About Our Lady of Guadalupe · Live Oak, California
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Catholic mission church serving the small farm community of Live Oak in Sutter County, California. It operates as a mission of Sacred Heart Parish in Gridley, under the pastoral care of Rev. Roland B. Ramirez, and is part of the Diocese of Sacramento's Sutter Buttes Deanery. The mission gathers a primarily Spanish-speaking faithful for weekly worship, with Mass celebrated in Spanish on Sunday afternoons and a Saturday Vigil Mass in English. Two deacons, Dcn. Jésus Venegas and Dcn. Adam Bowers, assist the pastor at the mission and at the parent parish.
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Rector
- Rev. Roland B. Ramirez
- Diocese
- Diocese of Sacramento
Why belong here
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission offers a faithful Catholic home for the Live Oak community in northern Sacramento Valley, with a Sunday Mass in Spanish that serves local farmworker families and a Saturday Vigil Mass in English for weekend worship. As a mission of Sacred Heart Parish in Gridley, it shares pastoral staff and deacons with the parent parish while retaining its own local identity and welcoming, small-parish atmosphere. For Spanish-speaking Catholics in Sutter County, it is one of the few nearby parishes with a regular Sunday liturgy in Spanish.
Mass times at Our Lady of Guadalupe
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Saturday 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
About Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission is a Catholic mission church at 9660 Broadway in Live Oak, a small agricultural city in Sutter County in California's Sacramento Valley. It belongs to the Diocese of Sacramento and is canonically a mission of Sacred Heart Parish in nearby Gridley, sharing pastoral leadership and resources with that parish.
- Type: Mission (not a full parish)
- Parent parish: Sacred Heart Parish, Gridley (established 1926)
- Deanery: Sutter Buttes Deanery
- Diocese: Diocese of Sacramento
Clergy and Pastoral Staff
The mission is served by the pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Gridley, along with two deacons who minister at both the parish and the mission.
- Pastor: Rev. Roland B. Ramirez
- Deacon: Dcn. Jésus Venegas
- Deacon: Dcn. Adam Bowers
Contact and Location
Parishioners and visitors can reach the mission through the same contact information used by Sacred Heart Parish in Gridley, since the mission shares staff and administration with the parent parish.
- Address: 9660 Broadway, Live Oak, CA 95953
- Phone: (530) 846-2140 (shared with Sacred Heart Parish, Gridley)
- Website: https://www.scd.org/parish/our-lady-guadalupe-mission-live-oak
Languages and Community
The mission serves a bilingual Catholic community in the Live Oak area. Its regular Sunday liturgy in Spanish reflects the demographics of this Sutter County farming town, while the Saturday Vigil Mass in English welcomes English-speaking parishioners and visitors.
- English: Saturday Vigil Mass
- Spanish: Sunday Mass
The Diocese of Sacramento and the Sutter Buttes Deanery
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission belongs to the Sutter Buttes Deanery, one of the regional groupings of parishes within the Diocese of Sacramento. The deanery brings together parishes and missions across Sutter and Butte counties, including St. Joseph in Marysville, St. Thomas the Apostle in Oroville, and St. Isidore in Yuba City.
- Diocese: Diocese of Sacramento
- Deanery: Sutter Buttes Deanery
- Dean: Rev. Michael Olszewski (per diocesan directory)