OCTOBER 26, 2021 • ARCHGH.ORG/TCH
CHARITY GUILD
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A THOUSAND THANKS
Longtime philanthropy group kicks off 100-year anniversary celebrations
Catholic schools handwrite gratitude cards to frontline healthcare workers ▪ SEE PAGE 11
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Proclaiming the Good News to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston since 1964
OCTOBER 26, 2021
VOL. 58, NO. 10
SERVING GOD AND SERVING OTHERS
FIND THE SYNOD PRAYER, READ POPE FRANCIS’S MESSAGE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SYNOD IN THIS GUIDE ▪ SEE PAGE 2 & 3
VOCATIONS
More than 70 priests and religious sisters celebrate Jubilees with Cardinal DiNardo BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — Dedicated religious sisters and priests come from all around the world, but many are right in the neighborhood celebrating years of service to God like Sister Mary Alice Carbajal, originally from El Paso and Sister Carmen Sanchez from San Antonio. Now celebrating her 75th anniversary since taking her vows, Sister Mary Alice is 96 years old and retired living at St. Placidus, which is located on the Villa de Matel campus in Houston. But she remembers her years of teaching scores of students in schools in California, Guatemala and at the local St. Mary the Purification Catholic School. “I always wanted to be a sister since I was in second grade. I would tag along See JUBILEES, page 5
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH AND MOVING WATERS
Father Victor Perez, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church off Kane Street, stands in front of the Moving Waters shower trailer, a new ministry the parish is offering to bring clean showers to people experiencing homelessness.
St. Joseph parish offers meals, clothing, and now a shower New ministry arrives at parish near Downtown with a new offering: a mobile shower BY JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — It all starts with a clean and refreshing shower. Since Sept. 15, people experiencing homelessness have found a place of refuge from the late summer heat at St. Joseph Catholic Church near downtown Houston. The parish, located at 1505 Kane St., has been hosting a mobile shower trailer from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday, in coordination with Moving Waters, a
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Houston-area-based ministry focused on “restoring dignity one shower at a time.” The mobile showers offer people the chance to take a hot shower and receive a clean set of clothes, free of charge. St. Joseph is Moving Waters’ third shower location and first inside the 610 Loop. This new partnership allows Moving Waters to further its mission and provide dignity-restoring showers and hygiene services to even more individuals. The partnership complements and expands St. Joseph’s existing social ministry, which offers sack lunches for the homeless every Monday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and also operates an active food pantry. Since the onset of the pandemic,
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The ministry is active in three locations, including
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