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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2026

8 A.M.
7 P.M.

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

OR Fr. George: [email protected]

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

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St. Catherine of Siena, Laguna Beach

St. Catherine of Siena, Laguna Beach

We commit ourselves to: being a welcoming sanctuary and a place of prayer and worship.

Where do broken hearts go?

—Go to the blessed Sacrament,
where God is present.

Where Broken Hearts Find Rest

A broken heart does not need clever advice, motivational slogans, or noisy distractions. It needs presence. Real presence. In a world that treats pain as something to be fixed quickly or hidden politely, the Blessed Sacrament offers something radically different: God who stays.

When life fractures us—through loss, betrayal, loneliness, failure, or exhaustion—the instinct is often to run. We scroll, numb, rationalize, or busy ourselves into forgetting. None of these heal. They only delay. A broken heart does not need escape; it needs encounter.

The Blessed Sacrament is not a symbol of comfort but the reality of it. God chooses to remain, quietly and humbly, waiting. No explanations are demanded. No performance is required. You come as you are—angry, confused, tired, empty—and you sit. That alone is prayer.

In that stillness, something subtle happens. Pain does not instantly disappear, but it is no longer alone. Silence becomes companionship. Tears become language. The heart, once shattered, begins to remember that it is seen.

This is not sentimental religion. It is grounded theology. The Christian claim is daring: God does not observe suffering from a distance; He enters it and remains within reach. The Eucharist is the continuation of that closeness. Broken humanity meets self-giving love.

Healing, then, is not dramatic. It is slow, faithful, and often unnoticed. But hearts that return again and again to the Blessed Sacrament find themselves changed—not because life became easier, but because they became rooted.

Broken hearts do not go to explanations.
They do not go to noise.
They do not go to quick fixes.

They go where God is present.
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Peace isn’t a finish line, and it isn’t a prize for having everything under control.

Peace is a Person. Peace is Jesus—right here with me in the middle of my mess—steady and unshaken by the chaos or the unknown.

So, Lord, teach me to cling to You in this in-between space—in the waiting room, in the “not yet.”

Don’t let my fear of tomorrow pull me away from Your presence today. Let Your peace settle into every corner of my anxious thoughts, just as You promised:

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you… Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” — John 14:27
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