Dear Friends,

Thank you for visiting Holy Family’s website.  If you haven’t already, we hope you’ll be able to visit us in person here in South Pasadena!  At Holy Family, our mantra is “All Are Welcome”:  we try our best to make sure that everyone who walks into our parish feels that they have come to a place which embraces them.   

It is an exciting time in the life of Holy Family Church.  After several years of thoughtful planning, we have transitioned to a collaborative lay model of parish leadership.  It is an honor to have been appointed by Cardinal Mahony on July 1^st, 2009 as Holy Family’s Parish Life Director.  I look forward to continuing to work collaboratively with our priests, Monsignor Clement Connolly, Fr. Jose Parathanal, Fr. Niall O’Leary, and Fr. Tony Scannell, as well as with our lay staff and parish leadership. To read more about Holy Family’s leadership transition, please click on the following links: A Vision for Parish Leadership and Leadership - Parish Life Director

This year is Holy Family's Centennial Anniversary and throughout the year we will be celebrating our past as well as looking ahead to our future.  This is a year of community festivities, prayer and reflection during which we will lift up in gratitude all those who have built up our wonderful parish.  At the same time, 2010 will see the release of our Strategic Plan which will guide the growth of the parish for the next five years.   If you scroll down below this letter, you will find our Centennial Calendar of Events.

If you come and visit us on a Sunday, take time to stop by the Welcome Center which you will find in the Gathering Area after the 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., and 12:45 p.m. Masses.  Even if you can’t join us in person, you can listen to a podcast of the gospel and homily at the 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass by going to Podcasts. Or you can now watch the gospel and homily from Sunday Mass by clicking on Video Mass.

Whether you live near or far, we hope that Holy Family can be part of your spiritual journey!

Blessings,

Cambria Smith
Parish Life Director