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Terri Moser was a great supporter of eCatholic, the website provider for our church website. She believed in their mission since their founding in 2005. They have since become the largest provider of Catholic websites in the United States. To honor her legacy, eCatholic has recently created a website theme in her honor along with a special tribute to her. Terri spent many hours dedicated to our website. We are proud to announce this to the parish. Read more about the story at https://ecatholic.com/blog/moser.

Parishioners have been receiving emails and text messages from me asking for money and gift cards. These messages are NOT from me! There is a nationwide scam going on targeting priests. Do not reply to these messages, send money or gift cards. I am sorry that you have been inconvenienced. Contact the Parish Office to report any texts or email.  

You can now subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch live streams of our Masses. After the live broadcast, programs will be available for on-demand viewing on YouTube. This is a great way to watch our Masses on your smart TV, or Roku box. Click on the title of this article for a direct link.

St. Catherine of Siena is seeking interested volunteers to join this ministry to help the parish make good use of technology in community building and worship. We are looking fo individuals willing to share their time and talent in the following areas: Livestreaming/webcasting, online meetings, video production and editing, audio mixing, equipment management and deployment. For more information, click the title of the article for additional information.

Divine Mercy Sunday was established by Pope John Paul II in 2000. The feast, which falls on the Second Sunday of Easter, recognizes the abundant mercy that God offers to us. Please join us for an online Holy Hour at 3: 00 p.m. The hour will begin with the Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament, followed by prayers and hymns, Adoration and reflection time, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Benediction. Access this event from the Watch Mass Live page.

To celebrate this season of Easter, our Family Faith Formation program has invited their families to pray the fourteen Stations of Resurrection together. Visit the Family Faith formation page to read these reflections.

Our Lenten journey with CRS Rice Bowl challenged us this Easter season to share what we have with our global family. Please hold on to your rice bowls. We will collect them at a later time. Thank you for your participation in this program.

Dear parishioners, an email message is circulating pretending to be from me asking people for money because my brother has coronavirus. Another email is asking for you to contact me for an urgent matter. These emails or any others asking for money/response to an emergency are HOAXES. (check the senders email address, you will notice it is from a strange gmail account.) Please know that this is not from me, do not respond or click any links. Sincerely, Fr. Pat

Bishop Vasquez will celebrate the Easter Vigil at 8:40 p.m. tonight at St. Mary's Cathedral. The liturgy will be livestreamed on the Cathedral’s website: https://www.smcaustin.org/streaming-video-page.

Join us for a live stream of a special presentation by Fr, Ray. He will be sharing a Lenten Reflection, "My Story: Our Mission in India." The broadcast will be available from our Watch Mass Live page at 7 p.m.

This is the online version of our Liturgy of the Word with Children on the 4th Sunday of Lent for the community of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Austin, Texas, USA.  Enjoy, and may God bless you!  Thank you to Miss Monica, Miss Connie, and Mr. Jimmy!

Due to the Bishop’s Decree, we have cancelled the Easter Lily Memorials for this year. For those who have already contributed, we intend to purchase flowers to dress the Altar on Easter Sunday and will place the names of the loved one’s remembered with those flowers in the bulletin. Thank you.

We will be live streaming Masses from St. Catherine at the following times: Daily Mass will be live streamed daily at 12 p.m., Monday through Friday; Sunday Mass will be live streamed at 9:30 a.m. Simply click the "WATCH MASS LIVE" button on the parish home page to access.

On March 17, the Diocese of Austin released a Decree stating that all public Masses within the Diocese of Austin are suspended until Wednesday of Holy Week. St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church is assessing the situation and working on ways to reach our parish community, including streaming live Masses. We will be updating our parish website and parish Facebook page to reflect the latest news as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience. Click here to see the Decree.

In accordance with restrictions placed by local government on gatherings of more than 10 persons, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church has suspended Masses and confessions pending additional instructions from Bishop Joe Vásquez. The parish is preparing to offer live- and on-demand streaming of daily Masses; this capacity should be in place on or before Fri., March 20. Any effect on the Sunday Mass schedule will be made known prior to each subsequent weekend; please check the parish website before attending Mass. We regret any inconvenience caused by the effects of the current outbreak, and are grateful for the patience of the parish community as we endeavor to employ best safeguards and practices while remaining obedient to our Bishop and in compliance with all government mandates. Thank you.

The Mayor of Austin has further restricted gatherings to no more than 10 persons. The 7:00 p.m. and Confessions today have been cancelled. We will provide further information regarding Mass scheduling shortly. Thank you.

We have learned that the City of Austin has restricted all gatherings to less than 250 people, including Church services. The Bishop has asked all Pastors to try to comply. Sunday's Mass schedule will still be followed. However, the number of people in the sanctuary will be limited to 250.  Additional people will be directed to the Parish Center to watch the live-feed.  The number in the Parish Center will also be limited to 250.  Our total capacity is 500. Your attentiveness to your personal health and that of our Community is of paramount importance.

The coronavirus outbreak is stirring up anxiety, confusion, and major inconveniences. It is a situation in which we can easily overreact or underreact. How can our faith tradition guide and comfort us through this troubling time? Click on the title to read the full article published by The Pastoral Center.

For the health and safety of the community, in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic, we have decided to cancel the Parish Service Day. Many of the sites that were to be part of Service Day have already indicated that they will no longer allow volunteers to visit. This event will be rescheduled in the future.

IN RESPONSE TO A DIRECTIVE FROM BISHOP JOE VÁSQUEZ, St. Catherine of Siena Parish will be instituting measures and practices to help safeguard parishioners and visitors from the current threats of illness and disease being experienced in more and more places. These measures will begin in earnest beginning on March 2nd. We will temporarily discontinue the distribution of Communion directly on the tongue, as well as under the form of the Precious Blood. The Diocese has also asked that communities refrain from the practices of holding hands during the Our Father and of shaking hands at the Sign of Peace, and that holy water be removed from places where it is uncirculated and unfiltered. We will be in complete implementation of the Bishop’s directives during the next week, and we ask and appreciate your understanding as we seek to do all we can to prevent the spread of illness.