Jack and Wise Catholic Community

Welcome to JBD Catholics!

We are a tri-parish Catholic community of Jack & Wise County.

We are celebrating mass and the church is open for our regular schedule of masses. Face masks are optional. If you are showing ANY signs of illness, please strongly consider staying home.

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Somos una comunidad Catolica de tres parroquias del condado de Jack & Wise.

Estamos celebrando misa y la iglesia está abierta para nuestro horario regular de misas. Las mascarillas son opcionales. Si muestra CUALQUIER signo de enfermedad, considere seriamente quedarse en casa.

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All gifts of God to us were meant to be shared. Education is what makes those gifts operational. Fr. Robert Thames

Please join us in prayer for the repose of the soul of Father Robert Thames, who passed away yesterday, Oct. 22, 2024.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Fr. Thames was born on Sept. 22, 1938, and baptized at Our Lady of the Assumption, Decatur, Texas, on Nov. 18, 1938.

He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth on June 27, 1964. After serving successively as Assistant Pastor at Saint Pius X, Dallas, Saint Anthony, Longview, and Saint James in Dallas, Fr. Thames was incardinated as a priest for the Diocese of Fort Worth on June 15, 1970, where he served as the Pastor of Sacred Heart, Breckenridge, and St. Francis of Assisi, Graford, and provided pastoral care of San Patricio Mission in Throckmorton.

From 1979 to 1983, Father Thames joined Maryknoll and was assigned to Bolivia. He returned to the Diocese of Fort Worth and served as the Pastor of Sacred Heart, Breckenridge, before serving in Mexico from 1986 to 1998 and in Bolivia from 1998 until his death.

In accordance with his wishes, Father Thames will be buried in Cabezas, Bolivia. Funeral plans are currently pending.

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