Santa Barbara Catholic Church

Parish Pantry Mission & Services

Santa Barbara Catholic Church is a faith-filled and life-giving community… cultivating a spirit of compassion and awakening in us the call to serve. Parishioners demonstrate brotherly love, in part, by supporting two parish pantries. The Food Pantry is a membership charity serving needy individuals & families in Dededo and proffers food and hygienic supplies. The Baby Jesus Pantry is designed to help homeless and/or unemployed mothers provide their youngest child with basic necessities until they can qualify for membership in the parish’s food pantry. Basic necessities include a one-month supply of disposable or cloth diapers, baby formula and/or milk.

The pantries are financed by sponsorships and donations from parishioners, clergy members, non-parishioners & businesses. The schema of pantry offerings includes:

STARCHES: Guam Bakery bread; Calrose rice; Jasmin rice; Kellogg cereals; Original Ichiban
PROTEINS: Tulip luncheon meat; Ox & Palm corned beef; Century tuna; Ligo sardines; pork & beans; Vienna sausage; soup
JUICES & DRINKS: Gina fruit juices; V-8 juice; Cranberry juice; whole milk (8 oz); low fat milk (8 oz); Anchor full cream milk (quart), Carnation milk (13 oz); bottled water
HYGENIC SUPPLIES: Body soap; laundry soap; toothbrushes, toothpaste; face masks; hand sanitizers; butane

PANTRY HOURS

Monday, Wednesday, & Friday: 10AM - 12 NOON
Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday: 4PM - 6PM

Fr. Ken is usually in the pantry ½ hour before opening times to accept donations and deliveries.

March 21, 2021 Announcements

To assist in slowing the transmission of COVID-19, and as part of the Archdiocesan contact tracing efforts, parishioners are highly encouraged to fill out the Contact Tracing Form in the pews every time they attend Mass. Only one form per household is necessary. Forms will be collected after Mass. If you attend Mass and should receive a positive COVID test result, kindly inform the pastor or the parish office.
Effective Palm Sunday, the 9AM Mass will resume at the Divine Mercy-St. John Paul II Chapel in Astumbo.
Confessions will be heard March 26 and 27, from 3PM – 4:30PM, in the upper church and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. All are highly encouraged to avail of the sacrament during this holy season.
On Palm Sunday, our parish will have a second collection which will benefit the Holy Childhood Mission. On Good Friday, the collection will go towards the Holy Land. These special collections will be remitted to the Archdiocese of Agana for distribution to these causes. Thank you for your generosity.
A friendly reminder to all to practice safe social distancing in church. Do not crowd or gather at the entrances/exits. Kindly be mindful that masks should be worn at all times on church grounds and that only members of the same household may sit in the same pew. Please follow these directions for exit procedures and be guided accordingly by the ministers and ushers. Everyone will exit pew by pew beginning with the pews in the back. Those seated behind the altar should exit through the Blessed Sacrament side. Those seated facing the altar should exit through the front. Again, exit pew by pew and maintain social distancing. Let us do our part to protect ourselves and everyone around us.

Updated Mass Schedule

Effective Oct. 3, 2020

With the recent announcement by Archbishop Michael Byrnes, we will resume the following Mass schedule, effective Saturday, Oct. 3, at 5PM.

Sunday Schedule of Masses:

Saturday - 5PM (Anticipated Sunday Mass)
SUNDAY- 6AM,8AM, 10AM, 12PM, 2PM (Chuukese Mass) and 5PM

Daily Mass Schedule

Monday - Saturday: 6AM*

*Effective, Nov. 3, 2020, daily Mass will be celebrated at 6AM and 6PM in the lower chapel.

Masks must be worn at all times on church grounds. Before entering the church, parish staff will assist with temperature screening and hand sanitizing. If you are ill, stay home. Masses will continue to be live-streamed and broadcast over the speaker system on Sunday at 8AM and 5PM. Parishioners are welcome to continue remaining in their vehicles for “parking lot” Mass.

Parish Mobile App Now Available

Apple app coming soon!

Father Dan and the Santa Barbara Parish Pastoral Council are pleased to announce the launch of our new parish mobile app for Android devices. The app is available for download on Google Play, and will be coming soon to the Apple App Store.

The Mobile App is a new and effective way for our parish to stay connected, and to communicate important events and announcements.
The App is packed with prayer resources including Liturgy of the Hours, Daily Mass Readings, the Order of the Mass, Sunday Reading Reflections, and the Catechism.
It also includes a quick link to our live streamed Masses, a calendar of parish events, as well as local links to Archdiocese social media resources.

Best of all, through the app’s push notifications, we can alert you of important announcements and events, delivered directly to your mobile phone or tablet.

You can download the app by searching "Santa Barbara Church Guam" on Google Play, or by clicking on the Google Play image link.

Be on the lookout for more announcements as we deliver additional features to parishioners through the mobile app!

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Oct. 25, 2020 Message from Father Dan

28th Sunday Ordinary Time

My Dear Parishioners,

Last October 17, at the Cathedral-Basilica, we celebrated the funeral Mass for Msgr. David I. A.

Quitugua. We bid goodbye to a well-loved priest who served so faithfully and lovingly the

people of God here on Guam. In the afternoon of that same day, at the very same church,

deacon Ron Pangan was ordained to the sacred order of priesthood by Archbishop Michael

Jude Byrnes. The priests of the Archdiocese welcomed their newest member.

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