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West Texas Angelus is the official monthly newspaper of the Diocese of San Angelo. The
Angelus is published the first Monday following the first Saturday of each month and delivered to all registered parishioners in the Diocese of San Angelo. The subscription rate for all others is $10 per year.
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At noon on Wednesday, Sept. 10, Tom Ashmore and CA Maegden will give a free presentation at Fr. Concho in San Angelo titled "The Jumano Picture Story of the Lady in Blue at Meyers Spring, Texas."
A federal judge on Aug. 20 partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment.
On August 22, 2025, the Church celebrates the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. His Holiness Pope Leo XIV is appealing to all Catholics around the world to unite in prayer and fasting for peace on this day.
I still remember — 60 years later — the Sunday the
Mass changed! A few years earlier the bishops of the Second
Vatican Council had called for the reform of the Mass, and
now the first changes were being implemented on the parish
level.
Raymond (Maximilian) Kolbe had a vision when he
was 10 years old. Biographer Tom Cowan describes it in
The Way of the Saints: “Our Lady stood before him holding out two crowns, one white, the other red, and asked
him to choose between them. He took both. When he
told his mother about this, he explained that white meant
that he would remain pure and red meant that he would
be a martyr.”