Name of Church St. Rose
Address 5961 Franklin Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95824
Phone number (916) 421-1414
Website www.stroseinsacramento.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 & 6:30 p.m. (Spanish); Sunday 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., noon, 1, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. Kavanagh Center, 8, 10 a.m. & noon (Spanish). Monday – Friday, 6:30 & 8 a.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m. Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. (Latin Tridentine).
Music On the weekends, mostly organ music.
Confessions Tuesday, 7-7:30 a.m. Saturday, 4-5, 6-6:30 p.m. and 5 – 5:30 p.m. Before daily and Sunday Masses.
Names of priests Monsignor James Church, pastor. Monsignor Edward Kavanagh, pastor emeritus. Father Fernando Meza, parochial vicar. Monsignor Kavanagh is from Ireland, and has served at the parish since 1948; he was also director of St. Patrick’s Home for Children 1954-2005.
School St. Patrick Academy, pre-K through 8th grade.
Special activities and parish groups Legion of Mary, Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; St. Vincent de Paul Society; novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (after Latin Mass).
Parking Big crowds at the Masses, so come early. Park on the street if the lot is full.
Cry room No.
Additional observations St. Rose began as the chapel of St. Patrick’s Home for Children, built in 1932. It became a parish in 1940. It’s a dynamo of Catholic activity, celebrating 14 Masses per week. It’s old school, and serves a large congregation. In December, 2002, Monsignor Kavanaugh, a priest-member of Priests for Life, barred pro-abortion Governor Gray Davis from setting foot in St. Patrick’s Home, when the governor asked to distribute Christmas gifts there.
Gee, a TLM on Tuesday night. Wow, can you spare the time or effort, Msgr.? This temporizing with the Church’s own sacred Tradition cannot continue. Tradition is the architect of the Catholic Church, not the N.O. The Apostles and early disciples fashioned the Mass, and the centuries of saints and martyrs honed it to perfection, not Msgr. Bugnini. No wonder the Church is dying, literally. No one wants to belong to a team that changes because this or that group is unhappy with it, or wants changes. No reason to come here.
St. Christopher , There are TLM masses 2 to 3 times a day at St. Stephen’s, which is within a couple of miles of St. Rose, and a beautiful high mass every Sunday at 10:30am. Msgr. Kavanaugh kindly hosted the TLM regularly until we could get our own parish church. He and his parish have been a great friend to the TLM community in the Sacramento area.
St. Christopher, you don’t know the whole story. When no other church in the Sacramento Diocese would attempt to “host” a Latin Mass, Msgr. Kavanagh did. This was on April 10, 1989. The Mass was celebrated at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays, and became an important part of the Sunday Masses at St Rose. After a few years the group of attendees created their own parish and it is located just a few miles away from St. Rose. The church, St. Stephen the First Martyr, is staffed by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, and it has many Masses each week, even on Tuesday evening, which is the day that the Latin Mass is celebrated at St. Rose. The priest at St. Rose is a retired diocesan priest, Fr. Francis Lawlor. I think both Msgr. Kavanagh and Fr. Lawlor deserve credit for their efforts.
“Joan” and “Laurette”: The FSSP is wonderful, and it is acceptable that they finally received a church — St. Stephens — within which to provide Traditional sacraments. But think of what you are celebrating. The TLM is so scarce in Sacramento that it is seen as a notable thing that another local parish has a weekly TLM, while ignoring the needs of its parishioners for a regularly scheduled TLM on Sunday. Every parish in Sacramento, even under a Liberal like Bishop Soto, should have a TLM, every one. Your words are like the wealthy that give a crumb or two to starving children: “see, here is some stale bread, aren’t I a good and generous man to provide this.” The victors of Vatican II are very smug about how they have co-opted Summorum Pontificum by, in their minds, being “generous” to grant a TLM “right” here and there. Catholics should be outraged over the complete disobedience of bishops against then-Pope Benedict XVI (who yet lives and must be given the highest respect). Bishop Soto, and his Liberal pals like Cardinal Dolan (whose upcoming closure of many NYC diocese include at least one of the very few that offer the TLM regularly), do not like anything Traditional. And, with Pope Francis, they seem to have a more than willing accomplice to quash the blossoming of a Traditional Catholic reformation. Sorry to seem harsh, but your protests need re-examination: the poor people of St. Rose deserve more than they are getting, and few, very few, seem to care.
St. Christopher,
VERY WELL SAID!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Those who wish to attend a TLM should be able to do so, within easy commute distance. To suggest, however, that every parish should provide that opportunity is a bit of a stretch. Those who continue to demand the availability of the TLM are a small minority of parishioners. It is also important to remember that TLM is the extraordinary form of the Mass. It is not the ordinary form that is used in most parishes today. Some may lament that fact, but it is true. Consider that Vatican II was held in the mid-sixties, about fifty years ago. I have children who are in their fifties. They have never attended a Mass in Latin. They relate to the ordinary form of the Mass and couldn’t imagine why someone would want to attend Mass in a language they don’t understand. There is no need for a TLM in every parish. It is no better a Mass than the NO, just a different and older version.
Every parish should provide nourishing food for the flock, Bob One. And as you suggest that folks should just accept that the NO is the way to go, sorry, but the hierarchy needs to face the failed experiment of watering down the faith…. or keeping it a secret.
The flock is skinny, malnourished, deformed and, in too many instances, defecting. All this with an ordinary form of mass that uses a language that people supposedly understand. How can THAT be?
As for the sheep and the shepherds, if they lead us to barren ground, is it the fault of the sheep that they turn to the shepherd and start nipping at his sandals made of grass-like material or at his garments that mimic grass? We’re HUNGRY. Much like the high school kids rebelling against the so-called healthy meals the current administration is attempting to foist upon those who need calories to perform and grow properly.
So while you and yours may be acclimated to less than filling, please do not fault those who want to eat and feed their children.
Bob One’s continues his contempt for the TLM. ” They relate to the ordinary form of the Mass and couldn’t imagine why someone would want to attend Mass in a language they don’t understand”….Because Bob One our love for Our Lord is so great that we actually take the effort to understand Latin and the rubrics of the Mass.
“Those who wish to attend a TLM should be able to do so, within easy commute distance” We are lucky if its within 20 miles, which speaks volumes, just once I would love to reverse this situation where in the modernist have to leave 1 1/2 early to get to mass on time
Comparing the NO to the TLM is like comparing a little league team to the 1998 NY Yankees, there is none.
“Bob One”: Unfortunately, your response shows the successes of the Vatican II Revolution that robbed the Church of its very identity. Benedict XVI was on the verge of almost turning this around, but stopped — or was stopped — before doing more. Please read Summorum Pontificum and Universae Ecclesiae completely. Benedict wrote to the bishops on July 7, 2007, stating, “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.” He gave great care in these documents to open the thinking of the Church to realize the great treasures of its liturgies and rituals of all time. People of a certain age had the Latin Mass torn from us, without fanfare or apology. People of this age can learn to re-appreciate the Latin Mass, and will if given a chance. In fact, the greatest group of adherents to the TLM are the young, including young seminarians. The Mass of All Time is immutable; as William Faulner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” “Requiem for a Nun.” (1950)
The Catholic Church believes in the Bible AND Tradition. Without Tradition we are just another Bible Church. Sorry but N.O. Is not One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church based on Tradition. I see the choice to love our Tradition or move to an ever-changing Church based on the new modern world. Hummm… I know my decision.