Our Community
St. Monica is a diverse and vibrant Roman Catholic community that is made up of St. Monica Catholic Church, St. Monica Catholic Elementary School for grades k-8, and St. Monica Catholic High School for grades 9-12. Located in Santa Monica, it is a home that offers many opportunities to enrich your spiritual life, educate yourself and your children, gain new insights in faith, and to serve those in need.
Our Mission: To form loving disciples who will tranform the world
What We Believe and Profess
We are a community of faith that believes and professes the gospel of Jesus Christ in the living tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. Our spirituality is rooted in prayer, scripture, evangelism, celebration of the eucharist, and sharing in the sacramental life of the Church. Our faith is transformed into action through the following individual and parish goals:
- Shape our lives in the spirit of Christ
- Develop our personal relationships with God through prayer, scripture, and worship
- Be a welcoming community that accepts and encourages diversity
- Increase stewardship as we share our talents, spirit and resources in God's service
- Minister to the poor, hungry, homeless, ill and spiritually bereft
- Encourage peace, justice and social responsibility
- Nurture the faith and religious education of our children
- Honor Christ's call to love one another as he loves us