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245 W. Hwy 90, China, Texas 77613
Welcome!
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Thank you for visiting Our Lady of Sorrows Church online. We hope that our website gives you the information you are seeking. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbor.
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​​Our Pastor is Reverend
Polycarp Otieno
Church Office- 409-752-3571
Church Office Hours-
Mon-Thur. 8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Your donations are sent directly to the Church, credited with your
name. Thank you!
Our Faith
We believe that the door to salvation is always open and so are the doors to our church. Our mission is to be fully devoted to Jesus by opening our arms to those in search of the truth. We show God’s love and concern for our fellow man at every opportunity. Through works of charity and opening our doors to listen and love, we feel that we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
Mass Times
WEEKENDS
Saturday at 4:00 PM
Sunday at 8:30 AM
Weekdays:
Tuesday 8:00 AM
Wednesday- 8:00 AM
Thursday- 8:00 AM
Friday 8:00 AM
Reconciliation: Saturday 3:00- 3:45 p.m.
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Adoration- Wednesday
8:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
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Baptism: Please call the
office for appointment. Baptism Classes are required.
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Weddings: Diocesan policy for Marriage requires that you make an appointment with the pastor at least six months before the anticipated wedding. Please meet with the pastor before setting your final date.
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We welcome you to our Church, if you would like to join our Parish family, Census forms can be found under the Forms tab or in the Church.
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Our Children's Mass is the second Sunday of each month, join us as the children walk in with Father, lector and serve.
Sunday April 26, 2026
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Jesus is the shepherd and guardian of our souls
If we pray and listen for His voice in our heart,
we will hear the call of the Good Shepherd
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​​​​First Reading- Acts 2:14a, 36-41- Peter encourages the crowd to save their souls through repentance, baptism and the reception of the Holy Spirit.
PSALM-23:1-6-R/. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
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Second Reading- 1 Peter 2:20b-25- In his letter, Peter point's to Jesus' patience in suffering as an example for us. By doing so we have graces before God. "By His wounds you have been healed"
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​Gospel- John 10:1-10- Jesus says he is the Good Shepherd who cares for his sheep, and that he has come so we might have life more abundantly. The Shepherd calls his own by name and leads them out.​​​​
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The Lamb, the Shepherd and the Gate
Throughout salvation history, the image of Jesus as Shepherd and the people who follow the Lord as the sheep of His flock, has been a revered, iconic way of reflecting on relationship. On this Good Shepherd Sunday, we reflect not only on the Good Shepherd lovingly taking care of us, His sheep, but also on how Jesus expanded our understanding of the relationship He offers to each of us. In today’s Gospel from John, Jesus reminds us of that shepherd-sheep relationship, that as Shepherd He knows us individually. He calls us by name. And He cares for us, leading us to where we should go and going ahead of us as both example and protector. St. Peter, in both his speech in the Acts of the Apostles and in his letter in the Second Reading, reminds us that belief in Jesus is our goal. He was crucified for us, thus He is not only our Shepherd, but the Sacrificial Lamb that takes away our sins. Those sins were us actively straying from the Good Shepherd. His saving act of death and resurrection calls us back into His flock, where we must actively listen to and follow His guiding voice. Scripture shows us that being a sheep of God’s flock is not without thinking. It’s actively listening to the Word and accepting it. Jesus continues with beautiful imagery by telling us He is the gate. We can easily understand a Sacrificial Lamb, giving His life to save ours. We can easily understand Good Shepherd, leading and guiding us with love and care. But a gate? A passageway? More than that, the passageway — to good pasture, to salvation, to having life and having it more abundantly in the world to come.
As Peter exhorts the people to repent and be baptized so as to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness, it becomes readily apparent that Jesus — the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God who takes away our sins, the Gate by which we enter into the salvation of Heaven — that He alone is the Way, the Truth and Life. Let us find our way to the glory of the Father through Him, with Him and in Him.
