St. Elizabeth Seton Church
From the Pastor | February 11, 2021
Indoor Worship
Dear St. Elizabeth Parishioners;
You are probably aware that the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision that allows us to celebrate the Holy Eucharist inside the church again. All of our worship services have once again been moved inside the church. As the U.S. Supreme Court is the highest court in our nation I think we can safely say that we will not have to move our services outside again.
We will continue to provide a safe environment for worship indoors by observing social distancing, masking and sanitizing. Our current maximum capacity for worship events is 25 % of building capacity. For our church that number is 225. With 5 opportunities to attend Mass I think that we will be able to accommodate everyone without having to take reservations for Mass. Our ushers will be counting attendance and if we begin to exceed the limits then we will resort to taking reservations again. We will immediately be moving our evening masses on Saturday and Sunday to 5 pm again. Our Saturday confessions will be restored to 3 pm. We will continue to live-stream the 9:30 mass for those who are still not comfortable returning to community celebrations. Our Sunday morning masses will continue to be 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30. We are still not able to have social events or to sing together as a congregation.
Wednesday, February 17th, is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season. We will offer masses at 8:30 am and 4 and 7:30 pm. Ashes will be imposed with an individual swab for each person. During Lent we will have Stations of the Cross in the church at 6 pm every Friday. We are not yet able to offer a Fish Dinner. We will have a Parish Retreat on Saturday morning, February 20th, beginning with morning mass and ending at 11 am.
It will be great to be inside the church again and we look forward to seeing you there again. Thank you for your patience and perseverance during all of the changes that we have gone through. Please continue to keep the health of all of our parishioners in the forefront. If you are feeling ill at all please stay at home and take care of your health. When you come for mass, please wear your mask, sanitize your hands and observe social distancing. Let us continue to pray for one another until we are able to be all together again in our communal celebrations.
Blessings,
Fr. Michael
Indoor Mass Schedule
All Masses are inside the Church.
DAILY
8:30 AM MASS
WEEKEND MASSES
SATURDAY:
CONFESSIONS: 3:00 PM
5:00 PM MASS
SUNDAY:
7:30 AM MASS
9:30 AM MASS, also live-streamed
11:30 AM MASS
5:00 PM MASS (temporary addition while we are at reduced occupancy)
A MASK OR FACECOVERING MUST BE WORN OVER THE MOUTH AND NOSE
SOCIAL DISTANCING MUST BE OBSERVED BETWEEN HOUSEHOLDS
St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church
Website: www.seschurch.org
Location: 6628 Santa Isabel Street, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Phone: 760-438-3393
Facebook: facebook.com/SESchurchcarlsbad