Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CATHOLIC CHURCH • JUNE 7, 2020 7801 Bay Branch Dr. • The Woodlands, TX 77382 • 281-296-2800 • AP.CHURCH WELCOME HOME PASTOR PAROCHIAL VICAR PAROCHIAL VICAR HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN Fr. Tom Rafferty Fr. Mathew Thottiyil Fr. Kingsley Nwoko Fr. Ronnie Dela Cruz [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] BELONG HERE • BELIEVE IN JESUS • BLESS OTHERS CONNECT WITH US! MASS TIMES CLERGY & STAFF Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Fr. Bruce Powers Visiting Priest Galveston-Houston, has granted us FACEBOOK permission to begin the reopening Dcn. Mike Krall facebook.com/staoptw of public Masses. However, there is [email protected] no obligation to attend Mass in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Dcn. Dominic Madrid INSTAGRAM [email protected] @ap.church Monday - Saturday | 9 AM Sunday | 5 PM Sat. Vigil, 7 AM, Dcn. Mike Mort [email protected] AP.CHURCH 9 AM, 11 AM, 1 PM Español, 6 PM ap.church/livestream Dcn. 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May God St. Vincent De Paul | 281-466-1920 [email protected] rebuke him we humbly pray; and St. Anthony’s Bread | 832-482-4210 Stephen Lenahan Director of do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Communications & Development host, by the power of God, thrust [email protected] into hell Satan and all the evil RECEPTION HOURS The office is closed until further Director of Education spirits who prowl about the world Veronica Tucker notice. Contact us: ap.church/staff [email protected] seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. ADMINISTRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. SUPPORT ST. ANTHONY'S! Text PADUA Give Online at Give through to 77977 ap.church/give General Offertory GIVING FOR THE WEEK IRA ROLLOVER GIFT OPTIONS MAY 25TH - MAY 31ST Are IRA rollover gifts an option for giving to the Horizon Capital Campaign? OFFERTORY * If you are 70½ or older, the IRA rollover is a great way for you $ 79,266.07 to make a gift to support the Horizon Campaign. IRA rollover gifts can make a huge difference. These gifts will help sustain us ST. ANTHONY'S BREAD in our important work to strengthen our community. For more $ 4,207.86 information on making an IRA Rollover gift to the campaign, contact Michael Schillaci at 713-652-4418 or email SVDP LOCAL [email protected]. The IRA rollover is now permanent, $ 3,363.02 and its key provisions are: • The IRA rollover allows donors 70½ or older to transfer up to MAINTENANCE FUND $100,000 directly from their IRA on an annual basis. $ 196.00 • An IRA rollover gift is a tax-exempt distribution. Qualifying CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS individuals can make charitable gifts using pre-tax IRA assets $ 909.73 rather than taking a distribution, paying income taxes and using after-tax assets to make a charitable gift. TOTAL | $ 87,942.68 *Includes Online Giving • An IRA rollover gift can be used to meet all or part of an IRA’s annual required minimum distribution.. OFFERTORY ENVELOPES Don’t want to receive Giving Envelopes anymore? Let us know at ap.church/envelopes where you may designate NO for “no envelopes needed” or YES for “yes, send me paper envelopes, please.” HOW TO GIVE If you go to our website, ap.church/give, you can click on the Give Now button and set up your gift easy and fast. Or you can follow any of these options to either text to give, give online, or give through our weekend collection baskets. AMAZON SMILE Save to your favorites list: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0545136 Every time you go to shop use the smile.amazon.com URL instead of the amazon.com URL and a portion will go back to St. Anthony's. SEMINARIANS JOSE "J" SERRATO BRANDON RIOJAS J Serrato will arrive July 1st and Brandon Riojas will be with us until remain with us until summer of early August before he returns to 2021 as he experiences every his studies in Dallas. day life in our parish for his formation and studies. Home Parish: Christ the Good Shepherd St. John of the Cross, New Caney, TX Seminary: Home Parish: Holy Trinity Seminary, Dallas, TX Seminary: St. Joseph Seminary, Covington, LA My name is Brandon Riojas, I was born and raised My name is J Concepcion Serrato. I was born in Houston, Texas. Throughout the early parts in Huetamo, Michoacán, México. I grew up in of my childhood, I would attend Mass every a poor family and under very strict rules by my Sunday at Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church with parents. I have four brothers, three sisters and my mother and great-grandmother. As a child, I I am the youngest one in my family. I grew up didn’t understand Mass however, I knew it was surrounded by priests and always wondered something important. A major reason why I liked about priesthood formation. When I was 14, I going to Mass every Sunday was only because I was suggested to enter to the seminary but I knew we would get breakfast afterwards. When was afraid and decided to wait. After I finished I was in the third grade, my great-grandmother high school I got involved in the Church, and passed away and unfortunately, we stopped I started attending to retreats with groups of going to Mass every Sunday. Not too long young adults. Months later, I became Eucharistic after her passing, we eventually moved to the minister and a member of my parish choir. Spring area just north of Houston. Since the My home parish is Saint John of the Cross and it third grade til sophomore year of high school, is also where I started my discernment process I was questioning God’s existence, doubting and grew in my spiritual life with the aid of my Him, attending non-Catholic churches, and not spiritual director: Fr Hai. Through prayer, I felt understanding faith. Towards the end of my a deep call from God and a strong desire to Sophomore year, a good friend of mine by the become a priest which is something that I can’t name of Rudy Barrera invited me to his parish for explain. My formation towards the Priesthood their youth group which became my home parish, has been a really good experience because it has Christ The Good Shepherd. Since that moment, helped me to get closer to God trough prayer, I knew God was real and leading me to him. My something that never happened to me before. call to priesthood started my junior year of high school. I was invited to the St. Andrew Dinner at St. Mary’s Seminary in which they talked about the vocation to priesthood. This was something SOON TO BE very foreign to me as I had just gotten into my FR. THUC NGUYEN faith the year before. This dinner was the spark One of our past seminarians, of my discernment and growth in the deeper Thuc Nguyen will be ordained knowledge of both the faith and priesthood. Since to the Priesthood. Soon to then I started to receive signs through dreams, be - Fr. Thuc Nguyen will people, retreats, and prayer experiences that be celebrating a Mass of somehow connected to the priesthood. Then by Thanksgiving on June 14th the grace of God, I made the decision to apply at the 6 PM Mass. You can to the Archdiocese of Galveston- Houston in my reserve your seat for the 6 PM Mass on our second semester of senior year in high school. I website the Wednesday before. Or tune in to was accepted in the end of that same semester of our Livestream at ap.church/livestream. June 2018. LITURGY & PRAYER SPIRITUAL COMMUNION ONLINE RESOURCES By Philip Kosloski on Aleteia.org ST. ANTHONY'S ONLINE LIBRARY The Church encourages us to make an act of During this time you can still grow in your faith “spiritual communion,” where we unite ourselves and listen to talks on topics of Morality, the to God through prayer. It is a beautiful way to Kerygma, and basic Catholic Teachings. Visit express to God our desire to be united with him ap.church/believe for our online library. when we are unable to complete that union in the reception of Holy Communion. 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