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ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES CATHOLIC DIRECTORY 2020-2021 Mission Basilica San Buenaventura, Ventura See inside front cover 01-FRONT_COVER.indd 1 9/16/2020 3:47:17 PM Los Angeles Archdiocesan Catholic Directory Archdiocese of Los Angeles 3424 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90010-2241 2020-21 Order your copies of the new 2020-2021 Archdiocese of Los Angeles Catholic Directory. The print edition of the award-winning Directory celebrates Mission San Buenaventura named by Pope Francis as the first basilica in the Archdiocese. This spiral-bound, 272-page Directory includes Sept. 1, 2020 assignments – along with photos of the new priests and deacons serving the largest Archdiocese in the United States! The price of the 2020-21 edition is $30.00 (shipping included). Please return your order with payment to assure processing. (As always, advertisers receive one complimentary copy, so consider advertising in next year’s edition.) 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ID: CORRECTIONS / BILLING INFO Name: Address: Address: City/St/ZIP: Payment by Check Check # _______________ Date: _________________ – OR – by Credit Card Phone Number: Visa / MC / AMEX / Disc Card #: Exp. _____ / _____ Email (optional) for card payment confirmation: ORDER THE LOS ANGELES CATHOLIC DIRECTORY BY PHONE AT (213) 637-7378 OR ONLINE AT HTTP://STORE.LA-ARCHDIOCESE.ORG/PUBLICATIONS. QUESTIONS? EMAIL [email protected] COVER STORY A Historic First for Mission San Buenaventura By Pablo Kay, Angelus Editor-in-Chief he was installed as episcopal vicar for the When Fr. Tom Elewaut, pastor of Mission Santa Barbara region of the Los Angeles San Buenaventura, saw the name on his Archdiocese in a Mass celebrated at Mission phone’s caller ID the night of June 30, 2020, San Buenaventura. he guessed the call had something to do with The designation, Bishop Barron explained, the recent controversy over whether to remove binds San Buenaventura to the four major the statue of St. Junípero Serra in front of basilicas of the mother Church in Rome: St. Ventura’s City Hall. John Lateran, St. Peter, St. Mary Major, and “I’ve got some good news,” said Archbishop St. Paul Outside the Walls. José Gomez on the other end of the line. Now that Mission San Buenaventura is a “You’re a minor basilica.” basilica, it will receive a series of symbolic Fr. Elewaut’s voice started to crack with emo- “upgrades”: a cone-shaped canopy, known tion. He had spent the last six years research- as an ombrellino, will now be placed above ing, praying and waiting for Pope Francis to the church’s lectern; a bell mounted on a pole, decide whether to elevate his 238-year-old known as the “tintinnabulum,” similar to that parish to the rank of “minor basilica.” used during the Middle Ages to signal the Two weeks later, on July 15, 2020, the feast pope’s approach, will now be used in parish of the mission’s namesake, St. Bonaventure, processions; and the insignia of the Papal the pope’s decision was made public. At a spe- Cross Keys will appear in banners, signs, and cial 7:30 a.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop over the mission’s doors. Gomez, along with Fr. Elewaut and Regional The faithful will also now be able to obtain Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron, Mission From left: Mission Basilica San Buenaventura Pastor Fr. Tom Elewaut, Dea- a plenary indulgence, which removes the Basilica San Buenaventura was unveiled as a con Teodoro Landeros, Regional Bishop Robert Barron and Archbishop José temporal punishment due to sins, on prede- Gomez during the July 15, 2020 Mass celebrating the mission’s papal desig- minor basilica for the Los Angeles Archdio- termined “basilican feast days.” nation as a minor basilica. Photo by Colton Machado/LA Archdiocese cese and the 88th in the United States. What’s next? “When the pope designates a basilica, it of Alcalá, the first mission St. Junípero for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the The change in status comes at a difficult time means this is holy ground, that something established in 1769. Msgr. Weber felt it only Sacraments in Rome. for the mission on multiple fronts. beautiful and important in the history of fitting that St. Junípero’s last mission enjoy Later that same year, the application came On the day the new basilica designation was salvation happened here,” Archbishop Gomez that same status. back rejected – again. In its denial, the Vatican to be announced, the Ventura City Council said at the Mass, held outside in the mission’s But soon after Cardinal Manning submitted cited what Fr. Elewaut described as a pair of li- voted to remove a St. Junípero statue from in garden due to restrictions on outdoor religious the three-page application, it came back from turgical “faux pas” that he had made to accom- front of City Hall. And the weekend before the services mandated by California Gov. Gavin Rome denied. Despite Msgr. Weber’s request modate the building’s limited space. He had announcement, an overnight fire ravaged Mis- Newsom just two days earlier in light of the that he make a sec- placed the baptismal sion San Gabriel Arcángel. While the cause recent spike in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases ond attempt, Cardinal font in the sanctuary, of the blaze is still under investigation, many in the state. Manning decided not “a liturgical no-no” for see its timing – on the same weekend that saw St. Junípero had planned to establish San to push the issue any Rome, as he put it. Also several acts of anti-Catholic vandalism around Buenaventura as the third mission in Alta further. frowned upon by Rome the country – as suspicious. California but was forced to wait more than a The idea of making was his positioning of Two days prior to the announcement, Cali- decade before receiving approval. San Buenaventura a the presider’s chair in fornia’s governor ordered houses of worship When the mission was eventually founded, basilica was not given front of the altar, instead to cease indoor gatherings for the foreseeable on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782, St. serious thought again of off to the side. future as part of a statewide reclosure amid a Junípero alluded to the fact that it took the until 2011, when Fr. Fr. Elewaut duti- spike in coronavirus infections. Church more than 200 years after Bonaven- Elewaut arrived as the fully made the required The governor’s announcement left Fr. Ele- ture’s death to declare him a saint. mission’s new pas- changes and sent a new waut and parish staff scrambling to transform And in many ways, this could also char- tor. He started going application to Rome. the mission’s garden into a liturgical space to acterize the nearly 45 years it took for St. through the parish re- On June 30, the vigil of celebrate the first Mass at the newly named Bonaventure’s mission to be named a basilica. cords and came across St. Junípero’s feast day, basilica. A bumpy road to ‘basilica’ Msgr. Weber’s original the mission’s pastor re- Once the pandemic passes, Fr. Elewaut ceived the news he had The pursuit to get Rome to recognize San application. Pastor Fr. Thomas Elewaut looks forward to hosting a larger, more festive Buenaventura as a basilica began in 1976, spent years praying for. celebration to mark the milestone. The new pastor approached Archbishop when the Vatican gave then-Cardinal Timothy What changes now? Gomez and, after some consultation, in 2014 “The famous words of St. Junípero Serra Manning approval to solemnly consecrate he gave Fr. Elewaut the green light to start the In making a church a basilica, the pope were ‘always forward, never back,’ ” he said the mission’s 167-year-old church building. declares the church to be one of his own. process anew. on the night before the celebration Mass. Msgr. Francis J. Weber, one of the eminent There are just over 1,800 minor basilicas in “All of these missions have had destructive historians of the Church in the United States As befitting a former high school principal, the world, and before the July 15 announce- things happen at one time or another, whether who was then the administrator of the mission, Fr. Elewaut spent the next four years studying ment, 87 in the whole United States, and six it’s earthquakes, or fires, or even pandemics, suggested that the mission seek a further and researching, building his case for the in the state of California. and yet they keep enduring and keep going honor from Rome. mission’s pastoral and historical importance.