St. Paul Catholic Church

Any ministry using the buildings for any function must first call the office to be scheduled on the calendar. No one is allowed to use any of the buildings on the campus without prior approval due to liability purposes. This includes all fundraisers as well. Please call the office for scheduling. Thank you. 

Religious Education registration has started.  If you would like to register and pay online please click on the links below for the grade your child is attending.  If you would like to register and pay in person we have setup two dates, August 18th and September 8th from 11 am to 2 pm in Grace Hall. 

You will not be able to register in the parish office this year.

We are looking forward to serving you and your child this year.
 

1-8th grade registration
1-8th grade class schedule in English
1-8th grade class schedule in Spanish

High School registration
High School class schedule

Do you want to know what is going on with the parish festival?  If so here is where you need to look.

We will have here links to upcoming events, festival needs, volunteers, and anything festival related.  Come back often to stay updated.

Volunteer Signup

We have a new page on our website for the ACTS community.  If you are intereted in getting to know more about this origization or want contact information follow the link below:

ACTS

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

We are so close to our annual fall festival. A great time to bring our community together. It is also the Parish 's biggest Fund Raiser. We have some needs of course. Raffle donations have picked up and we are very thankful for them. Please pray on what possible donation you can contribute for our Raffle prizes. Raffle tickets can still be purchased, and we still have many out and they need to be turned in. Thank you. We will need sodas and water, cakes to be donated as well. Volunteers are needed to work the many different booths. We are very excited to bring you this year's Fall Festival. Look forward to all to join us on September 27th and 28th for a fun filled weekend. Thank you in advance for all your help and donations to make this a very
suc­cessful Fall Festival. 

We are in the process of redesigning this website. During this process some links may not work as expected. We apologize in advance for those problems.  If it is an issue that can’t wait please contact the front office and we will do our best to help you.  Please check back often for updates, new pictures and dedicated pages.

TheParables of Mercy

"If someone has one hundred sheep and loses one, does he not leave the ninety-nine in the field and go looking for the one he had lost, until he finds it? And when he finds it, the load on his shoulders, full of joy, and when he arrives at his house he calls his friends and neighbors, and says to them: Rejoice with me, because I found the sheep that I had lost." 

Dear friends! 
This Sunday, the Lord invites us to be merciful and understanding. The "three parables of mercy" pre­sented by the Gospel of St. Luke helps us appreciate the enormous love of God for all of us. He loves us so much that he is able to leave the "99 sheep" and go after the lost sheep. Or sweep the whole house, until you find the lost drachma, or run towards the encounter with the son who "was dead and has returned to life." This is how God loves us and so we must love each other, forgive each other. 

We are celebrating 30 years of the foundation of our St Paul parish. It is a time of thanks and renewed commitment to Jesus. Let the merciful heart of God be noticed in each one. 

Soon we will celebrate our Fall Festival. A community meeting opportunity, celebrate with joy and fa­mily spirit. I invite you to help generously, either by registering as volunteers, buying raffle tickets or contributing with prizes for bingo. We build the parish together and this is a very concrete way to do it! 

That this week and we can always say as Saint Paul points out in the second reading: "If I found mercy, it was for Jesus Christ to show in me all his patience, putting me as an example of those who will believe in him to reach eternal Life." (Tim 1.17) 

As today's Gospel shows us, the heart of Jesus is a merciful heart, which always forgives and always goes in search of the weakest and most abandoned. "God never tires of forgiving," Pope Francis has repeated this several times. 

Let us ask God to grow in charity towards others, in order to show the heart of Christ in everything we do. 

May the Lord, through the intercession of St. Paul and Mary, our mother bless us and accompany us. A blessed week for everyone! 

A marriage preparation workshop is sched­uled for Saturday October 26 at St Paul from 7:30 AM to 6 PM. The Together in God's love workshop is a Catholic prepara­tion for Marriage. The workshop cost is $90 which includes materials, breakfast and lunch. Interest couples should contact the office. 

The policy for bulletin submissions has always been by Monday at 5 pm. All that is submitted after 5 pm on Monday will not be included the week of the bulletin. The submission will then be included in the following weekend. We are receiving too many submissions after the deadline delaying submitting the bulletin to the printing company. Thank you for your cooperation. 

We will meet on Thursday, September 12th at 7 PM in classroom 5. We are in need of additional members. Commitment involves covering one mass per month to be available to assist new parishioners with the completion of a registration form and answer any questions they may have. Please consider joining us and attending the meeting or con­tact Karen Butler at butler_karen@sbcglobal.net or 512-799-6243. 

Religious education is a beautiful way in which children learn about Jesus, the sacraments, and the Catholic Faith. Without your help, we are unable to provide for all the children seeking further formation in their faith. We are in need of volunteers to teach k-8th grade religious education this upcoming year! Please prayerfully consider helping our program by offering your time and talent. English classes meet on Mondays from 6:00-7:00pm and Spanish classes meet Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30pm. For more information contact Kristina Ciria at kciria@saintpaulaustin.org or 512.420.4070. Thank you for your time and consideration!

We are also in need of young adults willing to assist with the high school religious education class on Wednesday's from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.  If you are feeling called to help with this class please contact Bob Dugas at the email below.

Religious education registration is available online starting August 1st here on our St Paul Website. Classes begin the week of September 23rd. If you would prefer to register and pay in person, stop by on Sunday, September 8th anytime between 11:00am-2pm in Grace Hall. 

If you would like more information about specific classes please contact the following people:

Kristina Ciria (K-8 and RCIA): kciria@saintpaulaustin.org  
Bob Dugas (High School): bdugas@saintpaulaustin.org

We are looking forward to having you back or welcoming you to our programs.  

Adults and middle school/high school youth are needed to teach Children's Liturgy of the Word, as well as to assist with the supervision of the children during the weekend mass times. If you regularly attend mass with your children it could be a beautiful way to meditate on the Word of the Lord together as a family. Please con­sider helping as a volunteer this year! Contact Kristina Ciria for more information at kciria@saintpaulaustin.org or 512.420.4070. 

The Golden Hearts will once again sponsor the Theme Baskets for our up­coming Fall Festival on September 271h and September 28th• Thank you to everyone who signed up to make a Theme Basket for the Fall Festival. If you missed our Theme Basket sign-up and would like to make a Theme Basket for the Fall Festival, please email breebeach2003@yahoo.com or call Brenda Hester: 512-415 -4850. The Golden Hearts will provide the basket, wrapping, name tag and ribbon to make a basket. Thanking you in advance for your supporting the Fall Festival. Your donation is greatly appreciated!

We are asking for donations for the silent auction again this year for the Fall Festival. We are in need of new, unused and gently used items such as religious articles, crosses, small working appliances, small furniture, flat screen TVs, DVD and DVD players, radios, all working electronics, kitchen items, dishes, glassware, lamps, wall decorations, knick­knacks, hats, purses, real or costume jewelry, books, com­puters, printers, baby items, toys, board or video games, sporting equipment, tools, mowers, lawn furniture, yard art, coolers swing sets, Easter, Halloween or Christmas deco­rations, exercise equipment and luggage. 

When dropping off items at the church, please designate "Silent Auction." For more information, contact Beverly Shepherd at 512/312-0533. Thank you for your help.