This is a beautiful old church, which I went to on the feast of St. Pius X a couple of weeks ago. It's too bad that the main church is dark for the pictures I took, but that darkness makes the place feel even holier in person. I used to drive by here every day on the way to work, and I always noticed the fountain that it has in front of it.
The daily Mass here is in a small side chapel. The parish is run by an order called the Servants of Charity that only has a few hundred priests worldwide (http://www.servantsofcharity.org). I can't find anything about their history in the Diocese. The church has adoration a few times a week and a parish school.
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| The chapel |
The priest who founded the Servants of Charity in 1908, Fr. Luigi Guanella, was beatified in 1964. It took almost 50 years for him to be canonized by Pope Benedict, but it finally happened in 2011, and he is all over the church as a result. He has a portrait off to one side of the altar area, and a banner hanging off the balcony in the back. He's even represented in the spectacular mural behind the altar - he's to the right of the tabernacle in the picture below.
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