Priests of the Sacred Heart
The Oblate priests serviced the church for many years, before leaving in 1973. During that year, Priests of the Sacred Heart began serving the OLG parish in place of the Oblate priests. In the 1980s OLG became a territorial parish, and it adopted geographic boundaries. Natalie Garza, author of "The 'Mother Church' of Mexican Catholicism in Houston", said "it remains heavily Mexican American and Latino based."