Name of Church Our Lady of Grace
Address 381 W. Center Street, Covina, CA 91723
Website www.olgonline.org
Phone (626) 318-7819
Mass times Saturdays, 5 p.m. (vigil). Sundays, 7:30 & 9 a.m. The liturgy is offered according to Divine Worship: The Missal, the Ordinariate Form of the Roman rite; the liturgical, musical, intellectual and cultural expression of the Catholic faith is expressed through the English Catholic tradition. Ordinariate parishes, including Our Lady of Grace, are in communion with Rome.
Confessions Saturdays, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. and Sundays, 6:50 – 7:30 p.m.
Names of priests Fr. Glenn Baaten, pastor. He is a married father and grandfather, and a former Presbyterian and Anglican pastor. He received into the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, favorably impressed by the pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 2016. Listen to his discuss the ordinariate and his story here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1848478708557803&ref=watch_permalink and here: https://www.christianworldmedia.com/watch?v=RugcfxwtBdyp. He serves as chaplain for the Santiago Retreat Center. He’s an outstanding preacher.
Additional observations On January 1, 2012, Pope Benedict established the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for groups of Anglicans in the United States desiring full communion with the Catholic Church. Click here and listen to Bishop Steven Lopes, the first bishop of the ordinariate, discuss its establishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=GuXGZGMiECY&feature=emb_logo. The church is privately owned, with the Our Lady of Grace using the facility.
Their website is really hard to read because the type is small and not dark enough-in case someone from the Church reads the comments here.
It would make a great community/rec center when there aren’t enough parishioners to support the monstrosity.
Awful, why the negativity?
They’re almost certainly a small parish (at this time at least) that cannot afford to build or buy another church building. Should you want to help them, I’m sure a large donation to help them retrofit the church or toward the building of another would be greatly appreciated. To see the beauty of the Mass there, check out:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/588ae9b859cc6822d743c416/t/610eb2ca9aa9fa7ec45cb9dd/1628353227906/OLG_PewMissal_v3.01web.pdf
The website says the pastor is married? And has children?
The Catholic Church does permit married men to be ordained to the priesthood, as it has since the beginning. Generally, the discipline in the Latin Church for a very long time has been celibacy. That said, men who married and felt called to ministry before they became Catholics (Anglicans, Presbyterians and Lutherans, for example) may be ordained to the priesthood. Of course, our Eastern Catholic Churches ordain married men to the priesthood as well. It’s important to make the distinction: no Church of apostolic origin permits their priests (or deacons) to marry. Rather, married men may be ordained to (major) Holy Orders and should a wife die, we are not permitted to marry again. That’s only one reason why we try to take good care of our wives. :)