St. Paul Catholic Church

St. Paul Mornings With Jesus (MWJ) Catholic Early Education is currently enrolling for the 2018-2019 school year! Children must be age 2 on September 1, 2018 to enroll for the new school year. For more information please contact Jen­nifer Monaco, Director of Children & Family Ministry at 512-420-4071, jmonaco@saintpaulaustin.org.

This area will be used for Mornings With Jesus updates and links.  The first link will be an online payment link.  Click below if you wish to pay tuition online.

Online Payments
Registration Form

Are you new to St. Paul parish?  Do you want to know more about us?  If so then send an email to our welcome ministry and we will be happy to help you anyway we can.

Our new email address is:
welcomeministry@saintpaulaustin.org

Join us on Saturday nights for Bingo at St. Paul Catholic Church.  Doors open at 6:00 pm and Bingo is from 7:17 to 9:00 pm.  For dates and times follow the link below.

Bingo Schedule

At its core, tithing is an acknowledgement that the gifts or talents we have were entrusted to us by God, and are intended to be used for His glory and to spread the gospel. Tithing allows parishes to meet day-to-day needs, allocate funds for emergencies and fund future projects. It is understood, that as a community of faith, we are to provide for the needs of the Church. Fr. Hector Vega recommends that we fulfill the needs by tithing 5% of our income to the parish, 4% to charities of our choice, and 1% to the Diocese.

Listed below are tithing guidelines that may help you in deciding your recommended weekly sacrifice to the parish.
 

Renewing Our Parish Inside and Outside 

Today I would like to share with you a brief overview over many of the changes and improvements we made during the almost three years' time period of my being pastor at St. Paul parish. 

Starting with our building improvement, we put in two new hand rails leading up to the altar, at the same time renewing our beautiful red carpet in the sanctuary, and installed a new hand rail in the chapel. After much waiting, we finally were able to re-guild six of our communion chalices.
 
We changed phone companies and our phones; changed our copiers and printers; got ear phones for the secretaries and installed an electric door opener with clickers for the secretaries. Soon we will also remodel the floor and desk arrangements in our front office. 

For our Church building we replaced some air conditioning units; converted all lights to LED lights in the Church, offices, in the parking lot areas and in Grace Hall. At the beginning of June 2018 we replaced the sanctuary floor tiles with vinyl flooring and put new tiles into the kitchen, the class rooms, the sacristy, the nursery and the upper room in preparation for the gift of 400 free chairs from a parish in Maryland to replace our own faded and worn chairs with wooden chairs and kneelers. - Some good volunteers painted the con­crete front entrance floor and installed new rails.
 
At the moment we are exploring various options for a vinyl film to cover our Church windows in order to give them a more colorful, stained glass look and to replace the curtains. 

At the end of July 2018 the whole parking lot area was re-striped, filled the pavement holes and put new parking bumpers where needed. Now in August we will replace some of the fencing around the play­ground area and redo the ground cover around the swings and slides. 

Now to the more spiritual areas of our parish life. Since 2017 our First Friday adoration was ex­tended to also include adoration every Friday from 12:30 pm till 10:00 pm. And in 2018 we began to offer the celebration of the First Saturday mass at 8:00 am. - In 2016 we initiated a new committee to help us make plans for our new Church building, called the Vision committee; and in 2017 we started the Welcome Com­mittee to offer new ways to welcome, greet and register our new parishioners. 

Regarding our staff we had to live through quite some changes, too. We were able to hire Jennifer Monaco as Director for Children and Family ministry in 2016. In 2018 we lost our faithful secretary Elaine Resendez and had to re-arrange our office staff. Ana Jackoskie asked to be moved from Director of Religious Education to part-time secretary sharing the time and tasks with Delinda Trevino. As new director for Reli­gious Education we hired Kristina Final Ciria. 

Well, it seems like there has been plenty of change and renewal going on in our parish. This year we also had to say good-by to Fr. Christian when he was moved by the Schoenstatt Fathers community to become member of the house community at the shrine at Addie Roy Road, but he continues to be the chap­lain of our Grupo de oracion which meets every Thursday evening. 

So, everyone has been touched and affected by those changes, and I say thank you to the Lord for the guidance we receive every day. Without our prayers, adoration, prayer meetings and the faithful re­ception of the sacraments we would not grow and flourish as we have - despite of all the obstacles we have to endure, especially the hard blow that we are not permitted to use our land in the projected flood area any more. I firmly believe that our faith and our loyalty have been and will be richly rewarded by our Lord and our dear Blessed Mother for all the years to come. 

Registration for the 2018-2019 school year is now open. Below are the links to the online forms.  Please note that there are forms and calendars for K-8, Special Sacraments and for High School. In addition to enrolling your child you can also pay online.

If you have any problems please contact Kristins Ciria for K-8 and Special Sacraments classes and Bob Dugas for High School.  They can be reached through the parish office at 512-280-4460.
 

K-8 Registration Form
K-8 Calendar

High School Registration Form
High School Calendar

St Paul's Back to School Event is Saturday, September 15, 2018. More details to come soon. If you don't have access to a computer and would like to register for religious educa­tion (kinder - 8th grade) in person, please at­tend our Back to School Event on September 15, 2018 since we will be accepting registra­tions in person on that day only.

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a program under which the Church welcomes adults seeking any of the following sacra­ments of full communion in the Catholic faith: Baptism, Eucharist or Confirmation. Instruction and discernment sessions begin in Sep­tember and conclude with the Easter Vigil Mass. 

St Paul is offering a "meet and greet" on Tuesday, August 28th from 7-8pm for all adults interested in the RCIA program. If you have any questions feel free to contact Kristina Ciria at 512-420- 4070 or kciria@saintpaulaustin.org. 

We invite you to donate new, unused and gently-used items such as: ap­pliances, furniture, electronics, flat screen TVs, sports and outdoors equip­ment, home furnishings, accessories, guitars, musical instruments, CDs/DVDs, religious articles, tools, lawn and garden items, holiday decorations, gift cards, gift certificates or tickets to sporting events or concerts. Please no entertainment centers or tube/CRT televisions and no infant cribs or car seats for infants, tod­dlers or young children (liability consider­ations). When dropping off items, please designate "Silent Auction." If you have any items you would like to donate that are not listed above or have any ques­tions, please call or text Beverly Shep­herd (512) 312-0533. Thank you! 

The Golden Hearts will once again sponsor the Theme Baskets for our upcoming Fall Festival on October 19th & 20th. Sign-ups for the Theme Baskets will be after all masses - Saturday 5 pm, 8:30 am, 10:30 am & 12:30. Please stop by our Golden Heart table after Mass. We will provide the basket, wrapping, name tag and ribbon to make a basket. All donations are greatly appreciated! For more information refer to the parish bulletin ot Contact Brenda Hester at 512-415-4850 for more information.

August 29, 2018, a training session will be conducted for all current and new Extra Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (EMHC). We are in need of Extra Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. If you have received all your sacraments and would like to serve your Parish in this ministry, please come to this training session. You will learn duties of an EMHC and have the opportunity to grow in your faith through prayer and refection on the liturgy. The training will be in Grace Hall at 7 PM. 

The commissioning of new EMHC's and re-commissioning of current EMHC will occur September 1st 5:00 PM and 2nd 8:30 and 10:30 AM Masses. EMHC's are commissioned for a period of 2 years per requirements of the Diocese of Austin. You must also be current in the Ethics & Integrity (EIM) training. Work­shops for EIM are sponsored by the Diocese of Austin. 

If you have questions regarding this training, please email Hen­ry Casas at henrycasas@att.net. 

Join St. Paul Parish!

Our Welcome Ministry encourages you to join our parish.  What does parish membership offer?

Parish membership allows us to encounter Jesus.  Jesus promised us he would join us when we gather together - “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matt 18:20

Parish membership offers us a spiritual family where we encounter fellowship and community..  St. Paul said “Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.” 1 Thes 5:11

Registration forms are available in the foyer.  We are blessed to have you join our St. Paul Family.