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Best Catholic Parishes

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  • #32
    credoie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭credoie


    A Whole New World wrote: »
    If a Catholic was moving to Dublin, and was looking for a good Catholic parish or church, what would you recommend? All recommendations for all reasons welcome, but here are some criteria that might help:

    Vibrant
    Lots of young families attending Mass
    Orthodox
    Nice church building
    Nice hymns
    Daily Mass
    Church open outside Mass times

    Conversely, what are parishes to avoid?


    Silverstream Abbey would be the place you would like. New benedictine abbey. They follow the latin liturgy pre V II.

    Dom Mark Kirby gives an amazing homily.

    They are located just outside stramullen.

    (They have nothing to do with SPPX.. the Bishop of Meath invited them to found the monastery)


  • #33
    Thinkingaboutit
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    I hear High Mass most Sundays at 10.30 and Low Mass on the rare weekday at 08.00 in the morning, in St Kevin's church, Harrington Street. The Lassus Scholars make for a fantastic choir. The altar is wondrous compared to the Novus Ordo Star Trek efforts (no disrespect to Star Trek). The epistle and Gospel are read in English after the Gospel is sung. The sermons make a point and are utterly orthodox. Was there a Papal ruling against sermons with a beginning, middle and end, which I never heard about? Sin is actually mentioned and placed in context. There are plenty of young families and there is tea in the parish hall fairly often.


  • #34
    hinault
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    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    I hear High Mass most Sundays at 10.30 and Low Mass on the rare weekday at 08.00 in the morning, in St Kevin's church, Harrington Street. The Lassus Scholars make for a fantastic choir. The altar is wondrous compared to the Novus Ordo Star Trek efforts (no disrespect to Star Trek). The epistle and Gospel are read in English after the Gospel is sung. The sermons make a point and are utterly orthodox. Was there a Papal ruling against sermons with a beginning, middle and end, which I never heard about? Sin is actually mentioned and placed in context. There are plenty of young families and there is tea in the parish hall fairly often.

    I attend 10.30 Mass on Sundays at Harrington St. whenever possible:)

    The incense, the singing, the Tridentine Mass offered, the diverse congregation, all make 10.30 a special time.

    It is really great to see how the Tridentine Mass is becoming more accessible for parishioners in other parishes too.


  • #35
    Delirium
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  • #36
    Thinkingaboutit
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    A place for post Mass tea or coffee is a key thing. St Kevin's has that in its parish hall at least once a month, or more often if a new priest has said Mass, so people can meet him and get a blessing. St Jude's nearest me has a coffee shop and a fairly extensive suite of rooms for parochial activities. It was a bit of a shed originally, but a lot has gone into it to raise its standard. Anyhow the social part is key.


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