Daily Mass is celebrated:
Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m.
The Sunday Mass schedule is:
Saturday at 5 p.m. in English
Sunday at 7:30 a.m. in English
Sunday at 9 a.m. in English
Sunday at 11 a.m. in English
Sunday at 1 p.m. in Spanish
Please contact the parish office at
949-494-9701 to schedule.
WEDNESDAY – 7 P.M-8 P.M. – IN THE CHURCH
FEBRUARY 25, 2026
MARCH 4, 2026
MARCH 11, 2026
MARCH 18, 2026
MARCH 25, 2026
We commit ourselves to: being a welcoming sanctuary and a place of prayer and worship.
Begin the new year with Jesus. Join us today for first Friday Adoration at St. Catherine of Siena, 8:30 am to 8 pm.Adoration Prayer to Jesus in the Eucharist
My Jesus,
present in the Most Holy Eucharist,
I adore You with all my heart.
You are here—Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity—
hidden in the humble silence of the sacrament,
yet shining with the fullness of Your love.
Lord, I believe that You gaze upon me now.
You know my joys, my wounds, my fears,
and You receive me with tenderness.
Teach me to rest in Your presence,
to listen to Your voice,
and to surrender my heart completely to You.
Jesus, Bread of Life,
fill me with Your peace.
Purify my intentions,
strengthen my faith,
and draw me deeper into Your Sacred Heart.
May this time of adoration
unite me more closely with You
and make me a living sign of Your love
to everyone I meet.
Stay with me, Lord,
and make me Yours forever.
Amen.
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Saint Anthony's daily calendar🙏
Our greetings from the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.
Peace and all good❤
𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚.
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“God has given Himself to us;
what more could He give?”
— St. Alphonsus Liguori
God Has Given Himself—The End of All Doubt
This single sentence dismantles a quiet but persistent illusion many believers carry: the idea that God is still holding something back.
The Christian claim is not that God helps, assists, or occasionally intervenes. It is far more radical—and far more demanding. Christianity asserts that God gives Himself. Not a symbol. Not a substitute. Not merely guidance or consolation. Himself.
The Nativity already makes this claim uncomfortable. An infinite God compresses Himself into vulnerability. The Creator accepts dependence. Power chooses fragility. If that were the end of the story, it would already be excessive generosity by any rational standard.
But it doesn’t stop there.
The Cross takes the logic further. God does not merely enter human life; He absorbs human suffering. He does not remain above betrayal, pain, or death—He experiences them from the inside. This is not sentimental poetry. It is a theological earthquake. If God gives Himself to the point of death, the question shifts from “Will God give?” to “What excuse remains for doubt?”
And then comes the Eucharist—the most scandalous claim of all. Not memory. Not metaphor. Presence. Ongoing, repeated self-gift. A God who refuses to remain distant even after Ascension.
St. Alphonsus’ question is therefore not rhetorical fluff. It is a logical endpoint. If God has given Himself in incarnation, sacrifice, and sacrament, then every complaint that God is absent, indifferent, or stingy collapses under scrutiny.
The real tension is not God’s generosity.
It is human resistance.
We often ask God for more signs, more clarity, more reassurance—while ignoring the magnitude of what has already been given. The problem is not insufficient divine generosity. The problem is insufficient human reckoning with it.
To accept that God has given Himself is not comforting—it is destabilizing. It means neutrality is impossible. Gratitude becomes unavoidable. Indifference becomes irrational.
If God has given Himself, then faith is no longer about waiting for something else.
It is about responding to what is already, overwhelmingly, given.
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