Dear fellow parishioners,

Our parish family continues to persevere with our return back home to our Church campus.  The 2019 new year leaves the hurricane behind us, offering new parish families, Church group activities, building our parish community with fellowship and new communications media. We are currently refreshing our parish website( www.stphiliphuffmantx.org ), improving the vestibule bulletin board and learning to use our new MyParish smartphone app.

My family invites you and your family members to share our joy by serving our Lord, especially within the liturgical ministries, whether as a lay reader, eucharistic minister, choir member, altar server or usher. You will strengthen your faith, express your deep love for the Mass and make many friends along the way. Please give our Lord your personal visit in prayer and discernment about this. Serve Him at the altar with your fellow parishioners!

I have good news to share. Father Barker offered me the role of Communications Coordinator for our lovely parish, and I’m delighted to accept it. My responsibilities will involve our website, mobile app, bulletin and other publications for our parish office communications. 
For over eight years, I have been actively involved in various roles at St. Philip such as CCE Core Team member, First Sacraments Coordinator, Family Faith Council interim chair, Elementary CCE Coordinator, Eucharistic Minister, and Office Core team member.  I look to the angel who delivered God’s most important message to humanity,  St Gabriel the Archangel, the patron saint of communicators, to guide me in this new role.

I am a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of North Texas in the College of Education specializing in Business Technology. I enjoyed teaching high school students and training team members and administrators at Lewisville and Conroe ISDs. I also taught at Lonestar Montgomery College for a couple of years.

We have been fellow parishioners of yours since 2002 when my husband, Chris, and I were graced with our first born, Lourdes, in our 12 ^th year of sacramental marriage.  We were blessed with our second daughter, Cindy, almost three years later.  Chris and I will celebrate our 29 ^th wedding anniversary this year.

Chris is an usher and a 4 ^th Degree Knight.  Lourdes is a junior and Cindy is a freshman in Kingwood. Lourdes served as altar server for seven years and is currently in her fifth year of service as First Sacraments classroom aide. Cindy has been an active altar server since 3 ^rd grade and is concurrently serving as a Kinder CCE classroom aide.

Mother Teresa, now a saint, beautifully expressed the necessity of serving, that is, helping others in one’s own community: "Love is a one-way street.  It always moves away from self in the direction of the other.  Love is the ultimate gift of ourselves to others.  When we stop giving we stop loving, when we stop loving we stop growing, and unless we grow we will never attain personal fulfillment; we will never open out to receive the life of God.  It is through love we encounter God!” 

The peace of Christ be with you!

 Sincerely, L. Cupples.