Donations, The Parish - Thursday, July 19, 2007 15:17 - 0 Comments

Your Help is Needed / Se Necesita SU Ayuda

Time and Talent/ Tiempo y Talento
Looking for something to do? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve always got something goin on that could use an extra set of hands:

• Hosts in the Mission: This is a group of men and women who give 2 hours per week to welcome tourists or pilgrims, individuals or groups to Ysleta Mission. The group gets to gether once a month to hear what the questions of visitors have been, and to have a little in put about the history of the Mission and environs. This is great for the retired extrovert!
• Ysleta Mission Festival:
  • Festival Committee: All year round! This body of people have a blast making mid-July fun in Ysleta and El Paso!
  • Workers (More than Volunteers!! Part of the fabric!): Families and groups, individuals old and young doing everything from adopting, staffing and supplying one of the many booths for the Festival weekend, to
  • Venues: Music main stage as well as Mariachi, Folklorico, there’s even been a hoolah group.
  • Vendors: What parishioners and friends can’t do at the Festival, we invite you to come augment. But space is limited! Contact the Festival Committee EARLY! Like NOW!
  • PUBLIC!!!! Family Fun, Food, Frolic for 3 nights in July! Come be part of it!
• Spanish and Indian Market:
  • SIM Committee: Begun in October 2004 this event is growing. The mission of the Spanish and Indian Market is to foster traditional southwest art and craft of Native Americans and Spanish colonists. Such an important part of life in Santa Fe and in museums elsewhere, we strive to be reintroduce these arts in El Paso. What beter place than at Ysleta Mission? The committee seeks creative individuals who can foster the growth of this market. It’s ALL about the art and our cultural heritages.
  • Artists: The art is period specific! Retablos, bultos, iron work, Spanish colonial furnishings, straw aplique, colchas, kachinas, bead work, pottery, hand-woven textiles etc.
  • Musicians: Do you know the music of “that” time? Come be known!
• Concerts in the Mission
  • Concerts Committee: Do you love music and want to promote perfromance music in the Mission Valley?! Here’s a great opportunity!
  • Professional Musicians: El Paso Pro Musica had a great little series and enjoyed the space and the acoustics. Here’s an opportunity to spread your name and fame!!
  • Student, Community Groups: Looking for a venue? Come with sacred music and enjoy the wonderful acoustics giving your group the chance to shine.

Can we work together? Call 915.859.9848 for further information.

Light a candle in the Mission

/ Prender una vela en la misión

Candles are always burning before the altars of San Antonio, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Are you interested in seeking intercession? Send your intention and an offering to:

Light a Candle // Ysleta Mission // 131 S. Zaragoza Road // El Paso, TX 79907

Se encunentran siempre velas prendidas en la misión enfrente de los altares de San Antonio, la Virgen de Guadalup y la Carmen. ¿No tienes una intención? Mande su intención y una ofrenda a:

Prender una Vela // La Misión Ysleta // 131 S. Zaragoza Road // El Paso, TX 79907

Mission Gift Shop Now Open!/

¡La Tienda de la Misión ya se marcha!

915-868-4990

Hours/Horas: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. most days except Sunday - casi todos los días mas que el domingo — Still looking for volunteers! Se necesita colaboradores!

Youth to World Youth Day 2008

We are a group of 13 going to experience the world of the Catholic Church. In 2005 11 youth and leaders went to Cologne, Germany, for WYD 2005. Thinking it was a “trip” and a vacation, they discovered the power of a pilgrimmage and capitalized on the opportunity to meet Catholic Youth from the whole world!! From Munich and a shrine to St. Anthony, through Dachau’s dark history, and Mainz and Stugaart, Bingen, Maria Lach, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Cologne — there were encounters that one could never have imagined. To get there, the youth raised the money by working week after week at a farmers’ market, begging for Christmas and birthday presents of a passpart and backpack, writing letters asking for grants from Bishop and the Chief of Police Richard Wiles, among others. What looked impossible at the outset was more than a fulfillment of dreams — it was a call to a change of life. Can you help this time round? We’re heading to Sydney to meet millions of youth of the Catholic Church from around the world!! We’ll take you with us in gratitude and prayer as we make pilgrimmage! We head out on July 13th!!

Los Jóvenes a la Jornada Mundial de Jóvenes de 2008: Una vez mas, un grupo de jóvenes están envueltos en el proyecto del perigrinaje de la Jornada Mundial de Jóvenes. En julio de 2008 viajamos hacia Sydney para encontrar milliones de jóvenes católicos de todos partes del mundo. En 2005, 11 jóvenes y adultos de Mte. Carmelo hicieron el perigrinaje a Colonia, Alemania. Llegando en Munich trascurimos la oscura noche de la barbaridad de ser humano contra otro ser humano en Dachau. Fue una experiencia inolvidable. Después periginamos por Mainz, Stutgaart, Bingen, María Lach, y Frankfurt al rumbo por Dusseldorf y Colonia encontrando la historia de los santos de Alemania. Con milliones de jóvenes hemos celebrado nuestra fe por oir y compartir la semejanza y diferencia de la diversidad católica que somos. Para llegar allí hemos trabajado constante por mas que un año en proyectos de venta y servicio, y hemos recibido fondos donativos del monseñor Ochoa y del cacique de la policia, Richard Wles, de El Paso que nos ayudaron bastante. Realizando lo que al principio vio como una imposibilidad, salimos con fe y entrega en nuestro perigrinaje.

¡Ya, lo planeamos otra vez! ¿No se puede ayudarnos crecer en nuestro aprecio para el evangelio, le iglesia y la diversidad del mundo de fe? Si se puede, entonces, le llevamos en nuestros corazones y oración en nuestro perigrinaje. ¡Nos viajamos el 13 de julio!