St. John the Evangelist

Office Hours

Monday — Closed

Closed for Lunch Daily 1 pm to 2 pm

Tuesday — 9 am to 5 pm
Wednesday — 9 am to 5 pm
Thursday — 9 am to 5 pm
Friday — 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday — Closed
Sunday — By Appointment

Mass Schedule

Daily Mass is offered M-F at 5:30pm

Saturday Vigil Mass is at 5:30pm

Sunday Masses are 8:30am, 10:30am, 6:00pm

Prayer

Daily Rosary M-F at 5:10pm Before Weekday Mass

Evening Prayer is M, W, TH, F after Weekday Mass

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena is Tuesday after Mass

Adoration

Adoration is the First Friday of each month from 2 pm to 5 pm, followed by Benediction.

Please sign up in the vestibule (church entrance), to ensure someone is with the Blessed Sacrament during the full period of Adoration.

Upcoming Events

Young Adults Advent Reflection and Prayer

December 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

HSPT (Catholic High School) Entrance Exam

January 26, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

African American Diocesan Revival

January 28, 2019 - January 30, 2019

President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Issues Statement Following Shooting in Pittsburgh

Following the tragic shooting this morning at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement calling for prayer and action to put an end to violence.

“This morning violence, once again, struck one of our communities, this time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is apparent at least eight souls lost their lives in a shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue. To our brothers and sisters of the Jewish community, we stand with you. We condemn all acts of violence and hate and yet again, call on our nation and public officials to confront the plague of gun violence. Violence as a response to political, racial, or religious differences must be confronted with all possible effort. God asks nothing less of us. He begs us back to our common humanity as His sons and daughters.

I commend to our Lord the victims, including first responders, and for the consolation of their families. May Almighty God be with them and bring them comfort at this tragic time.”

Chairman of U.S. Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs Statement on Pittsburgh Violence

Bishop Joseph Bambera, Bishop chair of the Committee for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, released the following statement regarding the violence in Pittsburgh.

“Yesterday morning, death and violence entered a house of worship. The attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is a cowardly act and to be condemned by all Americans. Those killed and injured represent the best of who we are: people of faith gathered to pray and celebrate the birth of a child and officers responding to the ensuring violence with no concern for their own safety.

Anti-Semitism is to be condemned and has to be confronted by our nation. The Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops stands with our Jewish brothers and sisters during this time of great distress. May God grant peace to the dead, healing to the injured, and comfort to the families of those hurt and killed and to all the Jewish Community.”

Pope Francis Addresses the Sexual Abuse Crisis

“With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives.We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.”

(To read the full statement click on the title or go to http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2018/documents/papa-francesco_20180820_lettera-popolo-didio.html)

More information from the Diocese of San Diego at sdcatholic.org and from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at usccb.org

A Brief History of St. John the Evangelist Church

University Heights used to be part of St. Joseph’s Parish (Cathedral), which had been founded in 1874 with Fr. Anton Ubach as pastor. In 1912, a group of local ladies appealed to Fr.
Nunan, existing pastor of St. Joseph’s, to establish a new parish here. He encouraged them, but his successor, Fr. Heffernan, wanted them to remain in his jurisdiction. The Catholic ladies group finally appealed to the new Archbishop of Los Angeles and San Diego, the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell, and he agreed, and in late 1913 appointed Fr. Peter McNellis as Pastor of the new parish in University Heights.

In 1914 great efforts were made by pastor and people to buy property and build a church. They purchased the property at Lincoln and Normal. Fr. Loughlin Golden succeeded Fr. McNellis as pastor and assisted by Fr. McCormick, erected our first church building in honor of St. John the Evangelist in 1915. This served as the parish center of worship until the present church at Polk and Normal was dedicated by Bishop Buddy on May 30, 1952.

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What a remarkable parish. Loving and welcoming, just as Christ intended.

N.P.

The evening masses on Sunday were much appreciated. I love this church, not because it’s closest to my residence, but because I feel the love inside.

T.N.

The church where you can feel His presence. Since I migrated to the US I have been attending my Sunday and holy masses here, where I feel God’s graces and guidance.

C.M.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him,
and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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