Name of Church Santa Clara
Address 323 S E Street, Oxnard, CA 93030
Phone number (805) 487-3891
Website www.santaclaraparish.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. (Spanish). Sundays, 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon (8 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon in the mission chapel), 2 p.m. (Spanish), 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. (Spanish in the chapel). Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. (Spanish). Friday, 5 p.m. (Spanish in the chapel). Saturday, 8 a.m. In addition to the main parish, Santa Clara maintains a mission chapel five miles away and a Catholic Korean mission.
Confessions Wednesdays, 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. (During adoration.) Fridays, 4 to 5 p.m.
Names of priests Fr. John Love, pastor. Father is a faithful priest who is also a wing chaplain in the Air National Guard, and has served as a chaplain for the Order of Malta. He previously was the long-time pastor of St. Mark’s Church in Isla Vista, which serves students of UC Santa Barbara. Fr. Patrick Ayala, associate pastor. Fr. Carlos Villasano, associate pastor. Fr. Charles Llueras, CRIC, associate pastor.
Special groups/activities Legion of Mary, Knights of Columbus, Retrouvaille, youth ministry, prayer groups.
School Yes, TK through 8.
Parking Parking lots nearby and parking on the street.
Additional observations Santa Clara is a parish of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The historic parish was established in 1884, and opened its doors to parishioners the following year. It is a beautiful stone and brick church built in 1904, with a traditional altar, paintings, stained glass windows, statues and Gothic architecture-style high ceilings. There is also a retreat house located next to the church. Take a video tour of the church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9KGtkQBCek.
Is there an altar in the church?
Of course there’s an altar in every Catholic church. What kind of question is that?
are there young families or just Boomers at Mass?
Boomer, you could worship with them and find out. Or, check out their website and bulletin, it appears there are young families as well.
https://santaclaraparish.org/
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No not true, many Catholic Churches have destroyed the high altars and replaced them with Protestant “dinner” tables, so no you are wrong about all having altars, prior to the Council yes they all had the high altar of sacrifice.
Don’t blaspheme
Romulus Augustus’ comments continue to prove why “Traditionis custodes” is needed in the Church at this time. Thank you Pope Francis.
(Cont.) when such beautiful high altars were torn out by many priests and thrown into driveways to be hauled away, and Cramer type altars put into the churches. The people had to pay for this destruction, whether they wanted it or not. He is also right that the Cramer type altars do not look right in front of a beautiful high altar.
I say this as a convert who saw this destruction after it happened and was saddened by it. I now understand why so many Catholics were so shocked at that time. We have a right to express our opinion no matter what Jon or another else says.
Correction to last line: “anyone else says.”
RA, really, and the Masses in the gyms and basements of the rectories while these high altars were being built, what were they on?
And all the Masses around the world in places that couldn’t afford those kinds of Churches or where it was too dangerous for them to have a Church, what were they on?
What did Jesus Christ have His first Mass on?
What Romulus Augustus is trying to say, and he is right, is that some of the Protestants, including Cramer, would not put in high altars in their churches, just Cranmer’s altars — which were free standing and some table like. It was done in denial of the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. They believed Christ’s words were only symbolic, and it was just a meal in remembrance of him. Catholics, in opposition to the denial of the Real Presence, always had high altars against the wall and turned toward the Lord over the altar. Many Catholics were shocked after Vatican II (to be cont.)
Every Catholic Church has a high altar and they are all “tables”
The high altar is so called from the fact that it is the chief altar in a church, and also because it is raised on an elevated plane in the sanctuary, where it may be seen simultaneously by all the faithful in the body of the church.
Are you talking about the reredos or retable or altarpiece?
This picture looks like it shows the back of the Church with the pipe organ?