CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

COVID UPDATE (January 25, 2020)

Please continue to pray for Cecilia Chavez who directs our outreach to abortion bound women. Cecilia is still hospitalized with Covid. She is NOT on a ventilator and this is good news. Her condition is more or less stable. 

Fr. Peter is out of the hospital and his lungs are slowly healing from COVID pneumonia.

Thank you for your continued prayers for Cecilia and Fr. Peter and so many others who are sick and suffering at this time. 

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COVID UPDATE (January 21, 2022)

Please pray for CECILIA CHAVEZ who directs our Expectant Mothers' Outreach. She is hospitalized with COVID. 

ROSALIA MORENO funeral arrangements: Mass of Christian burial TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022 at 11:00am, Holy Innocents Church. 

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COVID UPDATE (January 18, 2022)

Our school is back in session today. Holy Mass will be offered each day this week at the school hall at 8:00am.


Thank you for your prayers.  

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COVID UPDATE (January 17, 2022)

Beginning Tuesday, January 18, our parish will be returning to some semblance of normalcy.

School reopens then and the daily school Mass (Monday through Friday) at 8:00am will resume.

Fr. Peter is regaining strength following his hospitalization with Covid pneumonia. Thank you for your continued prayers for him and for all who have been impacted by this invisible enemy.

ROSALIA MORENO, a faithful parishioner of Holy Innocents, succumbed to the effects of the Coronavirus. We are praying for the repose of her soul and for the comfort of her loved ones.

Funeral arrangements will be posted here as soon as they are finalized.

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COVID UPDATE (January 14, 2022)

Weekend Mass schedule is as follows:

Saturday, January 15
5:00pm Vigil Mass

Sunday, January 16
7:00am  Spanish
9:00am  Latin
11:00am  English 
1:00pm  Spanish 

For Confessions, consult the schedules of neighboring parishes.

Parish activities are reduced to a minimum until further notice.

All daily Masses are private and not open to the public. 

Our classical school reopens on Tuesday, January 18, with daily school Mass at 8:00am.

Please continue to pray for all who have been impacted by this invisible enemy.

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COVID UPDATE (January 12, 2022)

Fr. Peter has been discharged from the hospital and is recuperating nicely. Fr. Robert is well. Parish activities have been reduced to a minimum during this latest spate of Covid contagion.

No weekday Masses. School is out of session until Tuesday, January 18.
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COVID UPDATE (January 8, 2022):

The school is closed beginning Monday, January 10, 2022, due to a new case of Covid among a faculty member. Mild symptoms only. School will resume on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Hence, the weekday 8:00am Masses at the school are suspended until further notice. 

Moreover, the weekday 7:00pm Masses at the church are also suspended until further notice.

Check back here for additional updates.

Keep praying for all who are impacted by this invisible enemy.

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COVID UPDATE: Your priests tested positive for Covid and were both quarantined for your safety and as per archdiocesan protocols.

Fr. Peter is currently hospitalized and is making steady progress. Fr. Robert had mild symptoms and he is no longer quarantined.

Weekend Sunday Masses will be offered uninterrupted. However, there will be no confes- sions available.

Daily Masses will resume January 10-14 at 8:00am and 7:00pm.

Please pray for your priests and for all who have been impacted by the virus.

Check this website (www.LBCatholic.com) for updates.

January 5, 2022

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Your priests have tested positive for Covid and are quarantined for your safety. Fr. Peter is hospitalized and is making progress. Fr. Robert has mild symptoms.

Consequently, there will be no daily Masses this week, January 3-7 at either the church or at the school.

We are seeking priest help to cover the weekend Sunday Masses. There will be no confessions available, however. 

All Night Adoration is cancelled for this month.

Daily Masses will resume January 10-14 at 8:00am and 7:00pm thanks to generous supply priests.

Check back here for further updates. 

Pray for your priests and for all who have been impacted by the virus. 

January 4, 2022

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES ...

“Practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary." [par. 5]

--Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (click HERE)

Click HERE and HERE for resources.

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Stained Glass Window of St. Thomas a Becket in Holy Innocents Church

SUNDAY BULLETIN
January 23, 2022

SATURDAY MASSES 
8:00 AM (English) 
5:00 PM (English) Vigil Mass

SUNDAY MASSES
7:00 AM (Spanish)
9:00 AM Traditional Latin Mass
             (with English sermon)
11:00 AM (English)
1:00 PM   (Spanish)

WEEKDAY MASSES**
8:00 AM (English)
7:00 PM  Misa Tradicional en Latin
             (con sermon en Español)

**During school days, the Monday through Friday 8:00am Mass is at the school hall (2500 Pacific Avenue). Enter through school office. When there is no school, the Mass is at the church. 

CONFESSIONS
Friday: 6:00 PM
Saturday: 4:15 PM
During the Sunday 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM & 1:00 PM Masses

Note: These schedules could be slightly modified in the future.

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Innocents in Long Beach, California, a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Our historic church is located in the neighborhood made famous by "Snoop Dogg." Standing on the corner of 20th Street and Pasadena Avenue, our little mission style church was erected nearly a century ago but she is as beautiful as ever! Our doors are open for you!  --Father G. Peter Irving III

Telephone: 562-591-6924
Email: office@LBCatholic.com
RECTORY OFFICE
425 East 20th Street
Long Beach, CA 90806
 

PRAYER TO THE HOLY INNOCENTS
O God, whose praise the martyred Innocents proclaimed not by speaking but by dying, put to death all vices within us, that Thy faith which our tongues profess, our lives also by their actions may declare. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER LUISITA
O Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, King and center of all hearts! Look with merciful love on the petitions we present to You through the intercession of Your servant, Mother Maria Luisa Josefa of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

(Pause and request your petition)

We humbly beseech You to glorify her who was always such a fervent lover of Your Sacred Heart by granting us these favors if they are for Your greater honor and glory. Amen.

The former Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, Robert Sarah, has encouraged priests to offer the Mass ad orientem. Read about it HERE. 

If one carefully examines the rubrics of the Roman Missal, one discovers that the presupposition is that the priest is offering the Mass ad Deum, that is to say, facing God along with the worshipers in the pews.

Here are some useful links on the topic of ad orientem worship.

Holy Innocents Parish has offered the Mass ad orientem in its historic church since 2011.

BISHOP OF GALLUP, NM, ENCOURAGES AD ORIENTEM WORSHIP

The bishop of Gallup, New Mexico, His Excellency James S. Wall, issued a letter in July of 2019, encouraging ad orientem worship in his diocese. Bishop Wall is a graduate of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan seminary in Carmarillo, St. John's Seminary. Read the letter HERE.

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"There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers." (Proverbs 6:16-19)