Giving Tuesday 2023

Giving Tuesday 2023

GivingTuesday is a movement focused on giving to your favorite causes after reflection and Thanksgiving. This year we focus on one of our favorite causes: our seminarians. Please support us with a gift, at any level, at www.dioceseoftyler.org/baa2022. Gifts to the...
Diocese Partners with VIRTUS for Safe Environment

Diocese Partners with VIRTUS for Safe Environment

The Diocese of Tyler is pleased to announce a partnership with VIRTUS® to help train and educate Church personnel in the diocese about safe environments for minors and vulnerable adults. VIRTUS’ Protecting God’s Children® training program will be incorporated into the...
Daughters of Mary, Israel’s Hope Welcomed in Tyler

Daughters of Mary, Israel’s Hope Welcomed in Tyler

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland has welcomed the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope, a Public Association of the Faithful, to the Diocese of Tyler. The association, founded in 2011 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is led by Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God.  It will be located...
Oviedo, Torres to be Ordained Priests

Oviedo, Torres to be Ordained Priests

In liturgies in Tyler and Mexico City, Deacons Isaac Oviedo and Mario Torres will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Tyler in June. Oviedo’s ordination is scheduled for Saturday, June 18 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler....
Father Stephen J. Duyka: 1953-2022

Father Stephen J. Duyka: 1953-2022

Rev. Stephen J. Duyka, a priest of the Diocese of Tyler and pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Atlanta, Texas, passed away on June 4, 2022, in Texarkana at age 69. The visitation will be held on Wednesday, June 8 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena...
National Eucharistic Revival: 2022-2025

National Eucharistic Revival: 2022-2025

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” – John 6:51 The Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of...