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Helping You Grow Your Faith. Helping You Grow In Faith.“The Church is bidden by God and by events – each of them a call from Him – to renew her trust in catechetical activity as a prime aspect of her mission. She is bidden to offer catechesis her best resources in people and energy, without sparing effort, toil or material means…”
Pope Saint John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae (On Catechesis in Our Time), 1979. Paragraph 15.
Welcome!
This is where you will find a vast amount of resources for growing your Catholic Faith and growing in your Catholic Faith…and helping others grow in theirs.
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Our most recent video lesson, no matter the topic or the subscription level, will always be shown here at no charge!
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Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth.
Amen.
Pocket Post | Pentecost in 2 Minutes
Sunday Mass
ENGLISH 10AM
SPANISH 12PM
Rosary
ENGLISH: Sunday 9:40AM
SPANISH: Sunday 11:40AM
Stream Mass below during Covid-19
We prefer streaming Mass from St. Anthony Marie Claret in Kyle, Texas. See the schedule to the side for when Sunday, Daily, and Spanish Mass is celebrated, and when Rosaries are prayed. The priests and deacons are very active in providing everything possible online, including daily reflections and “hangouts.” Click on the video below to see all of the previously recorded videos, too.
You can stream below or directly from the parish, or from their YouTube channel.
Daily Mass
ENGLISH
M-W-F: 12:15PM
Tu: 6:30PM
SPANISH
Th: 6:30PM
Remember Mass All Week
Below are links to Mass and celebrating the Word at home on Sundays. Use HOO’s “This Week’s Free Thing” to continue the Faith Formation throughout the week during dinner or anytime during the day by bringing Jesus into the conversation with this handy and free, easy-to-use guide.
The link to “This Week’s Free Thing” will open in a new tab so you can stay on this page and go to the sources below without losing your place.
Celebration of the Word
Can’t stream Video or don’t want to involve facebook? We understand!
Here is a “Celebration of The Word” which can be done at home, including a Spiritual Act of Communion. This is liturgically correct and allow a family to pray together in a familiar form and similar to Mass.
This can also be used in a faith formation classroom setting.
Family Faith Formation
What is a Family?
As the Church or your Parish sees it, a Family is a registered entity at the parish, a person or group of peoplle who can receive an envelope that they can put their donation into and send it in.
That sounds a bit crass, but it does help us identify who the Church has called a family since the beginning. A family can be one person or many, and the Church simply recognizes that those who live together, or alone, constitute the Domestic Church, It’s a little more complicated than that, but for our purposes at Holy Owned and Operated, a Family is that which you, as the visitor to this web site, represent. Yourself, your spouse and kids, or your lover. We want to give you the tools of The lord where you are. Let’s sort out the rest later…
Lessons For Everyone
Parish Faith Formation Learners
Some parishes are working in different ways to stay in contact and offer Faith Formation remotely; many have not followed suit. With the cancelation of in-person classes, parents have been tasked with using digital resources, or maybe the textbook, to complete lessons at home. This may be more than what a parent is capable of taking on, at least at the surface. Our purpose is to work as a supplement to parish programming, and during this COVID-19 crisis possibly a temporary replacement. We are not affiliated with any particular parish or diocese. We appreciate and experience the loss of physical contact with our parish deeply and can empathize with your own feelings of loss. We desire to help continue the excellent faith formation that Beth has provided to her local parish over the last 10 years with those families and many more to join our community here at Holy Owned and Operated
If you are a Parish Catechetical Leader and need help getting in touch with your own parish families, we’d love to visit with you and help you overcome the obstacles. If you are a catechist working to send lessons to the families of children in your classes, we can help with that, too.
If you are a parent, just wanting a way to teach all of your children together, instead of 2, 3, 4, or more different lessons, click on “This Week’s Free Thing” and get started! These lessons are particularly geared toward families learning and growing together in Faith.
Elementary Faith Formation
RCIA Adapted for Children
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The Lord has given me the tongue of those who are taught… Is 50:4
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Being On The Road To Perfection – Episode 166
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We are called to be perfect, as we discussed last week.
So, what does being on the road to perfection look like?
If Jesus was “finished” and his ministry was “completed,” as it means when He said, “It is done,” by saying, “It is perfected” just before He died on the Cross, He must have walked a road to perfection.
And so must we.
In this episode we discuss that concept, in terms of what we are doing and how we respond to the call for our life.
It’s a simple concept, and a difficult task, but we have the example of Our Lord which, from the proper perspective, is not an impossible example to follow and exemplify.
Being Perfect – Episode 165
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Being Perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect is a daunting idea!
Starting from the beginning, when we first launched the podcast, we talk about Jesus’ use of the word “perfect” in Matthew 5:48, its Greek etymology, and His use of the same word only one other place in His ministry – when He is dying on the Cross.
Being Perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect is to be who we are supposed to be, just as God is Who He is supposed to be.
So how do we BE perfect?
Glad you asked.
The answer is here!
God’s Time Is Not Our Time – Episode 164
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God’s time is not our time.
Well, duh!
In this episode that is short on time – possibly our shortest episode ever – we discuss the intricacies of life complicated by our concept of timing and how our own blindness to the Plan of The Lord makes us impatient as He works for our good with His Goodness, Beauty, and Truth.
When we do not think God is responding to our prayers, it does not mean He isn’t involved and not doing things.
When we are kids, we try to get God to do things, to fit him into our expectations.
Do we still do that as adults?
When we are non-believers, does some of that lack of faith come from not getting, having, or experiencing what we think should be happening?