Name of Church St. Joseph Chapel, Santa Teresita Medical Center
Address 819 Buena Vista Street, Duarte
Phone number 626-359-3243
Mass times Mass is offered every day 6:15 & 9:30 a.m.
Facility Santa Teresita is an assisted living facility for seniors operated by the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart, whose Motherhouse is in Alhambra. They wear the full habit and have remained faithful to Catholic tradition. Those attending the Masses would be the seniors, the sisters, the staff and volunteers and people from the local community.
Parking Parking is plentiful around the chapel but could be impacted by future construction. The sisters plan to continually expand the facility as funds are raised.
Acoustics Good.
Cry room No.
Additional observations St. Joseph Chapel is a beautiful church with attractive artwork. The grounds are well maintained with many traditional statues located throughout. The chapel is a prominent feature on the campus, and is typically used for respectful liturgies. Mother Maria Luisa Josefa, or “Mother Luisita,” founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart, established Santa Teresita in 1930. It was originally a sanatorium for women with tuberculosis and later became a hospital before becoming a “neighborhood of care” assisted living facility for the elderly.
Well, one TLM per month — mustn’t disturb the old ones with too much religion. They will be getting to the Pearly Gates soon enough!!! Stop this — every Sunday, a regularly, and conveniently, scheduled TLM–every Sunday.
Why? No, really, why? You are implying that the Mass they attend every Sunday is not a real Mass? That it is deficient? What? Really!
Well Bob One, you should try the Forma Extraordinaria when you get closer to the end. It is more efficacious and allows you to take communion on your knees, on the tongue, and from a priest. It is a much better reminder of the sacrifice of our Lord. It breeds holiness.
One should make use of the EF Mass in America while we still have it. Only yesterday Pope Francisco passed new legislation for contemplative nuns. They will have to wait 9 years before they are considered full members. The aim of thes regulations is to destroy any resurgence of the Latin Mass in convents, by subsuming convents into Federations under the control of the Pope. The pope understands how dangerous the traditional Faith can be to Jesuit ends (which famously…
You can receive communion on the tongue while kneeling in any parish in the US, maybe even the world. One doesn’t need TLM for that. And as for TLM being more efficacious, that is just heresy.
YFC, try kneeling down in a Communion line. Most likely it will be like a line of dominoes with people falling all over the place not expecting someone to kneel. My friend nearly tripped over such a person. It only works if there is a kneeler off to the side of the Communion line for those who want to kneel. Some of us are blessed to have Catholic churches in our area where there are still kneelers, but some are not so blessed.
You are so completely idiotic, “Bob One.” The N.O. is “licit” but is not on the same theological plane as the TLM, from which the Catholic Church grew and nurtured saints. Read Michael Davies, “Pope Paul’s New Mass” (1980) for one (but we know that you won’t). But, take heart, as “Gratias” suggests, your time has come, Pope Francis is truly disturbed about the success of TLM-devoted orders and is likely to strangle them with his new laws. One wonders what the SSPX thinks of this new move? Perhaps this is why the Pope is so anxious to have them “return?”
It’s useless to try to explain, St. C, and I have stopped trying to: the Novus Ordo people are under some fatal spell, and every attempt to explain the facts wont work (the facts are there in Davies’ “P Paul’s New Mass”, “P John’s Council”, Klaus Gamber’s (an actual true V2 liturgy peritus), “The Reform of the Roman Liturgy”, or Dr. de Mattei’s “The 2nd Vat. Council: An Unwritten Story”)—-none of the spell-bound NO people have read these factual accounts because it clashes with their false narrative. They show it in what they say and in their disinformed understanding of matters.
You have to let them go on their spell-bound way. Facts are no good.
You should read the Catechism instead. Ask for faith.
Another one who thinks that the TLM is the panacea for the Church’s ills. Stop with that nonsense.
St. Christopher: if you are that insistent that the location offer a TLM every Sunday, why don’t you offer to pay for the expenses that such an arrangement would incur? Otherwise, leave it be. The NO Mass is valid, and having been to Mass at St. Therese in Alhambra, I know that the Carmelites there celebrate Mass reverently and meaningfully.
What a short memory, “Sawyer”: The Catholic Church, directed by Paul VI, did not think at all about expenses when it wreckovated hundreds (?thousands?) of churches throughout the USA, trashing millions of dollars or art and architecture “in the spirit of Vatican II.” Fool. Money is not the issue — Faith is.
Did you even read my post — you know, the part about the N.O. being “licit”? But being “acceptable” is not the same as being the “best.” The point is not that pablum is not well made, but that it is pablum. The Catholic Church did not start with the “liturgical reforms” of Paul VI, as so many of you think. Poor Cardinal Sarah, a few suggestions to make event he N.O. more reverent and the Pope and others…
(Part Deux): ” . . . immediately jump up and say, “No!” Recalling Emerson’s view that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” we see the exercise of little minds reeling with the threat their man-made celebration may change in any way. This is Pride talking, nothing more. Neither the Vatican nor the USCCB (with some few exceptions) care much about meeting the primary duty of the Church: the Salvation of souls.
Does anyone — Anyone?? — actually think that the “new” mass and the infuriatingly reworded “new sacraments” are truly superior to Mankind, in terms of achieving salvation? That is, was the Church lost for 1500 years until Martin Luther discovered the truth (that Vatican II has build upon)?…
(Part Trois): ” . . . Sorry, correcting the last parenthetical in Part Deux; it should read “built upon.” Perhaps Pope Francis will enlighten us all regarding the obvious connection when he speaks at Mary’s B-Day bash soon?
Take a look at what the Church will soon look like. The wonder of the new formation of a Traditional community, headed by the also newly formed Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, and the erection of a “Quasi-Parish” in Covington, KY (with the full approval of Bishop Joseph): https://www.msjb.info. The new Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church was formed from a Protestant Church.
New sacraments? There are not new sacraments.
The Church is all about the salvation of souls. Why else would it exist? and yes, the bishops and Vatican do know that. They are the ones who told you.
The Mass is not a man-made celebration.
Please read the CCC section on the Sacraments.
SC … Why do you need to find a dark cloud inside every silver lining? Let’s at least thank God for these Sisters faithful service.
Nice looking church indeed, communion rail intact very shocking to see but very happy indeed, now to the main point, they should offer the TLM EVERY DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK!!
So odd, but when I travel and cannot find a TLM in the city I go to, I can find a Anglican-Catholic Church that has Holy Mass in Latin, Gregorian chant, high altar, communion rail, altar boys, priest, deacon and sub-deacon in Roman vestments, Mozart, Palestrina, bells, incense, I find it so so strange that I have to attend an Anglo-Catholic Mass when there are so many Novus Ordo Masses all over.
How ironic that the Anglican-Catholics are more “Roman and Catholic” than the Roman Catholic Church is! Stepping into an Anglo-Catholic church you would think it was 1954 anywhere in the world and a Roman Catholic Church, I find it terribly sad that I must attend an Anglo-Catholic Mass in order to feel that my soul is at least being saved even though I cannot take their Holy Communion, but I enjoy the whole experience of the Mass they offer and fill very fulfilled by it.
Wow, Janek I too have been to an Anglican-Catholic Mass and let me tell you I thought I was in England prior to the “Reformation” stunning just stunning everything you described is true. Latin and Elizabethan English, people kneeling and making the sign of the cross, women with Mantillas on their heads, men dressed in suits, bells, incense, priest facing East toward the high altar, I sat there and thought to myself wow this is Roman Catholicism and how Vatican II STOLE the heart and soul from the Holy Mass.
“women with Mantillas on their heads, men dressed in suits, bells, incense, priest facing East toward the high altar, I sat there and thought to myself wow this is Roman Catholicism ” None of that has anything to do with being Catholic. It is only ritual or local practices. Being Catholic is so much more than how you dress or bells and incense. It is about being Catholic!
People!!! Do you think this is what Our Lord and His Blessed Mother wants? It breaks their Holy hearts to hear their children argue over this matter. Jesus loves you all, ponder that in your hearts! And Pray, Pray, Pray
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