FESTA SAN SEBASTIANO MARTIRE 2023

SAN SEBASTIANO martyrs:
FAITHFUL WITNESS OF LOVE IS NOT HANDED 'NEVER END
MERCOLED’ 11 JANUARY - BEGINNING OF NOVENA IN HONOR OF SAINT SEBASTIAN MARTYR
OGNI SERA DELLA NOVENA : Hours 17.30 S. Rosary, hours 18.00 S. Mass homily, Prayer Chaplet of the Holy, Adoration and Benediction.
FRIDAY ' 20 JANUARY – FEAST OF SAN SEBASTIANO
Sante Messe: hours 8.30 – 10.00 –12.00 – 17.00- 18.00 – 19.00.
Hours 12.00 Mass presided by His Ecc.za Mons. Benjamin DePalma, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Nola.
At 19.00 Confessions and S. Mass for the bearers of the statue of S. Sebastiano.
TIME TO PARTY AND FRATERNITY
Saturday 21 January
Hours 19:00 “XXVI Sagra do' zuffritte, sausages and friarielle” at the little shops in piazza Belvedere. .
PROCESSION OF SAN SEBASTIAN SIMULACRUM MARTYR
Sunday 22 January
Sante Messe: hours 8.30 – 10.30 – 18.00 – 19.00.
Hours 11.30 Solemn Eucharistic Concelebration presided over by H.E. Mons. Domenico Battaglia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Naples .
Hours 15:30 Start procession of the statue of the Holy Martyr Sebastian (in case of rain, the procession will take place on the last Sunday of May) with the following path:
Mother Church, Via Roma, Viale del Progresso , Via Matteotti, Republic Square, Via Astonauti, Piazza Andromeda, Via Monaco Aiello direzione Ercolano, Contrada Patacca
(1a Sosta - Contrada Patacca -Meeting with the Community of S. Mary Comforter of Herculaneum),
Via Amendola, Via Channel, Via Falconi, Via Margherita ,
(2in Sosta – Via Margherita- Sisters),
Via Margherita, Via Palmieri, Piazza San Domenico, San Vito Chapel in the San Domenico area,
(3in Sosta – Via Borrelli- Chapel San Vito),
Piazza San Domenico, Via Palmieri, Via A. Great,
(4in Sosta – Via A. Great),
Via Rosselli, Via Garibaldi, Via Gramsci, Via Leopardi, Via Vesuvio,
(5 in Sosta – Piazzetta Vesuvio )
Via Vesuvio, Via Boccarusso, Piazza Autonomy
(6 in Sosta – Piazza Autonomia- Incontro con la Comunità di S. Mary of the Assumption of Massa di Somma),
Piazza Autonomia, Via Boccarusso, Via Piromallo, Via Maione, Via Marconi, Via Parco del Sole
(7 in Sosta – Parco del Sole- Incontro con la Comunità di S. Maria del Carmine ai Catini in Cercola),
Viale delle Acacie, Piazza Belvedere, Via Roma e rientro nella Chiesa Madre.
Stops will be made only and exclusively on public land and stops will not be allowed at the homes of individual faithful according to the canonical norms,
The seven stops are lived in prayer reflecting and meditating on the seven Corporal Works of Mercy.
This year we reflect and pray starting from the Pastoral letter of our Archbishop.
Hours 20.30 Conclusion of the procession and blessing presided over by Don Federico Battaglia, Secretary of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Naples.
Thank you all and bless.
We wait!
Mons. Gaetano Borrelli
Father Enzo Cozzolino
Father Stefano Lanza
Father Luigi Stradella
Deacon Pino Iannazzone
The Pastoral Council
The Festival Committee
The entire parish community
PEACE AND JOY!