St Patrick's Church
756 Mission Street
(between 4th St & Opera Aly)
San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 421-3730
14 Reviews for St Patrick's Church
# 4 on San Francisco's historical land mark list and founded in 1851 this Church is simply fascinating. Its so cool to see the old world contrast with the Four Seasons and the St. Regis right by. The Church and its structure has truly stood the tests of time! The clientele is people from all over the world and all over the Bay Area. Many tourists, convention goers, and workers in the financial district feel at home at St. Patricks. The church is absolutely stunning from the old brick on the outside, to the high vaulted ceilings and attention to detail inside. I live down the street and its a real joy to beable to walk to church on Sundays, especially one of this caliber.
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This used to be my church for a brief year and a half back when I used to live in the city and even when I moved to Daly City my parents liked going here. As a kid I could care less where we went to church because of the obvious reasons, its boring, long and boring again. Plus I always thought churches were creepy especially with the Statues of Saints and their following eyes. But I learned to appreciate this church BECAUSE its creepy and very Resident Evil like. Its big and you can get a nice echo going at everyone else's expense of course, prayer must be silent I'm told.
I remember hearing a story where years ago a young priest hung himself in the church and a few years later a housekeeper next door in the Marriott saw the ghost of the priest from a room she was cleaning and died of fright or some really outlandish crap like that.
It'd be cool if it were true though.
Its a beautiful church.
I'll add something here that I haven't seen others comment on yet: St. Patrick's hosts lunchtime concerts (at 12:30) on tuesdays and wednesdays with some really quality chamber music. They ask for a $5 donation. The place barely fills up and it's all quite nice. A lot of extraneous noises detract a bit from the experience, but this is the kind of thing you just don't get elsewhere.
What a nice lunch-time find in the middle of a bustling city.
St. Patrick's is a very beautiful church.
Period.
And with this wonderful archicecture, it's best to go on a fitting mass..
That mass would be the 10.30am Sunday masses they have, which are sung completley in Latin (latin-english booklets are given out when entering)
It's quite surreal and beautiful to hear the hymns echo through such the detailed church..
..and kinda fun to see newcomers completely baffled at what they got into..
And what's best is that it's right there in front of Yerba Buena gardens..
If you want, you can just begin shopping right after mass, or stop by quickly before your conference begins at Moscone..
A wonderful church, and the 10.30 mass should not be missed..
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I feel like I'm in a Braham Stoker novel when I'm in this church and I should be wearing a velvet hooded cloak and lighting candles while mumbling incantations or something.
But no. Instead I get dressed up in my finest Sunday duds and make a feeble attempt to sing in Latin. The organist and men's Latin choir is so cool, and the old little priesties are adorable.
It makes me sad that this church isn't packing them in-it's beautiful, and right downtown in tourist central. I'm also the only person that goes here on a regular basis that's under, like, 60. No cute Catholic boys for me! Bummer. I guess everyone is going to the Metreon accross the street and lowering their IQ in the Playstation store. How depressing.
Even if you aren't Catholic, I reccommend coming here at least once, it's so interesting. I must confess I just like to zone out and people watch and look at all the statues and stained glass, but I live for the looks I get when the tatted up Marilyn Monroe lookalike tells them she goes to church on Sunday.
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SRO for Ash Wednesday ( you know that day when you're downtown and suddenly half your co-workers have dirt on their foreheads? those are actually ashes and they're there on purpose - )
There's a guy that sells suman and some pretty good filipino tamales outside after the Tagalog mass - but I don't know if he's there every Sunday.
Beautiful building. In my opinion, the Franciscan priests here give a good, useful, thoughtful homily.
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Their 10:30am Latin mass on Sundays is absolutely moving.
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My favorite Catholic church in San Francisco. My favorite place to decompress during Macworld along with the House of Shields.
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A great place to worship if you're a Catholic. This is considered as a historical landmark by San Francisco so unlike the other demolishing and reconstruction of buildings around it, St. Patricks is going nowhere. The interior is something to look at. Across the side isles adorn statues of religious Catholic saints. The area behind the altar is made entirely of marble. It's rather funny that it's surrounded by a hotel building and Metreon across the street. I go to mass here on a somewhat regular basis and the visitors range from regulars, to mostly those from other parts of the city, or tourists which is fine with me. It just adds more character to the church's attendance and is somewhat a metaphor of San Francisco's diversity. Although I must point out that there is a sizable amount of Filipinos that attended this church. There's nothing wrong with that though since I'm Filipino myself.
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Beautiful, venerable, sacred. They also have mass in Tagalog, which I found out one very stoned day.
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Apparently the owner has connections in high places, because while everything around it has been bulldozed in the name of progress, this little church, consecreated in 1872, continues to stand, defiantly resisting the winds of change.
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ALL ARE WELCOME
Saint Patrick's Church on Mission Street in San Francisco CA has always been A Place of Sanctuary.
When the hustle and bustle of the modern metropolitan lifestyle puts you at your wits end, you can come here to talk to the friendly staff, take a moment to marvel at the peace and serenity wrapped inside of stained glass and green marble (both imported from Cork Ireland) but mainly you can find some solace here.
[Further Details On The Church's Interior
To a height of eight feet, the walls are done in panels of
Botticino marble with inserts of Connemara green. The
same color motif is evident in the pillars, confessionals and
paneled inserts in the columns supporting the church roof and
choir loft, and the wainscotting of the lower portions of the walls.
The chimes bear the name of the famous triad of Irish
saints, Patrick, Brigid and Colmcille, as well as their better-
known contemporaries. Very much in keeping with the general
style of the marble work is the Gothic style pulpit added by
Father McHugh. Of selected Carraran and Botticino marble with
Verdi, antico-colored panels, its richly carved, embellished tracery,
is emblematic of church tradition. In six recesses with projecting
canopies are statuettes of St. Patrick, St. James, and the four
Evangelists. Monsignor Powleson added the liturgical baptistry
and baptismal font to the east of the church]
Serving a diverse cross-section of the downtown populace Saint Patrick's is known as
a Sanctuary for Celebrating God. All factions of urban strata recieve a gift while listening to SPYCO [Saint Patrick's Youth Choir Organization] or the homilies shared with the masses by MSGR. Fred Bitanga & Fr. John Belliza.
Saint Patrick's serves the community and sponsers civic activities for the glory of God and the good of humanity.
Stop by and say a prayer for someone and see how much good one little church can do for so many people.
PEACE UNTO YOU
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An absolutely beautiful Catholic church in SOMA!
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