Seelos Healing Mass Set for October
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September 27, 2024The faithful with a special devotion to Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos will gather at St. Mary’s Assumption Parish in New Orleans for the Seelos Healing Mass next Sunday, October 6. Provincial Vicar Aaron Meszaros will preside at the English Mass at 1:00 pm CT and Fr. Tat Thang Hoang will preside at the Vietnamese Mass at 3:30 pm CT.Confession will be offered prior to the Masses, and special blessings will be available to participants after the liturgy.
Blessed Seelos has inspired generations of Redemptorists to preach of God’s love and compassion, both in word and in deed. He immigrated from Bavaria to the United States and was ordained a priest in 1844. He served in parish ministry throughout the Northeastern states, as well as in the formation of future Redemptorists. 
A generous confrere with a ready smile, he was well known as an expert confessor, preacher and spiritual director. He was assigned as pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in New Orleans in 1866. By September of that year he was exhausted from visiting and caring for victims of yellow fever.He contracted the disease and died at the age of 48 on October 4, 1867. Blessed Seelos is the patron of immigrants to the United States.