Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church — Attraction in Santa Barbara

This is a beautiful Catholic church building located in downtown area of Santa Barbara. It has been there many years and has been a comfort to many Catholic parishioners. It has off street and on street parking available. The grounds surrounding the church are well kept, and the interior of the church is very traditional in its architecture, with wooden benches, stained glass windows, high arched ceilings, statues of angels, Mary, and Jesus. They have a schedule of masses in English and Spanish throughout the weekend and some during the week. Confessions are administered on Saturday afternoons. Their Rectory office and staff are available Monday-Friday, and are very helpful and friendly. They provide baptism, communion, confirmation, funeral and wedding activities. They also have Eucharistic Deacons who visit the housebound parishioners and provide prayers and comfort to those who can't attend the...

.. a challenging church. Main priest from Mexico and many appointed Latino deacons seem on an uncomfortable quest as aggressive pro Mexican activists ... Atmosphere is awkward, very pushy, unreasonable and unfortunately even malevolent.. for folks with different background.

In comparison years ago several other priests offered more quiet gentle presence there, for ex fr Andrew from Philippines would lighten Christmas Mass and greeted us with smiles on Sundays. Oppressive style was not there at all with other priests. I prefer churches in...

I feel a little uncomfortable going here because I'm a white Anglo and the entire list of priests and deacons have the Latino names and they seem to have a Latino bias, so I hope they add a few anglo Caucasian "gringos" to the list of leaders and balance out any bias they have either conscious or unconscious bias...& I encourage my fellow Christians and Catholics to keep growing in faith keep believing keep telling the good news & fulfilling the great commission ...we pray in the name of the father son and...