Immaculate Conception Chapel

I have attended the Tridentine (Traditional Latin Mass) at Immaculate Conception several times. The Mass time is 5 pm and the archdiocesan priest who says the Mass if Fr. William Young, a Thomist and Latinist of much accomplishment. His homilies have always been a marvel.
The Gregorian Chant I’ve always found beautiful with organist Peter Ujj and accomplished cantors.
I highly recommend this Mass and the lovely chapel.

I’m so upset. Today was one I don’t want to remember. I contacted Father William and he said he will help me and my friend find God. He asked us to read 10 minutes of the Bible at night and 10 mins of it in the morning and to show up at 9am. I went through incredible effort to get his help for my friend. When we showed up, he humiliated us by lying to us and then sending us away like we were just trash. He told us he cannot help us and to try somewhere else, and shut the door on us. Without a referral of where else to seek the help we were looking for! I wonder if others have had this type of experience with Father William? He was recommended to me as one of the best Priests in the area. I don’t see him as a man of God. If it was an option there would be zero stars for this Priest.

I was nothing else than apart and faraway of God. I used to be agnostic… Everybody knows that life isn’t easy. I was so angry at God but the 1^st day that I went to this little church, I’ve recognized that my life would be better. THE PRIEST, a real one. The Father Lauriola is amazing. If just one in five priest were half like him, more people would be close to God.
Sometimes my life gives me a hard time, but Father Lauriola has the gift, and since 4 months ago every Thursday at 7pm God thru Him gives me the interior peace and courage that I need to keep ahead. I am really thankfully for the chance to change my life and be close to God again.

This is my family’s church and one of the cutest little Catholic churches I know. After coming here for years I feel that others should know about the little Bernal Heights jewel.
It’s very small and ornate, quaint and adored by members. The priests here have been here for years and have lead services over my family’s baptisms, weddings, holidays and funerals. The memories, both happy and sad have been shared amongst my family here for the last three generations.
After this past weekend’s baptismal celebration of my newest relative, I wanted to give Immaculate Conception the credit it deserves and five stars.

Yeah, I know, you’re thinking… who would review a church/​chapel! Me! Myself! I! Okay… so I first have to tell you I went to grammar school at I.C.E. as we called it back then… so of course we had our school masses here. The pastor who presides over the flock now, was the same pastor when I was in 5^th grade dude!!! Father William! Anyway, this chapel, tucked away in Bernal Heights (probably how it earned the name «the little church on the hill») has some of he most gorgeous statues/​sanctuaries and stained glass windows every seen in a church in the U.S. They still have masses in Latin. Sadly, the school merged with Saint Anthony’s down the hill and now the school buildings are being used for something else (even the gorgeous mural of Mary that watched over the «upper yard» has been dismantled! (how could they??) but thank God, the beautiful chapel remains! If you ever want to experience mass in a beautiful, Euro-​inspired chapel, plenty of free parking and a nice community of worshppers, make a point of going to mass there. Amen!