Saint Margaret Parish

The church doors are open every day of the week from 7am to 4:30pm. The Eucharistic Presence of Christ still abides at His Tabernacle. Mass is privately offered every day for parishioners. Confessions, as needed, are available on Sundays in the piazza  from 9am to 11am. 

The Church Office is open every day Monday thru Friday form 8:30am to 4:30pm with a one hour lunch at 12pm. We will be closed on Holy Week beginning Wednesday April 8th at 12pm and reopen on Tuesday April 14th. If you have any questions please call the office at (760) 941-5560

Resources for Home Sunday Worship will appear here while we support the necessary constraints we must all bear for the sake of the common good during this time of testing.

The Lord has commanded us to pray without ceasing, and this is what the Church's official Liturgy of the Hours help us do, whether we are alone, at home or work.

Access each individual liturgy for today by clicking on the relevant time of day below.

(To learn more and to view or print out free booklets for Sunday's and feast days only, visit the Pastor's message on the parish website)  

Morning Prayer – at the start of the day's work and the coming of the light.

Daytime Prayer – at mid-morning, noon and in the afternoon, to unite us with the one for whom and through whom we are working.

Evening Prayer – at the end of the day's work, to offer up what we have done.

Night Prayer – last thing at night, to commend our souls to God.

And finally, there is the magnificent Office of Readings, at whatever time of day is best for us to reflect on the mystery of salvation, with the help of Scripture and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

“The purpose of the Divine Office is to sanctify the day and all human activity.” – Apostolic Constitution, Canticum Laudis.

The Liturgy of the Hours is the richest single prayer resource of the Christian Church, with prayers, psalms and readings for each of the Hours, changing each day and through the seasons.

But such riches come at a price. With more than a thousand different Hours every year, the books are thick and using them is complex. So complex that it is rare to find anyone reciting the Hours apart from the clergy and religious. Which is not as it should be. This treasure is too marvellous to be the exclusive possession of our servants:

“The Office is... the prayer not only of the clergy but of the whole People of God.” – Apostolic Constitution, Canticum Laudis.