Name of Church Chapel at St. Francis (retirement home)
Address 1718 W. 6th Street, Santa Ana CA 92703
Phone number (714) 542-0381
Website www.st-francis-home.org
Mass times Priests from Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, a block away, celebrate Mass on weekdays at 4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. Friends of the home are welcome to attend Mass or pray in the chapel.
Confessions Go to Our Lady of the Pillar to have your confession heard.
Special groups/activities Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. There’s also an annual Christmas boutique—it will be held November 10 & 11 in 2012—where you can buy baked goods and religious items to support the home. In April, they have a Mexican fiesta dinner. Check the calendar on the website for upcoming events. The sisters are always in need of support for the home; attend one of their fundraising events or see their wish list on their website.
Fellow parishioners Sixty elderly women live at the home, who are served by 15 nuns.
Parking Park on the street.
Additional observations St. Francis Home is an assisted-living home in the Diocese of Orange operated by traditional Franciscan Sisters, who wear the full habit. It’s located a block down from Our Lady of the Pillar Church in a residential area of Santa Ana. The community is originally from Mexico. In 1926, fleeing persecution by the Mexican government, the sisters came to the United States. They opened the retirement community in the 1940s. Besides the typical exercise classes and arts and crafts of a secular retirement home, residents can attend Mass, do Holy Hours and participate in prayer groups and Bible studies.
The home has a traditional chapel with beautiful artwork. One of its central images is a statue of the Sacred Heart. In line with the sisters and the home’s elderly residents, an old school spirituality is practiced. In addition to the chapel, stroll the grounds and enjoy the many religious images in the garden, such as Our Lady of Lourdes and the Sacred Heart fountain. Take a tour of the home and its chapel this Sunday, July 15, 2 – 4 p.m. They’re having an open house and ice cream social with the ladies of the home.
what??? no tridentine mass??? call out the national guard!!!
but stay for lunch first, and thank the SISTERS for taking care of our elderly.
Why? Are you going to Mass there? It should be what the sisters and the elderley want. Find another dumb remark?
“It should be what the sisters and the elderley want!”
okay, BUD, so if the locals want liturgical dance and clowns, the bishop should provide this?
it’s not merely about what some local community wants.
I was very close to the late Sr. Cecilia Varella and many others of the sisters. We used to go there and entertain the ladies.
I took Archbishop Khai there once and he celebrated Mass for them.
If you need to put someone in such a home or go there yourself, I can strongly recommend this House of Franciscan love.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
KENNTH, thank you for your personal testimony about the quality of care in this home.
we need to know about such good places where loved ones can be cared for properly, if we cannot do so ourselves at home.
(p.s. thanks for the image of you going there to “entertain the ladies” – it makes me smile to think of you having fun, enjoying yourslef, while also bringing joy to the residents of the retirement home)
max,
Actually, I might have been torturing the poor ladies and the Sisters, I sang!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Thank you Fraciscan sisters for your good works. I have seen Andy Garcia’s movie “For Greater Glory” and now understand your origins. Mexico’s loss was California’s gain.
Gratias,
The Cristiada also gave us the Carmelites of the Sacred Hearts.
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.