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01/11/2025

Starting next week, let's pray the 9 Days for Life Novena together. Each day, from January 16-24, we will share a video with a special guest to lead us in prayer.

At the end of the novena on January 24, mark your calendar to join us for a Mass and Holy Hour for Life at 6:30 p.m. at Prince of Peace Catholic Church.

Starting next week, let’s pray the 9 Days for Life Novena together. Each day from January 16-24, we will share a video with a special guest to lead us in pra...

01/11/2025

Sensory Friendly Mass at St. Helena Catholic Church in San Antonio, TX
📸 Veronica Markland

01/11/2025

Sensory Friendly Mass at St. Helena Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas

01/10/2025

Encountering God’s Love in the Sacraments Catholic Schools - Archdiocese of San Antonio Workshop at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
📸 Veronica Markland

01/10/2025

Catholic Schools - Archdiocese of San Antonio teacher workshop Mass at Holy Redeemer
📸 Veronica Markland

01/10/2025

Catholic Schools Workshop and Mass

01/10/2025

Join Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, MSpS, for the Jubilee Mass for Migrants and Refugees: A celebration of solidarity, dignity, and the Church’s call to embody Christ’s love by welcoming, protecting promoting, integrating all as one family in faith at St. Helena Catholic Church this Sunday, January 12 at noon. All are invited to participate.

St. Helena is one of the 23 designated pilgrimage sites in the archdiocese, to which the faithful are invited to visit between now and January 6, 2026. To see a list of all archdiocesan Jubilee activities, visit archsa.org/jubilee2025.

01/10/2025

No matter how much you are hurting, no marriage is beyond hope. Participate in the Retrouvaille Program, a marriage program that helps couples restore and rebuild their loving relationship. Retrouvaille offers tools needed to rediscover a loving marriage. Tens of thousands of couples from those with slight problems to those in dire need have found this to be the solution to their marriage issues by attending the program, which begins with a Weekend Experience that is followed by a series of follow-up sessions to help keep your marriage on track and further develop the tools learned. Learn more at https://helpourmarriage.org

01/09/2025

Big cheers to your accomplishment! Congratulation for making their 2024 Archbishop's Appeal for Ministries parish goal! ✨

Our 2025 Archbishop's Appeal for Ministries is right around the corner, get ready to start supporting your parish to their goal!

01/08/2025

Spanish National Honor Society

Each year, the Spanish National Honor Society gathers donations during Christmas to donate to the Immigration Shelter. Thank you to all those who participated and helped make this year's drive a success.

01/08/2025

FROM THE PASTOR
January 5, 2025

Dear Parishioners,

Pope Francis inaugurated a Jubilee Year at Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica when he opened the Holy Doors. Last Sunday Archbishop Gustavo held an Opening Liturgy celebrating the Jubilee Year at San Fernando Cathedral. A Jubilee is a special year of prayer and a time for forgiveness, reconciliation, and pilgrimage and is part of the Catholic tradition.

Jubilees ordinarily take place every 25 years.

The theme of Jubilee 2025 is PILGRIMS OF HOPE. We are all encouraged to participate, either by going on pilgrimage to Rome or in our archdiocese. Millions of pilgrims are expected to travel to Rome to walk through the Holy Doors and participate in Jubilee events.

I hope that, as a parish, we will also go on a mini-pilgrimage to either the Shrine of the Little Flower or San Fernando Cathedral.

During the year themes suggested by Pope Francis will be marked locally. For example, on Sunday, February 23, we will pray for our Deacons and reflect on their ministry. On Sunday, March 9th, we will bring to our attention and pray for Voluntary Workers, while on Friday, March 28th, we will have 24 Hours for the Lord with an invitation to have a day’s retreat and to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

In announcing the Jubilee Pope Francis wrote: “In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future will bring.”

Expressing his desire that the Jubilee might be “an opportunity for us to be renewed in hope,” Pope Francis recalled that pilgrimage is “a fundamental event of every Jubilee,” traditionally associated with the human quest for the meaning of life. In particular, he invited all the particular churches throughout the world to prepare priests and the faithful for Sacramental Confession, which should be readily available throughout the year.

Recalling that 2025 is the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council, that of Nicaea, Pope Francis urged expressions of synodality, and renewed efforts to further Christian unity. He appealed especially for progress to be made toward a common celebration of Easter, noting that in 2025, providentially, all Christians will celebrate the Paschal mystery on the same date.

Let’s avail of the opportunity to grow in hope this Jubilee provides. Maybe it would be a good idea to recite a prayer of Hope before each Mass? Faith groups please dive into reflections on and conversations about hope.

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love.

Fr. Neville O’Donohue, SM
Pastor

01/08/2025