Upcoming Events
Groceries for Seniors
If volunteering your time to help Groceries for Seniors create and pack over 200 grocery bags each morning is something you’re interested in, we’re always looking for helping hands.
Groceries for Seniors open our doors every Monday through Thursday, 8:30 – 11:00 am, welcoming all who’ve come to assist us. We operate out of the basement auditorium of Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California Street (at Grant Ave) in San Francisco. Sorting through produce, lifting boxes of 30 to 40 lbs., and light cleanup, including wiping down tables and sweeping our workspace floor, may be some of the needed tasks. We reward our volunteers with a free bag of the groceries we packed that day, in addition to free coffee, tea and pastries (when available).
If volunteering with Groceries for Seniors sounds like something you’d like to try, please email Tim Thompson, Executive Director, at ttgroc4sen@gmail.com or call him at (415) 916-1694.
Noontime Concerts
We are happy to host Noontime Concerts on Tuesdays after the 12:05pm Mass (around 12:50pm). This is a wonderful concert series of local and distant aspiring musicians. You will find the acoustics of the church amazing, as our building brings out the beauty of the music.
Click here to find out their schedule and see live and past concerts.
Joyful Simplicity - Part Two
Join Fr. Terry at 9am (PST) on Saturday, March 15th as he continues to talk about the joy of a simplified prayer of deep meditation that includes a more simplified way of life. Less clutter makes space for the Energy of the Presence to grow your life. Contact Fr. Terry for ZOOM link.
Lenten Small Discussion Group (Sun)
During Lent, we will be reading and discussing Matthew Kelly’s The Three Ordinary Voices of God. How are we going to live our lives unless we listen to God and allow God to guide us?
We’ll meet in person after the 9am Sunday Mass. Contact Fr. Ivan for more information or just join us at a round table in the auditorium after the 9am Mass.
Lenten Small Discussion Group (Tue)
During Lent, we will be reading and discussing Matthew Kelly’s The Three Ordinary Voices of God. How are we going to live our lives unless we listen to God and allow God to guide us?
We’ll meet on Tuesdays in Lent through Google Meets starting March 18th at 6:30pm. Contact Fr. Ivan for more information and the link.
Hours for the Lord
As part of the Jubilee Year, March 28 is to be celebrated as 24 Hours for Lord. Given the elderly age of our community and that we are downtown parish, we have designated 11am to 3pm as a time of adoration with a break for the 12:05pm Mass and Stations of the Cross. We will conclude with benediction.
Saturday for Engaged Couples
Getting married in 2025 or 2026? Remember, the Catholic Church requires at least 6 months for marriage preparation. Sign up for one of the Saturday for Engaged Couples sessions.
The Saturday for Engaged Couples is a one-day, all-day exploration of the meaning of marriage from a Roman Catholic perspective. Marriage is understood as "a covenant of irrevocable personal commitment between a man and a woman that is permanent and exclusive." On this day, the emphasis is on covenant and the commitment of two persons who create a community of life together through the sharing of the whole person -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Click here to register.
Lenten Reconciliation Service
As we enter Holy Week and quickly bring Lent to a close, we will be having a Lenten Reconciliation Service so as a community we can collectively reflect upon our sins and each celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This is a great way to prepare for the Triduum celebration of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil or Easter Sunday.
Ash Wednesday Mass
Ash Wednesday Mass
Wed, March 5
8am, 12:05pm,
& 3pm (Chinese/English)
Join us as we celebrate the start of Lent with Ash Wednesday. We embark on our 40 day spiritual journey of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Joyful Simplicity
Being joyful in God is simple, but we make it complicated. It is a bit like being in Paradise in our original harmony, our deification, but then stuff happens in being human and we end up losing the connection.
But it is still there within as God is within. Prayer, grace, is the recovering of our first nature. It is a life of restoration. We know when we are getting there when love becomes the ultimate motive of our human conduct.
We will take some time for meditation, and
check with those who joined us on Zoom.
Joyful Simplicity
Being joyful in God is simple, but we make it complicated. It is a bit like being in Paradise in our original harmony, our deification, but then stuff happens in being human and we end up losing the connection.
But it is still there within as God is within. Prayer, grace, is the recovering of our first nature. It is a life of restoration. We know when we are getting there when love becomes the ultimate motive of our human conduct.
We will take some time for meditation, and check with those who joined us on Zoom.