St. Joseph Catholic Church in Richardson

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Plano parish notes ‘sudden’ growth in OCIA process

Over the past year, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Plano has seen significant — and unprecedented — growth in the parish’s Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. The growth has been “sudden,” according to Director of Faith Formation Bruce Baumann, who said that the program had essentially tripled its number of participants from the year before.

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Inspired to share her faith through art

One never knows what might spark inspiration. Leftover paint. A worldwide pandemic. A leap of faith. For Allison Hsu, a parishioner at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Richardson, all three of those things played a role in inspiring her to illustrate a recently published children’s book, “The Gospel of Matthew for Little Ones.”