Our Seminarian, Paul Lesupati was ordained a Transitional Deacon on Friday, April 9th. Deacon Lesupati, a native of Kenya, is a member of Blessed Sacrament Parish. He will continue his studies at St. Meinrad Seminary and will be ordained a priest in 2022. If you see Paul this weekend, congratulate him! Click on the title above to read more about Paul in the Catholic Times.

We welcome Fr. Seth Brown, who has been assigned to Blessed Sacrament as a parochial vicar. He will serve in our parish until July, when the Bishop will then give him a permanent assignment. Fr. Brown was ordained in 2014 and served as a parochial vicar at the Cathedral. In 2017, he was assigned as pastor at New Berlin, Alexander, Franklin and Waverly. For the past eight months he has been living in the Trappist Monastery in Conyers, Georgia. Father Brown will begin his new assignment at Mother of Dolors Parish in Vandalia and St. Joseph’s Parish in Ramsey on July 1, 2021.

40 Days for Life began on Ash Wednesday and lasts until Palm Sunday. This prayer vigil will be held every day from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM outside of Planned Parenthood.

Communion is distributed on Sunday morning from 9:45 to 10:15 AM and again from 11:45 AM to 12:15 PM at the front entrance to the school. If the weather is uncooperative, please enter the school entrance and we will distribute indoors. If you are unable to get out of you car because of health reasons, let the attendant know and they will direct your car to a place where communion will be brought to you.

Lent is coming... Ash Wednesday is on Wednesday, February 17 and Masses will be held at 8:00 AM and 5:30 PM.

The ever-popular Men's Club Fish Fries are back! Please join us every Friday from February 19 through March 26 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. All orders will be take-out only with a limited menu. Fill out your menu and bring it with you - a volunteer will pick it up from your car and have your order prepared for you. Pay with check or cash. Click on the headline above for the Men's Club page - menu is located there and can be downloaded OR download it from our Facebook page.

The Parish Office and Blessed Sacrament School are closed on Monday, January 18, 2021. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 19. Thank you!

Bishop Kevin Vann has tested positive for the coronavirus and is quarantined at his home. It is a mild case and he thanks everyone for their prayers.

We have added 5 new videos to our "Advent Music Series"! We'll keep you updated when new videos are posted! Click on the headline to watch the videos The songs that are featured this week are: What Child Is This? - Elizabeth Scott Oh, Holy Night - Laney Aleman Hallelujah - Lila Ambrose The Gift - Abby Buoy Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming - Jane Nicoletta, Rose LoGrasso, and Jane Hartman-Irwin

Sign up to pray for our pastor one or two days in 2021. There is an online calendar on the parish website for you sign up to pray for our priest in the coming year - simply click on the headline above. This is Blessed Sacrament’s Christmas gift to Father Jeff. If you prefer, call Kathy Harth at 899-0438 or the parish office at 528-7521 to choose a date.

There will a Vigil Mass on Monday, December 7 at 5:30 PM and Masses on Tuesday, December 8 at 8:00 AM and 5:30 PM. Masks and social distancing are required and the general dispensation is in effect. Mass will be LIVE on Facebook and accessible on the website.

Some parishioners have received fraudulent texts/emails from scammers pretending to be Father Jeff. This practice began this summer and has recently resumed. Please know that no one at Blessed Sacrament will contact you asking for gift card or money donations. Click on the title above to watch a video from Father Jeff.

Advent is approaching and Blessed Sacrament will again provide Angel Giving Trees, sponsored by Catholic Charities, starting November 21 and 22. Please take a tag off the tree and purchase a gift(s) for a child or two children listed on the tag. Then bring the unwrapped gifts back to the church or church office by December 7th. Donations of wrapping paper are appreciated. Thank you for your acts of love and caring.

To offset the loss of this fundraiser you may put an envelope in the collection marked "St John’s Breadline" and we will see to it that the Breadline gets your donation. There is also an online donation method - simply click on the headline above to go directly to that site. At the present time all the meals at the Breadline are served as “to go”. The Breadline continues to serve 300 hungry men, women and children everyday. Please consider a donation to the Breadline to able them to continue serving these meals.

Shop at Barnes & Noble on Monday, November 23 and a percentage of your purchases will benefit the Blessed Sacrament School library. Just bring the Barnes & Noble Bookfair flyer (found on the School Fundraising page) with you. Teacher wishlists will be available at the store. You can also choose to shop online between November 23 and 28 - code and website are listed on the flyer. Click on the paragraph headline to go directly to the School Fundraising page.

The Teacher Salary Support Fund is specially designated to offset our teachers' salaries by giving them a well-deserved bonus at Christmas each year. The monies donated through the green parish envelopes throughout the year are combined with donations from school families, the PSA and the Men's Club. All donations are allocated to the teachers and staff once a year - at Christmas! Please consider a donation during this challenging school year by submitting the Parish Teacher Salary Support Fund envelope or an envelope on which you designate "Teacher Christmas Bonus Fund" by Monday, December 14. Thank you in advance for your support of our hard-working teachers and staff.

The All Souls Day Mass and our Remembrance of the deceased will take place at 7:00 PM on Monday, November 2.

Thanks to all who supported or helped with the 51st Annual Blessed Sacrament Auction. Despite all the challenges the pandemic presented, it will go in the books as our most successful yet. A special thanks goes to Megan Peck, this year’s chairperson, and Kim Hoffmann our development director. It was certainly a job well done.

Parish office will reopen on Tuesday, September 8 at 8:00 am.

Visit our Saint Teresa of Calcutta page on this website for a novena that begins today.