{"id":336059,"date":"2026-09-02T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:59:41","slug":"mass-of-thanksgiving-for-altar-servers-and-vocations-2026-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336059\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass of Thanksgiving for Altar Servers and Vocations 2026: Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tablet Staff<\/p>\n<p>Altar servers from the Diocese of Brooklyn were honored during the annual Mass of Thanksgiving for Altar Servers and Vocations,\u00a0celebrated\u00a0on Aug. 28 at <a href=\"https:\/\/thetablet.org\/st-finbars-chapel-returned-to-its-former-glory-by-the-parishioners-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Finbar Church<\/a> in Bath Beach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Mass\u00a0offered thanks for the young people who serve faithfully at the altar and included prayers for vocations, asking God to continue calling young people and adults to lives of service in the Church.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Father Pedro Angucho, pastor of St. Finbar, celebrated the Mass.\u00a0Father Christopher Bethge,\u00a0vocations\u00a0director for the Diocese of Brooklyn, concelebrated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 165 altar\u00a0servers\u00a0in attendance, Father Angucho said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gathering also served as a prayerful show of support for altar servers and for all those discerning a vocation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Centerfold-09052026-pdf.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW THE CENTERFOLD IN THE SEPTEMBER 5, 2026 EDITION OF THE TABLET.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Centerfold-09052026-pdf.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-281293 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"2816\" height=\"1600\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Centerfold-09052026-pdf.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-281293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Centerfold-09052026-pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2816\" height=\"1600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Tablet Staff Altar servers from the Diocese of Brooklyn were honored during the annual Mass of Thanksgiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}