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 be posted here. You can find the live-stream at this link: www.facebook.com/The-Church-of-the-Advent-of-Christ-the-King-163166020389664/
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Services This Month ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Tuesday, March 11
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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​​​Wednesday, March 12
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Thursday, March 13
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Friday, March 14
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Stations of the Cross & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
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Saturday, March 15, the Eve of Lent II
Latin Mass at 5 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​
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Sunday, March 16, Lent II
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​
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​​​​Monday, March 17
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Tuesday, March 18
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Wednesday, March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evensong at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Low Mass at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
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Thursday, March 20
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Friday, March 21
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Stations of the Cross & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
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Saturday, March 22, the Eve of Lent III
Latin Mass at 5 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sunday, March 23, Lent III
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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​​​​​​​​​Monday, March 24
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Tuesday, March 25, the Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evensong at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Procession & High Mass at 6:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 26
Low Mass at 10 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Thursday, March 27
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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​Friday, March 28
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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​Saturday, March 29, the Eve of Lent IV
Latin Mass at 5 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Sunday, March 30, Lent IV
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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​​​​​​​​​​​​Monday, March 31
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Tuesday, April 1
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Wednesday, April 2
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Thursday, April 3
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Friday, April 4
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Saturday,April 5, the Eve of Lent V (Passion Sunday)
​​​​​​Latin Mass at 5 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sunday, April 6, Lent V (Passion Sunday)
High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Monday, April 7
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Tuesday, April 8
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Wednesday,April 9
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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​Thursday, April 10
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Friday, April 11
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Saturday, April 12, the Eve of Palm Sunday
Liturgy of Palms, Procession & Latin Mass at 5 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Palm Sunday, April 13
Liturgy of Palms, Procession & High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Holy Monday, April 14
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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Holy Tuesday, April 15
Low Mass at 8 a.m. (In-person)
Evensong at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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​​​Holy Wednesday, April 16
Low Mass at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Tenebrae at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
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Maundy Thursday, April 17
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
High Mass, Procession & Stripping of the Altar at 6:30 p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Good Friday, April 18
Stations of the Cross at 12 noon (In-person)
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
Solemn Liturgy and Mass of the Pre-sanctified at 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
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Holy Saturday, April 19, Easter Eve
The Great Vigil & First Mass of Easter at p p.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Sunday, April 20, Easter Day
Procession & High Mass at 11 a.m. (In-person and online)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
​​​​Easter Monday, April 21
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. (In-person)
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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.
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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 Shrine of Christ the King
The Oxford Movement
Begun about 1833 by John Keble, 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."