Which one do you like?
We received help in coming up with a few designs for our Diocesan Deaf Ministry logo. We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think.
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Fr. Michael Depcik gives us a ‘ferverino’ on Jesus’ words to us. Christopher at ASL Catholic Media, and ADW provide all Catholic Deaf Ministries with the readings for the 14th Sunday OT (C).
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Videos in American Sign Language (ASL) are at your fingertips! We hope that our collection of Catholic-Christian songs, sermons, and hymns strengthen your relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Use, share, and spread these resources. Deaf Church Ministries in the USA are indebted to the brothers and sisters in Christ who have made these resources available. These resources aid any kind of meetup in the church. Moreover, they are extremely helpful in preparing for church services. They also can be used for an online service or in-person instructional setting. They can also be used for learning ASL religious music.
Deaf Ministry Videos
We are in a process of making songs, hymns, sermons, and all of our church services available online. Please pray that we are able to make these available long term. We can’t thank you enough for your generous donation to make such possible.
If you would to take an active role in making ASL Songs or hymns click here. Everyone is available to view other videos listed below.
Mass in Sign Language
Mass in Sign Language for the Deaf is held in the Diocese of Orange in California. Please see our Mass and Confession schedule and calendar. Did you know there are many ASL Mass locations throughout the United States? There are hundreds. Mass in ASL. Online. Mass in American Sign Language Church.
ASL Mass. Mass in ASL. Online. Sign Language Church.
Ministry
Our community offers anyone who is called to serve and open to receive appropriate training to come forward. There are a variety of ministries to get involved in. Here is a list of opportunities in which you can serve:
- Lector
- Altar server
- Sacristan
- Catechesis
- Hospitality
- Choir
- ASL Hymn Videos
- Sponsor
- Retreat leader
- Pastoral Council
- Finance Council
ASL
Anyone language is valued by the members and community who use it. It is no different for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The Church is gracious since Vatican 2 for worship and liturgical services to be done in the vernacular, that is the language of the people. American Sign Language. American Sign Language church.
Find a Mass in Sign Language
Find a Mass in Sign Language using the map below. Simply enter your city or address in the search bar. If you happen to not see a parish that you know offers Catholic liturgy, please let us know. We are continuously adding new times and locations.
Mass in American Sign Language is fascinating. It is fascinating because the mass is relatively silent. This is normal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, but for those who are hearing and part of the community. It is a whole different world. For instance, instead of hearing music there is no music.
On solemnities we sometimes bring out the drums. Not a drum set, just simple drums that have a strong base. We use drums because the vibrations strong. An example of this is at the Alleluia proclamation. Everyone signs alleluia and the drums are played. It is a loud base sound so that all can hear. In the Bible the trumpet or a horn would sound to call the attention of the chosen people. Much similarly are the drums used for the Deaf. However, not all hear the drums.
We also cultivate an ASL choir. Much time is spent selecting appropriate music to practiced and performed in mass. On major holidays we strive to give back our skills and talents as a means to give God the glory.
Tags: Accessibility, ADA, American Sign Language, ASL, ASL Catholic, ASL Deaf Ministry, ASL Videos, Catholic, Catholic Deaf Community, Catholic Deaf Ministry, Christian, Church, Deaf, Deaf Catholic, Deaf Catholic Media, Deaf Catholic Ministry, Deaf Church, Deaf Ministry, Mass for the Deaf, ministry, OC Deaf, OC Deaf Church, OC Deaf Community, OC Deaf Ministry, OC Sign Language, Orange County, Orange County Deaf, Sign Language, VideosAscension of the Lord- Year C
Fr. MD and ASL Catholic Media share with us their work on the Ascension of the Lord- Year C in ASL.
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Welcome to our Deaf Church. We are Catholic and we are one. Our OC Deaf Church is vibrant and a dynamic faith filled community. Our Lord allows our congregation to continue thriving. Why? Because we follow the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. The tradition of the Church and Holy Scripture aid us on our endeavor to know God. Our community wants to know God. We strive to be open to experience his love. Moreover, receiving the sacraments of the church that our alone Lord gives, truly satisfies our soul. Our Deaf assembly is welcoming to all cultures while maintaining the Catholic tradition and teachings. Every year we participate in the California Deaf Conference in Anaheim. Our interpreters are available to anyone who wants to attend the religious education conference. Want more religious education? Join our Catholic Orange County Deaf Church.
Our Deaf Church
Our community welcomes sojourners of other faith traditions. We walk and engage them to know of Jesus better. We do so by articulating what our faith teaches us through tradition backed by scripture. With open arms we welcome those who come from a Deaf Baptist Church tradition. We also welcome those from other non-denominational Deaf churches out there.
Join us!
Leave you current non-religious Deaf assembly and join our Catholic OC Deaf Church. Hungry for theology? We got you! We attend the California Deaf Conference, which is open to all in Anaheim. Our interpreters are there for you. Our Deaf church is easy to connect with. Our community is inclusive and values Deaf cultural norms.
We have a mixed cultural ethnic makeup and it’s makes us quite dynamic. Our potluck socials have delicious food. Vietnamese egg rolls, Mexican Carne Asada, Filipino Pad Thai, great tasting salads and deserts…etc. The great tasting earthly food is nothing in comparison to the spiritual food of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
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ASL Sign for Catholic. These four words encompass what our Deaf Church lives and breathes. We communicate in American Sign Language. We are the light of the world as followers of Christ to all. It appears to many of us that the world is deaf. It does not listen to words and teaching of Christ as the way, the truth, and the life.
ASL Sign for Catholic
Being a follower of Christ involves carrying our cross. What better way than to show to the world the cross we carry than on our foreheads. For our intellect or mind gives command to our actions and words. We intentionally follow the Lord and the way of life he led to become more like unto him.
Want to know more signs? Check out the rest of the resources in our website. Better yet, visit us on Sundays.
The video to the left demonstrates how to sign the word Catholic in ASL. Why is it done this way? In Lent we receive ashes on their forehead. The dark ashes worn by the faithful on ash Wednesday is a indicator that someone is likely Catholic.
The picture below is an Ash Wednesday comical relief.
Catholic
Catholic ASL Deaf Church Community in the Diocese of Orange, California. We follow Jesus Christ which makes us Christian. Followers of Christ all over the world is summed up with being universal followers. We are Catholic because the word itself means ‘universal.’ Christianity is predominantly Catholic even though there are many denominations. Our Catholic-Christian Deaf ministry is centered on the Eucharist. Our efforts here for brothers and sisters in Christ to seek to receive the sacraments especially the Eucharist.
Hallmarks of the Catholic faith is the hierarchy. We have the vicar of Christ on earth, the pope. We also have cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters, and the lay faithful. This body of faith in unique and diverse that it cultivates life as we have grace within us. Our prayer is that we all are united in Jesus Christ. That we confess to one faith, one church, and one Lord of all.
Catholic
An interesting fact about the Catholic faith is that you can go anywhere in the world and the service is the same. The mass, the unbloody sacrifice is offered unto God the Father just as on Calvary. It is not a new and separate sacrifice aside from Christ’s it is the same. Our notion of time thinks that it is impossible to do, say, and believe such a thought.
Time is a creation of God that we humans know and experience. However, with God it is not the case. He is outside of time. He gives us his one eternal sacrifice throughout all time. The scriptures attest that the lamb was already slain from the foundations of the world.
Mass
We Catholics take Jesus’ words really seriously even more so than Baptists, Adventists, Methodists, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, and all others. Our Lord’s words are placed in the proper context. A sure way to be sure to stand behind such teachings and decrees of the Church is to look at all the councils, synods, and responses to heresies. They all attest to the same truth that the Church proclaims.
Eucharist
John 6:53-58
53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats[a] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
We truly believe that Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity is present in the Catholic mass.
ASL
Our ministry exists to proclaim and hand down the faith in American Sign Language to Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing, disabled, and those with special needs. ASL Ministry is fulfilling and so come join us on Sundays.
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Ministry in the Deaf Catholic-Christian world is wanting. You do not have to be an ordained minister to be someone of leadership. Approach your pastor and work out a pastoral plan. Fluency or competency in American Sign Language is a must because language is sacred.
Proclaiming Jesus Christ in (ASL) Sign Language is a way to heaven. Connecting with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community is an open market. Awareness of the lack of Deaf leadership leading other to Christ is one thing. Doing something about it is another. Hand yourself over to our Lord. His bride the church needs more workers in the vineyard.
You can support others spiritually. Attending mass, bible studies, and church events broadens your education. So, free your calendar and go to a ministry event. Sketch together a program with your pastor and see to it that it is on the parish calendar. “Build it and they will come” is an outreach motto. Today, ministry is live, online, and in-person. Whatever it takes to win a soul for Christ is mission at-hand.
Ministry
Seeing the field as it were involves getting out and knowing the community. ASL socials, potlucks, or meetups is required. This is the social fabric of the Deaf community. Other event listings involve Deaf expo’s and conferences. These are key because it reveals what people are flocking toward.
People come out of the wood-work to see and experience what they feel they want. Sadly, what they are looking for is Jesus. Time and time again we humans are disappointed when we turn toward something material to satisfy a spiritual craving. The harvest is here. IT is time to form small and large groups to discuss life with God.
Smell like the sheep
The best Catholic-Christian solution to experience God is in the mass. All of salvation history is revealed in the mass. It is all there. Doubt this? Every action and word spoken or signed within the mass ties to a past, present, and future reality. The mass is an unbloody Calvary, an unbloody sacrifice.
In your present or future ministry small group when you spend much of your time talking about the mass, you are almost there. Moreover, when your flock is so interested and want to know more and more about the mass, you are doing something right. Why? because they are being fed on how to receive grace. They are being filled with knowledge and love that God wants to give them. You are being you and an interpreter of sorts.
Our Lord in his sovereign plan to gather all unto him bestows gifts to us so that we can be his instruments. Being a minister formally or informally is part of his pastoral plan. Consult your diocesan and parish pastor to come up with a way forward. Pastoral plans today involves working together with leadership to suit the faithful and the said minister.
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Orange County Deaf Church
Orange County Deaf Church in the Catholic-Christian tradition was founded years before 1976. This is because before the Diocese of Orange was erected, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles covered all of Orange County. Once our diocese was officially launched the Deaf attended the same churches but under a different bishop. The faith, community, and ministry all being the same. We continue handing down the faith tradition from one generation to the next in American Sign Language (ASL). Our faith community is a beacon in California and in the United States. We continue to thrive despite all odds and adversities thrown at us.
Orange County Deaf Church
We value belonging in our faith community. Our communal relationship with one another is what matters. Moreover, our relationship with Jesus Christ is paramount. Being in a melting pot of cultures, we are a mixed cultural community yet with the same Lord and shepherd leading us. Jesus Christ holds us together as one people after his own heart. He gives us his welcome and fellowship. This is why we have and continue to have a stable and strong Deaf community.
Our focus on faith
Our faith in the Lord is second to none. We believe that the gift of faith is unique and must be preserved all our life long. No matter the external obstacles or persons who wish ill to try our faith, do we ever cling to our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Our Lord is good to reveal what happens to the good and just. He tells us that in psalm 34:19 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” RSV
We thank our bishops for supporting our Catholic Orange County Deaf Church. We salute them for funding this website through the pastoral services appeal. The pastoral services appeal raises money needed ministries and operations throughout the diocese. Without the generous benefactors throughout the diocese this new site would not have been able to happen.
With many people visiting our site and contacting us constantly we plan to address your questions, comments, and ideas for the future. The sky is the limit as to our Deaf outreach ministry. We are here to bring Jesus Christ to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in our diocese and beyond. If we are only able to introduce Jesus Christ in our online ministry to then lead others to their nearest Deaf church, mission accomplished.
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