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Parish Update 2/1/23 Brothers and Sisters in Christ Once again, thank you for all your prayers and support as we work to rebuild our community of St. Hyacinth. We continue to have a lot of work to do. The contractors are still on the Church complex grounds and are continuing to assess the damage to the Church complex buildings as well as continuing to remove debris from the complex. This work will be ongoing. The contractors are working diligently to repair the roof of the Rectory and the Guyot Hall. There was considerable damage to both buildings. Even though the complex has power, thanks to the generators, there are significant issues to the facilities that are currently being addressed. Guyot Hall has power, however, the HVAC systems to the complex have been damaged due to the tornado and will have to be replaced. The rectory has power; however, it does not have heat. We currently do not have any Church systems in place. We are working to implement a plan of action for a temporary office. In the meantime, please be patient as we move to get back online with the parish systems. All parish activities have been postponed for the week. In the meantime as well, I ask everyone to please continue to support St. Hyacinth. The Tornado has gone away, but the tornado did not stop the bills. I am asking everyone to please continue to pray for St. Hyacinth and the people of Deer Park as we move to recovery. God Bless, Fr. Reginald Samuels

Brothers and Sisters in Christ Once again, thank you for all your prayers and support as we work to rebuild the community of St. Hyacinth. We continue to have a lot of work to do. The contractors are still on the Church complex grounds and are continuing to assess the damage to the Church complex buildings as well as continuing to remove debris from the complex. This work will be ongoing. In my past updates, I told you all that the religious Education building was destroyed, the parish offices were damaged and can no longer be occupied. Guyot hall sustained damage. Several HVAC units were destroyed along with damage to the roof and water damage to the interior of the hall. The rectory sustained damage to the roof and interior. The Church suffered moderate damage. There were several windows that were destroyed and damaged. There were several areas on the Church's roof that were damaged, and several places in the Church's walls were damaged too. The Church complex has been powered by a generator, and now that the power poles on Center Street have ben fixed, we should have our power switched from the generators today. We currently do not have any Church systems in place. As I told everyone at the Mass on Sunday, our parish offices were destroyed, and we do not have phone, computer, internet, or other systems to run an office. We are working with the Archdiocese to implement a plan of action for a temporary office. In the meantime, please be patient as we move to get back online with the parish systems. All parish activities have been postponed for the week. In the meantime as well, I ask everyone to please continue to support St. Hyacinth. The Tornado has gone away, but the tornado did not stop the bills. I am asking everyone to please continue to pray for St. Hyacinth and the people of Deer Park as we move to recovery. God Bless, Fr. Reginald Samuels

Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Parish Update 1/29/23 I want to thank everyone who came out to celebrate the Mass today. Eventhough we have limited facilities, I want to thank the parish faithful who wanted to see the progress that has been made in restoring the Church facilities. We have a long way to go. I need to remind everyone, Due to all the tornado damgage, the parish offices have been completely destroyed. We currently do not have a phone systems, computer system, nor any systems to support a parish office at this time. We are working quickly to reestablish a parish office in order to continue the business of the St. Hyacinth. We ask for your patience as we move reestablish space, computers , internet and phone systems. In the meantime, all parish activities have been postponed and we will update everyone as to when activities will resume. There has just been too much damage to the facilities to open any parish activities now. I asking everyone not to come to the Church complex in the next week. The recovery and restortation phase of the church complex is an ongoing project with heavy machinery and recovery personnel all around.I don't want anyone to get hurt. Please be on the look out for regular parish updates in the days to come. Please continue to pray for the St. Hyacinth and the community of Deer Park. God Bless Fr. Reginald Samuels

Parish Update 1/28/23 Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Wonderful news! We will celebrate this Sunday the 10:00 am Mass in the Church. Due to the conditions of the St Hyacinth Church complex and lack of restroom facilities, we must limit the Mass schedule. The mass will be recorded and streamed on YouTube and vemeo and will be available immediately on Sunday. We are asking everyone to exercise caution while on the Church campus. Please understand that there will be extremely limited restroom facilities on the complex. If you have been affected by the tornado events of Deer Park, we understand that you are not available to attend Mass. We will be praying for everyone affected by these events. Once again, See you at the St. Hyacinth for the 10:00 Mass. God Bless Fr. Reginald Samuels

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Once again, I want to thank everyone for their prayers and support as we move forward with the restoration of the St. Hyacinth Church complex. Updates The Contractors are working to restore power to the complex. The Church, Guyot Hall, the Religious Education building along with the rectory should have power by Saturday Morning. Water services have been restored to the Church complex. The contractors are working to clear out all the debris from the damaged building and they will be working throughout the weekend to make this happen. Once again, I ask everyone to limit their travel to the Church complex on Saturday. The contractors are using heavy equipment to clear the campus of debris. ALL parish phone systems are offline and not working, computers servers and computers were damaged by the hurricane, and we have no access to our office equipment. The Archdiocese is working with us to set up our new offices in the near term. I ask for your patience as we move forward with getting our office back. As of right now, all activities, Faith Formation classes, and baptism preparations, Sacrament preparation classes, RCIA are canceled until further notice. We are working diligently on the plan to move forward with Faith Formation and Sacramental preparation. As far as Mass is concerned, Mass for Saturday January 28th is cancelled. Please be on the lookout for further a possible mass for later dates. in the mean time the Archdiocese has set up a Disaster Recovery page for St. Hyacinth. Go to archgh.org In the meantime, if there are anyone in our parish community seeking assistance during this time, Catholic Charities along with other local organizations has set up the Joint Disaster Assistance recovery Center at the Pasadena Convention Center. When: now through Sunday January 29, 2023 at : Pasadena Convention Center 7902 Fairmont Parkway Pasadena, Texas 77507 Hours: 10 am- 6 pm Saturday 1pm - 6 pm Sunday More dates and times will be added as necessary. Please be on the lookout for the lasted updates on possible mass times and Church schedules, and please pray for St Hyacinth and the Deer Park Community. Prayers and Blessings. God Bless, Fr. Reginald Samuels

On behalf of the families of st. Hyacinth Catholic Church, I thank you all for your immediate and generous offers of assistance in the wake of the storm on January 24, 2023. the CHurch building is still standing, but we suffered major damage to our office building, Religious Education Building,Guyot Hall and rectory. We are currently working with the archdiocese to assess damage and plan for restoration. Please keep everyone in prayer, especially the community of Deer Park, Pasadena and Baytown along with all of the First Responders. More information with be posted about resuming Mass and the status of Activites in the parish in the next short days. God Bless Fr. Reginald