Join us for a moving and reflective Taizé prayer service as we prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus at Christmas. A Taizé prayer service is a contemplative service that involves singing, scripture reading, meditation, and periods of silence. The short texts are sung again and again, using repetition as a basis for meditation. It becomes the unending song that continues in one’s mind, long after one has stopped singing. Various other instrumental or vocal parts may embellish the basic chorale or round. Taizé sung prayer as a holy hour is a marvelous way to experience a peaceful emersion in both song and silence, where one can encounter Christ.

The birth of Our Lord Jesus will be celebrated on Christmas Eve - Saturday, December 24th, beginning with 4 p.m. Lessons and Carols followed by 4:30 p.m. Family Mass (Nursery available). AND 7 p.m. Lessons and Carols in Spanish followed by 7:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish (incienso - guarderia disponible) AND 10 p.m. Lessons and Carols followed by 10:30 p.m. Mass in English (incense - Nursery NOT available) AND on Christmas Day - Sunday, December 25th at 9 a.m. in English (incense - Nursery NOT available).

Mass celebrating the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God (a Holy day of Obligation) will be on the eve of Saturday, December 31st at 5 PM in English and on the day of Sunday, January 1st at 9 AM in English and 12 Noon in Spanish. (There will NOT be a Sunday Mass celebrated at 5 PM.)

If so, we extend a warm, joyful welcome to you. We are more and we are better because of you. Please take a moment to pick up a parish registration form on the wall adjacent to the Welcome Center. ​​​​​​​If you’ve been away from the Church for a while, we’d love to welcome you back in a very special, personal way, with our Catholics Come Home program beginning after the first of the year. Contact Heidi Clark, our director of adult ministry, for more information: 281.333.3891, ext. 328 or email hclark@stpaulcatholic.org. http://www.catholicscomehome.org/

The annual Simbang Gabi will be held on Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 7 PM. Simbang Gabi, which translates as "Evening Mass", is a long-held Filipino tradition preparing for the birth of Jesus. The Mass will be in a Filipino language celebrated by Fr. Tim Prado. Fellowship and dinner will follow after Mass in Beck Hall. Everyone is invited!

FEAST of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION of MARY is a Holy Day of Obligation. Mass will be celebrated Thursday, December 8th, at 8:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. in English and a bilingual Mass at 7 p.m. There will be NO CONFESSIONS heard on December 8th.

The Legion of Mary will have a Pilgrim Virgin Statue Sign Up drive this weekend, December 10/11. Sign up at the Legion of Mary table in the Narthex after all Masses. Please click on the title link for more information.

Peace Garden Brick Sales Phase 2 Open through December - Engraved bricks are the perfect gift for Christmas gifts, Celebration of Sacraments, Graduation, and other special occasions and milestones! Visit the Welcome Center now through the month of December to place your orders. Please click on the title link for more information.

We are asking for your help again this year on Saturday, December 10, and Sunday, December 11, also known as “Gift Giving Sunday”. Parishioners are asked to bring an unwrapped toy for a local child in need. Donations will be collected by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul volunteers at each Mass (Saturday and Sunday) and delivered to the ICM Christmas Store for distribution to our neighbors in need.

Tables will be available on December 11, from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM for your family or group to set up an altar for the statue of Our Lady. The altars will be displayed in Founder’s Hall for public viewing on December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, from 5:00 AM until 9:30 PM. Each family or group will be allowed to display a statue of the Virgin, which is venerated in your country of origin, on a cloth covered table. The statue needs to be centered with a tri-fold project board surrounding her and flowers placed on either side of the statue. The tri-fold is to have the following: Centered at the top, the Virgin’s name and her Feast day. On each side, a brief history or explanation of where, how and to whom she appeared to (left side in English/right side in Spanish). If you are interested, please contact Esperanza Monterrubio by December 7th. If help is needed with translation, please email the English version by December 7, to Esperanza Monterrubio at emonterrubio@stpaulcatholic.org or call 281.333.3891 ext. 321.

St. Paul the Apostle's Early Childhood Program is adopting several families for Christmas. These families are in need of everything including food for the upcoming Holidays. Please click on the title link if you are interested in helping to make these families’ Christmas a little brighter.