Rev. Msgr. Conor J. McGrath Pastor Fr. Roberto V. Rosales Parochial Vicar Lee Jan Deacon deaconlee@seaschurch.com Ed Gordon Liturgical Ministry Coordinator ed@seaschurch.com Sarah Rehkopf Pastoral Coordinator sarah@seaschurch.com Susan Ramsower Music Director susan@seaschurch.com Michelle Marroquin Communications michelle@seaschurch.com Deana Giuliani Parish Accountant deana@seaschurch.com Anna Cantu Administrative Assistant anna@seaschurch.com A J Rabel Plant Manager ajrabel@seaschurch.com Dr. Maria Leavy Hoelscher Counseling 210-364-2215

Staff Hours M-Th 8:30 am –2:30 pm Valerie Trevino Faith Formation Administrator valerie@seaschurch.com Ana Holbrook Administrative Assistant ana@seaschurch.com Elena Menchero Good Shepherd Coordinator elena@seaschurch.com Heidi Neuenfeldt Elementary Coordinator heidi@seaschurch.com Luis Ramirez Middle School Coordinator luis@seaschurch.com Lisa Casas High School Coordinator lisa@seaschurch.com

Baptism: Please call the office to make an appointment for your child to be baptized. Our next Baptism class is Novem-ber 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Day Chapel. Monthly baptism classes are listed at seaschurch.com/baptism. Wedding: Couples who would like to be married at our church need to be registered parishioners. Please call the parish office and make an initial appointment with the Pastor at least six months in advance of the wedding date. RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Faith or considering becoming a Catholic? Are you an adult Cath-olic wanting to prepare for Eucharist and Confirmation? Please call the office for more information at 210-698-1941 or email Ed Gordon, ed@seaschurch.com. Anointing of the Sick: Please call the parish office to make an appointment. Funerals: If you have a loved one who has passed away, please call the parish office to let us know or to arrange a funeral.

Prayers for the Sick We ask God to bless all those who are ill and have asked us to pray for them. To have the Ministers of Care pray for your loved one by names, please email an-na@seaschurch.com or call the parish office. Be attentive to the voice of Grace

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Welcome to Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm (closed for lunch 12-1pm) (210) 698-1941 | Fax: (210) 698-1983 |

8500 Cross Mountain Trail | San Antonio TX 78255 | seaschurch.com.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church

We are so happy that you have joined us, and we hope that you will find our church to be the spiritual home you desire. We are blessed with a community of sincere and caring people who want to make you feel at home. To register as a parishioner go to www.seaschurch.com.

Sacraments Pastoral Office

Faith Formation Office

8:00 am Monday, October 29 Mark Mulgrew † David Little † Presider: Fr. Robert 8:00 am Tuesday, October 30 Gilbert Warren Presider : Fr. George 8:00 am Wednesday, October 31 For a Special Intention Presider: Fr. Conor 7:00 pm All Saints Day Vigil Presider: Fr. Robert 8:00 am Thursday, November 1 Presider: Fr. Robert 8:00 am Friday, November 2 Presider: Fr. Conor 5:00 pm Saturday, November 3 Presider: Fr. Conor Sunday, November 4 8:00 am Presider: Fr. Robert 9:30 am Presider: Fr. Kinney 11:30 am Presider: Fr. Roger 1:00 pm Presider: Fr. Conor 5:00pm Presider: Fr. Bryan 7:00 pm Presider: Fr. Robert

There will be no mass intentions from Thursday November 1 through November 4.

All Saints Day and All Souls Day

MASS TIMES

Saturday Vigil 5 pm Sunday 8 am, 9:30 am 11:30 am 1:00 pm (SPANISH), 7 pm Daily Mass 8 am Reconciliation Saturday, 4 pm Adoration Wednesday, 8:30 am - 8 pm

Weekly Offertory October /20/21

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Monday, October 29 6:45 pm FF Elem. Sac. Parent Mtg. Marron Ctr. 7:00 pm Life Teen Youth Choir Church 7:00 pm Apostleship of the Cross Marron Center Tuesday, October 30 7:00 pm RCIA Seton Hall Wednesday, October 31 7:00 pm All Saints Day Mass Church Thursday, November 1 5:30 am Men’s Morning Fellowship Seton Hall 6:00 pm CDA Meeting Marron Ctr. Friday, November 2 9:00 am CDA Rosary Church Saturday, November 3 Mass SVDP Second Collection Church Sunday, November 4 All Masses SVDP Second Collection Church 2:00 pm Spanish ACTS Seton Hall Sunday: Good Shepherd (Level 1) 4:00-6:00 pm Good Shepherd (Level 2) 4:00-5:30 pm Elementary 4:30-5:30 pm Life Teen (Mass and Class) 5:00-8:15 pm Monday Good Shepherd (1) 6:00-7:30 pm Elementary 6:30-7:30 pm Tuesday Good Shepherd (1 & 2) 6:00-7:30 pm EDGE 6:00-7:30 pm Elementary 6:30-7:30 pm Wednesday Good Shepherd (1 & 2 espanol) 5:00-7:30 pm Confirmation Class 6:30-8:15 pm Thursday Good Shepherd (1) 4:00-5:30 pm

Mass Intentions

Faith Formation Schedule

This Week at SEAS

Some Facts about Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio ABOUT THE HOMEOWNERS We work with families whose total income averages about $28,000 a year. Families are accepted to the Habitat program based on their need, ability to pay a zero percent interest mortgage, and their willingness to partner. Applicants must be residents of Bexar County. Once accepted, first time homebuyers are eligible to buy a home from Habitat with a 20 – 25 year zero percent interest mortgage. Families spend a minimum of 300 hours investing in “sweat equity” where they support and help build their own home and the homes of their neighbors. Monthly payments average $550 (including taxes and insurance) for 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 bath homes. In our 41 year history we have less than a 2% foreclosure rate.

HOW WE ARE FUNDED Our funding comes through partnerships with individuals, corporations, foundations, faith organizations and civic groups. It costs approximately $80,000 to build a Habitat home including materials, tools and supplies (not including land or infrastructure). HFHSA relies on private sources of funding to build our affordable homes. Habitat only accepts government funding for land acqui-sition, infrastructure, administrative and site preparation expenses. Since the success of our Home Centers fund our administrative expenses, 100% of every donated dollar goes directly into our building program. HABITAT’S BEGINNINGS Faith Lytle founded HFHSA in her kitchen with a group of committed friends in 1976. We started construction of the first Habitat house in the United States on a small parcel of land on Hidalgo Street on San Antonio’s near west side in 1976. We have grown to become one of the top 5 largest producing partner affiliates in the country, having built more than 1020 Habitat homes in partnership with hardworking families in need HABITAT BUILDS UP THE COMMUNTIY Statistics from research compiled by the Cincinnati office of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Compared to renters (of the same age, income, race, etc.), homeowners

Are 28% more likely to repair or improve their homes Are 10% more likely to attend church Are 9% more likely to know who their school-board representative is Are 15% more likely to vote San Antonio area Habitat homes have added $55 million worth of property to local tax rolls since our founding.

HABITAT BUILDS UP THE FAMILY Statistics from research compiled by the Cincinnati office of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Compared to children of renters (of the same age, income, race, etc.), children of homeowners: Are 25% more likely to graduate from high school

Are 116% more likely to graduate from college Are 20% less likely to become teenage mothers Are 59% more likely to own a home within 10 years of moving from parent’s household

Please join our SEAS parish project to build a Habitat Home. Look for our upcoming Fundraiser on Nov. 10/11

On behalf of Archbishop Gustavo and the Appeal ministries, we would like to express the most sincere appreciation for your sup-port of this year’s Appeal. You make a difference in the lives of Christ’s people and in our faith in the archdiocese. Your faithful commitment to the Appeal is your response to God as His disciple to serve the poor and evangelize His people locally. When you make a gift to the Appeal you bring the love of Christ and a beacon of hope to His people across the 19 counties that encompass the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Together, we help advance the work of our Catholic faith, bringing about the New Evangelization in our community. Rest assured that, although you may never know the name of who in this life your contribution has served, your sacrificial gift will bring hope and healing to so many who need to believe in a good and loving God. I pray that your commitment to good stewardship through the Appeal will continue to manifest itself in a spirit of community, holi-ness, generosity, and love. May God continue to pour his abundant blessings and grace upon you and this parish community. As we enter the season of Thanksgiving, we are reminded of the grace and blessings God has bestowed upon us. If you have not had an opportunity yet to participate in this year’s Appeal, I pray that you reflect on how you and your family can make a gift in any amount that you are able. A gift to the Appeal can be made until December 31, 2018. You can send your gift to the Appeal at PO Box 34150, San Antonio, TX 78265-4150, give online at www.archsa.org or call the Office of Archbishop’s Appeal at 210-734-1604. Thank you and God bless you for your faithful generosity.

WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA Show your appreciation this holiday season for the men and women who served our country through our armed forces by participating in the national WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA event. A $15 donation will enable a Christmas wreath to be placed at the grave of one of our deceased service members. You may also designate where the wreath is to be placed. Donations are due by 11/15 and wreaths will be placed at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery on 12/15. To order a wreath to be placed go to https://donate.wreathsacrossamerica.org. Or pick-up a donation form in the back of church or in the church office. We have EXTRA Parish Directories!

All of the directories have been distributed to parishioners who sub-mi ed photos or had their photos taken. If you did not receive your directory, please call the parish office. If you would like a directory, please stop by the parish office and we will make sure you receive one—while supplies last!

ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY All Saints Vigil Mass will be celebrated on 10/31 at 7 pm. We will celebrate All Souls Day during our weekend Masses, November 3-4. All Masses during that weekend will be for the repose of the souls of departed family members. You are asked to write their names in the Book of the Dead which is located at the back of the church.

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s readings begin with a joyous reun-ion of the blind, the lame, and those who departed in tears. All are consoled and guided. The psalm cele-brates the return of captives, filled with laughter, their lives transformed from weeping and sorrow to rejoicing. The reading from Hebrews reflects upon the Old Testament priesthood and the Jerusalem Temple, and contrasts it with the priesthood of Christ. The priest’s glory comes from being, like all of us, a child of God. In the Gospel a blind man, cry-ing out to Jesus, is rebuked, told to be quiet. Never-theless he persists. Jesus calls to him, and his request is simple and straightforward: “I want to see.” Jesus recognizes his faith, returns his sight, and sends him on his way. His way, it turns out, is to follow Jesus. The blind, the lame, the sorrowing, captives, and priests who, like us, are weak—are not successful by worldly measure. Yet they are the ones whom God seeks. BROKEN Today’s readings are about those whom soci-ety often looks down on, those who are physically disabled, who have been imprisoned. We read about those whose losses are so great that they cannot stop weeping. Hebrews reminds us that even those in the exalted position of priest are themselves beset by weakness. Weakness is at the very heart of the priest’s ability to minister to others. Finally it is a blind man, shouting from the side of the road, shushed by those around him, told not to make a sce-ne, whom Jesus sees. His sight is returned because of his faith, and his first choice as a sighted person is to follow Jesus. The lesson of today’s readings is that God is focused on the marginalized, on the outsiders, on those whom we too often try to silence. God is fo-cused on those parts of ourselves, our weaknesses that we try to hide by turning our attention to any-thing else. The readings are all about the less-than-perfect. They talk about weakness, deep crushing sorrow, brokenness that is part of our humanity, and a strength rooted in the love of God for us despite all of that. BELOVED Success is not measured by strength, whole-ness, or power. Success is measured by our weak-ness, by God’s embracing of that weakness and our choice to follow God. The priest has power only be-cause of the weakness that is a part of each person. We are the blind, the lame, the sorrowing. And we are the ones whom God saves and transforms. The blind man in us cries out when decorum would have us be quiet. Our faith cries out for salvation, for wholeness, for redemption, for sight, and we are heard. Our blindness is transformed into sight, and with such vision we see the world as God sees it, bro-ken and beloved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Eph 4:32 — 5:8; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 13:10-17 Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33 or 5:2a, 25-33; Ps 128:1-5; Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Eph 6:1-9; Ps 145:10-14; Lk 13:22-30 Thursday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a Friday: Wis 3:1-9; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5-11 or 6:3-9; Jn 6:37-40, or any readings from no. 668 or from the Masses for the Dead, nos. 1011-1016 Saturday: Phil 1:18b-26; Ps 42:2, 3, 5cdef; Lk 14:1, 7-11 Sunday: Dt 6:2-6; Ps 18:2-4, 47, 51; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28b-34

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Today is the feast of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, the first representative body of many Catholics who died for their faith between 1535 and 1679 to be beatified or canonized. Almost all of them died at Tyburn, a place of public execution near today’s Marble Arch in Hyde Park, London. The first to suffer were Carthusian monks who refused to swear an oath supporting Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church in England, and the last was Saint Oliver Plunkett, the Primate Archbishop of Ireland. The method of execution was particular-ly vile, since the condemned were hanged and their living bod-ies quartered to be displayed around London as a horrific warn-ing. Today, the tree-like gallows provides the design of a reli-gious symbol, the canopy over the altar of the martyrs in Ty-burn Convent. There, at the heart of the bustling city, a monas-tic community of women practices contemplative prayer and “spiritual hospitality” in the Benedictine tradition. Oddly, the community is French in origin; it was expelled from France a century ago when France outlawed contemplative monastic life. England, where the laws against Catholicism had been lift-ed, invited the community in. In gratitude to their new home-land, and in honor of those who gave their lives for the Catholic faith, the nuns came to Tyburn. In the public crypt, coats of arms stand for each of the 350 martyrs. A Web site visit is pos-sible at www.tyburnconvent.org.uk. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

REMEMBER OUR HEROES

Afghanistan: Linda Benavides,Thomas Sweet Iraq: Robert Castillo, Peter Greenburg, Roy Vaughn, Matt Pryor, Miguel T. Sotello, Ron Wyble Germany: Bruce Balvin, Luis A. Ramos, Zac Gerner, Jordan Bittner, Jerome Benavudes and Anthony Delgado, Jr., Christo-pher Le Comte Columbia: Mack Peter Ethiopia:Zachary Williams S. Korea: Austin Reyes Okinawa Japan: Dylan Johnson

SUPPORT OUR DEPLOYED TROOPS: Wear a red shirt on Fridays. RED represents Remember Everyone Deployed.

Trigésimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario ROTO

Las lecturas de hoy hablan sobre las personas a las que frecuentemente la sociedad desprecia, aquellas que tie-nen una discapacidad física, que están en una cárcel. Escu-chamos de personas que lo perdieron todo y no paran de llorar. La carta a los hebreos nos recuerda que incluso aque-llas personas en una posición con tan alto honor, como el sacerdote, están afectadas por la debilidad. La debilidad está al centro mismo de la habilidad del sacerdote para servir a los demás. Por último, es un hombre ciego al que Jesús ve, gritando a la orilla del camino, quien además de ser repren-dido tratan de callarlo quienes lo rodean. A causa de su fe vuelve a ver y su primera decisión como una persona que puede ver es seguir a Jesús.

La enseñanza de las lecturas de hoy es que Dios se enfoca en quienes están en las periferias, en los forasteros, en aquellas personas a quien muy frecuentemente tratamos de callar. Dios se enfoca en esas partes de nosotros, nuestras debilidades que intentamos esconder al voltear nuestra aten-ción a cualquier otra cosa. Las lecturas son todo menos lo que es perfecto. Ellos hablan acerca de debilidades, dolor profundo, rupturas que son una parte de nuestra humanidad y una fortaleza enraizada en el amor de Dios por nosotros pese a todo eso. AMADO

El éxito no se mide por la fortaleza, la integridad o el poder. El éxito se mide por nuestra debilidad, por el he-cho que Dios abraza esa debilidad y nuestra decisión de se-guirlo. El sacerdote tiene poder solo porque la debilidad es parte de cada persona. Nosotros somos el ciego, el cojo, el que sufre. Y somos las personas a quien Dios salva y trans-forma. El hombre ciego dentro de nosotros llora cuando el decoro nos hace estar callados. Nuestra fe clama por la sal-vación, la integridad, la redención, la vista y se nos escucha. Nuestra ceguera se transforma en vista, y con esa visión ve-mos al mundo como Dios lo ve, roto y amado. Lecturas de hoy: Jr 31:7–9; Sal 126 (125):1–2, 2–3, 4–5, 6; Heb 5:1–6; Mc 10:46–52

GRACIAS Un acto de acción de gracias cuando las cosas andan mal vale lo mismo que un millón de gracias cuando las cosas están de acuerdo con nuestros deseos. --San Juan de Ávila

LOS SANTOS Y OTRAS CELEBRACIONES Domingo: Trigésimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario; Jornada Mundial de la Juventud; Domingo del sacerdocio Miércoles: Halloween Jueves: Todos los Santos Viernes: Conmemoración de Todos los Fieles Difuntos; Día de los Muertos; Primer viernes Sábado: San Martín de Porres; Santa María Virgen

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church #515402 8500 Cross Mountain Trail San Antonio, TX 78255 TELEPHONE 210 698-1941 CONTACT PERSON Michelle Marroquin EMAIL: michelle@seaschurch.com SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat XI Windows 10 TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 1:45 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION October 28, 2018 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS