As you may have already heard, Bishop Joe Vásquez has been appointed as the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, with the installation on March 25, 2025.
You are invited to a Mass of Thanksgiving on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm, at St. Luke Catholic Church in Temple.
The Mass will be followed by a brief reception so that we might share some words of gratitude and best wishes. We look forward to seeing you there.
Prayer of Gratitude
Good and gracious God, we give you praise and thanksgiving for the gift of Bishop Joe S. Vásquez to the Diocese of Austin for the past 15 years. You have guided him in shepherding this local Church with grace of spirit and generosity of apostolic action, from which we have drawn great strength. Now we ask your blessing upon him as he embarks on a new mission as Archbishop of Galveston-Houston. Give him the same steady courage to which we have been blessed so that his ministry will again bear much fruit to your glory and for the good of your people. Through the intercession of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, we ask your blessing upon him in his pastoral ministry. Amen.