Ladies Guild Retreat

Make plans to attend the next St. Francis of the Tejas Ladies Guild Retreat scheduled for Saturday, October 1, 2022!

On Saturday, October 2, 2021, the St. Francis of the Tejas Ladies Guild was pleased and excited to welcome the ladies, not only of St. Francis, but also those from the surrounding parishes of Most Holy Trinity, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and St. Leo the Great, to share in a day of prayer, fellowship, and education. 

From the time when Jesus Christ walked among us, women have followed him, even to the Cross when others abandoned him: they proclaimed  him Lord, taught their families  his words,  that he died for their sins, and in his mercy provided a path for the redemption of sins. And Catholic women, for some 2,000 years have continued to proclaim Our Lord, Jesus Christ’s message of forgiveness, mercy, and the joy that awaits the faithful in his kingdom beyond this life. 

This past year was very difficult—the Pandemic brought illness, even death, loss of livelihood for some, and a sense of despair as access to our Churches was denied, schools and businesses were shutdown. All women - grandmothers, mothers, wives, sisters - were called upon to care for their families during these extraordinary times, for some in ways never before experienced. And they answered the call...

Saint Pope John Paul II once wrote..."necessary emphasis should be placed on the "genius of women, not only by considering great and famous women of the past or present, but also those ordinary women who reveal the gift of their womanhood by placing themselves at the service of others in their everyday lives. For in giving themselves to others each day women fulfill their deepest vocation. Perhaps more than men, women acknowledge the person, because they see persons with their hearts. They see them independently of various ideological or political systems. They see others in their greatness and limitations; they try to go out to them and help them. In this way the basic plan of the Creator takes flesh in the history of humanity and there is constantly revealed, in the variety of vocations, that beauty-not merely physical, but above all spiritiual-which God bestowed from the very beginning on all, and in a particular way on women."