Sta Rosa Churches, place for
worship and fellowship
It can be said that Sta. Rosa City is the home of Old and New Churches alike. Sta Rosa Churches page tries to cover those that are really prominent structures and with rich histories behind them. These Sta Rosa Churches also are the churches here in Sta. Rosa where I go to mass during Sundays and celebrate baptismal or wedding occassions of family and friends. If you live here in Santa Rosa or near by towns or cities, these are the possible stops on your Visita Iglesia ( Church Visits ). This tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday is an ancient practice, probably originating in Rome, where early pilgrims visited the seven pilgrim churches as penance. In the Philippines, the Catholic faithfuls carry out this tradition of Visita Iglesia during Maundy Thursday.Sta. Rosa Churches ...here they are:
Santa Rosa de Lima Church - The church and the town now a city, was named by petitioners after Santa Rosa de Lima, the miraculous Lady of Peru, from the recommendation of a Spanish Cura who was recently assigned in Lima, Peru. Peru then was a Spanish colony like the Philippines.The first church of Santa Rosa de Lima made of adobe, bricks and stone stood in 1796. Padre Francisco Favier was its “cura parroco.”Interesting feature of this church is its hexagonal shaped belfry with a globe on top of it. Another important detail is the intricate carvings on its doors.
St. Peter Parish Church in Balibago Complex replaces the old St. Peter Parish Church also near the Old National Highway. Under the Diocese of San Pablo, this is the biggest Catholic church in Sta. Rosa with the most number of parishioners. The chuch architecture or facade is said to be patterned after the Old Barosain Church in Malolos Bulacan. Can you spot the similarity?
Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish architecture is described as being “deconstructivist”. This Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure’s surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.The finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit the many deconstructivist “styles” is characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos. Get it? I don't but I do appreciate its appearance. One of my regular stop during our yearly Visita Iglesia here in Sta. Rosa.
Don Bosco Church Sta. Rosa- run by the Salesians of Don Bosco (or the Salesian Society, originally known as the Society of St. Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution.I consider this as the 2nd biggest Catholic church in Sta. Rosa. This where we attend mass during Sunday mornings when we and the kids wake up little bit late.So there is really no excuse for not attending mass on Sundays with this church offering mass until 10am. =)
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