Last Updated July 16, 2021

St. Luke Parish COVID-19 Reopening Updates

• St. Luke Catholic Community, in accordance with the LA Archdiocese, is following the LA County Health Department in requiring everyone to wear a mask indoors on parish and school property effective Saturday, July 16, 2021, at 11:59 pm. This is due to the current increase of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. God Bless.

• Mass Schedule Update: Considering the shortage of priests and available current Masses, we will not be bringing back the Sunday 5:30 pm Mass. We would like to invite all parishioners who previously attended that Mass to join us at another Mass. Thank you for your understanding.

• For those who wish to receive Communion on the tongue at Mass, please be last in Father’s line, as he will sanitize in between each tongue communicant.

• The Parish Office is open to the public Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm (Update - The office is no longer closed for lunch.). Items can also be left in office mailbox.

• We ask that everyone respects the comfortability and vulnerabilities of our fellow parishioners as we transition out of the Pandemic and respect their decisions. 

• Music Issues and Missalettes will return to the church pews and not to be taken home, but shared at liturgies (It is not necessary to return the old missalettes you may have; please recycle or save for when the recycling bin is on the church property July 9-11.).

• Weekday Morning and Sunday In-person Masses have resumed. Click for details...

• Liturgical singing is allowed.

• The choir loft is not available for seating at this time.

• The 10:30 am Sunday Mass will continue to be live streamed for now. The Mass is available to view on the St. Luke Church website (www.stluketemplecity.org), on the St. Luke Church Vimeo webpage (https://vimeo.com/stluketemplecity), and the St. Luke Catholic School Facebook page (St. Luke Catholic School Temple City). The live stream can be replayed.

• The Adoration Chapel (located in the Pastoral Office) has reopened. Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:00 am-4:30 pm. Hour of Devotion at 3:00 pm. In person or online. Details...

• Reminder! The Drive-thru Communion Reception Line has been discontinued.

• New Location: Drive-thru Confessions are held outdoors on Saturdays at 10:00 am, weather permitting. Drive into the South Church Parking Lot from Cloverly Avenue where you will be directed to approach one a priest who will hear your brief confession from outside the passenger side of the car. If there are multiple people in the car, the passenger/s may exit and stand at a safe distance and we will come to them after hearing the driver’s confession. Drive out through the exit off of Broadway Street. 

• For anointing of the sick and other sacramental arrangements, please call the Pastoral Office. 

• Groups/ministry meetings are not allowed to meet on campus. Please do not meet off campus.

The Vatican’s doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has determined that it is “morally acceptable” for Catholics to take these vaccines against the COVID-19 Virus. This judgment is deeply rooted in the Catholic moral tradition. 
 
On December 21, 2020, the CDF stated: “All vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive” … “the morality of vaccination depends not only on the duty to protect one's own health, but also on the duty to pursue the common good.” “In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed.”
 
Thus, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles strongly encourages Catholics to receive a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine for the sake of ourselves, our loved ones, and the common good.
 
If some of the faithful choose not to take the vaccine for reasons of conscience, the Vatican says those persons “must do their utmost to avoid … becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent.” Read more...

• Moral Guidance on Vaccines
• USCCB Statement on the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine 

Visit VaccinateLACounty.com for more information, eligibility, and to schedule appointments. Residents who don’t have computer access may call (833) 540-0473 between 8:00 am and 8:30 pm for assistance with reservations.

• USCCB Resources for Catholics During COVID-19

• In this time of need, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, invites all the faithful to seek together the maternal intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a prayer.

• Temple City COVID-19 Information Website

• As this is an evolving situation, please continue to visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website for the latest information as well as the County of Los Angeles Public Health Department website. We will continue to communicate with you as this matter progresses in order to provide you with the accurate information as it becomes available along with best practices.