Recitation of the rosary is held in the Holy Spirit Chapel every Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
 
Thank You
St Paul’s would like to thank Rev. James Robertson for presiding over Saturday mass and Msgr. Elmer Holtman for assisting in Reconciliation on Thursday and presiding over both Sunday masses. We appreciate you greatly!
 
Welcome new parishioners
Welcome new parishioners: Ken Madden, Joyce Michael, Michael and Marianne Barry, Bill Thomas, Michael and Jamie McGrath and Jake, Connor, and Caitlyn.  We are happy you have chosen to join St. Paul the Apostle Parish.
 
From Ashes to Easter
We are blessed by the gracious gift of Jesus Christ, who transformed human history with his infinite and compassionate love. Through his Spirit, his grace has been poured into our hearts. With open and merciful hearts, we are invited to share our blessings. As we add coins to our Ashes to Easter box each day, we together will bring hope to struggling missions. The Lenten boxes are in Hecker Hall. All boxes should be returned on Easter Sunday or the week after.     
 
Please Join Us for Stations of the Cross and our Parish Fish Fry
Stations of the Cross will be held each Friday in Lent at 5:30 p.m.
Following the stations, WWICS and the Knights of Columbus will sponsor our FISH FRY.   
Save the date -   April 12^th  Tickets will go on sale after each Mass.  You may also purchase tickets in the church office during business hours 8:30 am – 1:00pm. Tickets are $10.00 per person. TO GO BOXES will be available for those people that need them.
 
Lenten Super
A LENTEN SUPPER is being provided by WWICS in the Finn Center immediately after STATIONS OF THE CROSS on March 29 and April 5.    Please sign up for a headcount if you plan to attend.   Also, if you would like to bring a dish bread or salad, the theme for these Fridays are MARCH 29~SALADS, APRIL 5~CASSEROLES. Just add your dish to the sign up sheet made available inside the entrance area of the church.   Remember that all meals are meatless. The sign up sheets will remain in the church until after Wednesday evening Mass for that week.   Please, join us in the breaking of bread after Stations. All are welcome.
 
Mass Intentions
If you requested a Mass for the intentions of a friend or family member and that Mass was canceled, we will contact you and make arrangements for another date.  If you have a special date in mind, please call the office.   
 

 Birthday Bicentennial
                         200 years, Servant of God Isaac Hecker, Founder of the Paulist Fathers
                                       December 18, 1819 – December 18, 2019
 
Attention
Zeecon our internet / email provider will have a server outage week of March 25 ^th.
   
First Saturday Social and First Sunday Coffee and Donuts
Our monthly First Saturday Social, sponsored by our WWIC's group, will take place on Saturday, April 6th, in the Finn Center after 5:30 pm Mass. Come join us!
On Sunday, April 7th, the Knights of Columbus will serve coffee, fruit, and donuts.
 
*Special Lenten Adult Faith Formation Opportunity
To understand our Catholic Faith, it is important to understand and appreciate its common roots with Judaism.  The Passover meal known as Seder, is commonly believed to be the Last Supper that Christ shared with his disciples, and where he instituted the sacrament of Eucharist.  Following mass on Wednesday, April 10, we will be hosting in our Family Life Center an interfaith Seder meal and service, conducted by a Rabbi.  Following the Seder there will be an opportunity for a Q & A with a panel that includes the Rabbi, Fr. Patino, and a Pastor from our neighbors at the Church at Horseshoe Bay. We will have sign-up sheers available at the masses beginning on February 23, and running until we reach capacity.  Donations will be accepted at the door to help cover the cost of the meal. 
 
Communion to the Sick, Homebound, or Hospitalized
Our Community of St. Paul the Apostle serves those who are ill, homebound, or hospitalized. Know of someone who would like to receive Communion, or a visit, and is unable to be present at Sunday Mass, please contact Esther Ellis, emellis@nctv.com or (512) 694-8945 . Our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion will take care to maintain the confidentiality and dignity of the individual and will maintain contact with our pastor if that person is in need of sacramental anointing, the sacrament of reconciliation, or a pastoral visit. If the sick person cannot consume the host, but would like a visit, the Extraordinary Minister will conduct a visit and pray with that person.
 
Fasting and Abstinence  
**  Next weekends Diocesan Special Collection will be for Catholic Relief Services **
“Brothers and Sisters, the Church is not a border station; she needs open doors, because the heart of her God is not only open, but also pierced by the love which has embodied pain.” – Pope Fancis.
                                     
Join us on pilgrimage this coming summer.
Ignatius in Rome and The Loyola Experience celebrate the life of St. Ignatius in different, yet complimentary ways, inviting pilgrims to engage the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in meaningful ways. Explore them both and choose the one that best meets your interest.  Join Thomas A. Kane, CSP of Paulist Pilgrimages & Julio Giulietti, SJ, our Jesuit spiritual director.  See www.paulist.org/pilgrimages or contact Fr. Thomas 617-792-7360 for information.
 Ignatius in Rome      A seven-day journey into the Heart of Ignatius Loyola , June 14 – 20, 2019
The Loyola Experience   A 10-day Retreat Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Ignatius Loyola , July 4-14, 2019
 

                 Thank you for your generous contributions totaling  $8,898.00
 

                         
 

 

“The Catholic idea, then, is this: that Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, has become man, and, after His ascension, continues His mission upon earth through the instrumentality of His Church as really and truly as when He was manifest in the flesh and walked among men, in the country about Judea.”

[The Church and the Age, 1887]

If you have asked Father Hecker to pray for you or another person who is ill, and you believe something miraculous has happened, please phone Father Paul Robichaud, CSP, at 202-269-2519 and tell him your story.