Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1986 Page: 3 of 14
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Student recounts priest’s accomplishments
Palacios Beacon, Oct. 9,1966-Page 3
NOTE) Recently, Father Larry
Matula, priest of St. Anthony’eL
left the community of Paladoe to
take on a new assignment In El
Campo. He devoted much time
and energy to nerving the]
community and waa especially
well-beloved by the youth. A»
part of a writing assignment,
Karen Dailey, • Palacios High
School student, selected him to
be the subject of one of her
papers. This paper did far more
than fulfill the requirements of a
class assignment but was a lovely
tribute to Father Matula as well.
Her message, which follows, Is
one that should be shared with
his many friends and parlshon-
ers. __
I have just returned from a
farewell party given in honor of
Fathet Lawrence Matula, our
pastor at St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church. No one in the parish was
feeling very festive, and there
were tears in more than one pair
of eyes. We all mourned the
news of Father Larry’s transfer to
El Caqipo. For the past three and
a half years, he had been not only
our priest and spiritual leader,
but a warm and supportive friend
as well.
When Father Matula first
arrived at St. Anthony’s of
Padua, he soon learned that he
had hjs work cut out for him. At
that time our parish was compos-
ed of three separate ethnic
groups - Anglos, Spanish, and
Vietnamese. To our parishoners,
church meant sacrificing an hour
every Sunday to sit and go
through the motions of the mass
rituals. Father Larry brought not
only new meaning to the cele-
bration of mass, but also differ-
ent and innovative ideas to help
include the congregation in the
'Stifi'
service. He established a church
choir and incorporated more
singing into the mass. He often
found ways to liven up a mass
with a little humor, through
interesting and pertinent ser-
mons, and by performing small
ceremonies on special occasions
such as Mother’s Day and
Father’s Day, Senior Sunday,
and the holy days of obligation.
As a result, parishoners enjoyed
coming to mass every week in
order to find out what Father
Larry had "cooked up for this
week."
One of the most important
contributions Father Matula ma-
de to St. Anthony’s was to help
unify the three diverse groups
within the church into one large,
colorful congregation. He took
the best of each culture and
combined them to form a beau-
tiful conglomeration, it made a
wonderful spectacle on special
'occasions such as Christmas,
Palm Sunday, and Easter, when
*11 the parishoners came together
to celebrate mass. This sharing
of cultures among the ethnic
'groups brought about a more
unified parish that worked well
together in their efforts to
improve our church.
Father Larry was also the first
pastor at St. Anthony’s who took
an active interest in the youth of
the parish. He took it upon
himself to reorganize the annual
CCD classes to promote more
youth participation, and helped
start the first Catholic Youth
Organization in Palacios. When
he learned of the Victoria diocese
sending delegates to an Interna-
tional Christian Youth Confer-
ence in Rome, Italy, Father Larry
was the main supporter who
convinced the parish of the
benefits of sponsoring a youth
from Palacios. After I was
selected as the delegate, Father
Larry helped and encouraged me
every step of the way. It was his
advice and wordly outlook on life,
plus the wonderful opportunity
he helped to provide for me, that
I feel is largely responsible for
my desire to pursue a future
career in international law and
foreign relations. For that valu-
able insight, I can never thank
Father Larry enough.
Now that the time has come for
him to leave us we can only look
back with pride on all the
accomplishments of our parish
under the guidance of Father
Larry Matula. The only consola-
tion is that our loss will be a
definite gain for others. Perhaps
God knows that El Campo needs
the special talents of Father
Matulas as much as our parish
did three and a half years ago.
Whatever the reason, Father
Matula is a beautiful and gener-
ous person who deeply affected
many lives, especially mine, in a
wonderful way that we could
never forget.
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