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This week all 12 Catholic schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi have joined other Catholic schools across the nation in celebration of National Catholic Schools Week. Many schools began the week by celebrating Mass with their parishes on Sunday, Jan. 30. This year the celebration includes the theme "Catholic Schools: Faith. Excellence. Service." 

The Catholic Church will hold its annual celebration of World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2, and parishes will commemorate the event over the weekend of February 5-6. This event is a special time for individual parishes to celebrate the gift of consecrated life and pray for men and women discerning a consecrated vocation with the global Catholic Church.

Many Gifts, One Nation will begin Feb. 1. Many Gifts, One Nation is a day of giving for Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi. One day a year, for 24 hours, our participating schools will have a dedicated site open for monetary gifts from anyone wanting to give back to their Catholic school of choice. 

St. Patrick School students Story Mendez, Josefina Orines and Kate Ruiz won first place in the local and district level of the Knights of Columbus: “Keep Christ in Christmas Poster Contest” for the 2021-2022 school year. These three artists will go on to compete at the state level. 

2021 was a tough year for students at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The covid pandemic forced students to stay home and study online for more than two semesters. By the start of Fall 2021, first-year students felt lost, transfer and international students even more so, while juniors and seniors couldn’t wait to move on.

The "Traveling Monstrance" began its tour in the Diocese of Corpus Christi during the month of January this year. The monstrance will visit parishes in the diocese for the sole purpose of uniting us in prayer before our Lord in preparation for the celebration of the upcoming 2022 Diocesan Eucharistic Congress and the diocesan celebration of the universal Feast of Corpus Christi that precludes this weeklong event.

Forty students from St. John Paul II High School boarded an early morning bus and braved the cold weather to attend the Rally for Life in Austin on Jan. 22.  

During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, clergy and church members in the downtown area of Corpus Christi prayed and sang together at the Ecumenical Prayer Service at Corpus Christi Cathedral on Jan. 23. The theme for the service was "We saw His star in the East, and we came to worship Him" (Mt 2:2).

Bishop Michael Mulvey presided over the Diocese of Corpus Christi's annual “Altar Server Recognition Ceremony” at Corpus Christi Cathedral on Sunday, Nov. 21. The bishop recognized servers in three categories, Eucharistic Cross Bearers, Outstanding Servers and Ten Years of Service.

The over 60 million abortions since the 1973 decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton reflect with heartbreaking magnitude what Pope Francis means by a “throwaway culture.” However, we have great trust in God’s providence. We are reminded time and again in Scripture to seek the Lord’s help, and as people of faith, we believe that our prayers are heard.

In 2020, when the pandemic hit the United States, Ernest Herrera, a parishioner from Most Precious Blood, single-handedly demolished the COVID-19 virus in an oil painting. 

Family and friends celebrated the life of Sarah Ann McNeely Fitz on Jan. 18 at Corpus Christi’s Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House on 210 Carrizo Street. She is best remembered for feeding, clothing, and sheltering homeless men and women from the 1990s to the present day.

The CHRISTUS Spohn Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Family Health Center is celebrating five years of serving the Corpus Christi community, while also honoring the memory and caring legacy of a community legend. Since it opened its doors in 2017, the health center has provided care to thousands of patients across South Texas, eliminating health disparities and identifying ways to increase affordable access to essential health care services.

Young men from St. John Paul High School prepare for the Exodus 90 challenge. These juniors and seniors will be led by their teachers Matthew Heeder and Benjamin Nye through the Exodus 90 program, which is a 90-day spiritual exercise for men based on the pillars of prayer, asceticism and fraternity. 

The Catholic Men’s Conference organized by Pilgrim Center of Hope is now registering for its annual event, which is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 26 virtually and in-person at St. Matthew Athletic Center.`

Catholics nationwide are preparing to pray 9 Days for Life, the annual pro-life novena beginning this year on January 19.

SEEK22: Seek and you will find (seek.focus.org), hosted by FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students), will bring together thousands around the globe to encounter Christ during the hybrid, immersive broadcast Feb. 4-6. College students, parishioners, clergy, benefactors and others will gather in small groups for SEEK22, which will present the heart of the Gospel and missionary discipleship in a format that’s flexible, accessible and meaningful for every person. 

On the weekend of Jan. 22-23, Catholics throughout the United States have an opportunity to help the Church’s formation of missionary disciples in Central and South America and the Caribbean islands by giving to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) annual Collection for the Church in Latin America.

Join the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, for the upcoming in-person or virtual book study, “How to Be an Antiracist,” by Ibram X. Kendi.

Cuando Ruby Hernández crecía, experimentaba muchas tradiciones familiares, que ahora recuerda, aprecia y valora. Uno de esos recuerdos que acaricia en su memoria, es su participación  en las Posadas de Navidad. Hernández, de 32 años, feligrés de toda la vida de la parroquia de San José, en Corpus Christi, reza porque sus tres hijos algún día, continúen con la misma tradición.