Name of Church Sacred Heart
Address 515 Main Street, Red Bluff CA 96080
Phone number (530) 527-2209
Website www.sacredheartredbluff.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Spanish). Sundays, 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon (Spanish). Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. School Mass on Fridays, parish hall, 8:30 a.m., when school is in session.
Confessions Saturdays, 4-5 p.m.
Names of priests Father Joyle T. Martinez, parochial administrator. Father Eugenio Lopez, parochial vicar.
Special groups/activities Bible study, rosary team, adoration daily 7 a.m. – 7 p.m., mothers prayer group, telephone prayer chain, Our Lady of Sorrows Funeral Ministry, Men of Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart Women’s Guild, scouting groups, Holy Hour on the last Sunday of the month at 3 p.m.
Music The choir is off for the summer; cantors at weekend Masses for now.
School Yes, pre-K through 8th grade.
Fellow parishioners Anglo and Hispanic; two of the parish’s five Sunday obligation Masses are in Spanish.
Parking No problem.
Acoustics Fine.
Additional observations Sacred Heart is a parish of the diocese of Sacramento in northern California. It is a historic parish, having been founded under the name St. Mary’s in 1866. The parish moved to its present location in 1905. The church was completed in 1906, and its name changed to Sacred Heart.
Its interior contains an ornate altar and beautiful statues, paintings and stained glass windows. It has a choir balcony, acoustically designed to carry sound. It has a painted fresco ceiling featuring the Apostles, added in 1917. Above the sanctuary is a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit, with the Latin phrase “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.” Besides its main altar, there are two side altars, made of wood and painted to look like marble.
The Church of Spanish — nice to maintain an almost traditional look to the sanctuary, but why the charade of many languages. The Church is literally dying and yet continues to pander to whatever it hopes will bring in the people, except the very thing that had worked for thousands of years. No wonder many Hispanics leave for Protestant sects, which worship in a complete way, as their version of true believers.
“Fellow parishioners: Anglo and Hispanic.”
what?
no CELTS?
And Teutonic or Mediterranean doesn’t matter either!
CHRIS: “except the very thing that had worked for thousands of years”
just how many thousands of years do you imagine the catholic church has existed?
oh, that’s right — less than two.
let’s see, if JESUS established the church through his paschal mystery, and if he died about the age 33, that would make the catholic church about 1,979 years old.
then, if you figure out when the liturgy began being celebrated in the tridentine style you enjoy…oh, never mind: logic and facts have no impact in this discussion. it’s all emotion and “woe is me!”
It still adds up to thousands of years, so, what is the purpose of downgrading the comment?
because it’s dumb and gives the impression thatr the only way to worship GOD is the TLM, which is historically inaccurate and theolgoically ridiculous.
saint justin martyr wrote one of the earliest accounts of catholic worship, but even it has changed (obviously!):
“On Sunday we have a common assembly of all our members, whether they live in the city or the outlying districts. The recollections of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as there is time. When the reader has finished, the president of the assembly speaks to us; he urges everyone to imitate the examples of virtue we have heard in the readings. Then we all stand up together and pray.
“On the conclusion of our prayer, bread and wine and water are brought forward. The president offers prayers and gives thanks to the best of his ability, and the people give assent by saying, “Amen”. The eucharist is distributed, everyone present communicates, and the deacons take it to those who are absent.”
the mass is not stuck in history, simply because pope pius v said it must be. he’s gone to his happy reward, and we have a new pope.
I see where we still have guitar masses in Huntington Beach. Gee, that stirs memories of the 1960s with patchouly incense, tai-dai shirts, love beads and koombaya! So good that we were relieved of the pressure of honoring Catholic tradition, respect for a house of worship and showing reverence for the Blessed Sacrament! :)
It’s truly a gorgeous, traditionally appointed church and well worth visiting. I could sit there and gaze upon the interior for hours. The architecture and sacred art truly elevates the soul and directs one’s mind to God. It’s not my parish, but I go to confession there, and the priest (I don’t know which one) is always excellent and very orthodox.
I have heard, in the past, that orthodoxy was not always welcome. A local Catholic bookstore owner was asked by the priest, a few years ago, to stop carrying the Douay-Rheims Bible. I hope this situation is on the way out.
here is what the ADOREMUS website suggests in terms of which bible to use for personal study and prayer:
“Although the “Douay” is no longer approved for use in Catholic worship, largely because of recent biblical research and scholarship, it is part of our Catholic heritage, and is still worth having as a “traditional-language” text used by Catholics for more than two centuries.
“The modern Bible translation regarded as the most accurate by most reliable scholars is the Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition (1966), and is now available from both Ignatius Press and Scepter Press (Opus Dei). This is the version we recommend for study.”
Both are online.
There is no debate, no conjecture. It has all happened. The results speak for themselves.
Fifty years of modernism!