SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 • ARCHGH.ORG/TCH
ANTHEM VOICES
Archdiocesan Choir takes to Minute Maid Park to sing the National Anthem
Mass honors Beaumont bishop’s birthday, legacy ▪ SEE PAGE 20
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
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CELEBRATING BISHOP GUILLORY
Proclaiming the Good News to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston since 1964
VOL. 60, NO. 6
CALLED BY NAME
“MARY SET OUT AND WENT WITH HASTE”
Galveston-Houston pilgrims trek to Lisbon for World Youth Day 2023 BY JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald LISBON — At a quick glance, a Texas flag flapping in the wind sure does look a lot like the flag of the South American country of Chile. This common mistake often united eager Chileans with friendly Texans at World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, eliciting laughs and Spanish (though sometimes broken) conversation and a happy exchange. Even so, with rosaries and American (and Texan!) flags in hand, a delegation of 311 pilgrims from the Archdiocese made the great adventure to Portugal’s capital city of Lisbon for WYD.
WORLD YOUTH DAY
PHOTO BY JAMES RAMOS/HERALD
Galveston-Houston Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS, at right, listens as (from left to right) Maria Pacheco, Samantha Martinez, Cecilia Dao and Josceline Tenido speak during a special gathering of Houston pilgrims during World Youth Day at St. Caterina Church in Lisbon on Aug. 4. Bishop Dell’Oro welcomed Houston pilgrims and beyond to a special gathering to give the a space to reflect, pray and gather as a group.
See LISBON, page 9
EDUCATION
MINISTRY
Back-to-school Mass unites teachers, staff in prayer for new year
New diaconate formation changes to expand beyond their ‘home’ parish
BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — To welcome the new school year in prayer, about 1,000 teachers and staff filled the downtown Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on Aug. 11 to celebrate a back-to-school Mass with Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS. “For our precious and life-giving students, we will seek to serve and teach,” Cardinal DiNardo said in his homily. The theme for the school year is “This is Jesus,” based on Matthew 26:26 and the Eucharistic Revival. Cardinal DiNardo and Catholic Schools Office staff also presented
HOUSTON — Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, speaking to more than 300 deacons at their annual convocation Aug. 5, urged them to accept changes in future formation that could reassign them to serve other parishes in need rather than just their “home” parish. “We need to have a larger sense of our home Church as in our entire Archdiocese,” Cardinal DiNardo told the audience of deacons and their wives, as well as those in formation to become deacons in their meeting at St. Mary’s Seminary. Just as priests are assigned by Cardinal DiNardo to various parishes, so will future deacons, beginning
See MASS, page 4
See DIACONATE, page 6
THE FIRST WORD † 3
IN VOCATIONS
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PHOTOS BY JAMES RAMOS/HERALD
Newly ordained deacons lay face down on the ground during a Mass of Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate on Feb. 18 at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. Permanent deacons serve at parishes and ministries across the Archdiocese.
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