St. Thérèse of Lisieux Relic Tour

See the schedule of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Relic Tour in California. A full list can be found below.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

St. Therese Church – 1100 E. Alhambra Rd. Alhambra, CA 91801

• 9am – Welcome Ceremony & Mass with Choir
• 10:30am-4:45pm – Veneration of Relics
• 3pm-5pm – Confessions
• 5pm – Mass of 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
• 6pm-9pm – Veneration

Sunday, October 12, 2025

• 7:30am & 9am – Masses with Choir (Celebrated by Bishop Brian Nunes)
• 11am Mass with Choir
• 1pm Latin Mass
• 2:30pm-4:45pm – Veneration
• 5pm – Mass
• 6:30pm-9pm – Veneration of Relics

Monday, October 13, 2025 

*No 8am Mass

• 6am – Weekday Mass
• 6:50am – Morning Prayer with Friars
• 7:10am-8:45am – Veneration of Relics
• 9am – Closing Mass with Choir
• 10:30am – Procession of the reliquary (with St. Therese School students) to Sacred Heart Retreat House (1 block from St. Therese Church)

Sacred Heart Retreat House – 920 E. Alhambra Rd. Alhambra, CA 91801

• 11am – Formal Welcome & Veneration in Main Chapel
• 2pm – Votive Mass of St. Therese (Celebrant Bishop Albert Bahhuth, Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando Pastoral Region). Veneration after Mass
• 4:00 pm – “St. Thérèse and I”: a Carmelite testimonial
• 7:00 pm – “St. Thérèse and I”: a Carmelite Testimonial
• 7:30 pm – Public Veneration ends

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 

• 8am – Votive Mass of St. Therese
• 9am-1pm – Public Veneration of relics
• 11am – 11:00 am “St. Thérèse and I”: a Carmelite Testimonial
• 1pm – Mini Carmelite concert in honor of St. Thérèse
• 1:3 pm – St. Thérèse departs for Thomas Aquinas College

Thomas Aquinas College – 10000 Ojai Rd. Santa Paula, CA 93060

• 4pm – arrival and welcoming ceremony – visitors welcome
  5pm – Votive Mass of St. Therese (Latin Ordinary Form, with Fr. Matthias, OCD)
• 6:30pm – St. Thérèse Presentation
• 9:15pm – Evening Prayer and Rosary (Students), Compline
• 9:30pm Gates close

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 

• 6am – College gates open to visitors. Veneration of relics resumes
• 7am – Mass (Extraordinary Form) Feast of St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila
• 8am – St. Thérèse Presentation by the Carmelites
• 11am – St. Thérèse Presentation by the Carmelites
• 11:15am – Mass (Ordinary Form)
• 1:30pm – St. Thérèse Presentation by the Carmelites
• 3pm – Divine Mercy Chaplet
• 3:15pm – farewell to St. Thérèse. Departure for:

Santa Teresita, 819 Buena Vista St. Duarte, CA 91010

• 7pm – arrival and welcoming ceremony
• 7pm – Votive Mass of St. Thérèse (Celebrant Archbishop Jose Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles)
• 8pm– 9pm – Veneration of the Relics up to 9:00 pm

Thursday, October 16, 2025 

• 7am-11am – Public veneration of the Relics
• 10am – “St. Therese and I”: a Carmelite Testimonial
• 11am – Holy Mass, celebrant Father Benedict Solomon, O.Praem.
• 1pm – “St. Therese and I”: a Carmelite Testimonial
• 12pm -3:30pm – Veneration of the relics
• 3pm – Mini Carmelite Concert in honor of St. Therese
• 3:30pm – Departure of the relics