Name of Church St. Mary’s by the Sea
Address 321 10th Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Phone number 714-536-6913
Website www.stmarysbythesea.net
Mass times Saturday, 5 p.m., vigil; Sunday, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 & noon (Latin Tridentine Mass). Monday – Saturday, 8 a.m.
Confessions Saturdays, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Names of priests Fr. Quang Vinh Chu, pastor.
School None.
Special activities and groups Eucharistic adoration Monday-Friday, 1-4:30 p.m. (see https://www.stmarysadoration.blogspot.com/); Divine Mercy Chaplet, 3 p.m. with Eucharistic adoration through 7:30 p.m. closing with Benediction; Knights of Columbus; Legion of Mary; St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Parking There is a small parking lot beside the church and free parking on the street. You’re four blocks from the beach, so you might have to park and walk a few blocks on Sundays.
Acoustics Good.
Cry room No.
Additional observations St. Mary’s by the Sea is a historic white wooden church near downtown Huntington Beach and the Huntington Beach pier. It began as a parish mission of St. Joseph’s Church in Santa Ana in 1905; the church was built in 1923. The diocese considered closing the parish and selling the valuable property in the 1970s, but instead sent Fr. Daniel Johnson to be its pastor in 1978. Fr. Johnson was known for his orthodoxy and love of the Tridentine Mass; he served the parish until 2004. During that time, he walked the parish five times inviting lapsed Catholics back to church. Since his retirement (and death in 2007), the parish has been served by four Vietnamese priests; Fr. Quang came to the parish in 2011 and became pastor in 2013.
O, my God! It doesn’t have a “high altar”!!!! No valid Mass can be celebrated there, even the TLM, if you believe some posters. Janek, start picketing that pagan, Novus Ordo temple! No one should worship there until they install a “high altar” !!!! [Let’s see if Janek and his pals have any sense of humor.]
Well, if you mean comedy by self-mockery— you a Catholic and a priest, we infer—and yet like Luther and Cranmer you mock the Catholic altars of divine sacrifice and make a lame comedy of it and yourself.
And yet no where, in the constitutions nor decrees of V2, does there appear an approval of a “table” at the Catholic Mass. Knock yourself out, not there.
Ask ” Vicente Roberto”, will you? The only one you mock is yourself.
An altar is for divine sacrifice; a table, for a human commemorative meal.
(K)aritas, Anonymous, Vincente Roberto is a priest? Good grief, Steve. I thought perhaps his was a frustrated vocation maybe, hence the partial Greg momentos in the desk drawer.
Attended Latin Mass at Little St.- Mary’s-by-the-Sea once. Offered by the Norbertine priests, it as spectacular. If only all Catholic parishes in California could be as beautiful as this jewel.
I remember going to the Latin Mass on occasion. It was extraordinarily beautiful. As I recall Fr. Johnson wore a cassock and cared how people dressed for mass. I hope the priests after him have kept up the tradition. One Mercy Sunday there were so many lapsed Catholics in line for confession, that after the first few, Father came out of the confessional to pass out little cards on what to say when. You could see the relief on people’s faces. The anxiety level in the lines dropped as they now knew exactly what to do. I miss not living closer to this church.
Wonderful place of God.
Caritas duly noted and yes your comments did make me laugh it was funny, I can live “without” the High Altar since it does have the TLM I approve!!
Janek, I’m with you and Benedict XVI in thinking that the TLM should be available to those who find it spiritually beneficial. I can’t agree that the Novus Ordo Mass is invalid, though. I’m glad that my comment gave you the intended chuckle. Maybe you can lead some of your “supporters” on this site to lighten up a little, too. With “friends” like that, who needs enemies!!
The progressive-church stalking-horse strategy of asking Catholics to “show good faith” and laugh at their own beliefs (it says your Faith, as well as you, is/are basically laughable) is an old one. It is also part of the strategy to negatively parody.
Now the caritas-type of person wants to pipe a tune, laugh and dance—at “high altars”, his incessant, almost manic, mocking, which he has repeated nearly a dozen times in many posts. That happens to be the particular pathology, which wittingly or not, is really aimed at Christ and the Mass and our coherent organically developed tradition.
No, as for me, I absolutely will not join in.
Yeah, Steve— it’s all a grand conspiracy! I’m really out to tear down the Mass. When I wrote to Janek supporting his decision to attend only the TLM Mass because that’s what brings him peace and grace, I was REALLY trying to DESTROY the TLM! It was all a trick! The Freemasons made me do it! It sounds like you see anyone who dares disagree with you as a secret agent out to dismantle the Faith. Disagreeing with you is not going to destroy anything.
….and calling you out for what you’re doing (K)aritas is good for your soul. Or at the least, for honing your debate and attempted subterfuge skills. Perhaps you should have a sit down with Vincente and your cohorts at Brown to plan your next move.
You are one funny individual. Even when you don’t try.
Love the caps, btw.
I have never said the Novus Ordo is invalid, it is just not in par with the TLM. Yes it can be said reverently however it does lack all the mystery and solemness of the TLM. I pray that in time the TLM does return to its rightful place as the MAIN Mass not the second in line. As far as “friends” on this site who support the TLM as do I they and I will continue to work for the return of the Mass of All Times that will never change. Humor however does go along way and I hope both sides of the liturgy wars can work together and make the Novus Ordo solemn and holy.
Caritas, please understand I cannot attend the Novus Ordo as long as there is kiss of peace, hand holding, communion in the hand. altar girls, female and male lay lectors, drums, guitars, girls in leotards prancing around the altar, felt banners, no communion rail, kneelers, proper altar not a table with a cloth on it, rock, mariachi, folk music, priests sitting on the side while women do their work. Cannot and will not partake of this mess, whilst this silliness and child like atmosphere continues.
Janek— I, too, have seen a lot of things added to the Novus Ordo Mass by “showboat” priests, that were never intended to be there. It is very irreverent and disturbing. If attendance at the TLM Mass brings you grace and peace, go for it!!
well said, Caritas.
Janek, you have been consistent in your statements about the NO. But, you have never explained why.
Perhaps Bob One, Janek realizes that Lex Orandi Lex Credendi is a real thing… and he does not want his Faith assaulted by Novus Ordo nonsense….
I have stopped going to Novus Ordo myself its either TLM or Eastern Rite Divine Liturgy …
And that is FINE for you, Canisius. What some of us can’t understand is why you need to spoil the water for those of us who find the deep presence of Christ in the NO. As Saul was asked by Christ himself, “why do you persecute me?” So, why do you persecute Christ who is truly present in the NO Mass?
“why do you persecute me?” = YFC, The very next time you or your *let’s pretend husband* present yourselves for a sacrilegious reception of Holy Communion, please answer Our Lord.
YFC once again you have it all wrong… I considered the NO a valid Catholic mass, I consider you an invalid Catholic…
Back in January I wore leotards to mass but I had a wool sweater and skirt over them. It was so cold I almost pranced to keep my blood circulating. I wrote our pastor that he needs to turn the heat on earlier for the morning mass..cost be darned.
It is true that insults and parodies (“high altars, ha-ha! Yaaaah!”) against the most sacred Catholic symbols— for example the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—usually start outside Catholic circles: but the greatest mockery is sometimes also perpetrated by disturbed Catholics themselves.
Examples like: the late Fr. Richard Purcell, OFM (d. 2011), who would deliberately speak outrages at Mass; or Cardinal Dolan, who once sported a Wisconsin Cheesehead hat while celebrating Mass; or by having an quasi-erotic dancer, in fact a supposed nun, dance scandalously on and around the alter in one of the most sacred shrines in Christendom, Santa Croce in Gerosalemme—a shrine built by St Helena herself; or perhaps by putting a…
or perhaps by putting a beach-ball on the altar, that tom-foolishness because the altar of course symbolizes Christ Himself—oh, that last abuse was done by a thoughtless man named Bergoglio, yes, also at another of the most sacred shrines in Christendom (Santa Maria Maggiore).
These examples are all insults to Christ who is really present and uniquely symbolized in the altar of the Catholic Mass. It is why there are 3 linens wrapping the traditional altar, representing Christ in the tomb, and why martyrs’ bones are stored in the altar stone.
In Revelation, so sacred is the altar, the souls of the martyred are placed under it (Rev. 6:9), awaiting the Lord’s Day; all the prayers of the saints are gathered at the altar (Rev. 8:3); it is from the altar that the angels are sent forth by the Alpha and the Omega(Rev 14:18); the new altar is so sacred, the old order has no right to partake at it (Heb. 13:10).
I don’t know if Janek will give me permission to speak for him, Bob One but that may partly…
…answer your query.
God bless you too, Steve Phoenix, for this is no laughing or joking matter. Bob One often mocks and openly criticizes Cardinal Burke. The poster named k, (aka) as caritas or kanonymous, also planted false rumors about Father Marcel Guarnizo because Father Guarnizo denied giving the Blessed Sacrament to a lesbian who openly shared her sinful choice of lifestyle, right in front of Father Guarnizo, before Mass. Father Daniel Johnson was also persecuted by the Diocese of Orange. It was no joking matter to watch duplicitous wolves in sheep’s clothing viciously plot and conspire to end the TLM at St. Mary’s by the Sea. The wolves surely tried with teeth clenched and lips foaming but the Blessed Mother protected St. Mary’s by the Sea.
Bob One I think I have said on many occasions: As an adult man I will not hold hands with people next me, sing to guitar music, cantors waving their hands all over trying to make the congregation sing, kiss of peace with people is pure silliness and quite fake, touching the sacred host with my hands, and many other elements of the Novus Ordo, Bob I attend Holy Mass to worship God not myself or the people around me, it is that easy and if the Novus Ordo is for you then by all means enjoy it as I enjoy the Mass of All Times. Pax to all here!!
Janek, Thanks.
God bless you, Janek!!! You are a solid Catholic. You don’t deny the validity of the Novus Ordo Mass as many of the Infallible Ones do. Most refreshingly, you have a sense of humor–a quality much lacking in many of the posters here. The most erratic and paranoid of them even allege that humor is an ill-disguised old trick to destroy the Faith. Like you, I find many of the ways in which the NO is celebrated in the USA to be not only distressing but unnecessary according to the rubrics. Examples: (1) nowhere does the Church designate the shaking of hands as necessary to the Sign of Peace. Most countries avoid that practice. Further, the Church has instructed the celebrant (and concelebrants) NOT to leave the sanctuary during it;…
and has instructed the faithful to remain in their places and not wander around. Note that I have purposely used the terms “celebrant” and “the faithful” instead of the insufficient terms “presider” and “assembly”—jargon cooked up by USA “liturgists” out of whole cloth; (2) the Holy See has instructed that every Catholic has the option of receiving Our Lord in the Eucharist either on the tongue or in the hand (where that is permitted by indult) and NO ONE can interfere with that right; and (3) from ages immemorial before V2 was even contemplated, the Church mandated that all music should be sacred in character and support the Liturgy, not vice-versa. Janek, you and I agree much more than we disagree. And when we disagree, we…
do so in good spirit rather than polemics. Deo gratias! Grazie a Dio!
And, Caritas, many of us agree completely with you on your well expressed post, yet we get harangued by folks who think we want to destroy the Church.
My formative years, for example, was spent in a church that chanted most of the liturgy – the psalm by the congregation, and the Eucahristic Prayer by the celebrant. This, mind you, was in a Lutheran Church.
If catholics could experience this kind of liturgy, I’m pretty sure these disagreements would go away. The problem is that most priests don’t have the musical talent to pull off a chanted Eucharistic Prayer, and so we have to make necessary accommodations.
Once again, YFC writes… “And, Caritas, many of *us* agree completely with you on your well expressed post, yet *we* get harangued by folks who think *we* want to destroy the Church. = Birds of a feather flock *together*. There is NEVER a single mention of how the True Teachings of the Catholic Church are being “harangued.” The Diocese of Orange, the Diocese of San Diego and the Archdiocese of LA, all need a holy housecleaning. To pretend otherwise is to perpetuate error and corruption. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
continued…..
Stop the lies! The problem ISN’T that most priests don’t have the musical talent to pull off a chanted Eucharistic prayer. The problem is the collective infiltration of sinful corruption and refusal to publicly uphold all of the Teachings in the Catholic Church. Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, pay attention: You cannot “pull off” living a duplicitous lifestyle and then think that you still pleasing to God.
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I love to debate but in a fun and fair way I have my strong held beliefs and others have theirs, I will defend the TLM to my dying breathe but we all must remember we are Roman Catholics first and must defend each other, TLM or Novus Ordo.
Janek, I agree 100%. Now try to convince Malley, Phoenix and Linda Maria to advance intellectual discussion rather than judge the souls of those who disagree with them or ask them to defend their positions; and, in Linda Maria’s case, consign souls to hell for disagreeing with her. Read her recent blogs. And her (apparently) unedited baloney appears on a “Catholic” site?
“Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.”
Very likely also Vicente Roberto and a few Anonymous as well.
However, it was caritas, aka Vicente Roberto, who first launched his gratuitous “polemic” (more parody, like Cranmer and Luther, almost word for word), on Janek as a “poor man has an unresolved fixation with “high” altars”. and made singularly un-charitable in fact, detracting, comments about Linda Maria and Ann Malley.
Ubi caritas est..
….that Vincente is a wonderful foil for the new and improved (K)aritas.
The machinations get better and better, Steve. Brown University indeed.
If I were on the University Board, I’d sue Vincente for defamation ;^)
I find it fascinating that whenever a story that mentions the TLM it gets the most posts of any other subject, proving the shear power of the True Mass of All Times has on people. The TLM with its rubrics, vestments, gestures, Gregorian chant, quiet reverence, and the Heaven like atmosphere does indeed take one out of this world into a sublime and God filled presence that only can be explained by those who truly love this Holy Mass.
The devil hates God and that is why it is the TLM that gets mirrored and Latin chant mocked in the satanic, ‘black mass’. You won’t hear Protestant sounding songs there either. Remember your deceased loved ones in prayer. Not everyone will be “Raised up on Eagle Wings” The complete focus, (priest and people) of the TLM is on adoring, petitioning and thanksgiving to Our Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI addressed the many problems of irreverence that are taking place in his book, ‘The Spirit of the Liturgy’. The Holy Sanctuary has now become a platform for everything else besides God. Video screen fund raising, feminism and self. The devil does not need to mock and distract here. It’s already being done.
When one looks at High Anglican-Catholic High Masses they ironically are more Roman and more Catholic than the Novus Ordo could ever be who would ever have thought that? I myself attended an Anglo-Catholic High Mass with Gregorian chant, incense, organ, bells, gold Roman vestments, in Latin, altar boys only, kneeling for communion on the tongue, which I did not partake of course, priest, deacon, sub-deacon, suites & dresses, families, one would have thought this was an Roman Catholic Mass from 1950’s pre-Vatican II. I felt right at home at the Anglican-Catholic Mass, how very sad for me to say.
Janek, just a suggestion—but you might see if there is a parish of the new “Anglican Ordinariate” conveniently close enough, at which you could validly fulfill your Sunday obligation.
Many of our brothers in the Anglo-Catholic movement are very confused when they try to enter into the Roman Catholic Church and are told to just stay Anglicans and you will be fine! My friends these Anglo-Catholics want to come home to Rome and bring with them elements of the pre-Vatican II Church with them to enhance and enrich the Novus Ordo with High Church music, chant, rubrics, Latin, Elizabethan language, Gothic and Roman fiddle back vestments, incense, bells, Vespers, yet they are told to stay Anglicans, Benedict the XVI opened the door for these our separated brothers and yet now the door is closed.
Janek, whoever is telling them not to enter the Catholic Church is–at the very least, seriously misguided—if not seriously culpable (at least in the objective sense). If you know people who are being improperly dissuaded, take them either to a Catholic priest whom you trust, or refer them to their local Chancery office which can tell them how to get in contact with proper officials of the Anglican Rite Catholic Ordinariate, to which Pope Francis just appointed its first Catholic bishop. Good luck! Go evangelize, buddy!