Name of Church St. Catherine of Siena
Address 6200 S. Central Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85042
Phone number 602-276-5581
Website www.stcatherinephoenix.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 4:30 p.m., 6 p.m. (Spanish) Sundays, 6:30 a.m., 7:55 a.m. (Spanish), 10 a.m. 11:15 a.m. (Spanish), 1:15 p.m. (Spanish). Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. (bilingual). First Saturday, 8 a.m. (bilingual. Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (bilingual sermon). Latin Tridentine Mass at the St. John Bosco chapel: 8:45 a.m. (Spanish sermon), 9:50 a.m. (Spanish sermon), and noon (English sermon). Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
Confessions Monday, Wednesday, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. (St. John Bosco chapel), Saturdays, 2- 4 p.m.
Names of priests Father Alonso Saenz, pastor. Father Michael Gilbert, parochial vicar. Per the website, Father Saenz “is dedicated to preserving and promoting the traditional Catholic faith.” He is a very traditional priest and a good homilist.
School Yes, pre-K and elementary school. (They use the Baltimore Catechism.)
Special Groups Legion of Mary, Schola Cantorum, St. Vincent de Paul Society
Special Activities Blessed Sacrament exposed in St. John Bosco Chapel, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Liturgy/Music Reverent, traditional.
Fellow parishioners St. Catherine’s is a predominantly Latino parish, with much traditional piety.
Parking Ample parking on both sides of the church.
Additional observations Founded in 1961, St. Catherine’s is a tradition-friendly Catholic parish in Phoenix, south of downtown. Its parishioners are predominantly Latino. The masses are said ad orientem, and most parishioners receive Holy Communion kneeling at the altar rail and on the tongue. Also, the priests stress modesty in dress to the parishioners when they come to church.
Beautiful!!!
Anyone got a paper bag for the readers who start hyperventilating whenever they see anything about the TLM?
Hyperventilators, I have a question: are you okay with the Ordinary Form/Novus Ordo Mass being celebrating ad orientem and with some Latin chant?
(Such is in accord with Vatican II.)
That’s the way Mass should be celebrated in every parish.
Correct.
The rubrics of the Novus Ordo presupposes the priest is celebrating ad orientem (“he then shall turn to the congregation and say, ‘pray brethren’, etc.”). Mass facing the congregation is the exception, not the rule.
There really is no presupposition of posture in either form of the Roman Rite. Nor is it prescribed. It is not addressed at all.
Nice Church, I will not attack it for it does have the Mass of All Times and The Novus Ordo offered in reverent form, But on to the issue that just took place from the man who does not call himself Pope, Bergoglio himself just sacked BIshop Strickland of Tyler Texas the only bishop in the United States who I do admire with gusto. A man who upheld the Roman Catholic Faith with the zeal of a saint and thus was forced to resign after Strickland refused to step down for he did nothing except be a Roman Catholic bishop not afraid to teach the truth yet that was his undoing.
Strickland was in Rome and during a speech read a letter from a sedevacantist that directly challenged Pope Francis’ legitimacy and insinuated that he is doing the devil’s work.
Strickland asked for it, and he got it.
Can you provide a link to that? While there may be various reasons for his removal, I hadn’t heard that one.
And, why is “the most transparent Vatican in history” (promised by Pope Francis in 2015) not stating why Bishop Strickland was removed?
And, why are German bishops “blessing” sex outside of marriage, and telling their priests and deacons to do so, permitted to continue?
One priest raises an important question in the 45-second video linked below:
Fr. Goring, another blessing to our Church.
Curious, you are smarter than that.
The link you asked for:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-strickland-catholics-alive-during-this-crisis-must-remember-they-were-born-for-this/
Bishop Strickland was told why he was removed. According to CM, it was quite a list.
The Pope and the Vatican have met with the German bishops. That situation is not resolved.
And why did he want it?
Let’s not put this on an irrelevant story.
Strickland’s retweeting of the video calling Francis a diabolically disoriented clown would seem to require at least some accountability.
“The masses are said ad orientem, and most parishioners receive Holy Communion kneeling at the altar rail and on the tongue.” My kind of Church. Would that all the Church would be so blessed to have such leadership. Father Alonso Saenz, may your tribe increase.
I hope that Strickland is welcomed as a bishop in the S.S.P.X., the F.S.S.P. or The Institute of Christ The King, where he would be welcomed with open arms. This nightmare of a Papacy will not last too much longer and The Holy Ghost will put the Church back on the correct path starting with the return of The Traditional Latin Mass. Pray for Bishop Strickland he is a good and holy man indeed, but then again the best are always persecuted.
No, truthfully, the nightmare is the pastorship of Strickland over Tyler. That’s where the real hurt and tragedy is. This “alleged” “nightmare of a Papacy” is only localized in the imagination and minds of the faux-traditionalists, the beloved SSPX and their minions (like this beloved FSSP, the Institute, and others).
Folks, more information I reckon will come out in the coming days and weeks revealing the extent of the mis-governance of Tyler under Strickland. Stay tuned.
Thankfully real healing may now be possible in the Diocese of Tyler.
For someone so devoted to honoring the hierarchy, your characterization of Bishop Strickland is extremely hypocritical and, frankly, uncharitable.
News to “Axiom”: Strickland is no longer a member of the Church’s hierarchy.
Depends on your definition. If you are using hierarchy as people in certain positions, then no, for now he has no assignment.
But when people refer to the hierarchy in the Catholic Church, they usually just mean bishops, priests, Cardinals, whether they have a position of influence or not.
Retired priests and bishops and Cardinals are still considered part of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
He has no assignment. That’s what I mean. I imagine he is no longer a voting member of the USCCB. He is merely a bishop in name, just as Vigano. To say that Vigano is an active member of the hierarchy is laughable.
He is not a bishop in name,; he is always a bishop because the Sacrament of Holy Orders is indelible like Baptism and Confirmation.
There are 3 degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Episcopal ordination is the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders
CCC 1554, 1557
Lumen Gentium 21, 28
Very well, Strickland remains a bishop, but he is no longer an active member of the hierarchy. This is one of his similarities with Vigano. Both have betrayed their charge and calling of being obedient and loyal to the Pope.
“Axiom” is wrong. I’ve criticized Vigano as well. Therefore, I am not being “uncharitable” and “hypocritical” but rather I’m being consistent. Figure out the similarity between Vigano and Strickland, and you’ll get it.
He said at the conference last week that it was his 9th time saying the Latin Mass.
SSPX has 4 illicitly ordained bishops. They and all their priests are suspended.
FSSP and ICK do not have bishops.
I like the Baltimore Catechism. I wish everyone knew it.
The Baltimore Catechism was fine for its time, but Vatican II requires that prior catechisms be updated to include what the Council taught and to reframe catechesis according to postconciliar ecclesiology and the reformed liturgy.
Besides, kids today would scoff at the Baltimore Catechism’s simplistic Q&A format.
There is an updated version.