Name of Church St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church
Address 22508 Copper Hill Drive, Santa Clarita CA 91350
Phone number (661) 296-3180
Website www.saintkateriparish.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:30 pm. Sundays, 8 am, 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm (Spanish), 5:30 pm. Monday- Saturday, 8 am. Wednesday, 7 pm (with Divine Mercy Chaplet recited before). First Friday, 7 pm.
Confessions Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 9:15 am (after morning Mass). Saturdays, 4-5:15 pm and by appointment
Names of priests Father Vaughn Winters, pastor. Father Stephen Watson, associate pastor. Father Winters is a faithful priest, good homilist. His father was a Mormon, but he opted to be Catholic and enter seminary. Father Watson was ordained in 2024.
Special groups/activities Knights of Columbus, Respect Life, Legion of Mary, Divine Mercy prayer group, Rachel’s Vineyard, Bereavement group, Life Teen, Mom’s Group, MS Support Group.
School No, but Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, also in Santa Clarita, has a TK – 8 school.
Parking There is ample parking around the church.
Additional observations St. Kateri is a parish of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It began as a parish mission in 1991, and was established as a parish in 1998. The church was built in 2009. There is a parish gift shop open on Sundays 9 am–2 pm.
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Confessions Monday-Friday after morning Mass
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Surely you jest???
And don’t call me Shirley!
Father Vaughn Winters is a wonderful priest! My wife, Jenean, and I met him when he was at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Toluca Lake. He led several pilgrimages on which we joined him. We went to Germany/Austria/Italy in 2000, France/Spain/Portugal in 2002, Ireland in 2006, and the Holy Land in 2014. These pilgrimages are organized by Catholic Travel Centre, whose luggage tags we proudly sport all the time on our bags as we trod through airports. It’s great to see his church written about here.
Screens just like in a sports bar.
And, pews just like that Protestant invention of the 16th century. And, electric lights! Why don’t they use only candles around the altar and the pulpit like the early Church? Shouldn’t we all stand like the Church has done for most of history and have only candle light?
Or, is the Mass being properly and reverently celebrated more important?
And, I’ve never seen a sports bar that looks like that.
yup exactly
I trust that the priests are devout and wonderful men. My only negative observation is about the design of the church. The interior looks like a banquet room at a casino resort or a golf club. What about that space communicates sacredness? From the windows that provide sight lines to green foliage from outside to the suburban housing tract beige color scheme, to the decorative curved iron bars overhead, the space says “hotel” or “reception hall” rather than “church”.
As with most parishes, the current clergy assigned there did not design the church or have any input. Like it or not, that’s the way it is. Please support good priests doing good things. And, there are many good parish communities that worship in buildings designed in another time. We didn’t even have churches for the first few centuries. It seems there are many positive things about this parish. I suggest focusing on those things.
From what I have read some of the very first Christian churches had been pagan temples that were exorcist and consecrated to Christianity. Even some of the inside adornments were reused if they could be made suitable..
Which is why the bishop needs to exercise control over all church building and renovation design. It shouldn’t be anything goes.
Fr. Vaughn is a great priest. I know him from a previous parish and have not been to St. Kateri, but I hope to change that soon!
I’ve known Fr. Vaughn Winters for a very long time. As many have said here, he didn’t design the Church; he was assigned there. The parish is flourishing, and there are a lot of ministries and lots of involvement from the people in the parish. The Church where I was pastor and now pastor emeritus here was one of those that was built quickly because of the huge growth in population during and after WWII. The building has never been beautiful. The people have. While I love beautiful architecture and great art there are plenty of grand and beautiful Churches in Europe and even Rome that are empty most of the time.
Ignore the things that bother you and focus on the beautiful, which we cannot always see with our eyes.
Welcome to the Tekakwitha Indian Hotel and Casino.
Actually, I meant to put my post Feb. 8 at 4:42 pm under Fr. Higgin’s post here. I agree with him that sometimes we have to make the most of what we have even though we might not like all of it. The way things are going in many other countries, we should be very thankful we have churches.
Christianity began as a Jewish sect, and converts became Jews and observed Jewish laws and customs. Later, Christianity expanded, and converts were allowed to keep their own customs. They didn’t have to become Jews. And they no longer attended Jewish services in the synagogues. During the centuries of Roman persecution, Christianity was outlawed, so Christians hid in the catacombs, and gathered secretly for Mass in the mansions of wealthy Roman patrons who were Christian converts. When Christianity became the state religion of Rome, under the Emperor Constantine, Roman civic structures were repurposed as Christian churches, and new churches were built according to standard Roman basilica design. Familiar Roman architectural styles were used to build churches. There were many developments all through the centuries, after that. Today, we are no longer a tiny Jewish sect, practicing Judaism and following the great Master, Jesus, Whom we believe to be the long-prophesied Jewish Messiah– and the true Son of God, the Second Person of the Triune God, the Most Holy Trinity. The Jews do not accept any of these teachings at all. A Catholic church is very special, it is the House of God, in which Holy Mass is daily offered, and the Blessed Sacrament, the True Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity— the Real Presence of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ– is contained. All churches should be lovingly and respectfully designed and built to honor and glorify Him. These are religious buildings set aside for only one purpose– for worship of God, Who is extremely holy! They are certainly not buildings meant to be secuular offices, hotels, ungodly casinos, or worse. Modern Man has been savagely corrupted, and has lost his soul, lost his innocence, and his natural sense of relationship with God– and has lost all sense of beauty, truth and goodness, and the realms of the blessed Saints and holy Angels, dwelling tigether with Christ and His Most Blessed Mother, in a supernatural state of union with the Divine, far beyond earthly physical existence.That is why ugly, ungodly, secular-style, meaningless buildings are designed and built to be used, today, as so-called “Catholic” churches and cathedrals. Tragic.
The saint’s name is Catherine Tekakwitha, or better yet, Tekakwitha Catherine, or just plain Tekakwitha, her given name.
Kateri is the contrivance of a 19th century Catholic feminist to exoticize and aboriginalize St Tekakwitha more than 200 years after her death to help sell a book.