T his was the year a young Ellen Martucci began playing the organ.  Mrs. McDonald was the only organist at the time and wanted someone to h...

S t. Sebastian Parishioners were in the news this past week.  I thought I would share some of the news with you. M atthew and Elisabeth A...

S ebastian (my dog) had a play date the other day with Atticus and Monsignor, the dogs of two other pastors.  (Talk about three pretentious...

S t. Sebastian has a nice rectory.  It is largely (though not completely) furnished from the refuse of our civilization - that is, the devi...

W e’ve all heard it a thousand times so let’s all say it together: “The Church/parish is not a building, it’s the people.”   Yeah, yeah, I...

T he detail that went into the documents is astounding.   A slow as the Church is to act at times it is amazing how much they were actua...

T he Parish of Saint Sebastian requests the honour of your presence at the Blessing Ceremony of its new Pipe Or...

T his week Monsignor Manners is stumped.  Mrs. Fenner is of no help, I cannot find anything in my books, and I've even written to Miss ...

  T he trucks are back again at St. Sebastian in Akron.  For the past couple of weeks, after a few months of an empty choir loft, a new org...

N obody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And few people read this blog after a holiday so I thought I write about the latest on our organ...

W hen I was in kindergarten we had a project in which we had to draw a picture of what work we wanted to do when we grew up and then tell ...

I t's been a long but good day.  After Mass there was a field trip out to see the progress if the organ.  Unfortunately when we got b...