Every year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving our parish Confirmation Students cook and serve a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner to all the Seniors in our parish community.    This year that will happen on Sunday, November 19^th, right after the 12:00 noon Mass.   

Hall doors will open as soon as the Noon Mass is completed.      A delicious Thanksgiving Dinner cooked and prepared by our First Year Confirmation Students, their parents and other parishioners will be served at 1:30 p.m.     Second Year Confirmation Students will serve the meals and wait on tables.     That is right!   You will be served!      No standing in line!

If you plan to attend this enjoyable and delicious Thanksgiving Celebration for Seniors, please RSVP to our Confirmation Coordinator, Denise Cortez, at 818 - 889 - 2541.    You may also call the Parish Office at 818 - 889 - 1279, and leave your name and the number attending.       You may also sign-up this week at the 55+ Club Pot Luck this Wednesday, November 8^th, after the 12:05 p.m. Mass in the Parish Hall.

Anyone wishing to help in anyway, by preparing food, helping to decorate with the confirmands, is asked to please contact Denise at 818 - 889 - 2541.

On Tuesday, October 17^th, the Conejo Valley Ecumenical Ministerial Association adopted a resolution to pray and work for peace in the Land of Three Major Faiths:   Jews, Christians and Muslims.     They also asked that all in the Conejo Valley join with them and others throughout the world praying and working for this peace.

All the members promised to ask their congregations to pray each week, if not daily, for a true and a lasting peace to come to this Most Holy Land.         Each religious community will conduct their own special prayers each week during their regular services.   In addition, the Annual Ecumenical Prayer Service the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving will be centered around peace coming to this Land of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.    This Land which saw so many Prophets and People of God.   This Land that was the home of Jesus.    Praying that the descendants of the sons of Abraham: "Isaac" the father of the Jewish people, and "Ishmael" the father of the Arabic people, may be helped to live in peace as sisters and brothers, along with their Christian and other neighbors.

All living in the Conejo Valley are invited to join in this endeavor of peace.   In whatever way you might know and worship God, turn to Him and pray for peace.    And then come and join with your neighbors in the Ecumenical Thanksgiving Prayer Service on Wednesday evening, November 23^rd, at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Community on the corner of Lindero Canyon and Kanan Roads at 7:30 p.m.

Refreshments and fellowship will follow the Ecumenical Prayer Service.

Bishop Thomas J. Curry, our Regional Bishop, will preside at a special 3:00 p.m. Liturgy for all attending a Regional Day for those who are Separated, Divorced and Widowed on Sunday, November 19th.

The day begins at 12:45 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Montecito.     Father David Heney, a member of the faculty at St. John's Major Seminary in Camarillo, will speak on the topic:  "Trusting in God!"  A reception will follow the Mass in the Parish Hall.  For more information or directions, please call Shirley Saffire at 805 - 482 - 4614.