- Mrs. Jamie Ballew.

Before - Mass 5 - Decade Rosary Leader -- Mr. George Nicolai

Usher Team -- Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino "Lingo" Sandoval.

Choir Director -- Mrs. Lynn McNew.

Way to go, great and wonderful good people! :)

Friday, August 02, 2013

Congratulations to Brackettville,Texas - 78832 -  Summertime Volleyball Camp Coaches Ms. Selina Gerardo and Ms. Phyllis Aguirre.

Both young ladies are Class of 2013 HS Grads and former CCD members at Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church!

Way to go, ladies! :)