Name of Church San Secondo d’Asti Church
Address 250 N. Turner Avenue, Ontario, CA 91761
Phone number 909-390-0011
Website www.sansecondodasti.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. Sundays, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. (Latin), 12:30 p.m., 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, 6:30 a.m. & 8 a.m. Saturday, 6:30 a.m. (Latin). Thursdays, 9 p.m. (Latin, Chalice of Strength). First Fridays, 7 p.m. The Ordinary Form is celebrated ad orientem. Communion is kneeling and on the tongue. Head coverings for women are encouraged; veils may be borrowed in the vestibule. Modesty in dress by parishioners is requested at Mass and for meetings with the pastor.
Confessions Saturdays, 6 – 6:30 a.m. & 4 – 5 p.m. Sundays, the half hour before Mass. Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 a.m., 7:30 – 8 a.m. Thursdays, 8 – 9 a.m. First Fridays, 6:30 – 7 p.m.
Names of priests Father Louis Marx, pastor. Father Marx has served as pastor for nearly 20 years. He is an orthodox, traditional priest, pious and strongly pro-life. Sermons at San Secondo d’Asti are always very faithful.
School No.
Groups and Activities Tuesdays, 7 p.m., devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help & Benediction; first Tuesdays, patriotic rosary; all night adoration, Thursday night before first Fridays; Communion of Reparation adoration, first Fridays; Knights of Columbus; Holy Name Society; Altar and Rosary Society; San Secondo Pro Life.
Fellow parishioners Serves 900 families, many drawn by the traditional nature of the small church.
Parking Ample parking alongside the church.
Acoustics Fine.
Cry room No.
Additional observations San Secondo d’Asti is located in Ontario (technically Guasti, a small, unincorporated area near the Ontario airport and downtown Ontario). It is part of the Diocese of San Bernardino, which encompasses both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. The parish was established in 1926, built by grape growing Italian immigrants. It is a mission-style church, surrounded by rose gardens. There are many traditional statues both inside the church and outside. Today, San Secondo d’Asti is a remarkably traditional parish in a diocese long governed by liberal bishops. As can be imagined with a liberal bishop, there is an acute priest shortage in San Bernardino. Its 92 churches are served by only 54 priests. A single priest might serve multiple parishes, with a lay person acting as parish administrator of an individual parish.
This looks like a wonderful parish!
Is the Latin Mass a TLM, or Novus Ordo with some Latin thrown in? Nice that the Church seems to say the NO ad orientem, but that is not the same thing as saying the Extraordinary Form Mass. Is there an altar rail, or only a few portable kneelers for those so inclined? Demand the real thing.
Simple and Magnificent at the same time
Just make ALL the Masses in the EF form and the people will come. If they prefer hand holding, kiss of peace, altar girls, lay lectors, communion in hand while standing, felt banners, giant puppets, dancing girls in leotards, folk, rock, mariachi, drums, guitars, the priest sitting on the side line while women perform the priestly duties, well go to any Novus Ordo church and have at it. By the way good to see St. Christopher back here have not seen you for some time, felt all alone here against the Novus Ordo onslaught.
I think you meant to say that you felt the only one bringing an onslaught against the OF. No one here brings an onslaught against the EF.
Thank you, “Janek”, much going on recently; always trust in Jesus Christ and Our Holy Mother.
What you say regarding the TLM is certainly true. Unfortunately, a tsunami of “Spirit of Vatican II” garbage is soon to inundate all Catholics (yes, even more than before). We are the frog in water that is being slowly turned to boil, by the Vatican and the truly awful “theologians” — Germans, Dutch and the like — while the Faith is being obscured and contradicted in so many ways. Good to have Catholic media and the like with which to fight. And, all the while, we have the Mass and sacraments and the true Faith which, if followed, would fill churches everywhere.
Well how about making the OF ad orientem when the bishop is there, if the bishop truly respected the parish he would worship the way they do, but alas it must be the Novus Ordo way or the highway folks, lots of work to do and may never see it in my lifetime. 50 years of deconstructing the Traditional Latin Mass and replacing it with the disaster called the Novus Ordo will take decades to recover.
Is this a PIUS X Catholic Church, not in communion with Pope Francis /Rome? Are the priest/s and sacraments valid?
No, this is not a Pius X parish. It is in full communion with Rome, its priests have been properly ordained in the Roman Rite and its sacraments are valid. It is a parish of the Diocese of San Bernardino.