San Gabriel Mission Plans Thanksgiving Mass
A special Thanksgiving Day Eucharist Mass is scheduled for Thursday,
Nov. 22, at San Gabriel Mission’s Chapel of the Annunciation.
The tri-lingual Eucharist will be in English, Spanish and Vietnamese languages and will
start at 10 a.m., announced mission Pastor Rev. Bruce Wellems, CMF, a Claretian Missionary.
People are invited to bring the bread that they will use for their Thanksgiving dinner to
be blessed during the service. There will be no other masses on Thanksgiving Day.
Free self-parking is available on a first-come basis in the church lot at the intersection of Mission Road and Junipero Serra Drive in San Gabriel. The address is
427 S. Junipero Serra Dr. and the telephone number is 626-457-3035.
San Gabriel Mission was founded on Sept. 8, 1771 as the fourth oldest of 21 missions
in California. The 241-year-old Roman Catholic parish has more than 50 active groups with a language in either English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog (Filipino) or Chinese.