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Bringing more comfort to Comfort

On an overcast, cold, blustery Sunday morning recently, close to 500 parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in Comfort gathered in a field just off of Highway 87 and Interstate 10 to celebrate with Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, MSpS, as he blessed the future site of the community’s long-awaited new sanctuary.

A flat-bed trailer held a make-shift altar as the archbishop was joined by Msgr. James F. Cashin, pastor, and Msgr. Michael J. Boulette, administrator of Notre Dame Church in Kerrville and dean of the Fredericksburg Rural Deanery, in concelebrating the Jan. 15 bilingual liturgy, with worshippers bringing folding lawn chairs, plastic patio seats and even iron benches in place of wooden pews.

Archbishop Gustavo began his homily by quoting from a 1986 Today’s Catholic article written about Sacred Heart Parish. “There’s nothing pretentious about the people. … The 200 members of the parish share two of God’s greatest gifts: fellowship and perseverance,” ...

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Thanks given for Archbishop’s Appeal donors

By Carol Baass Sowa

Today's Catholic

SAN ANTONIO • St. Francis of Assisi Parish served as host for the Archbishop’s Appeal appreciation liturgy on Jan. 14, celebrated by Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, MSpS, with a reception taking place afterwards in Henke Hall. The event was held on behalf of the many persons whose lives have been touched, uplifted or transformed by the ministries that the appeal funds.

Music was provided prior to the 11 a.m. Mass by the St. Mary Magdalen Catholic School Choir and, during Mass, by the Assumption Seminary Schola Cantorum. Father Larry Christian, pastor, welcomed those present to the church.

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