Saint Ann Anglican Chapel

Wonderful and «truly traditional» Anglo-​Catholic parish which is not part of the Protestant Episcopal Church USA for that very reason. Excellent preaching and beautiful music from a professional choir. Anglo-​Catholic worship (unaccompanied by social progressiveness) is hard to find in the Bay area, so St. Ann Chapel, as a parish of the Anglican Province of Christ the King, is a true blessing for the many bewildered that have fallen away from the Episcopal Church because of its steady move away from orthodox worship and values.

This chapel has an interesting history. It was originally built and endowed by the Luce family in memory of Clare Booth Luce’s daughter, Ann Brokaw. It features stations by Andre Girard (who also painted on the windows in lieu of stained glass) and a mosaic & baldachin by Louisa Jenkins. Miraculously, the Diocese of San Jose didn’t rip everything out and turn it into an auditorium in the mid-​20^th century, but in 1998 the building was sold in order to finance a new Campus Ministry parish at Stanford. The Luce Foundation purchased it, leasing it to the goofball Thomas Merton Center, who wanted to purchase it but – Deo gratias – couldn’t afford to.
In 2003, the chapel was sold to the Anglican Province of Christ the King, a traditionalist Anglo-​Catholic jurisdiction. St Ann Chapel is again a place where the orthodox faith of the Church Fathers is proclaimed, and the holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered. Mysterious ways, indeed.