Name of Church St. Margaret Mary
Address 1691 North Oatman Road, Bullhead City AZ 86442
Phone number 928-758-7117
Website www.stmargaretmarybhc.com
Mass times Saturday Vigil, 5:30 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (Spanish). Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. (bilingual). Wednesday, 12:10 p.m. Latin Mass, 2nd Sundays, October – June, 3 p.m.
Confessions Saturdays,4 – 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 – 7 p.m., and by appointment.
Names of priests Father Peter Dobrowski, pastor. Father Dobrowski is the only priest at the parish, but there are two deacons on the staff who help him with preaching.
Music Different choirs sing at the weekend Masses.
Special parish groups Knights of Columbus, Colmbian Ladies Auxiliary, Legion of Mary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Prayer Chain, Respect Life
Special Activities Parishioners pray the rosary 20 minutes before every scheduled Mass.
Parking No problem.
Cry room The vestibule area is separated from the main body of the church by glass.
Additional observations St. Margaret Mary Church is in the diocese of Phoenix, and is about a 25-minute drive from Needles, California. The parish was established in 1947; the current church was built in 2011. Unlike the trend of the time it is surprisingly traditional, its design by Notre Dame professor Duncan Stroik. It is built in the mission style to match the Mojave Desert in which it is located.
The parish has many retirees who insisted on a more traditional church, elements of which were opposed by the diocesan Office of Worship. Father Dobrowski tells the story of the building of the traditional church in a non-traditional time in the November 2011 issue of Adoremus Bulletin (visit https://www.adoremus.org/1111Dobrowski.html). It has many beautiful features, such as a 27-foot baldacchino (canopy over the altar) with a crucifix suspended from it. Visit the website to take an online tour of the church.
Gee, a Spanish Mass every Sunday and one — one — Latin Mass — at an inconvenient time on one Sunday a month — one Sunday a month. This schedule insults the TLM, which should be cancelled. Nice to see that there is a kind of traditional church, filled with a this and that accumulation of Masses. Msgr. Bugnini would be proud.
Is it possible that the TLM is scheduled based on the number of attendees? In one parish I know of, there are about 700-800 people at each of the five masses on the weekend and only 50 at the TLM and most of them don’t belong to the parish.. If you were the pastor, how would you allocate your resources and efforts?
No Bob One, there is a war against the TLM being waged by the Church of Nice crowd.
Is it possible, St. Christopher, that more people in your parish speak Spanish than speak Latin? People have a right to hear the mass in the vernacular. The vernacular is the native language of a particular population. So yes, in most parishes especially in California, there should probably be more Spanish language masses than Latin masses. It is the ordinary form for these members of the Church.
Could it be that they can only get a TLM priest to come once a month? Some parishes are willing to have the TLM more often but do not have the priests available who can say it. I also know people who don’t attend their the local church’s weekly Sunday TLM and drive 40 to 50 miles to go to a TLM parish.
I think the church should have a first Saturday mass , actually all churches should have a first Saturday mass and promote it and it’s indulgences.