24 March 2019

Texas 2019 - Searching for a Daily Mass in the Hill Country….


https://masstimes.org
About half of our group are daily Communicants at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Natchitoches. This tour of the Painted Churches is, for us, a pilgrimage – a religious devotion. We want to attend daily Mass while there in Schulenburg. Here, besides missing his company and insights, is where we will miss Fr. Louis while we’re there – the original intention had been for him to say a “private” Mass for us in one of the Painted Churches. Sadly, that isn’t working out. We will have to find a scheduled Mass … which is proving harder than expected.

We really are blessed here in Natchitoches to have two regular Masses each day of the week, Monday through Friday – 06:30 at the Basilica and 12:05 only a few blocks away at St. Anthony of Padua Church. There is, furthermore, Mass at 17:30 Tuesday-Thursday (as well as 08:00 Friday) at Holy Cross, the Campus Ministry Church at my University, only a few blocks from the Basilica in a different direction. (Natchitoches is small.)

Confining it to within 20 mi of Schulenburg, based on the website Masstimes.org using as my search argument “Schulenburg, Texas,” I found really only one convenient, at 06:30 Tuesday morning. Fortunately, that’s the time of our morning Mass at the Basilica, so it won’t be too much of a shock to our systems. Unfortunately, it’s not repeated on Wednesday morning. Extending the time to the Monday and Tuesday evenings garners a couple of other options as well. I include telephone information for all of these because using any such Internet index based on reported data that could change at any time always demands to be confirmed.

Monday

18:00
St. Rose of Lima *
1010 Lyons Avenue
Schulenburg, Texas 78956-2138 – 0.40 mi from Schulenburg
(979) 743-3117
*** Monday 01 April - Called and confirmed time. 18:00 every day except Thursday. ***

St. Michael Catholic Church / a.k.a. Sts. Cyril and Methodius
410 North Center Street
Weimar, Texas 78962-1606 – 7.66 mi from Schulenburg
(979) 725-6714

Tuesday

06:30 (chapel)
St. Michael Catholic Church / a.k.a. Sts. Cyril and Methodius *
410 North Center Street
Weimar, Texas 78962-1606 – 7.66 mi from Schulenburg
(979) 725-6714
*** Monday 25 March - Called and confirmed time and location (the chapel is connected to the school) ***

07:00
Sacred Heart
400 E. 5th Street
Hallettsville, Texas 77964-2810 – 16.58 mi from Schulenburg
(361) 798-5888

18:00
St. Rose of Lima *
1010 Lyons Avenue
Schulenburg, Texas 78956-2138 – 0.40 mi from Schulenburg
(979) 743-3117

18:30
Sacred Heart
539 East Pearl Street
La Grange, Texas 78945 – 15.99 mi from Schulenburg
(979) 968-3430

Wednesday

07:00
Sacred Heart
400 E. 5th Street
Hallettsville, Texas 77964-2810 – 16.58 mi from Schulenburg
(361) 798-5888

St. Mary
815 Saint Mary's Church Road
Ellinger/Hostýn Hill, Texas 78940 – 17.85 mi from Schulenburg
979-378-2277

08:00
St. Joseph
601 North Pecan Street
Moulton, Texas 77975 – 16.39 mi from Schulenburg
(361) 596-4674
From TX-95, turn west on Bobkat Drive on the north side of town; go four blocks, and turn right on North Pecan Street. Parish one and one-half blocks on the left.

My guess? – Even though I personally prefer a morning Mass, the 18:00 at St. Rose of Lima right there in Schulenburg on both Monday and Tuesday evenings could well be the way we go. Or, we may get up and go to Mass at 06:30 on Tuesday at St. Michael’s in Weimar, then have breakfast before assembling for the tour at the Visitor’s Center back in Schulenburg … then miss out on Mass on Wednesday morning.



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