JUBILEE REFLECTS CHANGE; ST. CATHERINE PARISH MARKS 50 YEARS OF SERVING FAITHFUL.Byline: Greg Gittrich Daily News Staff Writer Peering out from a small room to the right of the altar in St. Catherine There are seven St. Catherines:
``Look out at that Mass and you'll see the changes that have taken place over the last 50 years, not only in our parish but in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ,'' Flanagan said, as he prepared for the parish's 50th anniversary Mass. Celebrating a theme of ``Standing Together, a Family of God,'' Cardinal Roger Mahony His Eminence Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony (born February 27, 1936) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991. joined Flanagan to preside over Sunday's 3 p.m. Jubilee Mass. Nearly 2,000 parishioners squeezed inside the modern church on Sherman Way in Reseda and attended a boisterous reception, featuring strolling guitarists and homemade cookies in the church's parking lot later in the evening. The parish, which is now more than 50 percent Latino and boasts about 1,300 families, was founded in 1949 by Monsignor John Hackett. It originally included areas that later became parishes of St. Bridget of Sweden Church, Our Lady of Lourdes The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old peasant girl from Lourdes, when questioned by her mother, admitted that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, on 11 February, 1858, while she was gathering and a large portion of St. Joseph the Worker Church. ``Monsignor Hackett beat the bushes looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Catholics in the area when he founded the parish,'' Flanagan said. ``He began having Mass in the Reseda Theater just down Sherman Way, and the parish grew rather quickly.'' In 1950, church services were moved to what is now Monsignor Hackett Hall, located behind the present church, which was dedicated during Easter Mass in 1966. The parish opened a school staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph
The Sisters of St. Joseph are a Roman Catholic order of women founded in Le Puy, France. of Corondolet in 1952 and added 12 classrooms during the following six years. When Hackett retired in 1981, he was replaced by Flanagan, a native of County Rosscommon, Ireland. During the past 18 years, Flanagan, who is now 63, renovated the church, added Spanish-language Masses, expanded the school to include kindergarten and after-school care, and led the parish through a rebuilding after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake damaged the church and devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. much of the surrounding area. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1) Members of the children's choir sing at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church on Sunday. (2) Cardinal Roger Mahony celebrates Mass on the 50th anniversary of the multicultural Reseda parish. Tom Mendoza/Daily News |
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