The Ascension Altar Society is a service organization that assists the Pastor with altar needs of the parish. The organization’s founding purpose was to purchase and maintain all items necessary in and for the celebration of Mass:

• Items that have to do with the altar (hosts, incense, charcoal, altar cloths as needed,altar candles)

• Weekly altar flowers

• Votive and six inch candles for candle racks

• Religious Pamphlets (located at the rear of the church)

• Sends get well cards and sympathy cards to parish members as needed

• Provides a ham for funeral meals for the families of deceased members of Ascension

• Has a Mass said for all deceased members of Ascension and enrolls them in the Clerical Endowment Fund (CEF) (The CEF is a program of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the purpose of said fund is twofold: to aid in the education of seminarians for the Austin Diocese and to provide loans to parishes in the diocese for building programs.)

• Provides a scholarship annually for a graduating senior

• Supports and works at the annual Fall Festival

• Hosts and provides food for the annual Christmas Stroll, a long-time Bastrop tradition continued to this day in communion with our Protestant brothers and sisters (we may or may not continue this)

• Has a bake and craft sale in December to finance all that we do

• Finally, supports and works with other organizations and ministries within our parish family (KOCA, Knights of Columbus, etc.)

The Altar Society is also proudly associated with the Bastrop/Lockhart and San Marcos Deaneries Council of Catholic Women, Austin Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Archdiocesan Province of Galveston-Houston and the National Council of Catholic Women. Through these organizations we have helped provide funds for water wells in Mexico, cancer treatments for the poor, and educational opportunities for women in Third World countries. We also distribute material related to women's issues in conjunction with resolutions provided to us by the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

We welcome all parishioners to join or just come and visit.