The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Under Protection of Our Lady of Walsingham

Bishop Steven J. Lopes

Father Charles A. Hough IV – Rector & Pastor

Father Charles Hough III, Father Peter Davids – Priests - in - Residence

Deacon James Barnett, Deacon Mark Baker, Deacon Mark Stockstill -- Pastoral Assistants

+ Epiphany of the Lord + 7 January 2018 AD +

Welcome to Our Visitors

Thank you for sharing in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with us today. Please fill out a visitor’s card (found in the pew

racks) and return it in the offering plate so we will have a record of your visit. And please introduce yourself after Mass.

If you are a Catholic, we at Our Lady of Walsingham receive Holy Communion kneeling and by intinction (both species on the tongue).

If you are not a Catholic, during Communion we invite you either to come forward with your arms crossed over your chest, or fingers across your lips, and receive a blessing from the Priest or Deacon, or remain in your pew and reflect on the presence of Christ.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham 7809 Shadyvilla Lane + Houston Texas 77055

713-683-9407 + Fax: 713-683-1518 + olwcatholic.org Parish Secretary: Catherine Heath office@olwcatholic.org

Business Manager: Deacon Mark Stockstill Director of Sacramental Life: Deacon James Barnett Director of Education: Sr. Thomas Aquinas, OP Director of CCD / Holy House Academy: Catalina Brand

Director of Facilities: A. G. Stockstill Director of Development: Rebecca Hill Director of Liturgy/Co-Director of Altar Guild: Carolyn Barnett Director of Events/Co-Director of Altar Guild: Ana Newton Director of Music/Organist: Edmund Murray Assistant Director of Music: Chalon Murray Director of RCIA: Deacon Mark Baker Director of Youth Ministry: Joshua Korf Director of Family Life Ministries: Mary Halbleib Assistant Director of Events: Jessica Lehnhoff Wedding Coordinator: Elizabeth MacArthur

Call the Parish Office if you wish to. . . + become a Registered Member of Our Lady of Walsingham + explore the possibility of becoming Roman Catholic + schedule a Wedding or a Baptism + talk about the Annulment process + schedule a Confession by appointment

Ecumenical Choral Evensong

January 21 4:00 pm

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham

Reception to follow St. Jude Hall

This year’s observance of the 500th anniversary of the beginnings of the Reformation is a moment of

prayerful reflection for Christians everywhere. Indeed, the anniversary offers new impetus for Churches and

Faith Communities to seek the communion amongst Christians for which Our Lord Himself prayed the

night before He died.

You are invited to participate in an ecumenical Evensong on Sunday, January 21 which occurs within the

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Our own Bishop, Most Reverend Steven Lopes, will be the officiant at

Evensong. Rt. Reverend Daniel Martins, Episcopal Bishop of Springfield, has agreed to give the sermon

during the celebration.

Christians face ever-increasing secular headwinds from a society that has forgotten its roots and grown

deaf to the Gospel call to conversion. It is my hope that a moment of prayer among Christians will bear

new witness to the Truth of God in Christ and the credibility of faithful discipleship.

Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph

Weekly Budget $ 16,600 Regular Offering $ 13,899

Mass Attendance: 786

In Our Parish This Week

Saturday, January 6 St. Andre Bessette 9:00 am First Saturday Mass [Ivy Newberry] 3:45 pm Confession 4:00 pm Rosary 4:30 pm Vigil Mass [Jenna Malapitan+]

5:30 pm C.O.O.L. Bake Sale 6:30 pm Epiphany Lessons & Carols - Cathedral Sunday, January 7 The Epiphany of the Lord 8:00 am Sung Mass 8:40 am - 9:10 am Confession 9:00 am - 1:30 pm C.O.O.L. Bake Sale 9:30 am Sung Mass [Tony Jones+]

9:45 am Adult Forum - Chancery Great Hall 9:45 am CCD Classes - Seton Hall / Newman Hall 11:15 am Solemn Mass 6:00 pm Said Mass [Randall Newton]

Monday, January 8 Baptism of the Lord 9:00 am Holy House Academy Classes 12:00 pm Said Mass [Joe Mulrooney+]

6:30 pm KC Meeting - Newman Hall Tuesday, January 9 Feria (of the Epiphany) [OT1] 10:00 am Staff Meeting - DiNardo Parlor 11:45 am Noonday Prayer 12:00 pm Said Mass [Todd Thurber]

12:45 pm Rosary & Adoration - Holy House Chapel 4:00 pm Treble Choir Practice - Seton Hall 6:00 pm Evening Prayer / Benediction- Holy House 7:00 pm Legion of Mary - Newman Hall 7:00 pm Communio Seminar - Newman Hall

Wednesday, January 10 Feria 9:00 am Holy House Academy Classes 12:00 pm Said Mass [Elizabeth Korf+]

7:00 pm OLW Adult Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, January 11 Feria 8:30 am Clergy Meetinig - DiNardo Parlor 12:00 pm Said Mass [Gerald/Olga Bush+]

7:00 pm Bible Timeline Study - St. Jude Hall Friday, January 12 St. Benedict Biscop

10:00 am St. Mary’s Pilgrimage - OLW Campus 12:00 pm Said Mass [Gerald/Olga Bush+]

2:00 pm Bulletin Folding - St. Jude Hall Saturday, January 13 St. Hilary 7:00 am OLW Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood 8:00 am Order of Malta Meetings - Chancery Great Hall 10:00 am Baptism Class - DiNardo Parlor 10:30 am Aralyn Tressa Shirley Baptism 11:00 am HCWC Meeting - Newman Hall / St. Godric 3:45 pm Confession 4:00 pm Rosary 4:30 pm Vigil Mass [Elliott Goulas+]

Sunday, January 14 Second Sunday After the Epiphany [OT2] 8:00 am Sung Mass [Mark Ferenz/James Fisher+] 8:40 am - 9:10 am Confession 9:30 am Sung Mass [Michael Joyce/Hannah Donovan+]

9:45 am Adult Forum - Chancery Great Hall 9:45 am CCD Classes - Seton Hall / Newman Hall 11:15 am Solemn Mass 1:00 pm Knights Basketball Free-Throw Competition Seton Hall Basketball Court 2:00 pm Catholic Writer’s Group Meeting - Newman Hall 6:00 pm Said Mass [Randall Newton]

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The Flowers at the High Altar

are given in Memory of

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Beeson

Please inform the Parish Office of change of address, new phone contact information, wedding anniversaries and new births in your family so we can update our files and directory. . Thank You!

Black Bag Sunday Next weekend, January 13 & 14

Please be generous to those in need in our parish family.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN TROUBLE, SORROW, NEED,

SICKNESS, OR ADVERSITY especially Rennella Burks & Family,

Susan Thurber, Krystal, Barbara Moore, Jon,

Tom Ryan, Brad Nance, Maximillian De Valle, Tamra Dolch, Jim & Amy Regitz, Kellie, Truitt Maberry, Melanie, Cathe-rine, Kathryn, Michael, Paula, Peb Rock Laurie & Scott Schilling, Kevin Corkery,

Howard Chapman, Rebecca Hasker, (beloved granddaughter of Glenn & Lillian

Phillips), Kathryn, Clifton, Debbie, Catherine C., Mark, Samantha, Stephen & Ann Moore, Daniel Cerda,

and those on the Prayer List in the Martyrs Chapel.

AND THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED especially Barney Burks,

Craig Grazak, Steven Rondina, and those on the

Prayer List in the Martyrs Chapel. +

Revelation: The Kingdom

Yet to Come

Join us for Revelation: The

Kingdom Yet to Come begin-

ning January 18, 2018 from 1

p.m. to 3 p.m. and continuing

every Thursday for 11 weeks.

For more information or to regis-

ter for the study, contact Mona

Diaz at 713-569-2829 or via

email: monaddiaz@gmail.com.

The Adult Forum Faith Seeking Understanding: Adult Catechesis

~ Fides quaerens intellectum ~ Great Hall of the Chancery Sundays 9:45 am - 10:45 am

January 7 Mr. Greg Orcutt “Incorporating Silence into the New Year”

January 14 Dr. June Mabry “Station Churches Pilgrimage”

January 21 Bishop Steven Lopes “Pope Paul VI: Humanae Vitae 50 Years Later”

January 28 Dr. Mark Regnerus “The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy”

February 4 Ms. Abby Johnson “Understanding the Tragedy of Abortion”

February 11 Sr. Thomas Aquinas “Prescription for Sanity: the Companionship of St. Thomas Aquinas”

February 18 Fr. Timothy Perkins “Practiced Prayer: the Structure of our Spiritual Patrimony”

Happy Birthday!

January 4 – Philip thibeaux

January 6 – Reyna Ponce de Leon, Karlii Salazar, Stephen Weeks

January 7 – Roberta Ferenz, Julia Hotze

January 8 – Francis Abraham, Nicole Domuret, Ericka Soileau

January 9 – Evangeline Cole, John Holliday, Caeli Neunuebel,

Ivy Rose Newberry

January10 – Justin Wilson, Benjamin Mcknight

January12 – Dolores Genitempo, Mary Frances Gipson,

Claire Westerman

January13 – Robert Villarreal

January14 – Doria Donato, Barbara Elliott, Aaron Luna

Happy Anniversary!

January 9, 1993 – Herman & Angela Brummé

January 12, 2008 – Stewart & Lana Hirtz

+ You are encouraged to take this Bulletin and the Mass Leaflet home

to utilize them in your prayer life +

Catholic Writers Group

The Catholic Writers Group is dedicated to hearten its members in their writing endeavors and to learn more about writing, publishing and mar-keting. And we honor God and our faith through words that show both our love for Him and our fidelity to the teachings of the Church. We meet Sunday January 14 at 2 pm in Newman Hall. Check the bulletin calendar for updates or call Jeanne Curcio at 713-962-7943 or jmc96@comcast.net.

Knights of Columbus Council 13615

The Knights of Columbus

will be hosting their first

annual “Knights of Colum-

bus Free Throw Champi-

onship” on Sunday January

14th after the 11:15 Mass.

The contest is open to

boys and girls, ages 9 – 14

years old (age as of Jan. 1,

2018), and will take place

on the St. Elizabeth Ann

Seaton basketball court.

Winners will be eligible to

compete at the District

competition on February

24th. Preregistration is

avai lab le v i a emai l

KofC13615@gmail.com,

or register at the gate.

Contact the office for ques-

tions, 713-683-9407 and

leave a message for Josh

Korf.

Bulletin Submissions:

The deadline to submit no-

tices for the bulletin is 10:00

am, Friday, 7 days before

the weekend of the distribu-

tion of the bulletin. Word

and Publisher documents

are welcome. Send to

ana.newton@olwcatholic.or

g. Please do not submit

PDFs. For questions call

713-683-9407.

The Solemnity of the Epiphany & the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Twelve days after Christmas comes the Solemnity of the Epiphany, the great feast of the Manifestation of Christ

to the Gentiles. Though this festival traditionally falls on January 6, in the United States and Canada it is cur-

rently transferred to the Sunday between January 2 and 8. As a part of the Latin Rite, the Ordinariate of the

Chair of St. Peter follows this liturgical norm of the Latin Rite dioceses of North America. This year the second

Sunday after Christmas falls on January 7.

More ancient than the celebration of Christmas, the observance of the Epiphany began in the Eastern portion of

the Church in the third century AD as a theologically rich and comprehensive commemoration of the mystery of

God’s revelation of His Incarnate Son. The word “Epiphany” means manifestation, and in the West the feast came

to center on Christ’s appearance to the star-led Magi. The time between Epiphany and Septuagesima (the third

Sunday before Lent) commemorates three manifestations of Our Lord: (1) to the Gentiles in the persons of the

Wise Men; (2) to the Jews at his Baptism in the Jordan; and (3) to his disciples at the marriage feast in Cana of

Galilee.

On the Epiphany, it is an ancient tradition to announce the date of Easter and to mark all the holy days that take

their dates from the timing of the Paschal Triduum. This proclamation, formally announced by the Deacon at

Mass on the Epiphany, arose long before calendars were widely available, but today it still serves to connect

Christmas and Easter and to orient the faithful in the sanctification of time toward the mystery of the Resurrec-

tion.

The blessing of homes is another very old and popular Epiphany custom. Using blessed chalk, many households

mark the lintel over their entrance door with the year and with the inscription CMB, the initials of Caspar, Mel-

chior and Balthasar, the traditional names of the Magi. The inscription also stands for Christus Mansionem Bene-

dicat, which means “Christ, bless this home.” The popular form of the inscription incorporates the year as follows:

20+C+M+B+18

The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord both concludes Christmastide and draws out the celebration of the Epipha-

ny. Anciently, the Baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan was a principal focus of Christ’s Epiphany (as it remains

today for the Eastern churches). In Western Christendom, the observance of Our Lord’s Baptism came to follow

the commemoration of His appearance to the Magi. Already, so soon after Christmas, we approach with the Bap-

tism of Jesus the mysteries of Lent and Easter. As the liturgical scholar Pius Parsch puts it, “In the symbolism of

His baptism, Christ displayed beforehand His redemptive death and resurrection. Himself immaculate, He as-

sumes the sins of the world, descends into the purifying waters, and raises mankind to divine sonship.”

Dr. Clint Brand

The five large votives can each burn for a week in honor, in thanksgiving, or in inter-cession, of your loved ones. Complete the intention cards located in the narthex and place it in the collection plate.

The greatest of gifts

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

If you would like to have a Mass celebrated for a

special occasion, on behalf of a family member, a

friend, or a deceased loved one, complete the Mass

Intention envelope on the table found in the Nar-

thex. Place the envelope in the collection plates at

any weekend Mass. For questions please contact

the Liturgical Office at 713- 683-9407. Thank you!

The 2018 Flower Donation Chart is available in

the Narthex for you to choose to honor a special

person or event in your life as a gift of thankful-

ness to the Blessed Sacrament. Fill out one of

the Flower Envelopes, and return the envelope in

the Offering Plate at Mass or to the parish office.

For question call the office at 713-683-9401.

C. O. O. L. Catholic Organization of Life

Help the youth of the Houston area be a voice for life in our nation’s capital at the March for

Life on January 19th, 2018! Please stop by the youth run COOL (Catholic Organization of Life)*

bake sale after the Masses on January 6th & 7th.. Support the next generation of pro-life advo-

cates while also buying delicious home-baked goods to enjoy. All proceeds from the bake sale

will go towards funding our trip to Washington D. C. to participate in the March for Life!

Do You Want to Read the Bible,

But Don’t Know How to Begin?

The Great Adventure Bible Timeline is a 24 week Bible study that will be offered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of

Walsingham from January 11, 2018 through April 26, 2018. With a break for summer and classes resuming Au-

gust 30 through October 25, 2018. Class will be held Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm in St. Jude Hall. Please con-

tact John McGarry at johnmcgarry05@gmail.com or 713. 679-8110 or register on-line at olwcatholic.org. It’s not

too late to register! Classes begin this Thursday!