"Be it done to me according to thy word."
Luke 1:38
Joining a prayer chain is a good way to spend time in prayer for your fellow parishioners, their families, and friends. If you feel called to pray for others, please consider this wonderful ministry of prayer.
Contact Melissa Aguilar 903-757-5855 x501.
Can you knit? Crochet? Spend the 2nd Monday of the month beginning at 1:00 pm, with others who dedicate this time to making prayer shawls for the sick and the elderly.
Contact Church office for more information.
All ages are invited to come on Monday mornings at 9:30 am to make rosaries. If you would like to learn how to make a rosary the ladies will teach you! If you have experience join us too!
Contact Church office 903-757-5855
Our parish is blessed with a Eucharistic Adoration Chapel. While the Chapel is open each day from 9:00 am until 8:00 pm, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed on Sundays and from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm and on Mondays 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. You are welcome to sign up for an hour or pray anytime during Eucharistic Adoration when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed.
Contact Church office 903-757-5855
For more information on being an altar server, contact Deacon Jim Petkovesek at 214-704-5144
Ushers are usually the first to greet the attendees at a Mass, opening doors and answering questions. They may assist the elderly and disabled in and out of their cars. When the church is full, they may be called on to find available seats for members of the congregation. Ushers should watch during Mass for any problems that may arise, and be ready to help if needed.
Ushers select those who are to bring up the gifts prior to the Consecration. Ushers take up the collections during Mass, and pass out bulletins at the end.
For information about this ministry, call the church office 903-757-5855.
Choirs sing at all three of the weekend Masses. Practice takes place in the church following the 6:00 p.m. Mass on Wednesday evenings.
For more information, please contact Anna Saunders at [email protected]
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is one of the oldest and largest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas.
They donate to charities, administer scholarship programs and strive “to be helping hands where there is pain, poverty, sorrow or sickness.”
The CDA motto is “Unity and Charity.”
The CDA was formed over 100 years ago and today numbers 70,000 dues-paying members in 1,250 courts (local chapters) in 45 states across the country, and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
Catholic Daughter women enjoy each other’s company at meetings and work hard for their parishes and communities.
Deeply spiritual, together they share faith, love of God and a distinctly feminine spirituality alluded to by Pope John Paul II when he spoke of the necessity of “feminine genius” in today’s world.
The program includes concerns of today’s church and society as well as issues that affect the well-being of women and children.
St. Mary's Catholic Daughters meet on the third Monday evening of each month. For more information, please contact Melissa Aguilar at [email protected]
Our Lady's Guild is a nonprofit organization established to provide fellowship and spiritual growth to all women affiliated with the Catholic Community of the Longview area.
Membership is open to all women affiliated with the Catholic community of the Longview area; dues are $15 per year. As a member, you are required to assist with our ONLY fundraising project, a BINGO game. The proceeds are used to fund various Catholic activities in the Longview area.
The Guild contributes to various church and community programs such as Martha’s Kitchen, Gabriel Project, Right to Life, and educational scholarships.
For information on how to join, contact Margaret Quinn at [email protected]
Thanks to the efforts of Father Michael J. McGivney, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven and some of his parishioners, the Connecticut state legislature on March 29, 1882, officially chartered the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal benefit society. The Order is still true to its founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity.
The Knights was formed to render financial aid to members and their families. Mutual aid and assistance are offered to sick, disabled and needy members and their families. Social and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members and their families through educational, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief and public relief works.
The history of the Order shows how the foresight of Father Michael J. McGivney, whose cause for sainthood is being investigated by the Vatican, brought about what has become the world's foremost Catholic fraternal benefit society. The Order has helped families obtain economic security and stability through its life insurance, annuity and long-term care programs, and has contributed time and energy worldwide to service in communities.
The Knights of Columbus has grown from several members in one council to more than 15,100 councils and 1.9 million members throughout the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guatemala, Guam, Saipan, Lithuania, Ukraine, and South Korea.
The Knights meet on the second Tuesday of each month.
For information on how to join the Knights, contact Ted Rankin at [email protected]
The primary concern of the society is to provide emergency assistance to those in need. The primary focus of this ministry is to provide emergency assistance to those in need. Volunteers alternate days to answer phones and return calls.
Contact their voicemail at 903-757-5893 x 662 or email [email protected]
Members of this group accept responsibility for taking Holy Communion to the sick and home-bound of our parish. Besides the responsibility of making this great Sacrament available, this ministry shows the home-bound that the parish cares about them and is praying for them.
For more information, please contact Doug or Mary Schroer; [email protected] or [email protected]
Members of this group provide a positive Christian outreach to women faced with a crisis pregnancy. Through the Gabriel Project the mother receives love, care, and the spiritual, temporal, and emotional support she needs.
Contact Melissa Aguilar at the church office at 903-757-5855
Small group open to all
Join this small group to examine the readings for the upcoming Sunday Mass.
This group meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 pm in the Parish Center
Contact Deacon Jim Petkovesek, [email protected], for more information.