446 N Seguin Ave, New Braunfels, Texas 78130
Catholic in Tradition, Biblical in Faith, Sacramental in Worship
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We seek to "worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness," following the Anglican liturgy found in the Book of Common Prayer (1928) and the Anglican Missal.
During the Summer - till the week after Labor Day - on Sundays Morning Prayer will be read at 9.00 AM, the Holy Eucharist offered at 9.30, and Evening Prayer will be read at 1.00 PM.
On Wednesdays, Thursday, and Fridays through the Summer, Morning Prayer will be read at 10.30 AM, with Evening Prayeer at 7.00 PM and the Holy Eucharist offered at 7.30 PM
Our Schedule for the other seasons of the year is:
Sundays
7.35 AM Morning Prayer
8.00 AM Holy Eucharist (said)
9.15 Bible Class
10.30 AM Holy Eucharist (sung)
11.45 AM Fun, Food and Fellowship
As much fun, food and fellowship as Anglicans allow themselves to have
1.00 PM - Evening Prayer during the summer
4.00 PM - Evening Prayer rest of the year
4.00 PM - Evensong on the Second Sunday of each month
Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays
11:45 AM - Morning Prayer
12:00 noon - Mass
7.00 PM - Evening Prayer
Holy Days as above
For each weeks schedule of Saint's Days and Holy Days, see the schedule on our "About Us" page
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Reading The Imitation of Christ
We are currently reading The Imitation of Christ, by St Thomas a Kempis . On the "Scribbling" page of this website, Fr Wilcox is posting regular notes of the successive chapters of Book One. The notes are also sent out by email to those on our parish mailing list.
Book of Common Prayer
Our class on the Prayer Book is in temporary abeyance.
NEW NEWS!
The Consecration of Fr Peter Ng’ang’a
I cannot tell you how very pleased and proud I am that our good friend, Fr Peter Ng’ang’a, was consecrated a Bishop at the national Synod of the EMC, last Thursday at the National Synod held at Christ Church Cathedral in Monteagle, Tennessee. He will be appointed as a Missionary Bishop for service in Kenya but also, it is to be hoped, here in south central Texas as well. I don’t have much more information to share yet, but if the new bishop ever deigns to visit st Joseph's again, we can hear all about it straight from him!
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The Bell of St Joseph's and Other Fun & Fascinating Facts
Parish Food Closet
We collect non-perishable food items throughout the year and every two months we caravan the donations to the New Braunfels SOS Food Bank.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, due to severe shortages in town, we're collecting food in boxes on the front porch of David Hall for a weekly trip to the NB Food Bank. Come anytime, day or night, and leave food on the porch. Wile you're there, if you need hand sanitizer, we're making about 20-30 bottles a day and leaving it also on the porch. Help yourself!
Options for Life
Every Lent we raise money for an annual gift to the New Braunfels "Options for Life" Program, supporting young, single mothers struggling to raise their children. We also have an OfL Collection Jar in our parish hall for through-the-year donations.
Veterans' Charities
On Memorial Day and Veterans' Day we take up special collections to help wounded and disabled veterans. At Christmastime, we lay wreaths at the graves of departed veterans.
The Bell of St Joseph's and Other Fun & Fascinating Facts
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
The Bell of St Joseph's and Other Fun & Fascinating Facts
When you come by the church, take a look at our "new" old bell, a bronze 100 -year-old beauty with a rich tone that carries all the way down to the river when it rings! The stained glass windows in the church are less than 20 years old, but are closely-patterned after stained glass seen throughout the South from about 1870-1920 (St Joseph's boasts the only Men's Room in central Texas with its own stained-glass window). St Joseph’s chalice and paten were originally given as a gift to the first Episcopal Bishop of Quincy, Illinois, the Rt Rev Thomas Burgess, in 1878. As the hallmark under the base of the chalice shows, it was made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company, the leading silversmiths of 19th century America. How St Joseph’s came into the possession of a chalice & paten owned by a former Yankee chaplain in the War Between the States is a tale worth hearing (but at another time and in another place).
Receiving Holy Communion at St Joseph’s
At St Joseph’s, any baptized person is welcome to receive Holy Communion. We have a kneeler in front of the table we are using for an Altar. At communion-time, form a line and approach after the person in front of you has received the Sacrament. If you cannot kneel (or get up easily), please remain standing and receive. The priest will place the Sacrament in your hands (it is customary to support your right hand with the left): simply lift the Sacrament to your mouth. It is the sacramental Body of Christ. Please do not handle the consecrated Bread with your fingers. If you prefer to have him place the Host directly on your tongue, simply open your mouth as you approach and he will place it there. If you would like to have the Host dipped in the chalice rather than drink from it, continue to hold it in your open hand and the priest will take it, dip it into the chalice and then place it directly in your mouth. Please do not dip the host into the chalice yourself.
If you wish to drink from the chalice, the Chalice-bearer will be standing beside you at the kneeler and will help you drink from it directly.
If you do not wish to receive Holy Communion (or are not eligible to because you are not baptized), but would like a blessing, stand in line until your time comes, approach the kneeler and either kneel or stand and the priest will bless you. To let him know you wish to be blessed, cross your arms over your breast when you approach. He will make the sign of the Cross on your forehead as he blesses you.
Any baptized person is welcome to receive Holy Communion, but not everyone always should. If you are in a state of serious sin, it would be best not to present yourself for Holy Communion, here or elsewhere, until you have confessed your sins, resolved “to live a new life,” and received absolution. Anyone, baptized or not, can always come forward to receive a blessing.
– Fr Gregory Wilcox
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
Sunday, June 28 - the Third Sunday after Trinity
9.00 AM - Morning Prayer
9.30 AM - the Holy Eucharist
1.00 PM - Evening Prayer
This Sunday…
…you may have heard New Braunfels just instituted another partial closedown due to the resurgence of the coronavirus; the river and all its attendant summer activities – tubing, restaurants, bars and nightspots – are all closed, but St Joseph’s is not! We’ll continue our summer schedule, with Morning Prayer at 9.00 AM, the Holy Eucharist at 9.30 and a social distance celebration of coffee, tea, donuts and assorted snacks with our after-Mass gossip following divine service…we’re continuing “The Liturgy Livestreamed from St Joseph’s” this Sunday, with hymns both in the middle and at the end of the Mass (for those who want to follow, the offertory hymn will be # 277 – “From All that Dwell Below the Skies” and the closing hymn # 276 – “Now Thank We All Our God,” both from the 1940 Hymnal; anybody who has ever been to an Anglican or ‘Piscoal church knows these tunes). With the help of some people who’ve been working with us almost every day this week, we’ve finally been able to make some improvements in the quality both of the picture and the sound of our livestreaming (the content is something else altogether – Larry asks if there’s some way to trim part of the sermon while leaving the Liturgy intact, so I told him he’s gonna have to raise more money to buy an editing machine to solve that problem)…at the end of this Sunday’s Eucharist, we’ll have a brief service of Prayers for the Sick and administer the Sacrament of Holy Unction to those desiring it. If you’d like any names specially remembered please send Tanya an email…this Friday just passed was to have been the last time the church and hall were sanitized every week in preparation for Sunday services, but given the resurgence, we’ll continue the weekly sanitation at least through the month of July; all hard surfaces are being wiped down with disinfectant, and masks, hand sanitizer and disposable towels are available in the narthex. We continue to close off every other pew…we’re continuing to collect non-perishable food for the NB SOS Food Bank; we have a cardboard collection box on the front porch of David Hall for our neighbors who want to join us in this on-going project, but we’re moving food left outside into the collection baskets inside the Hall and the church, where the food is accumulating and accumulating – till the last Friday of this month, when it will be delivered to the Food Bank. Thank you for your on-going generosity; with this resurgence in the virus the need among some of our neighbors also continues…
See this week's Liturgical Schedule on our "About Us" page
Sunday, June 28 - the Third Sunday after Trinity
10.45 AM - Treats, Coffee and Opinions in David Hall
Wednesday, July 1: St Gall, Bishop of Clermont, AD 544
Summer Office Hours: 3.00 PM-7.00 PM
Thursday, July 2: the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Summer Office Hours: 3.00 PM-7.00 PM
Friday, July 3: St Phocas the Gardener, Martyr, AD 303
Summer Office Hours: 3.00 PM-7.00 PM
Saturday, July 4: Independence Day
Summer Office Hours: 3.00 PM-7.00 PM
This Sunday's Saint: St Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr, AD 202
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
This Sunday at St Joseph's - June 28, the Third Sunday after Trinity
St Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr, AD 202
St Irenaeus was one of the most important Fathers of the Church of the 2nd century, born about AD 130. His life reveals the cosmopolitan nature of the Roman Empire at the height of its power. St Irenaeus was bishop of Lyons, in Southern France, though he grew up in Smyrna (Izmir in modern-day Turkey). As a young man, Irenaeus was a disciple of St Polycarp, one of the Apostolic Fathers who was in turn a disciple of the Apostle John, son of Zebedee. St Polycarp sent Irenaeus to Rome where he studied under the famous Christian philosopher, St Justin Martyr and was ordained a priest about AD 165. Irenaeus’ major work, Against Heresies, appeared around the year AD 185. It exposed the absurdities of the semi-Christian Gnostic cults of the day and included a strong presentation and defense of Catholic Christianity. It is the earliest compendium of Christian theology surviving from ancient times and is the first work that cites virtually every book of the Christian writings we now call the New Testament. St Irenaeus was sent to Lyons in AD 177 to fill the place of St Pothinus, who was martyred during the persecution of the Church under the emperor Marcus Aurelius. After serving as Bishop of Lyons for more than two decades, Irenaeus himself was martyred there in AD 202. His feast on the Church’s calendar is June 28th.
Quotations from the Writing of St Irenaeus
Jesus Christ, in His boundless love for us, has become what we are, so that He may make us fully what He is.
The glory of God is a human being fully alive. To be alive consists in beholding God.
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
Through a tree (in Eden) we became debtors to God; so through a tree (on Calvary) our debt was done away.
As long as anyone has the means of doing good to his neighbors, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
Our first step towards the knowledge of God is contemplating Him in nature.
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