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Now Hiring: Join the Mission at St. Mary’s Catholic School

St. Mary’s Catholic School • Temple, Texas Now Hiring: Join the Mission at St. Mary’s Catholic School St. Mary’s Catholic School is seeking faithful, joyful, mission-driven Catholic educators and leaders who love Jesus Christ, love children, and desire to help form students in wisdom, holiness, virtue, and academic excellence. View Current Openings Help Us Form the Next Generation of Saints and Scholars At St. Mary’s Catholic School, teaching and school leadership are more than jobs.

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Celebrating Pentecost at St. Mary’s Catholic Church

Preparing for Pentecost at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Dear St. Mary’s Parishioners, This coming Sunday, we will celebrate Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all of Christ’s first disciples, empowering them to boldly proclaim the Gospel to the world. Pentecost was not only an event in the past. Christ continues to send the Holy Spirit to strengthen and guide the Church today. Here at St. Mary’s Catholic

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Fr. Solomon Akpan Mass of Thanksgiving

Ordination & Mass of Thanksgiving Dcn. Solomon Akpan Dcn. Solomon Akpan will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Austin on Saturday, June 6, 2026. After ordination, he will be Father Solomon Akpan. Join us at St. Mary’s on Sunday, June 14, as he celebrates a Mass of Thanksgiving with our parish community. View Event Details Ordination to the Priesthood To Be Ordained June 6, 2026 With praise and thanksgiving, the Diocese of

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Fr. Chris Haberberger Mass of Thanksgiving

Ordination & Mass of Thanksgiving Dcn. Chris Haberberger Dcn. Chris Haberberger will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Austin on Saturday, June 6, 2026. After ordination, he will be Father Chris Haberberger. Join us the next day at St. Mary’s as he celebrates a Mass of Thanksgiving with our parish community. View Event Details Ordination to the Priesthood To Be Ordained June 6, 2026 With praise and thanksgiving, the Diocese of Austin

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Envy: The Joy-Stealing Sin | Fr. Will Rooney | 4th Sunday of Lent

Episode Overview On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Fr. Will reflects on the healing of the man born blind and the deadly sin of envy. Beginning with the reality that inequalities exist in the world, this homily explores how comparison can become fertile soil for resentment, sorrow, and insecurity. Envy twists the desire for joy and communion, making another person’s good feel like our loss. But the Gospel offers a different vision. In Christ, weakness

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Living Water for the Wounded Heart: Lust and the Woman at the Well | Fr. Will Rooney | 3rd Sunday of Lent

Episode Overview Why is the Samaritan woman at the well in the middle of the day? Fr. Will reflects on the deep wounds and spiritual thirst revealed in the Gospel of the Woman at the Well. Through the lens of the Lenten series on the deadly sins, this homily explores the destructive power of lust—not simply as a moral failure, but as a distortion of our deepest desire for love, intimacy, and communion. Yet the

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Rise and Do Not Be Afraid: The Transfiguration, Zeal, and Sloth | Fr. Will Rooney | 2nd Sunday of Lent

Episode Overview On the Second Sunday of Lent, Fr. Will reflects on the Transfiguration: why Jesus reveals His glory to Peter, James, and John—and how that vision strengthens the disciples against the coming scandal of the Cross. Connecting the Gospel to the Lenten series on the deadly sins, this homily explores sloth (acedia) as “sorrow at spiritual joy,” and calls us to renewed zeal: living our mission, investing in prayer, and loving those closest to

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Communio Relationship Health Survey

Helping St. Mary’s Build a Thriving Relationship Ministry Our parish has partnered with Communio, a nonprofit ministry that equips parishes with outreach tools and ministry strategies to evangelize and disciple people through the renewal of healthy marriages, relationships, and the family. They’re helping us set ambitious ministry outcomes and the activities to achieve those outcomes: We’re going to use digital and mail outreach to invite members of our community to the parish. We’re going to

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That They May Have Life | Part 4 – The Ten Commandments: Law, Worship, and the Domestic Church

The Ten Commandments (1–4): Law Fulfilled in Christ In this session of That They May Have Life, we continue our series on Christian morality by turning to the Ten Commandments—always interpreted in light of Jesus Christ, who tells us: “I have not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it” (Matthew 5:17). Christian morality is not about rule-following for its own sake. It is about beatitude—true happiness in communion with God. The moral life

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Hungry for More: Gluttony & Greed | Dcn. Chris Haberberger | 1st Sunday of Lent

Hungry for More: Gluttony & Greed 1st Sunday of Lent | Dcn. Chris Haberberger In this first installment of our Lenten series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Dcn. Chris Haberberger invites us to look deeper than the surface of our usual Lenten question: “What are you giving up?” Focusing on gluttony and greed, this homily reveals that the real battle of temptation is not about food or money — it is about trust. Drawing from

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