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According to the Los Angeles Times, the mass was preceded by a parade of more than 60 placard-carrying picketers from the Coalition of Concerned Catholics and was attended by "100 Chicano militants and sympathizers". [7] Bishop Parilla celebrated mass on a vacant lot on Wilshire Boulevard across the street from St. Basil's parish.
About 200 men, some from the neighboring Twin Towers lockup, attended this year's Christmas Mass at Men's Central Jail in downtown L.A., celebrated by Archbishop José Gomez.
The current church opened for Christmas in 1925. At the time, the Los Angeles Times reported: "The opening of St. Monica's Church, ranked in the cathedral class and probably the finest Catholic Church of its kind on the Pacific Coast, will be celebrated with solemn high mass at 5 o'clock Christmas morning. For the first time the interior ...
[1] [2] [3] The first mass was presided over by Father James O'Neil, then pastor of Holy Family in Glendale, at the Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of San Fernando Road and Olive Avenue. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The original church (now the elementary school) was built in 1909 and was the first Catholic church in the San Fernando Valley. [ 3 ]
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary school in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest parishes in the San Fernando Valley , dating back to 1921. It has long been a parish with celebrity members and was the site of funerals for Bob Hope , Dorothy Lamour , and Robert Urich , among other notables.
A Los Angeles-area church was destroyed in a massive fire early Sunday, just hours before a celebration that was set to include a Christmas play and a toy giveaway. Firefighters arrived at Victory ...
Prior to the creation of a parish in Pasadena, local Catholics had to travel to the San Gabriel Mission or to Downtown Los Angeles for Mass. [4] The first Mass in Pasadena was celebrated at a hotel on Fair Oaks and Colorado Streets. [4] The city's first church was built at the corner of Pasadena Avenue and Bellefontaine.
With Christmas music blaring through the speakers of the stadium’s sound system, an army of 500 elementary-age students from ten schools across Los Angeles, lined up to have Demi Lovato help ...