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4th Annual Golf Tournament Now Accepting Teams & Sponsors

FOUR! St. Mary’s Catholic Church is hosting our 4th Annual Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 29 at 8:30 am. The event will be held at Sammons Golf Course in Temple, TX and features a 4 Man Scramble with prizes and meal provided. The first 32 teams who register and pay are guaranteed placement. Bring a team or be placed on a team. View full event details, register your team, or become a sponsor.

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Youth Events Spread Christmas Cheer

On Saturday morning December 3, our Youth Ministry gathered together on campus to load up and head out for Bethlehem. This program takes place in the town of Burnett where part of the square on Main street transports you back 2000 years to the street of Bethlehem Israel. The youth experienced many people in period costumes throughout the entire day, they touched camels, donkeys, and various animals as you would have experienced in the days

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2nd Annual Turkey Dinner 2023

We truly want to say Thank You to all the volunteers, all the cooks that rose beyond the break of dawn, and the roosters too!  Thank you to all the donors and bakers, those that came to clean, dust, push, move, and set up our venue. We had an amazing call to action from our church families and couldn’t have asked for better weather. This year’s tweak to the dinner menu did not disappoint; we

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2022 Ministry Fair a Success

The ministry fair took place on September 17th and 18th with tons of fun, prizes, snacks, and a great turnout! We had several ministries share with us that they received new interest and many signed up for various ministries. We truly had a wonderful time and love seeing over 26 campus ministries come together to serve our church families and our communities. Please visit our church website to learn about all our ministries of faith

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Fr. Kurtis’ 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

Fr. Kurtis was ordained on June 9, 2012, in Austin Texas by Bishop Joe Vasquez, he has served in several Catholic Churches in Austin and surrounding areas but his first assignment as Pastor was four years ago, here at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. His ministry in Temple began as the AC units in the church had to be replaced. That did not dampen his spirits and we held Mass in the school cafeteria and gym.

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Cedarbrake Catholic Retreat Center 2022 Retreats

View Cedarbrake Catholic Retreat Center’s 2022 Retreat Schedule. “Retreats help us to listen to Christ and the Holy Spirit; the point of any spiritual retreat is to focus on hearing God’s voice and allowing ourselves to open our hearts to God’s will. When we allow ourselves this time with the Lord, he will speak and make himself known to us.”

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view from the loft of altar at Christmas

Mass Events and Holy Days Obligations in December

Join us for our December Mass events and Holy Days Obligations: We invite our parish families and our community to celebrate the Advent season with us. Our special Masses and events schedule for December is below: Tuesday, December 7th at 8:15 am – Mass, and 6:00 pm – Latin Mass. Wednesday, December 8th – Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is a Holy Day Obligation Mass. Times are 8:15 am, 12:10 pm and 6:00

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participants getting turkey dinners to go

Turkey Dinner Fundraiser is a Success

St. Mary Catholic Church hosted their traditional turkey dinner fundraiser for the first time in seven years Thank you to the hard work of many volunteers and donated turkeys that made this fundraiser a success! We’re happy to bring back this beloved tradition and look forward to planning this fundraiser for years to come. Read the news story from KWTX and view images from the day below:  Local church brings back traditional turkey dinner fundraiser

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Turkey Dinner Flyer

Turkey Dinner Extravanganza Held on November 14

St. Mary’s Traditional Turkey Dinner is Back! It’s back!  We’re back!  So come on over and be part of all the fun and happenings of the Turkey Dinner event! We are serving Turkey Dinner inside our venue or you can take them to go! Truly this is a parish community event, and we are blessed beyond measure to have so many of our parishioners volunteering their time and love. Plates are $12 and will include

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Listen to Fr. Will’s Homily from last week about the amazing things happening at St. Mary’s and learn how you can help.