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tuabst
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We are relocated to the northern area of San Antonio and are looking for an area to live, schools, and most importantly a traditional church. I would appreciate any recommendations. Thank you.
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Xantippe
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Just as a tourist thing, check out Mass at one of the old missions. It’s amazing to encounter anything that old in the US.
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rfournier103
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I don’t know about traditional churches, but having lived in San Antonio for two years for work, Leon Valley was a great area of the city for my wife and I.
We attended two Catholic churches while we lived there; and although neither was “traditional”, we found that St. Luke’s (saintlukeparish.com/) was the better of the two. It wasn’t the closest parish, but we liked it. The pastor was a great priest, and he was very wonderful to us. It has it’s own school as well.
Good hunting and God bless.
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DoGodsBidding
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My daughter lives in San Antonio just off Huebner south of the 1604 loop. When we are there we attend church with them at St. Francis of Assisi. Good family parish. They have three small children, the oldest two attend Mount Sacred Heart.
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angelic06
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Check out Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church and its parish school, the Atonement Academy, located at 15415 Red Robin Road, off of Babcock and 1604 W:
www.atonementonline.com
OLOA is in full communion with the Holy Father and the Catholic Church, though we use forms of prayer and worship similar to Anglicans. It is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio parish. Not all Anglican Use parishes belong to the territorial (arch)diocese, however. Some are parishes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, which the Holy See erected in 2012. The ordinariate is equivalent to a diocese, and its head, an ordinary, may be (and currently is) a presbyter (simple priest, as opposed to a bishop). In addition to Mass, we have Evensong (Vespers) offered regularly.
Also, St. Anastasia the Great Martyr Byzantine Catholic Community offers Divine Liturgy on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of each month, unless noted. It is a bit farther out, closer to the northeast side:
sabyzcath.org
This community is under the jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, whose latest metropolitan was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. An eparchy is the Eastern Catholic equivalent of a diocese. We are served by a Roman Catholic priest, a Dominican, who has faculties in the Ruthenian church. When Divine Liturgy is not offered at the Byzantine mission, many will attend the Maronite church. Some of us, namely myself, will attend OLOA. Still others attend the territorial Latin (Roman) Catholic parishes.
There is also a Traditional Latin Mass community in San Antonio, non-TLM, but located at an archdiocesan parish under the patronage of St. Pius X. I have not been to this community yet, so I will allow someone else to vouch for it.
Finally, St. George Maronite Catholic Church offers Divine Liturgy each weekend. Sung liturgies at 11 o’clock AM. Like the Byzantines, they also have their own bishop but are in full communion with the Holy Father, currently Pope Francis.
www.stgeorgesa.org
(I encourage you to visit the parish in person, as it looks like this website has not been updated recently.)
www.atonementonline.com
OLOA is in full communion with the Holy Father and the Catholic Church, though we use forms of prayer and worship similar to Anglicans. It is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio parish. Not all Anglican Use parishes belong to the territorial (arch)diocese, however. Some are parishes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, which the Holy See erected in 2012. The ordinariate is equivalent to a diocese, and its head, an ordinary, may be (and currently is) a presbyter (simple priest, as opposed to a bishop). In addition to Mass, we have Evensong (Vespers) offered regularly.
Also, St. Anastasia the Great Martyr Byzantine Catholic Community offers Divine Liturgy on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of each month, unless noted. It is a bit farther out, closer to the northeast side:
sabyzcath.org
This community is under the jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, whose latest metropolitan was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. An eparchy is the Eastern Catholic equivalent of a diocese. We are served by a Roman Catholic priest, a Dominican, who has faculties in the Ruthenian church. When Divine Liturgy is not offered at the Byzantine mission, many will attend the Maronite church. Some of us, namely myself, will attend OLOA. Still others attend the territorial Latin (Roman) Catholic parishes.
There is also a Traditional Latin Mass community in San Antonio, non-TLM, but located at an archdiocesan parish under the patronage of St. Pius X. I have not been to this community yet, so I will allow someone else to vouch for it.
Finally, St. George Maronite Catholic Church offers Divine Liturgy each weekend. Sung liturgies at 11 o’clock AM. Like the Byzantines, they also have their own bishop but are in full communion with the Holy Father, currently Pope Francis.
www.stgeorgesa.org
(I encourage you to visit the parish in person, as it looks like this website has not been updated recently.)
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angelic06
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I was not able to edit my last post due to the 20 minute time limit, but I intended to say that the Traditional Latin Mass community was non-SSPX, not non-TLM. That sounds silly. 
It is currently meeting at St. Pius X Catholic Church, a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, which is at 3303 Urban Crest Drive.
stpiusxsa.org
It is currently meeting at St. Pius X Catholic Church, a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, which is at 3303 Urban Crest Drive.
stpiusxsa.org
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hwriggles4
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A few weekends ago, I was in San Antonio for a work related conference, and I stayed over the weekend. I had planned on Sunday to drive to Our Lady of the Atonement, but the rain was really bad and it was about 30 miles away from my hotel.
Instead, I went to the 8:00 a.m. Mass downtown at Old St. Josephs, which was within walking distance (about a mile) from my hotel. Old St. Josephs is staffed by the Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament (S.S.S.), and I was pretty impressed. The priest even gave a homily saying how important it was for Catholics to learn the Catechism of the Catholic Church - that’s something that needs to be heard more often.
Instead, I went to the 8:00 a.m. Mass downtown at Old St. Josephs, which was within walking distance (about a mile) from my hotel. Old St. Josephs is staffed by the Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament (S.S.S.), and I was pretty impressed. The priest even gave a homily saying how important it was for Catholics to learn the Catechism of the Catholic Church - that’s something that needs to be heard more often.
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