THOUSAND OAKS : Parish to Hold Masses in Area
The first Roman Catholic parish to be established in 22 years in the Conejo Valley will hold its first mass in the Thousand Oaks area on Sunday, officials said Thursday.
The St. Maximilian Kolbe parish will hold religious services on Sunday at the Oak Hills Elementary School in Oak Park. The congregation will be led by Msgr. Peter A. O’Reilly. Born in Ireland, O’Reilly last worked at the Nativity parish in El Monte before arriving in the Thousand Oaks area last week.
O’Reilly said the church decided to form a new parish because the number of families who attend St. Jude’s Catholic Church in Westlake Village had grown to 3,200 families.
The new parish will eventually serve an estimated 700 families in the communities of Oak Park, Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village, he said.
The St. Maximilian Kolbe parish is named after a Polish-born Franciscan priest who died in 1941 at the hands of the Nazis, O’Reilly said.
A church is planned for land the parish owns at Kanan and Lindero Canyon roads, O’Reilly said.
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