Please pray for
- Mitzi Van Landuydt, who has been ill,
- Joan Brown, who is ill, and
- Christine Guarino, who is recovering from illness.
Thanksgiving Day Masses
Masses on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, will be at 8:30 AM at Emmaus and at 9:30 AM at Queen of Angels Chapel. As in years past, we will be blessing bread at the Thanksgiving Masses. We will provide loaves that you may take home to share with your family and guests at your Thanksgiving meal. Or, if you like, you may bring your own loaves to be blessed.
Office Closed for Thanksgiving
The parish office will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 23 & 24 for Thanksgiving. In case of an emergency please call the priests’ residence at 512-261-3209.
Copies of Fr. Rito’s homilies available before Mass
The accents of international priests can be a challenge. When I have been on vacation, I have sat through Masses with international priests as celebrants and not understood a word. I know how frustrating that can be. Fr. Rito is working hard on his English, but some have indicated to me that they are having difficulty understanding him. For that reason I have asked him to make copies of his homilies available prior to his Masses. You can pick up a copy prior to Mass and follow along with that when he delivers his homilies. Please be sure to thank him for doing this. When I spoke to him about this issue he was a bit discouraged because he has really been working hard on his English. This weekend his English Mass is the 5:00 PM Sunday Mass.
Book Recommendation
Lief Enger, Peace Like a River
I have not quite finished this novel, but I am going to go ahead with recommending it anyway. It is a marvelous book. It is a tale told through the perspective of an 11 year old, although as one moves on with the book, one discovers that it is a story of adult memories of experience at that age. What caught me immediately in this book was an unforgettable account of a goose hunt that took on extraordinary form. From there it moved on as a story of family challenges, loyalty, discovering the realities of the world in which we live, love and compassion. The characters are marvelously developed. The narrative has the capacity to touch one’s soul through its ability to remind readers of the time in our lives when we were moving out of childhood into the beginnings of adult understanding.