Mass in Tucson

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My wife and children and I regulary drive from our home in suburban Phoenix to visit family in the Tucson area on weekends. We are usually there on Sunday mornings, so we usually attend Mass somewhere there.

We need help in finding a parish to attend on a irregular basis in Tucson. What I’d like to find is a parish where Mass is said (dare I even ask for a sung Mass?):
  • reverently,
  • for lack of a better term available at my fingertips at the moment - “by the book,”
  • with a homily that teaches the Faith, not the particular opinions of the priest
Secondarily, it would be nice if this were also at a parish that was asthetically pleasing - visually and audibly.

Thus far, we’ve attended Mass at:
  • Saint Ambrose
  • Saints Peter & Paul
  • Holy Family
  • Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • San Xavier del Bac
  • Our Mother of Sorrows
  • Saint Cyril of Alexandria
The first three on the list were ok, but I was hoping for something more. Can anyone help out, please?
 
I understand your question. I won’t be back to St. Pius X there. (Yes, the irony.) I understand Corpus Cristi is leaning (left) the same way.

Have you tried St. Frances de Sales? It feels like a church to me. (I visit family in Tucson too.)

For those in Tucson, is it just a lot of individual churches do their own thing (communion torn from a loaf of bread, modifications to prayers (especially the Creed, leaving out “holy, Catholic, apostolic church”), trying to be so inclusive they are (almost) Protestant)? Or is it someone in the diocese encouraging this?
 
There are both a Byzantine-Ruthenian parish (whose former pastor is now a Bishop) named St. Melany’s and a Ukrainian Catholic parish named St. Michael’s.

St. Melany’s
1212 N Sahuara Ave
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 886-4225
Get directions

In both places, the Liturgy would be sung with incense.
 
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