The History of Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church
The first Mass in Burnet was offered in a field in 1938 near the present Church site. Attendance grew quickly and in 1939 approval was given for a church to be built in Burnet. June 11, 1941 the Bishop of Galveston came to dedicate the new Church.
Over the next several years, many hardships were overcome, including getting heat and water to the church without much funding. There was also no confessional, so the visiting priest heard confessions in the sacristy seated on a suitcase behind a makeshift screen.
During the 1950?s various families, individuals and other Catholic churches donated the altar, statues, altar drapes, holy water fonts, the bell , the vestments, a stand for the sanctuary lamp, votive candle stands and rock work.
In 1954 Our Mother of Sorrows got their first resident pastor and in 1956 the west wing to the Church was added.
From our humble beginnings we have added families, several more buildings, Catholic Spirituality and Love of the Lord and His Church??. Each priest who has served at Our Mother of Sorrows has contributed his own individual mark, pointing the way along the road to God.
After much consideration and prayers, the missionary priest named our parish ?Our Mother of Sorrows? Catholic Church because of all of the hardships and obstacles that they had to overcome
