Name of Church Mission Dolores
Address 3321 Sixteenth Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone number (415) 621-8203
Website www.missiondolores.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. (old mission). Sundays, 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m. (basilica) Monday – Friday, 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. (old mission). Saturday, 9 a.m. (old mission)
Confessions Saturday, 4-5 p.m.
Names of priests Fr. Francis Mark P. Garbo, pastor. In residence: Fathers Manuel Curso, Stephen Meriwether and Francis Htun. Fr. Garbo is the first superior general of the Marian Missionaries of the Holy Cross, founded in the Philippines. He was installed as the Mission Dolores’ pastor in 2015.
Special groups/activities Legion of Mary, RCIA, adoration in the old mission church on First Fridays, Hispanic ministry
Music Depends on the Mass; the Basilica Choir sings at the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass and the Hispanic choir at the noon Mass.
Parking This is the big city, so public transportation might be the better choice. There is free parking in the Mission Dolores parking lot on weekends; see the website for details. Otherwise, there is paid parking on the street or garages.
Additional observations Mission Dolores was founded in 1776, three months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Established by Spanish Franciscans and built to serve the Ohlone Indians who inhabited the region, it is today the city’s oldest building. St. Junipero Serra, leader of the Franciscans, himself celebrated Mass there. Today, it is located in the busy Mission District of the city. Towering on one side of the historic church is the newer basilica church, and on the other side is a portion of the original cemetery. All three segments of the property have appeared in films and television shows, including the cemetery scene in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, the Henry Fonda-Lucille Ball wedding scene in the 1968 Yours, Mine and Ours and The Streets of San Francisco, For the Love of God. Larger groups can call and arrange a docent tour. Smaller groups can do a self-guided tour.
Hmmmmm no Mass of All Times offered there, what a shame.
Yes it is. The Mass started by our Lord in Aramaic, then in Greek, then in Latin and then in vernacular languages is offered there, except you’ll have to stand outside with YFC and the others who think not even a small number of us should be let inside to worship.
Or, you’re “Romulus Augustus,” little Augie, who thinks that Latin is the only only language the Mass was ever in. His namesake was the last Western Roman Emperor and it’s not clear if he spoke any languages other than Latin. The trilingual heresy claimed that the only languages appropriate for worship are Hebrew, Greek and Latin. RA promotes a more recent heresy, the monolingual heresy.
If you want to promote the Extraordinary Form/TLM, by all means, do so. That doesn’t mean you have to dis every other Mass and those who attend.
Anonymous pace. Deus intellegit.
Anonymous Too, there was a belittling tone in your reply. “Or, you’re “Romulus Augustus,” little Augie, who thinks that Latin is the only only language the Mass was ever in.” “little Augie”? Really?
That was what the real Romulus Augustus was known by. You can check out the history for yourself. I apologize for belittling the current California Catholic Daily reader who goes by that name, but my intent is to point out his historical mistake about the Mass. Maybe RA will reply and let us know why he chose to identify with the last Western Roman Emperor (who communicated in Latin) and if he believes (erroneously) that the Mass was always in Latin (“the Mass of all times”).
Cranky Old Gal, did you want address “anonymous” about belittling all Masses except the Extraordinary Form?
He or she even invokes shame.
Anonymous Too also took a gentle swipe at me, which I saw as a kind of a fraternal punch in the arm like we might enjoy together at a good Irish pub, come some day.
But as California goes into widespread outbreak, especially in Southern California, I want to make a distinction between the pastoral choices involved in holding weekly Mass outdoors, and the increasing inability of Pastors of Souls to minister to the truly sick and those close to death. Imagine being in a ward without the benefit of Confession, the Sacrament of the Sick, and Holy Communion? That is what we must preserve, not because it is a “civil right” but because it is the last bastion of our shared faith we have with folks in their last days. Our last ministry.
If we had to make a choice between a valiant stand for indoor Sunday Mass and this last hope into eternity for the thousands who die every day of this horrid virus, the choice seems to me to be pretty clear.
There’s no documented risk of contagion at indoor Masses. Mr. Party of Science.
The CDC is among those who have extensively documented church spread of the novel coronavirus. For example: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6920e2.htm
Give it up. The report is about a single case in March before social distancing and mask wearing protocols had been implemented nationwide.
Give it up. It’s basically an anecdote. That’s it.
Indoor Mass with distancing and mask wearing is safe. Point to an outbreak that happened at Mass. You can’t.
No, anonymous, far more than anecdote. Here’s another set of examples. I’ve got plenty
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/data-shows-clusters-of-covid-cases-linked-to-church-services/19347033/
YFC you should be filled with joy the greatest scam in history has been used to destroy countless small business thus causing even more people to depend on government. We now have your Chinese agent in the White House, based on a stolen election, your globalist LGBTQ thugs are in near complete control just waiting to martyr the Faithful.
kinda random, but can’t help
thinking about Jimmy Stewart and
Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock’s
movie, “Vertigo.”
maybe that’s because the article mentioned that movie?
Of course, it is the mission, not the parish church, which is the oldest building in San Francisco. The old parish Church was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. It was the original mission built of straw and mud, which survived.
Worth seeing all of the Missions. Good intro to early California history.
Mission Dolores is indeed both a historical treasure and a living breathing modern parish. The Mass times listed here are not in effect right now so check the website once public Mass is restored to get the times. It so beautifully represents the City, with a very diverse ethnic representation as well as a large and active LGBT community. Traditionalists and liberals all feel welcome there.
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1987/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19870917_missione-san-francisco.html
Remember when Pope John Paul II visited here.
short term memory loss is great
you’ll love it – coming soon to a cranium near you
Indeed this is Romulus Augustus, and if I am promoting heresy as you say than the Roman Catholic Church was promoting heresy for 1,500 years when Holy Mass was said in Latin until the New Springtime destroyed the Mass of All Times and created the “man made” Novus Ordo. Well at least you got the fact right that Romulus Augustus was the last Western Roman Emperor.
The point isn’t that the Latin Mass itself is heresy, it is that claiming the Latin Mass is the only valid Mass and the only historical Mass is heresy and intellectually dishonest.
You and Peter Kwasniewski. Sheesh.
Apocalyptic love