Name of Church St. Augustine Church
Address 3850 Jasmine Avenue, Culver City CA 90232-3190
Phone number (310) 838-2477
Website www.staugustine.cc
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. Sundays, 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (Spanish) & 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Holy Days, 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (bilingual).
Confessions Saturdays, 3:30-4:45 p.m. and by appointment.
Names of priests Father Kevin Nolan, pastor. Father Nolan is out on sick leave, so a newly ordained priest, Father Christopher Fagan, is serving as administrator pro tempore. Father Richard Gleason, associate pastor.
Special groups/activities Hour hours on Mondays at 6 p.m. and Thursdays before 1st Fridays at 6 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Divine Mercy devotion on Saturdays after the 8 a.m. Mass; Our Lady of Fatima Novena on Fridays at 6 p.m.; Knights of Columbus; Meals on Wheels; Catholic Daughters
Music Cantor, cantor with musical accompaniment and choirs on weekends; depends on Mass.
School Yes, pre-school through 8th grade.
Fellow parishioners Anglo, Hispanic and Filipino.
Parking OK.
Acoustics OK.
Additional observations St. Augustine was established as a parish in 1919; the current church opened in 1957. It is a magnificent Gothic-style church, with high rib vault ceilings, beautiful stained glass, carved stations of the cross and a suspended crucifix over its central altar. Along its side walls are small alcoves devoted to saints. It is located across the street from Sony Studios, formerly MGM Studios. Father John O’Donnell, St. Augustine’s pastor 1923-38, was friendly with studio executives, and acted as a technical advisor on MGM films. The church’s famous guests included Bishop Fulton Sheen, who spoke at the new church’s dedication in 1958. Many an actor on the way to audition for a part at MGM would stop at the parish to pray for success; Joan Crawford, for example, was a regular visitor. In 2001, the church made the news after an angry Muslim radical attacked statues at the church, beheading a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, hacking off a hand of a St. Rita statue and cutting a Junipero Serra statue off at the feet and taking it to a mosque. He was convicted and imprisoned.
Nice pre Vatican Council Ii architecture.
St. Augie’s is a beautiful church and a well-run parish. I have heard some excellent preaching there as well. It’s directly across the street from Sony Studios.
It’ll be sad if the always so negative reactionaries attack St. Augie’s because it has no “tlm” (EF Mass) or communion rail? Maybe somehow they can work a bitter rant about “Mahony” into their posting?
In any event no matter how you slice it, St. Augie’s is a good parish.
Rodda,
In case you don’t know it, there are NO Vatican Directions to remove the Altar Rails! Of course to a modernist such as you, that does not make any difference. There are however clear instructions to allow generous celebrations of the Traditional Mass, but again, what are Vatican instructions to you modernist!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Gee! I don’t remember reading anywhere in the MSM that the attacker on St. Augustine Church was a Muslim. Wonder why not, NOT!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
“St Augies”!?! Sounds like you make pets of all the saints, Rodda. Figures.
You just did post the rant you suspected might be posted. Why, Rodda, don’t you spend some time with St Mary Magdalene? Many graces await you in so doing.
Bi-lingual Mass? What is next, Ebonics? Such devastation to the Mass that all must attend? One wonders what such a church — lovely architecturally as it is — sends out to its people regarding their need to repent, to live a life according to the gospel, receive the sacraments, and to move toward salvation (and avoid damnation). It is likely that this is another “happy place” with little adoration or attention to what the Mass must be — the re-enactment of Calvary. Nope, need to pay attention to the important stuff, like how many Tuareg-speaking people there are so a Mass can be made up for them. Of course, not many people attend mass anymore anyway, so pretty soon the good bishop will be forced to “consolidate” parishes (instead of turning to the True Faith of the Church, which never fails to attract believers). Nuts.
It always strikes me as odd that, when the Holy Father gives greetings to people in several languages, the world applauds.
Yet, when a parish helps the faithful celebrate in languages they actually speak, it gets attacked…
St. Christopher, in what language did each of the last two Popes say the Mass when the visited the U.S.? How about when the visited France? Spain? It wasn’t Latin! It was the language of the people.
Benedict is a great student of Latin, “Bob One”. His recent action to initiate a Latin Academy within the Vatican will likely save the language, including within the Church. Vatican spokesman Ciro Benedettini recently said that Benedict’s action was intended to “promote the knowledge and speaking of Latin, particularly inside the church”. In fact, the bishops of the world avoid Latin, even though a very recent Pope, Bl. John XXIII directed that it be studied in every seminary to assure that each priest had proficiency in Latin, and Greek. See, the Apostolic Constitution, Veterum Sapientia. All popes sought to use the vernacular when making statements in other countries to which they visited. The use of the vernacular to say Mass since Vatican II was a dire mistake, as many have since noted. Still, Benedict was clear in Summorum Pontificum that he was enthusiastic with the return of liturgical formalities, including the exclusive use of Latin. Rumor has it that German and Austrian bishops have long threatened Bl. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to leave the Church if they said the TLM. Every Catholic Church, on every Sunday, should have a regularly scheduled TLM. The failure to move the needle much on this has everything to do with the complete absence of fidelity between the bishops of the world and the Pope. Latin was, is, and ever shall be the language of the Church.
I will confess that I have not been to a TLM since the 60’s, even though I still remember almost all of the responses the we altar boys had to memorize. If I go to a NO Mass, haven’t I been to Mass. If I go to a TLM I assume that I have also been to Mass. What I don’t understand, and all the discussion on this site over the years helped, is what difference does it make which Mass you attend. Go to the one you wan to attend. Just remember, that the TLM is the extraordinary version of the Mass. Most Catholics are just ordinary folks I guess.
“The use of the vernacular to say Mass since Vatican II was a dire mistake, as many have since noted.”
Oh, please!
The ”dire mistake’ is in thinking and proclaiming that every Catholic needs to behave and worship like some medieval European.
We are in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Tridentine Mass is merely one form of Catholic liturgy.
If English was good enough for Jesus in the upper room, it’s good enough for me. ;)
The anti-Latin people use that as an excuse or battle cry for rationalizing not studying any tradition at all, not even the Bible. What they study is loophole theology so they can get away with their machinations. That is, they use Latin as a catch all that includes all solid religion brought to us by Jesus Christ and through His faithful over the millenia. These anti-Latin people propose a new religion in the stead of Catholicism. As the Pope said, the Church is going to get a whole lot smaller, yet way faithful. Chastisement? It is reported that this Pope has read the Third Secret and that he revealed only a part of it to the world. If so, then why would he tell the bishops to become holy? Why would he be pushing Latin study? These are easy dots to connect for those who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and minds to think.
Can you just imagine what would happen in the USA if some crazed person hacked off the feet of a statue of Mohammed or even vandalized any part of a Muslim symbol or mosque? An impartial observer might discover proof of the worth of Christian teachings in constrasting the civil response of a largely Christian society to such attacks as the above on Christian artifacts to the murderous responses of other religious groups to literary assaults similar to those Christianity suffers daily such as the publication of humorous material meant to incite laughter at, or even scorn of, practitioners of our own faith.
The sheer “venom” posted here against the True Mass of All Times is very disturbing!! The modernists are out in force in this article, you can have your man made Novus Ordo with no communion rail, altar girls, dancing nuns, giant puppets, kiss of peace,hand holding, improper attire, female lectors, rock music, drums, guitars, piano, clapping. We on the other hand will have the True Mass with Gregorian chant, altar boys, Latin, kneeling, silence, communion on the tongue, proper dress, organ, Mozart, Schubert, Palestrina, and our loyalty to Rome and our Holy Father Pope Benedict the XVI.