Name of Church Holy Family
Address 220 East Elk Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 (parish mailing address is 209 E. Lomita Ave., Glendale)
Phone number (818) 247-2222
Website www.hfglendale.org
Mass times Weekdays, 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. vigil. Sundays, 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (Spanish), 5:30 p.m. Civic holidays: 9 a.m.
Confessions Monday & Thursday, 4:30 – 5:15 p.m., Saturday, 4 – 5 p.m. and by appointment.
Names of priests Father Jim Bevacqua, pastor. Fathers Luis Espinoza and Marlon Mateo, associate pastors. Fr. Samuel Ward, in residence. Fr. Bevacqua is a late vocation, and a former accountant.
School grades K-8, visit www.hfgsglendale.org; and high school, visit www.hfhsglendale.org
Special features 24-hour Perpetual Adoration in the chapel, Bible studies, rosary groups, Couples for Christ, St. Vincent de Paul Society
Music Cantors and choirs, depending on the Mass. The 5:30 p.m. Sunday Mass has a Life Teen band.
Fellow parishioners Anglo, some Latino and Filipino
Parking plenty
Cry room no
Additional observations Holy Family is a historic church, very pretty inside and out. It was founded in 1907, which makes it Glendale’s oldest Catholic parish. The current church was completed in 1921. It has many beautiful works of art, including statues, frescos, paintings and stained glass windows. Above the main entrance there is a sandstone carving of the head of Christ crowned with thorns created by the Italian sculptor Joseph Conradi. The carving bears the inscription consumatum est (“It is finished”). Some interesting historical notes: one of its pastors, Father Michael Galvin, served as pastor nearly 50 years (1923-1972); the front exterior of the church was heavily damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake; in 1991, in what Glendale police deemed a hate crime, vandals broke stained glass windows to enter the church and smashed the heads of three treasured statues; Fr. James Stephen O’Neill, the parish’s founding pastor, provided for the spiritual needs of St. (Mother) Francis Cabrini and her Missionary Order of the Sacred Heart nuns who were located in nearby Burbank.
Why ethnic distinctions of ‘fellow parishioners’? We are all God’s creatures.
Mike m, different cultures sometimes have different devotions, or speak a different language, and go to certain Catholic masses accordingly. I would say since Vatican II, when languages other than Latin started to be used in the liturgy, but the truth is different cultures have always settled in each of their own areas in the United States for the most part since its beginning. Intermingling came and comes later.Thus there are places called German Town, French Camp and so forth in the USA. We all know Louisiana had a large French and African influence, therefore it is known for its Cajun and Creole food and certain saints pertaining to those cultures, such as St .King Louis of France..
The listing only identified one Spanish Mass, which my wife and I can attend, since we understand enough Spanish to get by, but not the high speed conversation on the plaza. afterwards
I am well aware of various town and city named after various ethnic settlers, including the long and arduous story of the Cajuns Yes, a century or more ago there were many areas in large cities where American English was the second language. That has changed.
Why continue the steroetyping and ethnic division.
I do not think it has anything to do with stereotyping for the most part It is simple fact. Our area used to be mostly a mixture of white, black, and Hispanics. Now it is mostly different Asian groups and East Indians, some citizens, some not, some Christian, some not. The signs on the stores used to be in English only, now many of them are in Chinese. Fact is people tend to settle among those most similar to themselves when they first come here.
Food sales at churches, though, have various ethnic groups attending, even if the food is from a certain culture. One Latin Mass group have mainly pot lucks, and people bring dishes from different ethnicities. Nice!