Catholics Relocating to Silicon Valley: Welcome to a Wonderfully Diverse Church Community!

by Mary Pope-Handy | Apr 16, 2011 | Parish Life

If you are Catholic and moving to the San Jose – Silicon Valley area, you’re in luck and we hope you’ll feel right at home. We enjoy a very vibrant Catholic community here, with lots of parishes, Masses in a many languages and several Catholic rites, and of course tons of opportunity for involvement in spiritual and volunteer activities.

Find a church: You can find a list of Roman Catholic Parishes in the Diocese of San Jose (which covers Santa Clara County and is most of “Silicon Valley”) on the diocesan website:
http://www.dsj.org/about-us/parishes.

Find a Mass: About one-third of Silicon Valley happens to be Catholic (yes, that is a high percentage), and there are both a lot of churches and a lot of Masses. (I like to joke that when you’re Catholic here you have no excuse for missing Mass because there are a ton of opportunities, beginning late on Saturday afternoon, to attend.) Please check the diocese’s website for a list of parishes.  From there, click on one near you (the map function is interactive!) and from there you can click on the parish link to see when Mass is offered.

What about Mass in another language? Finding Mass in languages other than English is not too hard in Silicon Valley.  Here are the other languages, which you can find in the area:

• English
  • all parishes except the Latin-only
    Oratory of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel
• Spanish
  • Offered at 19 parishes in and near San Jose, including the Cathedral, Christ the King, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Peace, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Athanasius, St. Catherine of Alexandria (Morgan Hill), St. Clare, St. Cyprian, St. Elizabeth, St. John Vianney, St. Joseph, St. Julie Billiart, St. Leo the Great, St. Maria Goretti, St. Mary’s (Gilroy), St. Patrick Proto-Cathedral, and St. Thomas Aquinas
• Vietnamese
  • Offered at 6 parishes: Most Holy Trinity, St. Elizabeth’s, St. John the Baptist, St. Maria Goretti, St. Martin’s, St. Patrick’s
• Croatian
  • St. Mary of the Assumption Croatian Mission
• Polish
  • St. Brother Albert Chmielowski Polish Mission
• Portuguese
  • Five Wounds Portuguese National Church
  • St. Clare’s
• Latin
  • Oratory of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel
• Tagalog
  • St. Joseph’s
• Korean
  • Holy Korean Martyrs Parish
• Cantonese
  • St. Clare’s
• Mandarin
  • St. Clare’s
• Italian
  • Holy Cross

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