San Diego-area Catholics ... and historic Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The faithful will have ashes applied to their foreheads in the sign of the cross as the priest admonishes them to “turn ...

We had a priest here, Monsignor Egan ... A plump green wreath sat on one side of the altar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a single flame rising from one of the candles buried within its branches.

The West Coast’s Plymouth Rock, Mission San Diego de Alcalá on Thursday will launch a year of events marking its 250th anniversary. “The mission really is the beginning of what became the ...

Bertrand, now 35, was ordained a priest ... San Diego, Bertrand served in four parishes: St. Rose of Lima in Chula Vista (2010-2013), Santa Sophia in Spring Valley (2013-2015), and St. Vincent de ...

all in San Diego; Most Precious Blood in Chula Vista; and Our Lady of Light in Descanso. In 1968, he assisted at St. Vincent de Paul, serving alongside another priest whom the diocese would list ...

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded on July 16, 1769, has been celebrating its "jubilee year" throughout 2019. In January, as the landmark turned 250 years old, the public was invited to ...

She was a member of Mission San Diego de Alcala parish, St. Vincent de Paul Village Ladies Guild and a volunteer in the surgical waiting room at Alvarado Hospital.She loved playing cards ...

through the founding of Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769. The diocese serves 1.4 million Catholics, with 96 parishes, 204 active priests, and about 80 Catholic schools. Sign up here.

(Adobe Stock Photo) On July 16, 1769, Mission San Diego de Alcala was established by Junipero Serra (a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order) on Presidio Hill, according ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state ... people and their sacred ground and we respect the Franciscan priests and the Spanish explorers who came to introduce Christianity ...

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded in 1769, is located at 10818 San Diego Mission Rd. In honor of the landmark’s “jubilee year,” Father Peter M. Escalante has invited the public ...