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On the Weekend of November 7th & 8th, I will be speaking at all the Masses, about the Generation of Faith campaign that we have been involved in since the spring of this year. I am happy to say that we are at $700,000.00 to date. Our goal is 1.4 million. So we are half way to our goal. On the weekend of November 7th & 8th, I will be asking you to consider a pledge over the next 5 years. I will explain more about this next weekend, but I wanted to give you the heads up!

Also, on Thanksgiving Day, after the 9am Mass, I am happy to tell you that we will be having a hot breakfast for all of our parishioners as a way of celebrating this special day together. If you are interested in attending, may I ask you to please call the rectory and leave your name and number and also how many people will be attending so I can make sure that there is plenty of food for everyone. The breakfast is Free!

Finally, as you know, Msgr. Howard Basler passed away two weeks ago. Msgr. Basler had been coming to St. Sebastian every weekend, until recently, for over 40 years. I am going to celebrate a special Mass on Saturday, December 5th at 11am. I will celebrate the Mass and I have invited Msgr. Hardiman to give the homily. I hope many of you can attend.

Thanks for your support.

Monday evening at the 7pm Mass we will open 40 hours devotion. This is another opportunity for us to show our love to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. After the 7pm Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed straight through the 12 noon Mass on Wednesday, which will end our 40 hour devotion. The Chapel will be open all night on Monday and Tuesday so we can adore the Lord.

Also on Thursday, October 22nd Bishop DiMarzio will confer the sacrament of Confirmation on 92 of our young people from the Parish. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will transform their lives forever!

Thanks for your support.

Rev. Kevin Abels,
Pastor

I am happy to announce that we will be having a traditional 40 hours devotion in our Parish beginning with an opening Mass on Monday, October 19th at 7pm and concluding with Mass on Wednesday, October 21st at 12noon. I am proud to say that we have a very focused spiritual life with our Eucharistic Lord at St. Sebastian. Recall last year, we put in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Monday to Friday, from 7:30am- 6:45 pm at night. Many people have spent time in prayer with our Lord. If you have not done so, I encourage you to do so.

During our forty hours devotion, our Chapel will be open from after 12 noon Mass on Wednesday October 21st. Yes, this means all during the night! We need to have at least 2 people with the Blessed Sacrament. Fr. Rodnev will be telling you more about this and will have signup sheets available in the back of the Church this weekend and next.

Next Sunday, October 18th, we will have our 2nd Hospitality Sunday after the 10:30am & 12 noon Mass. All are welcomed!

I wanted to thank all those who participated in last weekend’s Ministry Fair! It was another great opportunity for us to encourage all of our parishioners to join a society / organization. Our leaders of each ministry will be contacting those of you who signed up and inviting you to attend a meeting in the near future.

We will be praying solemn Vespers (evening prayer of the church) today, Sunday, September 27th at 5pm in the Church. I encourage all of you to attend!

Next weekend is another busy weekend at St. Sebastian. First, we welcome is another busy weekend, at St. Sebastian, First, we welcome Al Barbaino, who will be speaking at all our Masses, inviting us to join him for a parish mission he will be conducting on Monday and Tuesday evening (Oct 5 & 6) at 7:30pm in the Church Second, we will have a special Blessing of all animals at 2:30pm (October 4th) in our parish gardens, and finally, on Sunday October 4th, Bishop Octavia Cineros will celebrate a special Mass in honor of Señor de Los Milagros at 3pm following by a procession with the image around our neirborhood.

Finally, I want to thank all of you for generously donating canned food for the poor in preparation for our Holy Father’s visit. A special thank you to Fr. Rodnev and all his volunteers for organizing the food to be distributed to the poor.

Thanks for your support.