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Synod on Synodality calls everyone to discern and live out God’s call

"The mission is clearly given to us by Jesus, but we must live it in our time, and we have to be creative, and our people have a lot to tell us. ”

Memorial Mass in loving memory of Fr. Eugene Cañas, OMI

We invite you to join us for a Day of Reflection centered on the National Eucharistic Revival in September. This event will take place at the San Juan Pastoral Center and is offered in two options: Friday morning (Sep 15) or Saturday morning (Sep 16).

With the National Eucharistic Revival underway and the 10th National Eucharistic Congress on the horizon, it’s an exciting time to be Catholic! Join us in Indianapolis July 17–21, 2024, for a generational moment for the Church in the United States.

Will You Be There? REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE 10TH NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS Join your Catholic brothers and sisters as we encounter the living Jesus Christ, experience profound renewal, and are sent out on mission for the life of the world.

The working document for the Synod of Bishops in October was released by the Vatican June 20. While written primarily to guide the 370 members of the synod, Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, who has been shepherding the synodal process in the United States, said it gives everyone "a remarkable opportunity to reflect on what we have learned thus far about the nature of a synodal church and how we might embrace that more fully."

Catholics need to recover a sense of awe and adoration before the Eucharist, knowing that it is “the real and loving presence of the Lord,” Pope Francis told members of the committees organizing the National Eucharistic Revival and the National Eucharistic Congress in the United States.

Starting on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi in June, the faithful in the Diocese of Brownsville once again have permission to receive the Precious Blood of Christ as part of the Eucharist.

The Vatican has released its first list of participants Pope Francis has appointed to attend the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in October. More than a quarter of voting members are not bishops and a total of 54 voting members are women.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) welcomed the news from the Holy See’s General Secretariat of the Synod of the delegates appointed for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held this October.

Repairs and upgrades are needed at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville. Catholic Extension offers a dollar-to-dollar match for expenses incurred.

A native of Fiji, Father Paulo Lui Vorqe, SS.CC. was ordained to the Sacrament of Holy Orders to the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary at Queen of Peace Church in Harlingen.

San Juan Diego Ministry Institute offers a Fall and Spring course on Catholic Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Life.

This year, the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity fell on June 4, the day after the ordination of Father Mauricio and Bishop Daniel E. Flores explains this Mystery.

Bishop Daniel E. Flores ordains Rev. Mauricio Rodriguez, who has a special devotion to the Blessed Mother, to the Sacrament of Holy Orders at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville.

Father Arthur Flores, OMI, Vicar-Provincial of the U. S. Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, announced this weekend at Masses at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral that the Oblate Fathers will soon be handing the pastoral and administrative care of the Cathedral parish (and its two missions) to the Diocese of Brownville. Here is a link to the announcement from the leadership of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and a letter from Bishop Daniel E. Flores to the people of the Diocese. “Let us pray with gratitude to God for the long history of Oblate ministry at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,” Bishop Flores said.

Daniel E. Flores has been appointed as a member of the Preparatory Commission for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

Bishop Daniel E. Flores congratulates Dorothy and Albert Juliano of Pharr, for their seven decades of married life during the World Marriage Day Mass Feb. 11 at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle-National Shrine. The Julianos will celebrate 72 years of marriage on their anniversary of March 31, the most of any of the 200-plus couples recognized at the special Mass.