Name of Church Holy Family Church
Address 4851 Beatrice Street, Vancouver, BC V5N 4J5, Canada
Phone number (604) 875-8414
Website www.holyfamilyvancouver.ca
Mass times All Masses Latin Tridentine. Sunday, 8 a.m. (Low Mass), 10:30 a.m. (High Mass). Monday – Saturday, 7 a.m. (Low Mass). Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 9 a.m. (Low Mass). First Fridays and special feast days, 7:30 p.m. (High Mass).
Confessions Monday – Saturday, 6:30 a.m. Saturday, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Names of priests Fr. Daniel Geddes, FSSP, parish priest. Fr. Anthony Uy, FSSP, parochial vicar.
School No.
Special activities and parish groups Sunday adoration, 12:30 – 3 p.m., followed by Divine Mercy Chaplet and Benediction; youth group and young adult group (take a summer hike up one of Vancouver’s peaks with the young adults over the summer, and say the Chaplet of Divine Mercy with them at the top!); men’s group and young ladies group; annual Forty Hours devotion; Flowers of St. Anne; philosophy classes for beginners.
Music For those not familiar with the Tridentine Mass, the High Mass is sung.
Fellow parishioners Attracts many Catholics of a traditional bent, including many families with young children.
Parking Plenty, park on the street or in the lot beside the church.
Additional observations Holy Family is part of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. It is one of a few locations in the area where one can attend a Tridentine Mass; it is staffed by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter whose priests offer the sacraments in the traditional Latin form of the Roman Rite according to the liturgical norms of 1962. The church itself was built in 1948, and served German-speaking Catholics in the Vancouver area.
The Fraternity was invited to celebrate Mass in the parish beginning in 2001; it became an official parish under the FSSP in 2008. The Fraternity priests are orthodox and celebrate Mass with great devotion. It’s a very old-school parish, with traditional devotions and practices (e.g. fasting on Ember days … who remembers what an Ember day is?), in a region of the country where practicing Catholics are very much in the minority.
Holy Family Church is a truly holy place. It is good that the FSSP have taken jurisdiction over this Church, apparently guaranteeing the continuous saying of the TLM. And, remember that the FSSP was formed, hurredly, by St. JPII, in response to the ordination of bishops by Abp. Lefebvre (and the increasing strength of the SSPX). All should pray for many more churches like Holy Family Church.
If I hadn’t read the sign I might have mistaken them for a Baptist Catholic church.
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Really drive from Ca.?
Hi folks. Welcome to a parish which has fine Renaissance motets and Gregorian chant every Sunday at the 10:30 Mass. And tomorrow you can dine on a hot dog after Mass, proceeds to the FSSP seminary in Nebraska.
The hot dogs were great, and you have never seen such an array of orthodox spiritual books on sale; first Sunday of the month only.
Breck,
At Our Lady Help of Christians in Garden Grove, CA we have a complete supply of orthodox books and tapes available for sale.
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
This is The Roman Catholic Church!! Deo Gratias