Name of Church St. Dominic
Address 2390 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone number (415) 567-7824
Website www.stdominics.org
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Saintdominicsanfrancisco
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/StDominicsCatholicChurchSanFrancisco/
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. (Spanish), 5:30 p.m. Weekdays, 8 a.m., with morning prayer before. Saturdays at 9 a.m., Mass with morning prayer before.
Confessions By appointment, call the parish office.
Names of priests St. Dominic’s is staffed by the Dominican Fathers of the Western Province. Fr. Michael Hurley, pastor, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. Fr. Christopher Wetzel and Fr. Isaiah Mary Molano are parochial vicars. Click on the Resources tab and you can listen to past homilies.
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Parish groups and activities Young Adults Group (for 20s and 30s), 3040s young adult group, 50+++ social group, artists guild, Called & Gifted Workshop (https://vimeo.com/221508251), Christian meditation group, county jail outreach ministry, First Friday all night adoration, Friends in Christ, homeless ministry, married couples ministry, men’s club, Torch, UNBOUND San Francisco, Bible studies
Music Contemporary choir, family mass choir, solemn mass choir.
Parking Park in the church lot or on the street.
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Additional observations The Dominican order came to San Francisco in 1850, three years before the Archdiocese of San Francisco was established. The community bought the property for St. Dominic’s in 1863, and in 1873, the first parish church was built. A larger church was built in the 1880s, but collapsed in the 1906 earthquake. The current church on that site was completed in 1928. Work continued on the structure in the years following, including nine flying buttresses added in the 1990s to make the church seismically stable. It is built in the Gothic style; features include a carved marble altar from Italy, carved oak side altars, shrines and confessionals, many beautiful statues, paintings and stained glass windows. St. Dominic’s also houses the Shrine of St. Jude (https://www.stjude-shrine.org/) and a columbarium, where the cremated remains of loved ones can be interred. It is a busy parish with fine priests, and has been particularly known in the Bay area for its strong young adult community. You can also take a docent tour of the parish; email Rico Delodovici, ricoea@outlook.com.
I went there last year for the Immaculate Conception. What a treat! They had a Solemn High Mass in the Dominican Rite. What a treat!
they are so very good. perhaps the best organist in the united states covers the main mass,loves classical interludes. still offering streaming mass. fr michael is radiant
I love this Church and the Shrine to St. Jude.
Excellent parish! Was my parish for many years while living in San Francisco.
btw,just checked wikipedia referencing van morrison’s song ” st dominic’s preview”. it says the the st dominic’s in the lyrics is indeed this st dominic’s on bush and steiner. haven’t checked what preview refers to…anyone know?
drewelow, waste of your time, Satanic rock “music!” And insult to your intelligence, as well.
headstuff.org has an article
The June 22, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone carried an interview with Morrison in which he was asked about its origins. Morrison stated he had been working on a song regarding what was unfolding on the streets of Belfast. He also noted that he had the idea of a church as the central image of this song he was trying to piece together but it was only when he picked up that newspaper in Nevada and read about the prayer vigil to be held in St Dominic’s that all the right ingredients fall into place for him to create it.
St. Dominic’s was having a prayer vigil for peace in Northern Ireland.
An incredibly beautiful awe inspiring church!!
In recent years, St. Dominic’s has practically turned their entire church into a columbarium– to raise money! Very “un-Catholic” thing to do! And at first– they allowed just anyone– Catholic or not!– to buy a little slot for cremated remains! Later, when they were running out of places to put cremated remains– they narrowed it to just their own parishioners. I was told that lots of gay AIDS patients, some who were non-Catholic gay lovers– got “buried” there! A Catholic church is a sacred place, consecrated to God. It is for practicing, devout Catholics only. Not a convenient place to put your gay lover’s remains. It really bothers me a lot, to walk into that gorgeous church today. I believe it is so very wrong– to turn a beautiful Catholic church into a columbarium– with remains of many non-Catholics.