Welcome to Mater Dolorosa Catholic Parish
If you need a priest URGENTLY -
for someone who is approaching death, and needs anointing from a priest,
Please call 650-930-7819
♦ Mass Schedule ♦
Saturday Vigil Mass: 5 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m., 10 a.m. & 12 Noon
Daily: 8 a.m.
Byzantine Divine Liturgy (In the Monastery)
Saturday 10 a.m. & Sunday 8 a.m.
Holy Days of Obligation: 8 a.m., 10 a.m. (Latin Mass), 12 Noon, & 7:00 p.m.
Reconciliation: Saturday 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form: Monday through Friday 12 Noon. Saturday 9 a.m. & Sunday at 2 p.m.
First Friday Healing Ministry Mass: 7:00 p.m.
(See
bulletin for detailed daily schedule)
Mass Schedule
Sunday
8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm
2:00 pm (Latin)
8:00 a.m. Byzantine Divine Liturgy - COSJ Monastery
Saturday
8:00 am
9:00 am (Latin)
10:00 a.m. Byzantine Divine Liturgy - COSJ Monastery
5:00 pm (Vigil Mass)
Last Saturday of the Month Mass in Tagalog.
6:30 pm Byzantine Compline - COSJ Monastery
Weekdays
8:00 am
12:00 pm (Latin)
Holy Days of Obligation
8:00 am, 10:00 am (Latin), 12:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Reconciliation/Confession
Saturday: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, or by appointment if urgent.
Daily Schedule
Revised JANUARY 2025
SUNDAY
6:30 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:00 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:00 AM: Byzantine Divine Liturgy (COSJ Chapel)
10:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (English)
2:00 PM : HOLY MASS (Latin)
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
MONDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:45 AM: Eucharistic Adoration until 11:45 AM
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
1:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
6:30 PM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
6:55 PM: Closing Prayer. Sung Prayer to Our Lady of
Sorrows & St. Joseph, Followed by Individual Blessing with Holy Water
TUESDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:45 AM: Eucharistic Adoration until 11:45 AM
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
1:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
6:30 PM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
6:55 PM: Closing Prayer. Sung Prayer to Our Lady of
Sorrows & St. Joseph, Followed by Individual Blessing with Holy Water
WEDNESDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:45 AM: Eucharistic Adoration until 11:45 AM
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
1:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
6:30 PM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
6:55 PM: Closing Prayer. Sung Prayer to Our Lady of
Sorrows & St. Joseph, Followed by Individual Blessing with Holy Water
THURSDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:45 AM: Eucharistic Adoration until 11:45 AM
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
1:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
5:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER
(Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
6:55 PM: Benediction
7:00 PM: Closing Prayer. Sung Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows & St. Joseph, Followed by Individual Blessing with Holy Water
FRIDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
8:30 AM: Eucharistic Procession
8:45 AM: Eucharistic Adoration until 11:45 AM
12:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
1:00 PM: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
5:30 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
6:00 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
6:55 PM: Closing Prayer. Sung Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows & St. Joseph, Followed by Individual Blessing with Holy Water
7:00 PM: FIRST FRIDAYS—Healing Mass Followed by
Eucharistic Adoration until Midnight
SATURDAY
6:00 AM: Holy Hour/Eucharistic Adoration
7:00 AM: MORNING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
7:30 AM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
8:00 AM: HOLY MASS (English)
9:00 AM: HOLY MASS (Latin)
10:00AM: Byzantine Divine Liturgy (COSJ Chapel)
3:00 PM: CONFESSION
4:00 PM: EVENING PRAYER (Gregorian Chant)
4:30 PM: Deep Listening to Scripture Readings
5:00 PM: HOLY MASS (Sunday Vigil—English)
PARISH OFFICE HOURS
TUESDAY - FRIDAY
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Call 650-583-4131 X 1
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The Contemplatives of St. Joseph
Join us for a Holy Hour with Sacred Silence, Vespers, Lectio Divina, and Benediction!
Every First Saturday of the Month at Mater Dolorosa parish from 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
We Pray to the Lord for:
à The Gabriel Project Ministry and every Pro-Life Movement
à The Unborn Babies and their Legal Protection
à The Mothers and Fathers and the Strength and Growth of Christian Families
à The Culture of Life and the People who work to Protect
Human Life from Conception to Natural Death
à The Conversion of those who act against Human Life
HEALING MASS
EVERY FIRST FRIDAY
7:00 P.M
The Next Healing Mass will be on Friday, APRIL 3, 2026. All are welcome.
Our Catholic Lenten Observance:
We focus on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, with specific obligations for fasting (one full meal, two smaller ones) and abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent for those aged 14-59, while encouraging broader penance and spiritual growth.
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FAMILY DINNER
On Saturday, March 25th please join us for Mass our Family Dinner. Please bring a dish to share for the pot luck.
Everyone is welcome.
Parish Ministries
Readers
Family Faith Formation
Announcements
Eucharistic Adoration
Eucharistic Adoration at Mater Dolorosa is now Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., every weekday (only paused by Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon).
You may want to consider signing up to spend time in adoration of our Lord by filling out the sign-up sheets found in the pews. However, no need to sign up, in order to feel free to drop in to your church for some quiet time with God.
Praise be to Jesus Christ for our new chapel is finally
completed! There will be many ways to make good spiritual use of our new chapel. Some of which will be special Masses for small groups of people, Novenas after Mass, Eucharistic Adoration on weekends and during functions or weddings, and private prayer. It will be open from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 6:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Healing Mass
Our Next Healing Mass will be on Friday, April 3, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
All are welcome to attend!
First Saturday Devotion and Rosary
The Mater Dolorosa Legion of Mary is pleased to announce that the First Saturday Devotion and Rosary will now resume and will continue every first Saturday of the month. The Rosary will be prayed in the Sister’s Monastery following the 8:00 a.m. Mass. Everyone is welcome to join.
Every Friday at 7:00
Followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
And Benediction
LENT AND EASTER SCHEDULE AT MATER DOLOROSA
Stations of the Cross in the Pieta Garden
Every Wednesday 6:00 p.m.
March 27th 7:00 p.m. Musical Stations of the Cross
Followed by Mass, Bilingual
in Tagalog and English at 7:45 p.m.
March 29th Palm Sunday
Sunday Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 Noon
& 2:00 p.m. (Latin Mass)
Palms will be blessed outside the church
and then followed by a procession beginning at all the Masses.
April 2nd Holy Thursday -Mass of the Lord’s Supper
7:00 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration following Mass
in the St. Lorenzo Ruiz parish hall until Midnight.
April 3rd , Good Friday – The Passion of the Lord
Confessions from 12:00 Noon until 8:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Meditation on the Seven Last Words of Jesus
by Rev. Fr. Andrew Mbinkar Berinyuy
2:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
3:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
6:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
7:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
April 4th Holy Saturday – Easter Vigil
8:00 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration following Mass until Midnight.
April 5th Easter Sunday
Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., & 12:00 Noon, & 2:00 p.m. (Latin Mass).