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Published: November 6, 2009
Churches Worth Driving To
Our Lady of the Rosary, San Diego
 Name of Church Our Lady of the Rosary
Address 1629 Columbia St., San Diego CA 92101
(this is rectory address; church is in back of rectory at corner of Date and State streets)
Phone number (619) 234-4820
Parish website www.olsd.org
Mass times Sat. 5:30 p.m., Sun. 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 12:00 noon.
First Sunday of each month and Easter, Christmas, and New Year’s, the noon Mass is in Italian.
Second Sunday of each month, there is a Latin Mass at 4:00 p.m. with Gregorian chant and polyphony.
Daily Mass is 7:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon
Padre Pio devotions, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Confessions 4:00-5:00 p.m. Saturdays and before the 12:00 noon Mass Mon.-Sat.
 Rosary procession from here to Planned Parenthood after the 7:30 a.m. Mass first Saturday of the month.
Names of priests Fr. Steven Grancini, pastor; Fr. Louis Solcia, associate, Fr. Joseph Tabigue.
All three priests are Barnabites, Frs. Grancini and Solcia are from Milan area; Fr. Tabigue is from Mindanao, Philippines
School No school, but there are four levels of Latin taught to home schoolers at 11 a.m.-12 noon on Wednesdays in the Italian Community Center behind the church, next to the rectory.
RCIA Tues. evenings 7:00-8:30 p.m., CCD after 9:00 a.m. Mass on Sundays
Special events St. Anthony, June 6; Madonna Addolorata, Sept. 19; Our Lady of the Rosary, Oct. 3; Madonna del Lume, Oct. 17; Spaghetti Dinner, Nov. 7, Madonna del Paradiso, Nov. 15.
Special parish groups Societa’ del Santo Rosario, Rosary Guild, Altar Society, St. Joseph Society, Amici of Our Lady of the Rosary, Madonna del Lume Society, Madonna Del Paradiso Society, Sacred Heart Society, Italian Catholic Federation, Padre Pio, Maria Goretti groups
Building exterior White stucco with red tile roof, two short bell towers in front; stained glass windows covered with screen (to prevent vandalism?)
Interior Venetian Fausto Tasca painted the huge Crucifixion mural above the altar and the Last Judgement above the back choir loft. Tasca depicted Fascist sympathizers as the damned in the Last Judgement mural.
Stained glass windows each show one of the 15 mysteries of the rosary.
Traditional tabernacle in the center of the altar.
Liturgy All three priests celebrate reverent novus ordo Mass.
Music Most of the music is standard Glory and Praise, but the 10:30 Sun. Mass includes some fine polyphony; 4:00 p.m. Latin Mass on second Sunday has beautiful chant and polyphony
Homilies Simple, profound, faithful to the Magisterium
Fellow parishioners One third tourists, one third Italian-Americans, many young families who drive here for sermons and faithfulness of priests
Parking Metered parking usually available around the church, but come early for weekday noon Mass. Parking free in parking lot on Date and Columbia for Mass-goers Sundays.
Acoustics Best sound is on left (south) side. Can be an issue because of priests’ accents
Cry Room Yes
Literature in vestibule Often this is the parish to find the pro-life flyers first.
Parish bulletin Standard announcements
Additional observations Church founded in 1921 by fishermen and families from Genoa and Sicily.
Mafia hit-man Frank Bompensiero funeral here in February, 1977.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna celebrated the 12:00 noon Mass here in February, 2008.
Atmosphere reverent but friendly. Noise from outside includes many street festivals and Saturday farmers market.
Parish guilds usually celebrate feasts with processions around church and/or down to fishing boats in the harbor.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 6:14 AM By name withheld
I expect Church hating homosexualist extremists to use these articles to compile a hit list of Churches to be attacked.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:06 AM By Pax Christi
This sounds like my kind of church. Indeed, if the supporters of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would deface the church that they attend in San Francisco in the wake of Yes on 8's victory, they'd certainly target any other Catholic Church. With the stunning victory of Question 1 that repealed Maine's law to allow gay marriages, we should be on alert for further attacks.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:13 AM By Grisha
Name Withheld: Anyone who wants a list of Catholic Churches can get them from any number of sources. You are spreading uncharitable paranoia.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:33 AM By Willi H
I attended one of the first Novus Ordo Gregorian Chant Latin Mass there. A beautiful and historic church, beautiful chants, reverent, ect., but I was disapointed by the use of altar girls, and laymen (and women) giving the readings. I'll stick with St. Anne's, thank you.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 11:26 AM By Peter
And why would you expect that, name withheld? For the same reason homosexuals would expect homo-hating church extremists like youself to post such expectations? "We" have better things to do, thank you.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 12:30 PM By WOODY GUIDRY
What a challenge to show your 21 description criteria to be in some way a worthy reason to creep, crawl, or drive to a Mass! A Mass is a Mass is a Mass-and, by any other name, would be the only reason to attend. Just to take the Consecration of the Body and Blood of Jesus away from any worship service is to make that service not a Mass.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 12:53 PM By Thomas Edward Miles
It may very well be a great mass, but, I'm not driving three thousand miles! Blessed be the name of the Lord!!
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 1:19 PM By Cal Catholic editor
We received this comment by email this morning:
In a recent on-line edition of California Catholic Daily, you mention the paintings done by Fausto Tasca at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, San Diego. You kindly mentioned in particular his paintings of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement at Our Lady of the Rosary. What you did not mention is that Tasca designed the entire interior of the church, including the stained glass windows. All the paintings attached to the walls of the church are his work, most of them are signed "Tasca" in block letters.
As Fausto Tasca was my grandfather, I have significant knowledge of his work and professional history. I would like to direct you to the Fausto Tasca website (findable via Google) which includes more in depth information about his work at Our Lady of the Rosary, including photos of him creating the stained glass windows.
Thanks,
Sandra Tasca
on behalf of the Tasca Family
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 5:03 PM By JLS
I'm not going to mention the parish I attend because it's crowded enough as is; always people standing outside for lack of space inside. Overflow number, as I recall, is over 250, maybe 350. About as reverant as it can get ... pushing or even expanding the limits on reverance. And that's just the Latin Mass, not counting all the other Masses. People almost fight for a place in the confession line.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 5:09 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
The first time I went there was during the National Republican Convention in San Diego, and it was at the recommendation of Monsignor Tulio Andreatta. I have never experienced the altar girls, everything I experienced was always very devotional.
The last time was when I went down to help out with the efforts to oppose the Gay Pride Parade support from the pro-sodomite City Council.
I have always found Our Lady of the Rosary to be a refuge from most of the modernist madness.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:02 PM By Rick DeLano
I love this church! It is so beautiful, and the Barnabite Father Solcia is a very gifted confessor.
I sometimes drive all the way down from LA just for confession at this beautiful church!
Although- truth be told- I go to Mass at the FSSP parish, since they offer a daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:19 PM By Janek
Altar girls, laymen and women giving the readings, just because its in Latin and reverent does not make it the REAL THING. Yes stick with St. Anne's or any other TLM and yes that means the S.S.P.X. chapels. Pray for the return of The Traditional Latin Mass to our altars!!!!!
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:29 PM By name withheld
Peter is in obvious denial about the events that transpired when sore loser homosexualists lost the prop. 8 vote. Peter probably denies that homosexualist extremists exist. Many of his cohorts deny what the word of God says about sodomy. Peter goes on to label me with a venomous label even though he does not know me. He is in denial again. He is in denial of not having the means to know if I merit such a label. Such is the homosexualist movement. It is based on a denial of reality and a promiscuous use of hateful name calling to serve as a placeholder for rational thought. There is no use in me wasting any time on him.
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Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:39 PM By Jim
Will there be some type of database with all of these parish reviews? It would be a great resource for Catholics traveling throughout California.
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:26 AM By John F. Maguire
As a matter of journalistic principle, the CCD Editor should not publish phobicly paranoid posts in the first place. Would a diocesan newspaper have published the expostulation that leads off this thread at CCD Nov. 6: 6:14 AM -- I mean, the expostulation written -- anonymously? -- by "name withheld"? The answer, near-universally, is, I think: Negative. No, a diocesan newspaper editor, in all actuality, would not only NOT have published this person's name (or moniker) but would NOT have published this person's post in the first place.
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:14 PM By Grisha
PAX CHRISTI: Are you actually suggesting that Most Holy Redeemer parishioners are the ones who defaced it? JANEK: The gender of the alter servers, whether lectors or priests give the readings or whether it's in Latin, English, Russian or Cantonese doesn't make it the REAL THING. What makes it the REAL THING is our gathering together in His name while bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Our Savour.
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:59 PM By Mark from PA
You are right Mr Maguire. Janek, so if there are altar girls and women giving the readings, the Mass is not real? That sounds pretty sexist to me. What makes the SSPX Masses and Masses of Sedevacantist groups so much more valid than other Catholic Masses where women are involved? How does having a woman on the altar make the Mass any less?
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:55 PM By Janek
Women and girls simply do not belong at the altar, yes they have a place but serving is not one of them. Just ask why thousands of Traditional Anglo-Catholics want to come home to Rome. By the way Mother Theresa and Mother Angelica felt the same way does that make them sexist????
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:59 PM By John F. Maguire
In reply to Mark from PA: You declare me "right" at CCD Nov. 7: 2:14 but what you say immediately thereafter doesn't square with my account of when invalidity obtains and when it doesn't. Mark, invalidity obtains when there is (1) an absence of proper matter apt for consecration OR (2) an absence of proper form (that is, an absence of the proper words for consecration) OR (3) an absence of the requisite sacerdotal intention to do what the Church does in offering the Holy Sacrifice. Obversely, the PRESENCE of proper form, proper matter, and requisite intention renders the Mass valid. Bear in mind, however, that a Mass is valid in the first place because it is Christ the Sovereign Priest who, precisely as both Priest and Victim, offers the Holy Sacrifice by way of his co-offering priest, which again is why that priest's sacerdotal intention is pivotal. [The involvement of altar girls -- which involvement, in all strictness, is liturgically incongruous and should be disallowed -- does NOT bear on the questionn of the validity or invalidity of a Mass.]
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:58 PM By John F. Maguire
In reply to Grisha: You write: "What makes [the Mass] the REAL THING is our gathering in His name while bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Our Saviour."
~ REPLY: Preliminarily, I take it that the "REAL THING" to which you refer is the REAL PRESENCE OF THE EUCHARISTIC CHRIST. Two questions, then, present themselves: (1) Is it your view that "our gathering in His Name" is a NECESSARY CONDITION for the real presence of the Eucharistic Christ? That view, I submit, would conflate (a) our notion of the presence of the Eucharistic Christ at MASS and (b) our notion of the presence of Christ in the CONSENSERINT ("Wherever two or more are gathered in my Name, there I am"). What effects the real presence of the Eucharistic Christ is not the CONSENSERINT but rather CHRIST HIMSELF as Sovereign Priest and Victim in CONJUNCTION with the co-offering priest-celebrant of the Mass, that is, where that priest properly consecrates bread and wine so that they are, as you say, "changed into the Body and Blood of Our Savior." (2) I guess what I am asking is this: Is it your intention here to detour into the CONSENSERINT? Do you mean to suggest that a LAY CONSENSERINT ("our gathering together in His name") is required for an efficacious Consecration? ~ Grisha, I hasten to say: You do not expressly state this intention; but when you put the whole matter in the passive voice ("while bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Our Saviour"), don't you end up eliding the question of validity here under discussion?
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Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:11 PM By Mark from PA
Mr Maguire, I agreed with your post of 11/7, 11:26 AM.
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Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:16 PM By Mark from PA
Janek, do you have any daughters? What would you do if your daughter became an altar girl or read at Mass? Would you attend these Masses or not? In our parish, the First Communion students each have a special Mass that they have to help at. The family members, and even in some cases the child who is to receive First Communion do the readings. Would you allow your daughter or son to do the readings at Mass?
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Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 3:49 PM By John F. Maguire
Thank you, Mark from PA, for your concurrence in my post objecting to the CCD Editor's decision to publish a phobicly paranoid post. I am no less opposed to the publication of posts that are group-defamatory than I am opposed to posts that are defamatory of individual persons.
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Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:47 PM By Janek
Mark, yes I do have one daughter and no I would not let her serve, having said that I only attend the Traditional Latin Mass and it does not permit girls to serve it is not in the rubics.
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Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:59 PM By Grisha
John F. Maguire: I'm not sure I understand your w question . In this case you are using terminology ("Consenserint") with which I'm not familiar. However as I understand it, priests can and do say mass entirely by themselves. No lay persons need be present. However it follows logically that since lay Catholics are obligated to attend mass, it will be offered when we are present. No, I am not suggesting that the lay people need be present for the consecration to occur. My point was that the core of the mass, usually, for a Catholic community is the assembly of the faithful, the consecration of the Eucharist and (I forgot to mention) the liturgy of the word. Language used , gender of the servers (except of course for the celebrant) kneeling or standing for communion, TLM or NO etc. etc. are all secondary, really a matter of taste. I have my favorites (The NO in Latin is one of them) but I feel privileged to attend any.
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Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:39 AM By John F. Maguire
Grisha: Both rightly and -- if I'm not mistaken -- importantly, you raise an especially pertinent question of terminology: What is the exact meaning of CONSENSERINT? Alas! In today's culture-smog, certain terms -- perfectly traditional and surpassingly beautiful terms -- have been abandoned. We are all the worse off for it! One such term, I submit, is CONSENSERINT, which is the Latin Catholic short-hand term for Matthew 18:20: "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them." When, for example, in the course of daily life in certain Catholic milieux, one gets asked as an invitee to join in prayer (whether of supplication, praise, or thanksgiving) by that same person asking but perhaps also to join together with others who are present, then one is being asked to join in a CONSENSERINT. Whence the heart-felt invitation,
"Let's do a consenserint!" ~ In light of this tradition, we can fairly say that the CONSENSERINT is a devotional institution that mediates between (a) private prayer and
(b) the public prayer that is the Mass. I would make the case that we should not let our contemporary culture, with its hyper-individualist bias, occlude the CONSENSERINT. Who, I would add, has not been, together with one or more persons, in a situation -- perhaps a salient situation or perhaps also a situation of anxious concern -- where a CONSENSERINT would not be appropriate? ~ Thanks to the promise of Christ ("For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them"), the CONSENSERINT serves as one of Holy Church's major facilities.
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Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:00 PM By Grisha
John F. Magiuire: So, if I understand correctly, when my daughter begins each class she asks one of the students to lead them all in prayer and then each one of them may add an intention, the English class becomes a "Consenserint?" How does one pronounce it? Thanks.
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Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:33 PM By John F. Maguire
Grisha: Exactly so! On condition, which you acknowledge implicitly, namely, that the name of Jesus be invoked. At the same time, we can agree that the Latin term for Matthew 18:20 needn't be invoked expressly for the consenserint to BE a consenserint. ~ CONSENSERINT, in its first two syllables, is pronounced like *consensus* (a cognate word), whereupon the "ser" is pronounced "sair" -- then "int". This word's beauty -- to my ear -- is sealed by the strong assonance of that "sair"!
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Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:49 PM By Peter
Doesn't "CONSENSERINT" translate to "They have conformed"?
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Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 8:55 AM By John F. Maguire
In reply to Peter: I think that if we leave the question of
translation to one side (in Latin, CONSENSERINT translates, in this context: "You shall consent [upon earth]" [Challoner Douai-Rheims Bible]), nonetheless we will be able to recognize the decisive truth in your thesis. You ask:
"Doesn't 'CONSENSERINT' translate to 'They have conformed'"? Although the common translation of the word CONSENSERINT as it appears in Matthew 18:19 (not, by the way, Matt. 18:20, which is the second verse on the CONSENSERINT but does not contain the word CONSENSERINT) -- although the common translation here is: "If two of you SHALL CONSENT upon earth...."; further, although then the word "conform" is not generally used in the translation of the word consenserint IN THIS CONTEXT, nonetheless it is certainly true, Peter, that the notion of conformity figures powerfully in the meaning of Matthew 18:19-20. ~ And why should it not? Does not the CONSENSUS contemplated by Christ when he prophecies "If two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven" -- does not this, Christ's ownmost CONSENSERINT, essentially involve the notion of CONFORMITY OF HEARTS? Whence Our Lord's words: "Where there are two or three gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them." ~ Peter, I think then that, on the evidence, we can conclude that implicit in the CONSENSERINT instituted by Christ and prophecied by him is the notion of CONFORMITY OF HEARTS.
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Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:15 PM By John F. Maguire
In further reply to Peter: As you have already suggested, the reality of hearts conformed to Christ defines the meaning of the CONSENSERINT. This truth is affirmed by Cornelius a Lapide in his gloss on Matt. 18:19: "If two of you shall consent [in my name (see Matt: 18:20)] upon earth...." Fr. Lapide COMMENTS: "Concord -- together with the united prayer of those who are in agreement -- is so powerful with God and so pleasing to Him, that if they ask something while dwelling on earth, where they are at a great distance from heaven, God in heaven nevertheless will hear their petitions and will grant them. For although God is in heaven, yet He inclines His eye and His ear to those on earth who pray in unity." Cornelius a Lapide, _The Holy Gospel of Saint Matthew_, Vol. II: _The Great Commentary_ (Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Loreto Publications, 2008), p. 215.
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Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:33 PM By John F. Maguire
"Again, I say unto you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done unto them by my Father who is in heaven."
Here, Peter, by way of further confirmation of your thesis, is Fr. Lapide's gloss on the Christ's phrase "concerning anything": This phrase, notes Lapide, means: "Any decent thing, whether it be small or great, whether easy or difficult. Understand, though, that they must ask faithfully, hopefully, humbly and perserveringly; also that the thing requested is for their benefit. For if it be not expedient, God will not give them what they ask, but something else which is far better and more profitable for them." ~ Lapide points out that in instituting the CONSENSERINT, Christ alludes to Ecclesiasticus 25:1: "With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men: the concord of brethren, and the love of neighbors, and man and wife that agree well together." (216)
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