All are invited to the annual Chrism Mass on April 11 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Austin.
Lumen Gentium nominations are due March 31. Lumen Gentium will be June 20 at the Mayborn Center in Temple. All submissions should be made online. For questions, please contact Christian González.
Consider using the following meditation for Palm Sunday (April 9):
The next Courageous Conversation on Racism will be March 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Holy Cross Parish in Austin. The event will include small group discussions on the racial equality gap. All are invited to attend.
National Black Catholic Congress XII is being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Orlando July 6-9. There will be workshops, and opportunities for individual prayer and sharing your faith with 2,000 to 3,000 other Catholics from all parts of the country. The early registration date is April 7. Registration materials, a list of the proposed workshops/keynote speakers and a schedule of events are available on the diocesan website. If you plan to attend or need more information, contact Johnnie Dorsey at (512) 217-9616.
The Passion of the Lord Retreat will be at Cedarbrake Catholic Retreat Center in Belton April 8 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Come ponder and pray about Our Lord’s Passion as passed down to us in the Gospel of Mark. Brian Egan, director at Cedarbrake, will lead this day. The cost is $40 and includes lunch. For more information, call (254) 780-2436 or visit www.cedarbrake.org.
The diocese will offer PDS training at the diocesan Pastoral Center in Austin on March 28. Participants can attend any or all of these sessions. The schedule is as follows:
Click here to register.
Please consider Bishop Vásquez’ prayer request for Palm Sunday (April 9):
All are invited to a four-part interreligious panel and discussion series called “May All Be One.” The series is sponsored, in part, by St. Theresa Parish in Austin and Catholic Charities of Central Texas. All sessions are free and begin at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.may-all-be-one.eventbrite.com. Sessions are as follows:
Click here to login to your EIM account in order to find the workshop schedule and Sign Up for a Workshop (bottom right of your account page). Instructions are provided in case you do not recall how to login to your EIM account. Please contact your parish or Catholic school EIM site administrator if you need assistance or if you do not have Internet access. For general information about EIM workshops, please click here.
EIM Workshops are scheduled by the EIM Office, coordinating with the EIM site administrator at parishes, schools and other diocesan agencies. Staff of any site wishing to host a workshop should coordinate with their EIM site administrator. If the site administrator has arranged workshop details with a facilitator, then an email to the EIM office with those details is sufficient to request a workshop; otherwise workshop requests should be made by the site administrator using the Workshop Request Table. EIM site administrators may direct inquiries about EIM workshop scheduling to Emily Hurlimann in the EIM Office at (512) 949-2447.