Name of Church Queen of Heaven Cemetery & Mausoleum
Address 18200 Damian Way, Salinas CA 93907
Contact email info@montereylatinmass.org
Website www.MontereyLatinMass.org,
Mass times Sundays, 10:30 a.m. First Saturdays, noon. The Sunday Masses are High Masses (sung); the First Saturday Mass is a Low Mass. Mass is also offered on holy days; see the online calendar.
Confessions Sundays, 9:30 – 10 a.m.
Names of priests Father Nicholas Milich. Father Milich is an excellent homilist, strongly pro-life and knows his Greek and Latin. He has contributed to the Latin Mass magazine.
School No, but many families in the church homeschool through the online Our Lady of Bethlehem Homeschoolers program.
Special parish activities Join members of the community for breakfast after Sunday Masses. Interested boys are encouraged to inquire about being altar servers; there is also a Little Flowers group for girls 6-16 on second Fridays that teaches girls to lead virtuous lives. Check the online calendar for upcoming events.
Music A schola sings at Masses (volunteers needed; even those without musical training encouraged to inquire).
Fellow parishioners All ages; a magnet for those who prefer the celebration of the Mass and sacraments according to the pre-Vatican II practice.
Parking Ample parking on the grounds.
Additional observations Queen of Heaven is a 30-acre Catholic cemetery founded 50 years ago to serve the residents of the region. It’s just off the 101 freeway, not far from Santa Cruz and Monterey. Not long ago, the cemetery chapel became home for the Monterey Bay Area Traditional Latin Mass community, which operates with the blessing of Bishop Richard Garcia of the diocese of Monterey.
It sounds like a lovely parish. God bless them.
This website has true love to share churches that are worth driving to. This love stems from helping the faithful find parishes that are faithful and holy. I appreciate it. Therefore will dedicate this scripture to this website and their cause and also to the parishes that remain faithful to Christ.
1 Corinthians, chapter 13
1If I speak in human and angelic tongues* but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.a 2And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.b 3If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.c
4* Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,d 5it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,e 6it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.f
8* Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. 9For we know partially and we prophesy partially, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.g 13* So faith, hope, love remain, these three;h but the greatest of these is love.
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The director of the schola, Greg P., is a personal friend and CMAA colleague who is the perfect exemplar of how a few dedicated souls can recover and master the sacral language that is Latin chant in the TLM. They have endured and persevered through having their Mass venues changed through disinvitation because of politics and other challenges, and they have accepted God’s will and always found celebrants and parishes to offer the diocese the TLM in humility and beauty. (They are quite accomplished.)
Sounds wonderful Charles…thank you for the information. God continue to bless them!
I pray for a miracle…for the conversion of our lost brothers and sisters here who post often against church teachings, who need it the most.
The picture provided is not of Fr Nicholas Milich, but rather of Fr Peter Carota who celebrated a special Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite on Pentecost Sunday at Carmel Mission Basilica.
Thank you, Geoffrey, we know. He was not identified as Fr. Milich. Fr. Carota came to join in their annual pilgrimage.
This Latin Mass community does not have an annual pilgrimage. The pilgrimage was from St. Stephen’s FSSP parish in Sacramento. Fr. Carota was the chaplain for their pilgrimage during their time in the Diocese of Monterey.
This sounds like a great church to go to Mass with good programs for youngsters.
This Mass site serves the Northern half of the Diocese of Monterey – all are welcome and encouraged to attend. The Monterey Bay Area Latin Mass Community also has a Facebook page and Twitter, both under the name Monterey Latin Mass.
The Latin Mass has been ostracized to a Cemetery and Mausoleum Parish. This represents a significant downgrade from the parish Fr. Milich had when he was pastor of Mission San Juan Bautista. I am sure the community of TLM faithful took this slap in the face with good cheer, glad to continue the Holy Work of preserving the true Faith. I attended a Keep the Faith Monterrey retreat when Fr. Milich gave the main homily while he was Pastor of Mission San Juan Bautista and it was excellent. His sermon was later published by the indispensable “The Latin Mass Magazine”. Bravo for persevering.
Our own EF mass was expelled from Mission San Juan Buenaventura by a new V2 Pastor by name of Fr. Tom Elewaut, may his name be long remembered in the annals of the Church. We were fired on Epifany 2013, but Archbishop Gomez found us a new home in a Camarillo chapel built 100 years ago this July by Adolfo Camarillo. There, at St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, we have doubled our TLM attendance. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Fr Milich was never the pastor of Mission San Juan Bautista or any parish in the diocese of Monterey. He has been the chaplain for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite community.
Now this is a church worth going to God bless the priest and all of the members. Keep praying for the return of the TLM to ALL of our altars here and across the world. Deo Gratias
Every time I have been to this Mass, I have heard a superb sermon from Fr. Nicholas Milich, and beautiful music from the choir. There are so many altar boys for such a small parish, and lots of young families. It is a blessing to go to such a reverent Mass.