Sacred Heart Church

This is my church home for the last 30 years. It always is welcoming and warm. The priests preach in a way that is very relevant to current times, without straying too far from the word. Sacred Heart is a great church to raise children in and also for adults who would like to lead a Christian faith-​based life.

A quaint little church, but also very small. It worked for us since the 7:30am mass on Sunday wasn’t very crowded, but I would imagine on holy days things could get quite packed. Also, as out of towners, we were unaware that there was parking on the other side of the church so we ended up parking on the street.

This has always been one of the best Catholic Churches in Oakland. It has gone through alot of difficult times in the past from losing almost half it’s congregation in the late 60’s when they put the new freeway and Bart station in dividing the parish in half. Then after the earthquake in 1989, the stone church that was over 100 years old and a beautifully designed building was forced to sit for several years unsafe until it was finally torn down. The new church was finally built but in all that time parishioners went to other churchs and they lost even more of their congregation. It shows how deep that congregation is, to fight through all diversity and still go on. Myself I was born and raised in that parish and I always found the people of the congregation to be loving good people.