Name of Church St. Andrew’s Church
Address 311 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 (in Old Town Pasadena)
Phone number (626) 792-4183
Website www.saintandrewpasadena.org
Mass Schedule Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. Sundays, 6:30 a.m. (Spanish), 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. (Spanish), 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m. (Spanish), 5 p.m. Weekdays, Monday – Saturday, 8:15 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (Spanish). Weekend masses are held in the church; weekday masses are held in a smaller chapel which is part of the main church building.
Confessions Saturdays, 3 – 4:45 p.m.
Priests Fr. Paul Sustayta, pastor. Father Jose Corral, SJ, associate pastor. Fr. Tony Scannell, OFM, weekend presider. Fr. Sustayta has served as pastor since 2007.
School Yes, grades K-8.
Special parish activities Young Adults ministry, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Serra Club, Divine Mercy Group, Concert Committee
Music Depends on the Mass, cantors and choirs; organ
Fellow parishioners Anglo, Hispanic; some black and Filipino
Parking Park in the back of church or the parking lot at Raymond and Chestnut.
Cry room Yes, behind the chapel, it’s in a separate room with a TV monitor.
Additional observations St. Andrew’s was founded in 1886, the same year of the first Tournament of Roses Parade and incorporation of Pasadena as a city. The church was completed in 1927. The Pasadena area has many beautiful old churches; this is arguably the most impressive (St. Elizabeth on Lake Avenue is quite beautiful inside, too). Located in old town Pasadena, it is a Byzantine-style structure modeled after the Basilica of St. Sabina in Rome. Its sanctuary contains magnificent murals created by Italian painter Carlo Wostry; there are also impressive marble columns, stained glass windows and statues. The interior artwork took eight years to complete. It also has a Romanesque campanile bell tower visible for miles around, and its bells can be heard tolling regularly. It is one of Pasadena’s landmarks and well worth a visit.
I believe this is at least the second time this church has been in this feature. But it is certainly well deserved. Worth the drive if in the area, even for a mid-week visit. I wish we got to Pasadena more often.
This magnificent church is another design by the great southland architect, Ross Montgomery (1888-1969), who also designed Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Santa Barbara, Serra Hall at Old Mission Santa Barbara, St. Cecelia’s in Los Angeles, and perhaps his most amazing work, the St. Anthony’s Seminary Chapel in Santa Barbara, a perfect acoustical space for music and spoken word—besides also completing or co-designing many other churches in Southern California.
The man understood many things about Catholic architecture and the Divine, and every one of his buildings reflect that profound understanding.
Beautiful church. Ever hear Latin there anymore?
Lots of habla, though. Such a sacred language, along with Bengali, Telugu, Jin, Hausa, and Turkmen (and, well, many, many others). Come on, it is what goes on within the structure that is of value.
Yes, yes, the Novus Ordo is “licit” and we can believe that our Church is indefectible in what it offers to help us go to Heaven. But look at the destruction wrecked by the institutional faith that has come in its wake.
https://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170824/NEWS/170829883
This CCD story is truly inspiring, just the opposite of what we in Marin County read about this week!!
San Domenico, an “independent Catholic” school that charges over $31,000 per year in tuition from kindergarden through 12th grade, has removed most of the Catholic statues from its campus so as to not annoy any non Catholics who might have money. DISGRACEFUL!!
Again no TLM, but plenty Spanish Masses of course.
Could that be because many Mass goers understand Spanish but very, very few understand Latin?
Actually most Spanish speakers would understand Latin since Spanish is a Romance language based on Latin, please study before posting.
An illogical conclusion. Perhaps you should do some studying. Just because Latin and Spanish are both Romance languages, doesn’t imply that a person knowing one has functional fluency in the other. [Romanian is a Romance language; do you really hold that the average Hispanic understands it?] Another example: try asking a Hispanic person attending a Mass in Spanish if they can translate the following: “memento etiam omnes quae nos precesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis”.
Liberals love the word “”inclusive” if there was a TLM All ethnicities would be understanding the same Mass regardless if I was sitting next to someone who only spoke Cantonese or Swahili for that matter. Get it???
No, they would all equally FAIL TO UNDERSTAND a Mass celebrated in an unfamiliar language ! Why do you find that more desirable? I’m not a liberal; it’s just that your comment doesn’t make sense.
“Get it???” Get what? I am not a liberal, and I didn’t use the word “inclusive”. And if Mass were only in Latin, “all ethnicities” would equally FAIL TO UNDERSTAND anything.
Gee. Did ethnicities “FAIL TO UNDERSTAND anything?”
How did the Catholic Church survive all the multiplicity of languages when its rites were in Latin for nearly 1950 years (if our Lord passed and was resurrected about 33 AD)?
And yet it thrived and reached its peak when, as Romulus A. states, there was one shared liturgical language—which everyone understood by available missals for the laity that communicated the Latin prayers to the individual—yes, in Swahili (Uganda & Congo), Lingala (Congo), Zulu (S Africa), Sotho (in Lesotho)—these are some of the African languages into which French and Belgian missionaries translated lay missals explaining the Mass.
So no one “FAILED TO UNDERSTAND” at all.
The same was true worldwide, for example, in China, where California Jesuit missionaries translated the Latin Mass for Chinese converts, although primarily into Mandarin, although there are hundreds of dialects in China (Cantonese being the most well-known). To this day, Chinese Catholics understand the traditional Mass perfectly well—even though it was, and often still is, in Latin.
I hope no one will “FAIL TO UNDERSTAND” this assertion, that the use of Latin never was a true obstacle to the Catholic Faith and its missions.
I was a parishioner for twenty years and miss St. Andrew’s Church since moving to Rancho Mirage.
A significant effort has been made over the years to maintain this magnificent church.
I agree with Anonymous. I’m a Gringo who learned intermediate Spanish on a job many years ago. I prefer the Spanish Masses because the music is much more animated, while still sacred. The congregation actually sings loudly. Gloria a dios todopoderoso en el cielo. Glory to Almighty God in the heavens.