Name of Church St. Joseph Church
Address 721 Chemeketa St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
Phone number 503-581-1623
Website https://stjosephchurch.com/
Mass times Saturday vigil, 4:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. (Spanish). Sundays, 6:45 a.m. (Latin Tridentine), 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. (and a second 10 a.m. Mass in Spanish at the East Salem Community Center), noon, 1:30 p.m. (Spanish), 3:45 p.m. (Vietnamese), 5:30 p.m. (Spanish) and 7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7:05 a.m. & 12:05 p.m. Saturday, 7:05 a.m.
Confessions Saturday, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Monday – Friday, 11:30 a.m. – noon, Sunday, 8 – 8:20 a.m., 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. and 7 – 7:20 p.m.
Names of priests/homilies Msgr. Richard Huneger, pastor. Fr. Paolo Dayto, parochial vicar. Msgr. Huneger is a traditional priest who celebrates reverent liturgies.
School Yes, St. Joseph School for pre-K through 8.
Music Choirs, including a Gregorian Schola, St. Joseph’s Ensemble, St. Joseph’s Choir, Men’s and Women’s Scholas and a Children’s Choir, as well as cantors, organists and instrumentalists. (Listen to St. Joseph’s choir rehearsal here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Tldr1M2jc.)
Parish groups and activities Bible studies, pro-life ministry/40 Days for Life, grief support group, 24-7 adoration chapel, youth and young adult ministries, Trail Life Troop for boys and young men, Knights of Columbus.
Fellow parishioners There is an Anglo community, a Hispanic community, a smaller Vietnamese community and a Latin Mass community.
Parking There is ample parking on the street and in lots by the church.
Additional observations St. Joseph Parish is located in the Archdiocese of Portland. It is the oldest Catholic parish in Salem, dating to the 1850s. The first church was built in 1864; the present church was built in 1953. It is a traditional church with representational art, high ceilings, large building and the tabernacle in the center of the church behind the altar. (Here is Portland Archbishop celebrating Mass at St. Joseph’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFmAb5GdUmc.)
Four communities in one building . . . interesting. Hard to tell from photo of interior whether there is an altar facing the congregation for Masses other than Latin.
Mike M. any Mass can be said “ad orientem”. It is quite simple. When the priest is talking to the people, in whatever language, he faces the people, and when he is talking to God, he faces Christ over the altar, the Son and the Sun of God, the Light of the World.
In fact the GIRM (General Instruction for the Roman Missal) of the newer rite (Ordinary Rite), calls for the priest to “turn back toward the people”. If it says that, it was assumed that the priest would be facing the altar before he turned toward the people. The instructions have been there all along, but have just not be used in most Catholic Churches in the U.S.
I thought Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the official name of the Traditional Latin Mass as the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
Hinkledye, the three names that I have heard used properly for the older Latin mass are: Extraordinary Mass; Traditional Latin Mass (to distinguish it from the newer Latin mass) and the Usus Antiquior (Latin for Ancient or Old Mass). Hope that helps. I am writing some of this from memory and cannot use Italics, so please excuse my punctuation and corrections are welcome.
The name “Usus Antiquior” helps show us how many English words come from Latin: “usus – use” and “antiquior- ancient, old”. I love the term “extraordinary (remarkable)”. To me it means that we give our finest in the Latin, in the translations ,in the music, et al..
To have been clearer I should have written, “helps show us that MANY English words come from Latin.” Enough said.
A correction to line five in my last post: “helps show us THAT many English words come from Latin”.