Name of Church Five Wounds Portuguese National Church
Address 1375 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95116-2343
Phone number (408) 292-2123
Website www.fivewoundschurch.org
Mass times Saturday vigil 5:30 p.m. (Portuguese); Sunday 7:30 a.m. (English); 9 a.m. (English); 10:30 a.m. (Portuguese); 12:30 p.m. (Latin Tridentine); 5:30 p.m.
(English). Weekdays 9 a.m. (English on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Portuguese on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). The Latin Tridentine Mass is celebrated by priests of the Institute of Christ the King. The Institute is a traditional society of priests headquartered in Italy with many apostolates in the U.S.
Confessions 5-5:45 p.m. or by appointment
Names of priests Father António Silveira, pastor. Father Silveira, 63, is originally from Portugal. He was a married parishioner of Five Wounds for 36 years. When his wife died, he entered the seminary and was ordained for the Diocese of San Jose in 2013.
School No.
Special events Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart, First Fridays, 9 a.m. (English) & 7:30 p.m. (Portuguese); Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, First Saturdays, after evening Mass until midnight
Special parish groups St. Isabel’s Kitchen
Fellow parishioners This is an English and Portuguese-speaking
community, with some tourists.
Parking Ample parking around the church.
Cry room No.
Additional observations Five Wounds is a beautiful church in the Diocese of San Jose. It was originally built a century ago by Portuguese Catholics, has a Portuguese pastor and still offers many of its Masses in Portuguese. Its architecture is traditional and its artwork ornate; it is a prominent historic church that was designated a historical landmark by the City of San Jose.
This beautiful church, one of my and our family’s several registered parishes (you go where the most decent clergy are in the Novus Ordo, regardless of the drive: they also have the Institute of Christ the King say Mass here), is what a definitively Catholic Church should look like, and through the efforts of the members, has avoided the wreckovation scarring that has damaged so many graceful and uplifting Houses of God.
If you want to make a visit where Our Lord is clearly enthroned in dignity and with full due respect, this is your church.
By the way, homeless and transient persons are welcome to come and visit and pray, any time when the church is open (in the morning up until 9am weekdays; evenings when Mass is also scheduled some days; and many other times); and St Isabel’s Kitchen next door, which we support (and you can too, Our Fellow Catholics: by sending your donations via the church at: Attn: St Isabels Kitchen, 1375 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 951126).
You don’t have to turn the House of God into a flophouse at all for socialist-Marxist approval (e.g, the self-congratulatory “Gubbio Project” done by the Franciscan Province to St. Boniface Church in San Francisco). You don’t have to use the transients as pawns and a human shield for your…
You don’t have to use the transients as pawns and a human shield for your secularizing atheist intentions at all, see? No, you don’t see.
Thank God for the Institute of Christ the King, pray for the return of the TLM to all of our altars worldwide starting with the Vatican.
“I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing today is to a large extent due to the disintegration of the liturgy, which at times has even come to be conceived of etsi Deus non daretur [=” as if God is not given”], in that it is a matter of indifference whether or not God exists and whether or not He speaks to us and hears us.” – Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977, autobiography of then-Card. J. Ratzinger, p. 149 (Ignatius Press ed. 1998)
It is an hours drive, but I try and go there for the daily Latin Mass and for Confession when I can. The church is amazing, the Institute priests are wonderful, very good confessors – this is the kind of beautiful church that the Mass of Ages deserves to be in. I am grateful when I am blessed enough to get to go to Mass there. Thank you Institute of Christ the King, and to all that make attending the Latin Mass there possible.
The information above does not fully agree with that published on the parish’s website. According to the parish website, the Latin (Extraordinary Form) Mass is celebrated daily at 12:15 p.m., M-F. And Confessions are heard from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays (your information does not specify a day).
William Hamilton, there is confession before every Traditional Latin Mass, every week day and Sundays. I forgot to look about Saturdays, but you can put in “September 2015 bulletin for Immaculate Heart Oratory, San Jose, Ca”, in your search bar, and the website with the Traditional Latin Mass bulletins will come up, and you can just click on it to get all the info you need. The confession time mentioned in the article above is for the regular English and Portuguese, or Latin, Mass people.
How beautiful!
Although the the daily and Sunday TLM is offered by priests of the Intitute of Christ the King, Fr. Silveira, the pastor of Five Wounds, specifically learned the TLM so that he could celebrate the 100th anniversary of the church with the Mass as it had been offered at that time.
It was beautiful. I am hoping to get back there for one of the weekday TLMs.
(The priests of the Institute of Christ the King from St Margarite Mary in Oakland are a blessing for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Oakland and San Jose.)