Staffed by the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception[/caption]
Name of Church St. Sebastian
Address 235 N. Ninth Street, Santa Paula CA 93060
Phone number (805) 525-2149
Website www.stsebastiansp.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stsebastiqnchurch/
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:30 pm. Sunday, 7:30 am, 9 am, 11 am, 5:30 pm Monday through Saturday: 8:30 am. Holy days, 8:30 am and 5:30 & 7 pm.
Confession Saturday, 4 – 5 pm.
Names of priests Staffed by the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (CRIC) for nearly 20 years. Father Pasquale Vuoso, pastor. Father Thaddeus Haynes, in residence. Nearby is Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, located a half mile away and serving the Hispanic community, and the CRIC novitiate house. The CRIC community was founded in France in 1871, click here to learn more: Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception – Santa Paula. The CRIC priests are orthodox and devout.
School Yes, grades pre-K through 8. Visit St. Sebastian School | Private Catholic School in Santa Paula CA.
Special groups and activities Legion of Mary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, YLI (for women), Knights of Columbus, The Blue Army, Men’s Bible Study, Respect Life; adoration Fridays after the 8:30 a.m. mass until the following Saturday morning.
Liturgies/Music Liturgies are reverent. Music depends on the Mass; cantors, organ and choirs.
Fellow parishioners This is an English-speaking community, as Our Lady of Guadalupe is nearby and serves Spanish speakers. Thomas Aquinas College is also nearby, and tutors and their families often attend.
Parking There is street parking around the church.
Cry room Yes, in the back.
Additional observations Catholicism first came to the region in 1782, with the establishment of San Buenaventura Mission. St. Sebastian began as a mission church in 1889, and was established as a parish in 1896. The current church building was built in 1955. It is located in Ventura County and is part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is the third oldest parish in Ventura County.
Visitors to the Sunday morning masses would be blown away. The parish is a statistical outlier. There are SO many young families with LOTS of children.
Inspiring to see so many young couples open to life!
Margaret Sanger’s head would explode!
P.S. The Music & voices are superlaty.
Superlative.
And the CRICs are great priests.
I rejoice that this parish is doing so well. In 1980-81, I was with the CRICs at their formation house in Pasadena. They have a wonderful charism of parish ministry with liturgical emphasis. At Pasadena, we sang Lauds, Vespers and Compline. For a while we sang Lauds early Sunday morning (6:30) at St. Philip’s parish with the early risers among the congregation. It is one of the mysteries of my life that I was not able to persevere with this order as the charism suited me, but also because there were some really fine men in formation there. There is another CRIC, Fr. Charles Lueras, who deserves mention. If any CRICs are reading this, my hat is off to you and I am glad to hear this good report.
I read that St. Sebastian has become a gay icon, and the gays love to paint and view scandalous images of him ripped with an athletic physique.
TMI
There’s no controlling yoyo’s of that kind.
Abraham Lincoln is also a gay icon.
Give it a rest.
A sincere “Thank You” for the down vote, Yo-yo.
Speaking of gay icons: I haven’t “seen” YFC – Your Fellow Catholic on these pages for a long long time.
I don’t think I ever agreed with him, even once. Whether he’s still with us or not – I’m gonna say a prayer for him.
As one poor sinner for another.
I note that as well. I hope all is well with him. He took so much grief for espousing the homosexual take on things that I think he just said “enough is enough.” He was an important contributor because he gave us a window into gay perspectives that we otherwise might not have had. In this, his absence is nothing to celebrate–maybe instead to mourn. YFC, I too seldom agreed with you but I miss you on these pages. If you are well and wish to return I will welcome you back.