The Vietnamese Sunday Masses will resume at Mother Seton Parish starting May18th. All Vietnamese Masses will be on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 2:30 pm in the Church.
The Vietnamese Sunday Masses will resume at Mother Seton Parish starting May18th. All Vietnamese Masses will be on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 2:30 pm in the Church.
Join us for the Praying of the Complete Rosary, Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries Tuesday, May 13, 2025 in honor of the 108th Anniversary – First Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima.
Rosary will be at 12:00 Noon to 1:15 PM in the Main Church.
Mother Seton presents True North VBS 2025.
Ages: 4 to uprising 5th grade
Must be potty trained
June 23-27, 2024
Mon 6/23 – 9:00am to 12:30pm EDT
Tue 6/24 – 9:00am to 12:30pm EDT
Wed 6/25 – 9:00am to 12:30pm EDT
Thu 6/26 – 9:00am to 12:30pm EDT
Fri 6/27 – 9:00am to 12:30pm EDT
19951 Father Hurley Blvd
Germantown, MD 20874
The registration fee will be:
$75 for one child
$125 for two children
$175 for three children
$225 for four or more children
This fee will cover the cost of all materials, snacks, & t-shirts needed for the week.
Volunteers can be from rising 8th grade through high school.
Want to sponsor a student or make a contribution? Contact MaryBeth Deluzio at DRE@mothersetonparish.org or donate below.
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:
Join other young families for fellowship and fun every month on the Third Sunday after the 10:45 am Mass.
Our next fellowship gathering of the Young Family Ministry at Mother Seton Parish will be this Sunday, January 19 from 11:30-12:30 (between the 10:45 and 12:30 masses). We’ll gather together in the St Joseph Room (underneath the church) with space for our children to play while parents chat over refreshments. We hope to see you!
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
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