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Ash Wednesday is on February 22. Mass will be offered at 7:00 am, 12:10 pm, and 5:30 pm.

The Diocese of Oakland and the Archdiocese of San Francisco are holding a joint Mass for World Day of the Sick at the Cathedral of Christ the Light on Saturday, February 11 at 11:00 am. All are invited—especially those who are ill and their caretakers.

The Cathedral of Christ the Light is hosting the first ever East Bay Respect Life Mass on Saturday, January 21 at 9:00 am. Bishop Barber will be presiding. All are encouraged to then continue to the Walk For Life Rally in San Francisco following the Mass.

Click to read Bishop Barber's statement on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The Holy See has announced his funeral will be Thursday, January 5, in Rome. There will be a rosary at the conclusion of the 12:10 pm Mass at the Cathedral on that day. The 11:00 am Mass on Sunday, January 8, will be offered for the repose of the soul of the Pope Emeritus.

Join us on Sunday, December 4 at 5:00 pm for hot cocoa, community, and our first ever Christmas tree lighting on the plaza! Join Bishop Barber and the Cathedral Schola Cantorum in a service of readings, choral music and hymns in the Cathedral afterwards.

As the Cathedral Parish grows, it is critical that we align our available resources for missionary success. We have decided to indefinitely suspend the 5:00 pm Vigil Mass on Saturdays, effective November 26, 2022, the First Sunday of Advent. The final 5:00 pm Mass will be on Saturday, November 19, 2022, the Vigil of Christ the King. + Click to read Fr. Brandon's letter.

As we enter Respect Life Month, the bishops of California are inviting all Catholics to engage in prayer and fasting to end abortion and for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to form the minds and hearts of California citizens to defeat Prop 1. With that in mind, our bishops are hosting a Novena to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary to Defeat Proposition 1 from September 29 to October 7. Click to download the novena guide.

Catholic Family Life Week is on September 24 to October 2. Click here to see CCFL evens happening through out our diocese.

"Days ago we celebrated the joy of Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation. Today likewise will go down in history when the right to life was restored to children in their mother’s womb." Click here to read Bishop Barber's full statement in support of the Supreme Court ruling.

A novena of Masses for fathers begins at the 11:00 am Mass on June 19 and ends on Monday, June 27 at the 12:10 pm Mass. You may submit names of fathers through offering envelopes at the concierge desk.

A Eucharistic procession will follow the 11:00 am Mass on Sunday, June 19 on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ as part of the National Eucharistic Revival. Click to read more.

How do we respond to a God who loves and rescues us? In 33 Days To Morning Glory, we learn what saying yes to God looks like through the First Disciple—our Blessed Mother—whose "yes" changed the world.

In these weeks of the season of Easter, the Holy Spirit has prompted my Team and I to fan into a flame the graces you received from the Rescue Project Mission. The Lord is calling us to a moment of intense reflection and further deepening as a community and as individuals.

A novena of Masses for mothers begins at the 11:00 am Mass on May 8 and ends on Monday, May 16 at the 12:10 pm Mass. You may submit names of mothers through offering envelopes at the concierge desk.

The retreat was a defining moment in the life of our Cathedral community. I believe that God’s hand was certainly at work. He astounded us in many ways and convicted us to believe that the one who really wanted this retreat to be a success even more than us was God himself. One remarkable way that God revealed his blessing and favor to us was in the number of participants who attended our retreat.