Great Parishes in San Diego?

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Hello! My brother lives in San Diego (Spring Valley) and is suddenly coming back to Mass after about 30 years away! He’s looking for a dynamic parish in town. Can someone speak into this as I’m ignorant of the Catholic landscape in SD. Thanks!
 
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Hello! My brother lives in San Diego (Spring Valley) and is suddenly coming back to Mass after about 30 years away! He’s looking for a dynamic parish in town. Can someone speak into this as I’m ignorant of the Catholic landscape in SD. Thanks!
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I remember ST John of the Cross in East San Diege, but it has been over 30yrs ago.At the time i was a member of St Didicus and would visit St John’s for seminars and prayer meetings. So that was a long time ago…sorry. God bless your brother and I’m sure he will find his need. Great City! Peace, Carlan
 
Santa Sophia! They are in Spring Valley, have a new, awesome choir director and are in the planning stages of a parish renovation. The school is excellent. 👍
 
Is he drawn to authentic Catholic teaching, in east county San Diego then St. Ephrem’s (Meronite rite) Fr. Nabil is AWESOME :thumbsup:in El Cajon next to Our Lady of Grace.:confused:
Is he drawn to more traditional Roman liturgy => St. Anne’s (Latin Trindentine) ← <3 it:thumbsup:
More interested in the conservative Roman rite novus order Our Lady of the Rosary downtown/little Italy with Fr. Louis Solcia
Santa Sophia is in Spring Valley but I’ve never attended their Masses :confused: they have a school so they should have an active community
St. John of the Cross in Lemon Grove I wouldn’t recommend, however the priest who was short of canonizing obama in his homily has retired :cool:so I don’t know anymore. I do know that it is very family oriented.
There is also St. Kieran’s in El Cajon but I don’t know.:confused:
I would recommend churches that have the Tabernacle front and center, versus those that hide and you have to go seek the Tabernacle:thumbsup: love seeing Jesus placed front and center
 
Thanks for the help. Please keep it coming! I think the keys for him would be good music and theologically sound, winsome preaching. He lives in Spring Valley, for reference.
 
Ascension in Tierrasanta has a pastor who is a great homilist, but Tierrasanta is about 20 minutes up the I-15 from Spring Valley. Closer to home would be St. Anne, an FSSP parish in Logan Heights, if he has an interest in the Tridentine liturgy. They have a wonderful choir. I’ve also heard good things about St. Kieran in El Cajon. If he has an interest in Eastern Catholic liturgy, St. Ephrem is a Maronite parish and St. Peter is a Chaldean cathedral – both are also in El Cajon.
 
It’s probably too far from Spring Valley, but I attended St. Therese of Carmel parish in Carmel Valley and really miss it since my move to the Bay area. It’s a truly beautiful church with a great pastor.

Website: sttheresecarmel.org/
 
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