Pictures of where you attend the Classical Mass

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brotherhrolf said:
Ah, home! I still have my holy card of Blessed Father Seelos (in my 1962 St. Joseph missal) which was given to me when I assisted Father from “dat across da street parish” St. Alphonsus when he came to give my grandmother last rites in January 1965. (And we have prayed and prayed for Fr. Seelos’ eventual canonization!). St. Alphonsus and St. Mary’s are right across the street from each other - both served by Redemptorist priests - one parish Irish (St. A) the other German (St. M). St. Patrick’s is another church in NO with the TLM.
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When I was in New Orleans recently I attended Mass at St Patricks. The difference in the Pauline Rite there and here in San Diego was utterly breathtaking. Imagine the Kyrie still in Greek. I hadn’t heard that for a while. The Traditional mass was outstanding and the place packed every Sunday that i was there.
 
palmas85 said:
When I was in New Orleans recently I attended Mass at St Patricks. The difference in the Pauline Rite there and here in San Diego was utterly breathtaking. Imagine the Kyrie still in Greek. I hadn’t heard that for a while. The Traditional mass was outstanding and the place packed every Sunday that i was there.
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On the few infrequent times that DW and I are able to break away and head down to the City on Sunday, we’re always torn between going to St. Patrick’s for the TLM or going to the Cathedral for the choral Mass.
 
brotherhrolf said:
On the few infrequent times that DW and I are able to break away and head down to the City on Sunday, we’re always torn between going to St. Patrick’s for the TLM or going to the Cathedral for the choral Mass.
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I’ve only been to the Cathedral several times, only once in the past twenty years. I always did like going to the Poor Claires Chapel at the Monastery for midnight Mass. Their singing was so beautiful it would bring tears to your eyes. A short story. The Poor Claires are a cloistered community and twice a year at Christmas Midnight mass and on the feast day of St Claire they meet with their families and whatever other outsiders happen to show up. My youngest was about 2, I guess, and we went there for midnight Mass. After the sisters finished singing, my daughter clapped. Loud and long. After Mass all the sisters came out and hugged and prattled over my daughter for a long time. They said that simple innocent clapping had been the best Christmas gift they had received.
It is one of my fondest memories.

My daughter no longer goes to Mass regularly, sad to say, but when she does, she goes to the Chapel there at the Monastery. She doesn’t remember the incident, but says she has always felt at home there.
 
Pandora said:
Holy Trinity in Boston which is about to be closed and torn down if the ADOB has it’s way.
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My mother’s family has worshiped here for over 100 years.
Kathleen
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I will pray that the diocese finds some way to keep it. It is beautiful. Some years ago, our diocese wanted to close the church that I attend (and grew up in) because it was old and needed repairs. Somehow the laity convinced the diocese to save the church and it stands today, 152 years old.
 
I’m very jealous. We have our Latin Mass in chapel at our Cathedral that is used for daily mass during the week and also adoration (we only have the TLM on Sunday). It’s very '70s in it’s style of architecture, stained glass, and whatnot. The altar is like a four legged coffee table and the tabernacle is in a hutch-type-thing behind it. There are no altar rails. But, we dress up the altar pretty nicely and the Mass is as transcendent as ever 🙂 . Anyway, I also wish they would host the Latin Mass instead at this parish in my diocese–but all they offer is NO:

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I recently attended a Latin Mass out of state with a full high altar and everything–and to be honest, ours is offered much more solemnly (although that TLM has a reputation of being pretty shabby and banal–in fact most of the usually TLM-loving crowd go to an NO parish run by Dominicans which is much more reverent and solemn also with smells and bells, chant, and whatnot–after going to Mass at both I understand why its preferred).
 
Sorry I haven’t gotten back on this. No Cardinal O’Mally shows no signs of a change of heart. The priest from the Church we are to be shipped to has told us we will be closing the first of March. No word from ADOB though, but when Fr. O’Connell showed up for a talk to get our imput he said it was just a suggestion, nothing set in stone. The Cardinal loves us traditionalist but we are less than 2 blocks from the Cathedral and he has not set one sandled foot in the Church. Not to mention we get more at our one Mass than they get in all of their Sunday Masses. They are moving us out and merging the Church with the Cathedral and will sell it and keep the assets. Fr. O’Connell thinks it’s a great plan. Throw out the parishoners and say there are no parishoners so we have to close the Church. Does Rome have any idea the goings on here in Boston??
Plus it’s not that we don’t pay for our Church. They had to pay us back money that was being used by another Church in the area. We had the same pastor and he didn’t think it a problem to take our collection money and money raised for repairs for the Church he lived at. The ADOB calls us a cash cow. Gives us your money shut up and obey as Fr. O’Connell told me. I am ashamed to have them same last name.
Kathleen
 
I visited Annuciation Church in Houston back in 2005. I went to the Tridentine Mass there. It was nice and reverent. I wish they would have had more singing though. The only singing I heard was during Communion.
 
BeeSweet,

My family is planning to go to Houston soon to visit a priest and seminarian we know. We were planning to go to the Latin Mass at Annunciation. I didn’t realize it was so beautiful!

Rich
 
Wow! Those are all such beautiful churches! Especially palmas85 first one from New Orleans. My home parish was built in the 50s, and while not totally bare, is nothing like the older ones. Now we are building a new one ( several have closed in the area so we are all packed into one church now) and I have seen the plans, it will be just like those Protestant auditoriums :mad:
Caesar- I had no idea St. Joe’s had such a magnificent chapel! I was born at that hospital and baptized there (very premature) 👍
 
Windmill said:
BeeSweet,

My family is planning to go to Houston soon to visit a priest and seminarian we know. We were planning to go to the Latin Mass at Annunciation. I didn’t realize it was so beautiful!

Rich
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It will really knock your socks off in person!!
 
Wow these are certainly beautiful churches !

Regardless of the beauty or lack of beauty of the Church I am always humbled by what actually takes place during the Mass(ie; the Consecration & receiving our Lord).

By the way my wife and I were married at Annunciation in Houston. It is really beautiful !
 
palmas85 said:
When I was in New Orleans recently I attended Mass at St Patricks. The difference in the Pauline Rite there and here in San Diego was utterly breathtaking. Imagine the Kyrie still in Greek. I hadn’t heard that for a while. The Traditional mass was outstanding and the place packed every Sunday that i was there.
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St. Patrick’s in New Orleans was my first exposure to the TLM. I was there for a confernce and even brought a few of my Catholic co-workers with me.

I don’t normally attend the TLM, but rather a very reverent N.O ( our pastor is one of the priests who is on the ‘rotation’ to celebrate the TLM at our single indult parish)
 
Pandora said:
Holy Trinity in Boston which is about to be closed and torn down if the ADOB has it’s way.
holytrinitygerman.org/Holy_Week_2005/5_tridmass.jpg
My mother’s family has worshiped here for over 100 years.
Kathleen
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Kathleen,

Thank you for the picture and memories. My family attended Holy Trinity School in Roxbury and worshipped at Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Chapel there. Ours was daughter to the Church on Shawmut Avenue, originally erected as a mission for the German families who had moved out from the South End. My memories of the German Jesuits - especially Father Francis X. Weiser, SJ, memory eternal, and of the Glen Riddle Franciscans, most all now of blessed memory, are warm and sweet.

Prayers for my Holy Trinity brothers and sisters, both those of its historic German Catholic community and those of the diverse multi-ethnic community who are now such a part of the parish, that their beautiful temple remain open.

Joe
 
Here’s one I have handy from Christmas midnight Mass in 2004. At this parish they do an all-candle-lit midnight Mass and I’ve photographed this Mass several times. This isn’t the best picture I’ve got, but you get the idea.

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Btw, the Mass has not yet started in this picture… the altar servers have a custom of saying a prayer “as a team” prior to Mass beginning.
 
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