Mass in Polish since 1971
St. Maximilian KolbePolish Catholic Mission
1735 Grand Avenue · Pacific Beach, San Diego
Regular weekly schedule
Mass in Polish
Holy days and schedule changes are posted in the parish calendar.
- Sunday
- 9:00 am11:00 am
- Friday
- 7:00 pm
- Confession
- 30 minutes before each Mass
First visit
Visiting the mission
Every Mass at the mission is celebrated in Polish, as it has been since the community’s first Mass in July 1971. The church is at 1735 Grand Avenue in Pacific Beach.
Polish families from across the San Diego area come to Mass here, along with visitors from Poland. You are welcome whether or not you speak Polish. Confession is heard for half an hour before each Mass.
Parish calendar
Upcoming at the mission
See upcoming Masses and parish events in our calendar. Open calendar ↗
Our patron
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Rajmund Kolbe was born in Zduńska Wola in 1894 and entered the Conventual Franciscans, taking the name Maximilian. In 1927 he founded Niepokalanów, a friary west of Warsaw whose presses printed the monthly Rycerz Niepokalanej for readers across Poland. He also spent six years as a missionary in Japan.
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and sent to Auschwitz, he offered to take the place of Franciszek Gajowniczek, a husband and father condemned to death by starvation. Kolbe died on August 14, 1941; Gajowniczek survived the war. St. John Paul II canonized Kolbe on October 10, 1982.
Polish roots
Our Lady of Częstochowa
The original icon has been kept at the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa since the fourteenth century, and Poles honor Mary under this image as Queen of Poland. A copy hangs beside our altar.
Relics in our church
The church keeps relics of Polish saints and blesseds, and of saints honored throughout the Church.
Preparation and pastoral care
The sacraments
Baptism
Holy Eucharist
Reconciliation
Confirmation
Holy Matrimony
Anointing of the SickInside our church
