Mary, Mother of the Church
Mary, Mother of the Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1914 Barnard Road in Brownsville, TX 78520. It is one of 121 churches in Brownsville, and one of 2 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
1914 Barnard Road, Brownsville, TX, 78520Phone: +1 956 546 3800 · Website: http://www.stmarysmc.org/
Mary, Mother of the Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,262 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Texas — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Mary, Mother of the Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.0% (18.9–33.0%)
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (11.1–31.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.9–12.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Brownsville city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 7,187 residents.
Churches near Mary, Mother of the Church
- Faith Church Brownsville — 0.1 mi away
- Go And Tell Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Proposito Y Destino — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Divine Providence Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Comunidad Cristiana Yo Soy — 0.5 mi away
- Brownsville Community Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- Vineyard Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Church of the Advent Episcopal — 1.5 mi away
- St Luke Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Brownsville, TX — 1.8 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Cathedral — 2 mi away