Name of Church St. Anthony
Address 10700 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
Phone number (707) 937-2406
Website www.stanthonysofmendocino.com
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:30 p.m. Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Monday – Friday, 9 a.m.
Confessions by appointment
Names of priests Father Louis Nichols, pastor. Father Nichols is an 80-year-old priest, ordained in 1960. He served as a military chaplain for 11 years, including service in Vietnam.
Special groups/activities Knights of Columbus. Join the Knights for a parish breakfast after Mass on the 2nd Sunday of the month.
Music Weekend Masses feature organ and guitar music.
School No.
Fellow parishioners Local residents and tourists.
Parking No problem.
Acoustics Fine.
Additional observations St. Anthony’s is a historic parish on the coast in Northern California. It is part of the diocese of Santa Rosa. The parish was established in 1852; the current white wooden church was built in the 1930s. A fire destroyed a significant portion of the church in 1999, but it has since been reconstructed. The church serves only a few hundred local residents, so it welcomes weddings and other outside visitors to help fund the parish. It’s a quaint little chapel; you’ll enjoy its stained glass windows and other art. Behind the altar is a large ocean mural. On the outside of the church is a wooden statue of a woman and child looking out to the ocean; it’s a memorial to two fishermen lost at sea.
Despite the mural of the ocean, the chapel sounds nice. But I kind of wonder about the “guitar music.” How about organ with chant? Enough “arty” types live in that area to provide an adequate cantor for Gregorian chant. And an 80-year old priest likely needs only some brush up to celebrate the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
gee, LARRY, how helpful of you to tell an 80 year old priest, who survived service in vietnam, that he should now spend his time trying to learn the rubrics for a mass he hasn’t celebrated since like 1960.
It is never too late to respect orthodoxy!
Max, you’re reading this instead of the Advocate. Congratulations for stepping up!
Oh Max there you go again with your nasty dislike of the Mass of All Times!
Max may also be a bit disrespectul toward the priest, I think. People who are 80 are not necessarily unable to brush up on something they knew and did innumerable times earlier in their life. And did I miss something? What Mass was he saying between 1960 and 1970?
Unless handicapped, why not brush up on the EF? There’s a priest as nearby as Ukiah to help him.
Father Nichols is a solid guy, and his homilies are conservative.