Across the USA - where are all the traditional places?

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Hi to all 🙂

I am looking for the help of traditional Catholics, so that is why I am posting this here. If you are a traditional Catholic, I need your advice 🙂

I am getting ready to head out on an adventure around the United States. For a long time now, I have wanted to see and experience what life as a traditional Catholic is like in other places. Given that my “place” is mostly edited my moderator in a sense it is me also finding out what it is really like to BE a traditional Catholic - full time! Maybe I will even find my own little corner of the world where I can finally “belong.”

But that aside, I am trying to put together the perfect itinerary. And I want to go everywhere! Wherever there is real traditional Catholicism flourishing, (as long as it is in communion with Rome [please no debates about what is in communion and what is not - you know what I mean]) I want to go. I want to see it, live it, experience it and try it. This is where I need your help.

I need traditional Catholics to tell me where all the great traditional Churches, monasteries, convents, shrines, etc. in the USA are…so that I can find them.

I already am planning to visit all of the churches of the FSSP (The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter) and of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest. So that covers a lot of churches right there. So you do not have to mention those.

**But what I am looking for beyond that are other parishes, convents, monasteries, shrines, etc. that have a true traditional environment. **

So for example, if a parish only has a Latin Mass once a week and the rest of the time it is edited by moderator then I would rather pass. But if you know of a Parish that is truly traditional, all of the time, and it is not the FSSP or Christ the King Sovereign Priest (as I am already going to visit those), then let me know.

Same for monasteries, convents, srhines, etc. Especially monasteries and convents - I want to visit all the fully tradtional ones I can.

But again, they must be as free of any Novus Ordo influence as possible.I am looking for places that are living the fully traditional Catholic life. Take me back in time to pre-Vatican II the best you can… 😉

And finally, they must be in communion with Rome. This is a big must. So if it is run by the SSPX or any other organization that is not in communion with Rome, I will skip it. (Again, please avoid any debates about what is in communion with Rome and what is not, who is and who is not - lets keep it simple please 👍

So, any suggestions?

I look forward to any ideas. Thanks and sorry if this is not the best place to post it - but I need traditional Catholics to share their advice so I need your ideas :)👍

Thank you!

P.S. My starting point is the southeastern part of the USA, and heading north. So eastern seaboard and midwest are top on my list now, but I will take western USA suggestions too, as I do want to go there as well eventually! Thanks again!
 
A good place is Washington DC. I just returned and went to Mass at Old St. Mary’s. Before and during Mass, the NO Altar is removed. I heard a Rosary being said in Latin before Mass. It’s in the Chinatown area of DC.
 
Your starting point in the southeast is great.

For sure, visit the the Cathedral Basilica Of The Immaculate Conception in Mobile.
Also make certain to visit St Bernard in Cullman Alabama.

EWTN is close by there as well, and if you go a little further North to Chattanooga, you can find the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

Of course, they peform the Novus Ordo Mass, so you are out of luck if you are looking to leave it out. But they also perform the Traditional Latin Mass.
 
A good start would be dropping derogatory terms for the Ordinary Form Mass, like “Novus Ordo-land”. This against forum rules.
 
Visit Baltimore, the first American archdiocese, and the Basilica of the Assumption, the first American cathedral.

Among the people buried in the crypt is Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

There are two American Saints associated with this parish:
stalphonsusbalt.org/

Lots more there, too. See the diocesan website.
 
My family and myself enjoy the mission trail in San Antonio. Very inspirational.

DGB
 
Alright, two really good ones in the Massachusetts Area (both in Eastern/Central MA)

Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Newton, MA.
maryimmaculatenewton.org/

They’re split even between the Mass of Paul VI and the Tridentine. Though, they use the same old ad orientum altar for both Masses. They’re a beautiful diocesan group.

St. Benedict Monastery , Still River (Harvard) MA. They do everything in the Tridentine style and even run a traditional school. They came into full communion with the Church a few years ago. saintbenedict.com/

Hope this helps!
 
LegoGE1947 said:
In Rockford, Illinois (90 miles nw of Chicago) there is a parish called St. Mary’s. It is in a rather seedy part of town but their masses are in Traditional Latin.
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Thanks for the info. If I ever make it out to Rockford I will have to check it out.
 
Domnall said:
Alright, two really good ones in the Massachusetts Area (both in Eastern/Central MA)

Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Newton, MA.
maryimmaculatenewton.org/

They’re split even between the Mass of Paul VI and the Tridentine. Though, they use the same old ad orientum altar for both Masses. They’re a beautiful diocesan group.

St. Benedict Monastery , Still River (Harvard) MA. They do everything in the Tridentine style and even run a traditional school. They came into full communion with the Church a few years ago. saintbenedict.com/

Hope this helps!
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Come visit our Traditional Catholic community in the Monterey Bay Area, California. We have a Sung High Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday at the Shrine of St. Joseph in beautiful Santa Cruz. Visit our website to learn more:

www.MontereyLatinMass.org

And yes, we are fully approved and in union with our local Bishop:)

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Thank you to all for the replies and suggestions! I appreciate it very much 🙂

Keep them coming! 👍

They look great!

P.S. To the person who said I was being disrespectuf, I am sorry that you or anyone else feels that way. I do not want to be disrespectful. I use nicknames for many things, like for example I may say “Traddy Catholic Land.” Does that mean I am being disrespectful? If you feel I am being disrespectful, please ask me first what my intention was, as anything else may be construed as judging my intentions, which would not be fair either. So unless I outright put down the Novus Ordo in a clear way, please be fair in judging intentions. But I will try to avoid using nicknames for those who may be sensitive and read into things a little too much, which can happen on both ends.

Thanks! 🙂
 
NelCuore said:
Thank you to all for the replies and suggestions! I appreciate it very much 🙂

Keep them coming! 👍

They look great!

P.S. To the person who said I was being disrespectuf, I am sorry that you or anyone else feels that way. I do not want to be disrespectful. I use nicknames for many things, like for example I may say “Traddy Catholic Land.” Does that mean I am being disrespectful? If you feel I am being disrespectful, please ask me first what my intention was, as anything else may be construed as judging my intentions, which would not be fair either. So unless I outright put down the Novus Ordo in a clear way, please be fair in judging intentions. But I will try to avoid using nicknames for those who may be sensitive and read into things a little too much, which can happen on both ends.

Thanks! 🙂
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The thing is that this is the Internet. It doesn’t lend itself well to mind-reading. There are forum rules to keep the discourse at a respectful level, and you can read those rules at the top of the forum. One of those rules is that while it is ok to express a preference for one form over the other, one is not to speak disparagingly of either form of the Mass. Keep in mind many non-Carholics read and post on this forum.

It becomes pretty hard to preach to Protestants about unity when we ourselves speak disparagingly about officially approved liturgies of the Church and those who prefer one version or the other.

That said you might want to check out the Benedictine monastery of Clear Creek in Oklahoma. It’s of the Solesmes congregation. They use the EF Mass and original Benedictine Divine Office in Latin. They’re in full communion. Many abbeys of the Solesmes Congregation also do very reverential Masses in the Ordinary Form in Latin, or as at the abbey I’m affiliated with, in a hybrid Latin/Greek Gregorian chant propers and ordinary and French plainchant for the readings and prayers.
 
James224 said:
A good place is Washington DC. I just returned and went to Mass at Old St. Mary’s. Before and during Mass, the NO Altar is removed. I heard a Rosary being said in Latin before Mass. It’s in the Chinatown area of DC.
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Agreed wholeheartedly with St Mary Mother of God. Fr Harris is doing a wonderful job there. You would enjoy hearing from the two in-residence priests. Fr Wadsworth, who is the General Secretary of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, gives some brilliant homilies. And Father Daniel, who is in residence while studying, is an absolute firebrand in the pulpit!
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There is the Baltimore Basilica, America’s first cathedral. (Not sure if they are TLM, though.)

baltimorebasilica.org/
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They only do the “Ordinary Form” in Latin at the Basilica. However, very nearby is St Alphonsus. They have a EF mass at 11:30 on Sunday. Neat thing about St Alphonsus, two saints have been pastors there (well, one saint and one blessed): St John Neumann and Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos.

Here’s a picture (doesn’t do it justice, though):



Though not terribly “traditionalist”, if you come to Maryland/DC, I would also suggest the following:
  • Mt St Mary’s in Emmitsburg to visit the Lourdes Grotto there. And, while you’re there, be sure to visit the National Shrine of St Elizabeth Ann Seaton (also in Emmitsburg)
  • If you’re near Southern Maryland, be sure to visit St Clement’s Island (where the first Mass was said by English speakers), St Ignatius, Chapel Point (the oldest continuously operating parish in the United States), and the Carmel of Port Tobacco (the first Carmel in the country).
  • And in the District, naturally a mandatory stop is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. But you might also want to take in a Dominican Mass (or Morning/Evening Prayer) across Michigan Avenue at the Dominican House of Studies. And don’t forget the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land. Beautiful Church. Fantastic gardens. And take a tour of the catacombs, that contain exact replicas of many of the sites in the Holy Land. A pic of the Good Friday Stations of the Cross I went to a couple of years ago:
    https://imgur.com/wazQI
One other thing, if you are at the Shrine, go down 4th St NE a little bit to the Paulist Institute: you can visit Catholic Bookstore Heaven, a/k/a the Newman Bookstore. It is HUGE! Best selection of SERIOUS Catholic books (theology, patristics, catechesis, liturgy, canon law, and so forth) that I have ever seen anyplace in my life.
 
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