Welcome to The New Messenger, your weekly archdiocesan newsletter featuring messages from Archbishop Gustavo, news briefs, event previews, and updated information. Look for this newsletter in your inbox every Friday.

In my heart at the Martin Luther King Jr. March there is a great joy and a great hope, just to see families together. Blood families, churches, communities to carry on something beautiful and healthy in the midst of many tragedies.

Join Archbishop Gustavo at San Fernando Cathedral this Sunday, Jan. 22, at 5 p.m. in prayer and thanksgiving after the 2022 Dobbs decision and to continue praying for the legal protection of all unborn children in the United States. For prayers and resources, visit the Culture of Life website or the USCCB Respect Life website.

Archbishop Gustavo commissioned 49 lay ministers at a special Mass on January 14 at San Fernando Cathedral. Learn more about the Archdiocesan Parish Ministry Formation program, which provides comprehensive pastoral formation for those who currently serve or seek to be involved in ministries and services in the Church. Congratulations to all!

Dream. Believe. Unite. Do. The theme of the 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commission Interfaith Worship Service, held at St. Gerard’s Church on January 15, was remembered and celebrated by a myriad of faith groups who came together on San Antonio’s East Side to seek the higher ground of compassion and reconciliation. Father Don Willard, CSsR, pastor of St. Gerard’s, welcomed a congregation which filled the pews, and the Praise Dancers of Holy Redeemer Church brought those attendees to their feet with applause following their liturgical performance. 

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