Find our experience in the band below the Pope's visit to the Native Peoples.
Our Lady on the
Far Frontier
On the evening of October 27th, NPS Park Educator Tom Castanos, led us on virtual visit to Mission San José, one of the five San Antonio Missions now a UNESCO Workd Heritage site. The facade of the mission church features Our Lady of Guadalupe as its focal point. Established in 1720, not quite 200 years after Her miraculous apparition to San Juan Diego on the hillside at Tepeyac, Our Lady's image was used to bring Christ to the farthest reaches of New Spain. The video recording of our tour is at the left. It lasts just over an hour.
A Dinner Party for Our Lady's Birthday
The Topics of Conversation
Do you have a special food memory? Please explain its place in your story.
How is Our Lady part of your family story?
On the evening of September 16th, notwithstanding a technical delay, we opened our Zoom Dinner Party conversation with grace by Father Bruce. We gathered from near and points as far away as an island off the coast of Seattle and the southern border of Texas. Our Paulists shared their answers to the questions above. We captured their table talk in a video - view it in the panel at the right by clicking on the image.
The assembled shared their answers in stories of faith and hope. We learned of happy family moments and of difficult challenges. We heard of recipes now lost, yet fondly remembered. We talked of the gray stones, gaudy shops and solemn shrine at Lourdes, of the great Basilica in Mexico City, of the faith of pilgrims to the Shrine of Our Lady in San Juan, Texas and of the Churches of the Visitation and the Annunciation in the Holy Land. It was an evening of conversation in commUNITY that ended with a serenade of Las Mañanitas to Our Lady - join us in song ~
We invited two gracious and talented chefs to plan dinner parties for Our Lady's Birthday. They let us follow them into the Hecker kitchen as they prepared the delightful meals described below. We hope you'll enjoy the videos of the cooking shows and the dinner conversation that followed as they presented their meals to our Paulist Fathers in residence at St. Austin.
Chef Alma Alcocer of El Alma on Barton Springs Road shares a lovely seasonal supper of roasted butternut squash tostadas with refried black beans and her delicious quick guacamole paired with a refreshing mango limonada.
Chef Elias Serda ofOmakase “Otoko” offers more seasonal delights with a menu featuring gazpacho de Morelia, Mexican street corn (elote), a sizzling steak with chimichurri paired with micheladas, a border favorite. To finish the meal, Chef Elias serves a dessert of plantains and strawberries with sweetened condensed milk and crema fresca.