Our Parish
Liturgies
All services are open for in-person attendance.
Our Saturday Latin Chant Masses and Sunday morning High Masses (and certain weekday High Masses) are live-streamed on Facebook. Bulletins are also posted here.
You can find the live-stream at this link.
Services and Bulletins
NOTE: DURING JULY & AUGUST THE SATURDAY 5:00 PM VIGIL MASS IS RITE I AND WILL NOT BE LIVESTREAMED. THURSDAY NOON MASS IS ON HIATUS FOR JULY & AUGUST.
Monday, July 20
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Tuesday, July 21
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Wednesday, July 22, the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Thursday, July 23
Low Mass on hiatus, July & August
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Friday, July 24
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Saturday, July 25, the Feast of St. James
Low Mass (Rite I, said) at 5 p.m. (In-person)
Sunday, July 26, Pentecost IX
High Mass at 11 a.m. TODAY IN-PERSON ONLY
Monday, July 27
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Tuesday, July 28
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Wednesday, July 29
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Thursday, July 30
Low Mass on hiatus July-August
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Friday, July 31
Requiem Mass for Duff Axsom, 11 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Saturday, August 1, the Eve of Pentecost X
Low Mass (Rite I, said) at 5 p.m. (In-person)
Sunday, August 2, Pentecost X
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)
Monday, August 3
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Tuesday, August 4
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Wednesday, August 5
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Thursday, August 6: The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Low Mass at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
Friday, August 7
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Saturday, August 8, the Eve of Pentecost XI
Low Mass (Rite I, said) at 5 p.m. (In-person)
Sunday, August 9, Pentecost XI
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)
Monday, August 10
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
The Shrine of Christ the King
The Church of the Advent of Christ the King is an Anglo-Catholic parish of the Episcopal Diocese of California which is part of the Anglican Communion of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Catholicism is a school of thought within the Anglican Communion. Anglo-Catholic theology pays special regard to the teachings of the undivided church of the first seven councils and to the Caroline Divines of the Anglican Church of the 16th and 17th centuries. At the same time, believing that all truth is of God, we are open to truth wherever it is found. We place special emphasis on the importance of worship, the Eucharist and other Sacraments, the life of prayer and growth in personal holiness. Anglo-Catholic worship is rooted in the rich tradition of western catholicism. It uses the beauty of ceremony, vestments, color, incense, music, and architecture to engage the whole person and all five senses in the worship of God and to convey something of the transcendant holiness and glory of God. Although catholic worship and ritual was suppressed in the English Church during the Reformation, it began its revival in the 19th century during the Oxford Movement.
The Oxford Movement
Begun about 1833 by John Keble (1792–1866), an Anglican priest and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, the Oxford Movement represented a return to what Keble and his associates believed were the fundamental spirit and customs of the historical Christian Church. As such, the Oxford Movement encompassed two closely related Christian ideas: a renaissance in liturgy and ritual, and a return to parish care for the impoverished. In a published series of "Tracts for the Times," the Oxford group reasserted the doctrines of Apostolic Succession, the ministerial power of absolution, baptismal regeneration, and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The tracts were greeted by many in Britain with high enthusiasm. At the same time, most parishes that embraced Oxford principles founded missions designed to minister to the less fortunate among them, especially the working poor. There were few Oxford-influenced Anglican parishes in England that did not mount such missions, or "Workingman's Institutes," as they were called. In general, as the historian Lytton Strachey has written of the movement's reception, especially among the young, "the notion of taking Christianity literally was delightful to earnest minds."