Sunday, June 29, 2025
8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Book your appointment today!
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Call 1.866.256.6372, use code 7489
Sunday, June 29, 2025
8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Donate and receive an Inova Neck Fan.
Book your appointment today!
Visit https://bit.ly/MSP0629
Call 1.866.256.6372, use code 7489
MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL TEENS
JOIN US FOR SUNDAY SUMMER FUN
6 – 8 PM PARISH CENTER
Seton Youth
JUNE: 6/8 AND 6/29
JULY: 7/6 AND 7/13
STEUBENVILLE YOUTH CONFERENCE: 7/25-27
AUGUST: 8/3 AND 8/24
For questions or more info:
Youth@mothersetonparish.org
Dear Mother Seton Parish,
I share with you the news I announced at the masses this weekend about upcoming changes in our priests at Mother Seton Parish:
Fr. Matt Fish has been assigned the pastor of St. Jerome’s in Hyattsville effective July 9, 2025
Fr. Rick Gancayco will begin a ministry in the Philippines in July as priest for an orphanage.
Fr Lee Fangmeyer has been assigned as pastor of Little Flower Parish (St. Therese) in Bethesda effective July 9, 2025.
Fr. Kevin Regan has been assigned as pastor of Mother Seton Parish, effective July 9, 2025
Fr. Jorge Ubau will come as our parochial vicar the same date.
I am grateful for the 11.5 years I have been with you at Mother Seton. I love you all and thank you for all the ways in which Jesus allowed me to minister to you, and learn from you. These have been very important years for me and I take you with me.
Fr. Regan is an excellent priest and as I said at Mass, he is an upgrade from me. I’m like an iPhone 8 and he’s iPhone 16. You will be in very good hands.
Fr. Matt, Fr. Rick and I will be here through June.
Our wonderful deacons and staff will help us transition and carry on. Fr. Regan will take this parish to the next level. In my humble and unbiased opinion, Mother Seton is the best parish in the Archdiocese. You are a gift for any priest.
The planned June 14 Volunteer Appreciation Party will now be transformed into a parish-wide thank you and occasion to celebrate our years together. All adults are invited. We will also have something after all Masses on the weekend of June 28-29.
Thank you and you will be in my prayers.
With love,
Fr. Lee
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, pray for us!
Come and see where the Catholic Church in the United States began!
Thursday, June 12th
Fr. Matt will lead a one-day pilgrimage to Southern Maryland to visit the oldest churches in our archdiocese. Our pilgrims will start with the 6:30 am Mass at our parish. We will travel together by bus, leaving Mother Seton at 7:00 am, and return around 9:00 pm.
The tour will begin in rural Charles County, where we will visit the oldest convent in the country, the Carmel of Port Tobacco, and then the oldest parish in the United States, St. Ignatius at Chapel Point, founded in 1663. We will then travel across Charles and St. Mary’s Counties through the beautiful countryside and along the Potomac River, visiting several more of our oldest churches and enjoying some great local food together.
Along the way, Fr. Matt will tell the inspiring story of the founding of the Church in Maryland and its growth, despite much persecution.
Spots are filling up! Please RSVP by June 2nd to, mspps@mothersetonparish.org. Registration is first-come, first-served. The estimated trip cost is to be around $75, final payment information will be shared with you soon via email.
Every 25 years the Church celebrates a Jubilee year to focus on the mercy and love of God and neighbor. Pope Francis inaugurated the Holy Year 2025 on Christmas Eve, opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica. The door is a symbol of the true door, Jesus Christ, through which we enter eternal and new life
Announcing the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025, the Holy Father says, “Now the time has come for a new Jubilee, when once more the Holy Door will be flung open to invite everyone to an intense experience of the love of God” (Spes non confundit, 6). He encourages the faithful to be Pilgrims of Hope in the quest for a renewed encounter with God’s love because “Hope does not disappoint” (Romans 5:5). The hope we have in Christ does not put anyone to shame because out of his love for us he gave up himself that we may receive mercy; and his mercy takes away our shame.
In this Holy Jubilee Year, the Holy Father urges all Christians, Pilgrims of Hope, to bring hope and be signs of hope to the elderly, the youth and young adult, the migrants, those imprisoned or enslaved, the sick and the poor, and to be mindful of the common environment we share. “We, however, by the virtue of the hope in which we are saved, can view the passage of time with the certainty that the history of humanity and our own individual history are not doomed to a dead end or a dark abyss, but directed to an encounter with the Lord of glory” (Spes non confundit, 19). As Pilgrims of Hope, we carry the message of a constant encounter with the crucified and risen Lord of glory to all peoples and to the ends of the earth.
This message of hope and encounter with the Lord of glory has been entrusted to the Church and her children. As the Church proclaims this message in this Jubilee Year, she, as the mystical body of the merciful Lord, opens the store house of mercy accessible to her to grant indulgence to those who devoutly seek the Lord by turning away from their sins.
What is an indulgence? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin. The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead.” (CCC,1471). Sin carries punishment and guilt. Kind David, when he killed Uraiah and married his wife Bathsheba, was confronted for the sinful act by the prophet Nathan. David begged for forgiveness and Nathan told him that the Lord has forgiven his sins but as a punishment, the child born to him from the adulterous act will die. And so, it happened. (2 Samuel 11 and 12).
Indulgence is the removal of the punishment due to sin. The bride of Christ, the Church, which is also the body of Christ, is privileged to beg her Spouse and Head to remove the punishment due to sin of her members when they faithfully seek conversion and return to God, having met certain prescribed conditions. Through indulgence one encounters the God who is “rich in mercy” (Ephesians 2:4).
The Apostolic Penitentiary has issued the guideline for obtaining indulgence during the Jubilee of 2025. “All the faithful, who are truly repentant and free from any affection for sin, who are moved by a spirit of charity and who, during the Holy Year, purified through the sacrament of penance and refreshed by the Holy Communion, pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff, will be able to obtain from the treasury of the Church a plenary indulgence, with remission and forgiveness of all their sins, which can be applied in suffrage to the souls in Purgatory.” (Decree on the granting of the indulgence during the ordinary jubilee year 2025 call by his Holiness Pope Francis)
Indulgence during the Jubilee can be obtained in the following ways according to the Apostolic Penitentiary:
Thank you all the members of the Africa Union 55 committee who worked so long and hard on bringing about the glorious day we had last weekend. Their celebration was for all of us. It was an explosion of grace, of the signs of Christ in our midst. It inspires all of us to sing and dance because of the goodness of God. Thank you all who participated in sharing your faith with us. Let’s work together so that we can celebrate more the gifts of our parishioners, wherever they come from, whatever is their tradition, the human glory of Christ.
~Father Lee
What an incredible evening! We had over 700 people come out to venerate the sacred relics. What an incredible gift to our parish to be in the company of our Heavenly friends. Thank you to Jeff Thorne for capturing in photos this grace-filled evening.
View Photos from Cardinal Wilton Gregory’s visit to Mother Seton HERE
Mother Seton Parish needs your support now more than ever! Join the parishioners who are using Faith Direct for automated giving to Mother Seton. Faith Direct offers a safe and secure way to donate to our parish in this time of uncertainty. There is no cost to you, and the program provides a great benefit to our parish. Sign up today by visiting faith.direct/MD424 or text “Enroll” to 301-281-4377.