There will be two Latin Masses offered on Wednesday, December 8th for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 4:00 pm Low Mass & 7:15pm Sung Mass. Join us after the 7:15 Mass for a burger & potluck meal.
Join us at 6:15 am Saturday, December 4th at Saint Mary Cathedral for a beautiful Advent tradition of the Rorate Caeli Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This will be a Sung Mass and the entire Cathedral will be lit only by candlelight.
2020 Rorate Mass @ Saint Mary Cathedral Austin, Texas
Isaiah 45:8: “Rorate, caeli, desuper, et nubes pluant justum, aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem.” “Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.”
August 8, 2021 Mrs. Joan Pearsall will celebrate her 99th birthday.
She is dear to many at Saint Mary Cathedral. Our Latin Mass Community has her to thank for writing a letter to the bishop requesting the Traditional Latin Mass, back in the late 1980’s.
Here is the link to the original response letterJoan received in 1988 from Bishop John McCarthy, authorizing the celebration of the TLM in the Diocese of Austin, Texas.
In 2017 we asked Joan to write the history of How the Latin Mass started in the Austin Diocese. Here is the result, which includes her conversion story: Joan Pearsall’s History of SJLMS.
In 2018, generous donors from the St. Joseph Latin Mass Society honored Joan Pearsall by commissioning a new set of green vestments for the priests of Saint Mary Cathedral. Vestments arrived a year later, 2019.
Fr. Daniel Liu, Rector, Saint Mary Cathedral • July 2019
Today’s Collect for the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary:
O God, whose only-begotten Son, by his life, death and resurrection, hath purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation; grant, we beseech thee, that meditating upon these mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise. Through the same Lord.
During this time of COVID 19, while we were not able to gather, Easter Sunday Mass was LIVE Streamed from Saint Mary Cathedral Facebook page. Click Here for the replay.
• Thursday, November 28th, Thanksgiving Day, there will be an 8:30 a.m. Traditional Latin Mass, at Saint Mary Cathedral in Downtown Austin, Texas. • Friday, November 29 TLM at 8:30 a.m., at Saint Mary Cathedral in Downtown Austin, Texas. Read more →