The Blessed Sacrament is exposed much of the time.[/caption]
Name of Church Dominican Nuns’ Corpus Christi Monastery
Address 215 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone number (650) 322-1801
Website www.opnunsmenlo.org
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Dominican.Nuns.Menlo
Mass times The monastery chapel is open to the public daily from 7 am until Vespers at 5:30 pm. Mass is at 8 am. You may also pray with the sisters throughout the day; the Blessed Sacrament is exposed much of the time.
Music The sisters sing beautiful chant as part of their prayer.
Opportunities to support the sisters The sisters have an online gift shop, Monastery Books and Gifts. (You may also donate online.)
Join the sisters in prayer Venite Adoremus Association for lay people to participate in the spiritual life of the community; the group meets at the monastery on first Thursdays.
Parking There is ample parking on the grounds.
Additional observations Corpus Christi Monastery was established at the invitation of Archbishop Edward Hanna of San Francisco. Seven nuns from the Monastery of St. Dominic in Newark, New Jersey came to California to bring Dominican cloistered life and perpetual adoration to the West Coast. In the 1920s, it was surrounded by ranches and farmland (now a bustling city by San Francisco Bay known for its tech companies in the area). The sisters were known for their embroidery of vestments, illumination of parchments, and baking of altar breads, but the heart of their life is community and prayer centered on the Blessed Sacrament. They live in community, wear the traditional habit and keep to a rigorous daily schedule. Here and here are introductions to the community. The church is across the street from Nativity Parish.
Is the Holy TLM offered there? Looks like a Novus Odro dinner table. No high altar in site.
These women have devoted their lives to praying for us. And, all you do is snipe about their chapel. MIght you try a little gratitude?
Is being cantankerous a sign of orthodoxy and devotion in your mind?
No altar on which the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus is offered should ever be called a “dinner table.” It seems you need a Eucharistic revival in your heart. Your comment hinders faith.
She is just a troll. Cal-Catholic should have a better moderation policy.
They do not have the beautiful old Latin Mass. Yes, today, all Catholic churches have the Protestant-style altar, so that Catholic priests can “face the people”– “versus populum”– not face God, “ad orientem,” when offering the New Mass, the Novus Ordo Missae, of 1969. Yes, Protestants have totally different concepts of the events at the Last Supper (“The Last Dinner”– and your “dinner table?” And the idea that the Holy Eucharist is “food,” not the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, as in Catholic teaching?) Well, at least, we still have the Mass! Nothing we can do about the liturgical changes of the 1960s and Vatican II– unless you are the Pope, with a strong backing from all his bishops on this matter. I have never agreed with them, from Day One, on their liturgical changes, and tragic church “wreckovations”— — but am happy to know, that Christ has not left us, we still have– a Mass– with Christ Truly Present in the Blessed Sacrament, always. And we also can still attend a beautiful Tridentine Latin Mass, somewhere, if we want! Nearly every diocese has at least one opportunity for the old Latin Mass, and many bishops are interested in providing it, too. The lovely Church of the Nativity, located across the street from the Dominican Monastery, has Adoration 24/7. Both the Dominican Monastery and Church of the Nativity are wonderful places for prayer and Adoration!
This church has an old-timey feel to it.
Thank you! I’ll be in Woodside tomorrow, not too far away.
Every time I pass a church, I always make a visit, so that when I’m carried in, the Lord won’t ask, “Who is it?”
I hope not at Woodside Priory, which is a fake Catholic Benedictine boarding school.
For $52,000 per year tuition it better not be fake!
I’m still trying to figure out how to define a “fake” catholic. I’ve been at it a long time.
Every Sunday we repeat the Nicene Creed. If you believe that, you are a “real” catholic.
What more do we need to do to “prove” ourselves?
This picture on this page and the explanation about DEI should be sufficient evidence that Woodside Priory is a fake Catholic school:
https://www.prioryca.org/about/diversity-equity–inclusion
It’s like so many other fake Catholic schools: promoting ultra-left indoctrination mapped superficially onto Catholic faith only because they have to since they are Catholic schools. They’d rather not be Catholic, but it’s not difficult to sidestep actual Catholic faith and doctrine and morality because nobody cares about Catholic identity: not the teachers, not the administrators, not the students nor their families, and not the bishops.
Catholic education is mostly a farce.
That pride flag in a “Catholic” school is disgusting. They didn’t even have the sense to iron out the creases. If I saw anything pride related in a tour of a Catholic school, I’d cross it off the list.
From the website of Woodside Priory School: first thing is “diversity, equity, inclusion.”
Catholics are for equality, not equity. Sixty-three percent of students identify as persons of color. Is God looking at skin color? Only 1 in 5 students “identify as” Catholic! How about the faculty? They have an Islamic Culture club. They recommend books like Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict, A Spirituality for the 21st Century: The Rule of Saint Benedict by Joan Chittister and White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo). Need I go on? Check it out yourself at: https://www.prioryca.org/
Saints Benedict and Scholastica, pray for them.
How do the Benedictines who reside and work there live with themselves? How can they look themselves in the mirror every day? Don’t they feel like frauds? The real St. Bendict would disavow such a school.