Holy Communion

Every Sunday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
St. Elizabeth Seton Church

Before coming to St. Elizabeth Seton for Communion, please note the following:
  1. If you are elderly, ill, at risk of illness, or concerned about becoming ill, please stay home.  The obligation to attend mass and receive Holy Communion is still dispensed for all Catholics in the Diocese of Oakland.  Receiving Holy Communion at this time is strictly voluntary.
  2. Your preparation (as individuals and a family) to receive the Eucharist is very important. If possible, please celebrate the Sacrament of Confession before coming to receive Holy Communion.  We will continue to offer Confession at St. Augustine Hall on Saturday afternoons beginning at 3:00 p.m.  You may wish to check with our neighbor parishes to see when they are offering Confessions.
  3. Please join us for our webcast Mass at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning as part of your preparation to receive Holy Communion.  You can pray with us during Mass through our web page www.catholicsofpleasanton.org.
  4. Please make sure that all those coming to St. Elizabeth Seton to receive Eucharist are wearing face masks.

​When you arrive at St. Elizabeth Seton to receive Holy Communion:
  1. Please follow the instructions of those present in the parking lot to guide you. We ask that you park in every other space to leave distance between cars.
  2. Please approach the St. Elizabeth Seton vestibule from the north walkway (this is the walkway nearest Stoneridge Drive and the large parking area.)  If there are people ahead of you waiting to receive, please note the markings on the ground and remain a safe social distance from each other while waiting your turn.
  3. While waiting, it will be good to see each other, but please maintain a sense of prayer and reverence.
  4. Once you have been directed to enter the St. Elizabeth Seton vestibule, please do so and proceed to the priest or deacon directly ahead of you.   He will share Holy Communion with you.  Family groups who are in quarantine together and who arrive in the same car are welcome to receive together.  However, at no time are there to be more than 10 people (including the ministers) in the vestibule.
  5. After receiving Holy Communion and a blessing, please exit the vestibule through the south doors, proceed back to your car and return home.
While this means of receiving the Eucharist is not ideal, we are hopeful it will be a reverent and encouraging encounter with the Risen Christ in the Sacrament of His Body and Blood. We are hopeful this will be a help to you in these difficult and unusual days. Let us continue to keep each other in prayer.

- Fr. Mark