ADVENT RECONCILIATION SERVICES During the season of Advent, we encourage you to attend any of the Communal Reconciliation services listed below, including our own. Saturday Reconciliation at our Parish will continue through Sat., Dec. 7th, in the Priests Offices, then will not be available until Jan. 4th, 2020. Our Advent Bilingual Reconciliation Service at MISSION Read More
Peace and all Good! The first Sunday of Advent, with which we begin this liturgical year, has a very similar tone to the final Sundays of the previous liturgical year. We have finished the previous year in the expectant tone of Christ’s return, which is like the climax of the whole work of redemption. We Read More
Thank you for observing Advent and the Christmas Season with us here at Mission San Luis Rey Parish. Below is our schedule for the upcoming celebrations in our Parish. Happy Advent! For a PDF version of this calendar, click here
Are you joining us for Thanksgiving Day Mass at 10:00 am, in Serra Center? If yes, bring to the table of the Lord an offering of non-perishable food items such as soups, canned vegetables, corn, canned fruits, canned tuna or chicken or spam, jars of peanut butter, jars of jelly, pop-top canned meals, boxed cereal, Read More
With this beautiful Solemnity of Christ the King, we bring our liturgical year to a close. However, today’s feast transforms our image of Christ the King—what makes him “kingly.” Rather than calling up images of Jesus Christ dressed in royal purple, the Gospel proclaims it is the sign over his head on the throne of Read More
Dear Friends, Peace and all Good! As we near our new liturgical year of Advent, the Church presents us with a narrative of the end times. Speculation about the end-time has been around for a long time. When will it happen? What signs will precede it? People have always wanted certainty about it. In today’s Read More
What is heaven like? How many times we have asked that question, as children and adults. As children, we are just curious, but then as adults, we get more serious about this, especially when someone we love dies. What happens in heaven? What will we look like? Will the others we knew on earth be Read More
Our Gospel today tells the story of Zacchaeus, the tax collector turned saint! In Jesus’ day tax collectors were a despised lot. They worked for the Romans, the Gentile power who ruled their land. Tax collectors would supplement their income with a surcharge. This despised man was so eager to see Jesus that he climbed Read More
Today’s Gospel reading is the account of the Pharisee and the tax collector who both go up to the temple to pray. The difference in their prayer is striking. Reread this passage and note the difference not only in their words but in their attitudes. The prayer of the tax collector is every believer’s prayer: Read More
Do you own or do business with a company other parishioners might like? We are seeking sponsors for our Evening with the Friars, A Taste of Italy fundraiser! What sponsors might appreciate is the fact that the signage, program ads, table cards and recognition in parish slideshows that are available to sponsors at different levels Read More
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