Name of Church St. Gerard Majella
Address 4451 Inglewood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90066
Phone number 310-390-5034
Website www.stgerardla.com
Mass times Monday-Saturday, 8 am; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 pm (Spanish). Sunday, 9 am, 10:30 am (Spanish), noon, 1:30 pm (Spanish).
Confessions Saturdays, 2:30 – 4 pm.
Names of priests Father Gerardo Padilla, CMSE, pastor. Father Taddco Maria, CMSE, associate pastor. The priests are members of the Italian religious community Mary, Star of Evangelization, founded in 1997. Its members have a special devotion to Mary, have a central focus on the Eucharist and are committed to evangelization, particularly the young.
School No.
Parish groups and activities Bellator Vitae/Warriors for Life, Legion of Mary, Guadalupanos, nighttime adoration, prayer group and a variety of parish devotions including one to Our Lady of Fatima and St. Padre Pio Prayer Group (see the website).
Fellow parishioners This parish has a large Hispanic community, as well as Filipinos.
Parking There is ample parking around the church.
Cry room No.
Additional observations St. Gerard was founded in 1952, with the first mass celebrated in the church in 1953. The parish is dedicated to St. Gerard Majella, the patron of expectant mothers, difficult pregnancies, and childless couples. The parish today has a strong pro-life focus.
No TLM there what a shame.
Soon there won’t be a TLM much of anywhere because it will be illegal.
No, the Catholic Church cannot make the Latin Tridentine Mass “illegal.” Impossible. Ask a knowledgeable Catholic priest why. All the Church can do, is regulate the use of this Mass. You and your friends have all been victims of liberal Modernist propaganda of the post-Conciliar era, for ecumenical political reasons. Too bad. Gifted young Catholics like Harrison Butker are blessed with graces and a deep spirituality– and understand, appreciate and love the beautiful, holy Latin Tridentine Mass.
Um, I think it can. Here’s what Vatican II taught in Sacrosanctum Concilium: “22. 1. Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws may determine, on the bishop.”
The Apostolic See is the Pope. So he can regulate the liturgy, and nobody can challenge him on it. He can do away with the TLM, if he wants to. He can restrict it to only FSSP and ICKSP if he wants to.
If the Pope wants to go only Novus Ordo, he can decree that for the whole Roman Church.
Schismatics will disagree, of course. That’s what will make them schismatic. There will probably be a splinter TLM sect made if Pope Francis bans the TLM, just as happened in the Protestant Reformation. But only those in union with the Pope are in full, visible union with the Catholic Church, the one true Church.
It’s looking like only Novus Ordo will be the future liturgy of the Roman Church.
No, you cannot eliminate the Tridentine Latin Mass. Ask a knowledgeable priest why. The reason for this is not based on Vatican II, or the document on the liturgy. Also, “Sacrosanctum Concilium” was totally ignored, after it was written. Also, all of the religious groups of priests dedicated to the Latin Tridentine Mass (ICKSP, FSSP, etc.) and their congregations of Catholic worshippers, approved by Rome, will continue to use this Mass. The Tridentine Latin Mass cannot be abrogated. And the 1962 Roman Missal was never abrogated– as Pope Benedict acknowledged in 2007. Ask a priest of the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) or the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) all about that. I bet they might be happy to answer a letter or an email from someone interested to know these facts, too. The Tridentine Latin Mass is a very fine Mass, theologically correct in all details. Try to study it– you might fall in love with it! It is truly an excellent Catholic Mass. But it is not ecumenically-oriented, with Protestant-style elements, to hope for a possible future connection, or reunion, with the Protestant churches, someday — – which the modern popes hope for, right now. The “Synodal Church” which Pope Francis is interested in, is a link too, to the Orthodox, as their churches are “synodal.” I just heard a talk given at a Catholic church by a bishop, all about an Orthodox iconostasis that was recently installed there — a typical, standard Orthodox religious item for worship. The bishop explained all about it. It is very beautiful– but an element of Orthodox worship. Very new to this parish. This bishop had an interesting, small group of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox clerics with him. His talk was interesting. And he also explained all about the Synod on Synodality of the pope, and other things I mentioned, above.
The TLM can be abolished in the sense of being illicit to celebrate it. Of course breakaway sects like SSPX and others will continue to celebrate it even if it were to be made illicit in the Roman Church, but the Church does indeed, most certainly does have the authority to declare the TLM an illicit liturgical form. It’s moving in that direction. Step by step.
This was a Latin Rite Catholic parish church, very pretty, built in the
mid-19th century, where the new iconostasis was installed, up by the altar. It is very pretty. I don’t think that any Orthodox priest (in union with Rome, of course) has offered a Byzantine Rite Mass there. The parish is just for Latin Rite Catholics, so far as I know. Well, in San Francisco, Abp. Cordileone had a specially-designed baptismal pool or tub built, in a cross design, in his Cathedral, for his Easter Vigil baptisms, this year. He, too, talked about the Early Christians, their customs, and about Eastern Christianity, too.
I’ve learned, over the last couple of years, that referring to the Blessed Mother as “Star of Evangelization” has become very big in Italy. A large new parish church in the Diocese of Rome was dedicated under this appellation as its parochial title. I’m fascinated to learn of a religious order that goes by that name!
Some of you obsess over a parish that doesn’t have the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, while others of you obsess every time a TLM is offered.
Not every story is about, nor does the world revolve around, which form of the Mass is celebrated. Rejoice that our Divine Lord Jesus shares His Body and Blood with us. Maybe a good Catholic therapist could help you. There is recovery from OCD.
There is recovery from OCD.
A *lot* of Carmelites would disagree…;)
I think there are Russian or Chinese bots that enter comments whenever they can about TLM. Stories about churches and Masses are easy game. Most of the comments on every website’s comments section are made by bots. Twitter — or X now — too. Facebook too. Don’t believe much of what you read in comments sections; they aren’t made by real people. Just bots.
Now with AI, a lot of main website content is being created and posted by bots. The whole internet is being taken over by bots posting things algorithmically. It will soon extend to deepfake videos posted by video bots.
We scrutinize comment sources pretty well.
Latest word from Roman sources is the new TLM document will be released next week. The pope has read it and approved and signed it.
Why is it that we always need to squabble about the TLM? This church is a great church. It works for pro-life ministry, it has nightly adoration, it has a strong prayer life. Yet to some it’s equal to a James Martin freak show just because it doesn’t have the TLM, which, by the way, is restricted for diocesan worship. What are we supposed to do then- just post churches with TLMs? Folks are getting ridiculous.
At this point we’re getting to a precipice where if the gay-loving Paulists were to hold a TLM, commenters would praise that over real efforts made by other parishes (who just so happen to be Novus Ordo only) to protect God’s culture. Choose your battles.
Just want to say that this parish will be getting a wonderful Pastor come July 1st. We are so sad to see him leave our parish.