All eligible employees are encouraged to complete the enrollment process online using the MyEnroll System. Your 2024 FSA elections will not carry over into 2025, you must re-enroll during Open Enrollment. FSA elections go into effect on January 1, 2025, and end December 31, 2025. This Open Enrollment is ONLY for the Flexible Spending Account benefit. No other benefits changes may be done at during this time. Flexible Spending Account Open Enrollment ends on 12/3/2024, so don’t miss out!”

Join the Saint David Community for Breakfast with Santa! Bring the whole family for a festive morning filled with delicious food, holiday cheer, and fun activities; get an early start on your Christmas shopping with local vendors, and enjoy crafts, music, and more. Sunday, December 8, 2024, 9am-1pm. Purchase tickets through the link.

On Dec. 8, the diocese will take up a special collection to support our retired religious. The attached bilingual flyer provides facts regarding the needs of our retired religious. Resources to promote the appeal are available at retiredreligious.org. Details through the link.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Open Enrollment is coming soon! It will start on November 19 and end on December 3, 2024. Your 2024 FSA election will not carry over into 2025, you must re-enroll during Open Enrollment. FSA elections go into effect on January 1, 2025. This Open Enrollment is ONLY for the Flexible Spending Account benefit. No other benefits changes may be done at during this time. Please see the Site Administrator / Bookkeeper at your location for more information about the Flexible Spending Account

Building on the deep faith of black Catholics, under the leadership of the African American Pastoral Council (AAPC), local Catholics, young and not so young, are part of the movement to pray for and celebrate Father Augustus Tolton and other black Catholics from the United States who have open causes for canonization. Read about the extraordinary journey of the Saintly Six.

The Office of Worship shares the Liturgical Observances for the Diocese of Oakland for 2024-2025 in both English and Spanish. This document is meant to supplement the official Ordo published by Paulist Press.

Please join us for an evening where will discuss ways to cope with your grief and loss during the holiday season. Thursday, November 7, at 7p.m., at St Elizabeth Seton, 4001 Stoneridge Drive, Pleasanton.

This is a special liturgy to celebrate our loved ones who have gone before us. If attending this Mass, please bring a photo of your loved one. You will also be able to view this celebration online. Details through the link.

From The Black Catholic Current: Diocese of Jackson archivist and chancellor Mary Woodward shared an update on the African-American Catholic nun's canonization cause last month. Read the story through the link.

Announcements of clergy appointments and retirement. Read through the link.

National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in the United States from Nov. 3-9, 2024. Please pray to our Lord for more dedicated, holy priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and lay leaders in service to the Church. As people of God, we are called to promote vocations in our communities. Read through the link to explore ways to cultivate religious and priestly vocations.

Bishop Barber, whose career includes teaching, recently shared with our Catholic school teachers his perspective on their influence in the lives and faith of their students.

La observancia de la solemnidad de Todos los Santos y la conmemoración de todos los fieles difuntos (Día de Difuntos) 2024.

The Office of Worship shares the attached liturgical notes for observances of the Solemnity of All Saints and All Souls’ Day.

Follow Vatican News' daily coverage of the second session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod, taking place in the Vatican to explore Synodality: “Communion, Participation, and Mission.”