JANUARY 24, 2023 • ARCHGH.ORG/TCH
INVOKING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN FAITH
World Day for Consecrated Life Mass set for Feb. 5 ▪ SEE PAGE 3
557 confirmed on Epiphany across Archdiocese ▪ SEE PAGE 9
JANUARY 24, 2023
texas catholic herald
A PAPAL PORTRAIT
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Tennessee artist captured legacy of late pope in official portrait ▪ SEE PAGE 18
Proclaiming the Good News to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston since 1964
VOL. 59, NO. 15
MINISTRIES
POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI · 1927 - 2022
‘LORD, I LOVE YOU’
2023 DSF appeal showcases impact of local Church TEXAS CATHOLIC HERALD HOUSTON — For 57 years, the Diocesan Services Fund (DSF) has provided the necessary resources for the ministries of the local Church to flourish. When it was established by DIOCESAN Bishop John Morkovsky in SERVICES 1966, the DSF was more than just a FUND call for support — it was a call to action and, more importantly, an invitation. To this day, DSF continues to invite Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to invest in the work of the Church that no one parish can do on its own. Through DSF-supported ministries, hundreds of thousands are fed, clothed See MINISTRIES, page 4
EDUCATION
CNS PHOTO
Pope Benedict XVI walks with his crozier as he leads the closing Mass of World Youth Day in Madrid Aug. 21, 2011. The late pope, who died Dec. 31, 2022, was buried in the Vatican grotto after Pope Francis presided over his funeral Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Jan. 5.
Remembering Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Catholic Schools Week unites 1.6 million students nationwide with those in the Archdiocese
‘A simple, humble laborer in the vineyard of the Lord’ is laid to rest BY JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald
BY REBECCA TORRELLAS Texas Catholic Herald
VATICAN CITY — “Lord, I love you.” The pope’s secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, said a nurse heard the late pope’s last words several hours before his Dec. 31 death, according to the Vatican. He whispered the phrase in Italian, expressing his life’s vision and message of his papacy, a legacy that was remembered just five days later during his funeral Mass celebrated at 9:34 a.m., the same time he died just five days earlier. For those who knew him or studied his
HOUSTON — National Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated across the country and in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston from Jan. 29 to Feb. 4 with the theme: “Faith. Excellence. Service.” Sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Secretariat of See SCHOOLS, page 5
See BENEDICT, page 6
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Galveston-Houston Catholic schools celebrate Catholic education
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