Seattle parish recommendations?

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Hey all,

My fiance and I will be in Seattle this weekend. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for parishes to attend Sunday Mass at. TLM preferably, but also if you know of a good traditional NO parish. Thanks!

In Christ,
Rand
 
There is a EF Mass in Downtown Seattle on Sunday

9:30 AM
St. Joseph Chapel (Josephinum)
1902 Second Avenue, Seattle
 
The only Sunday TLM I know of is the one that has been available for many years:

9:30 a.m. Sundays, St. Joseph Chapel of the Josephinum, 1902 Second Ave., Seattle. www.unavoceww.com

A new parish also started one after the indult, it is available on Tuesdays:
Holy Family Church: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 9622 20th Ave. S.W., Seattle, www.holyfamilyparish.net
 
Hey, I live in Seattle, and besides the Josephinium which is hard to get to and ALWAYS crowded(alas, His Excellency Archbishop Brunett is not a TLM fan), the only traditional and orthodox parish I’ve been to is the one I attend- St Mark. It’s north of downtown, in shoreline, just off of I-5. If you know where the shoreline library is, or Ronald Bog, it is just near there.

Other alternatives that I have heard good things about but never actually attended(so I don’t know for sure) are St Alphonsus in Ballard, Holy Family in White Center, and the later Masses at Blessed Sacrament(this one is iffy though, sometimes they have folky stuff). Blessed Sacrament is just off the freeway before you cross the bridge over to downtown Seattle, near the U district.

Parishes to avoid at all costs- St Therese, which is essentially a praise and worship dance party, the Cathedral, St Pius X(weird that his name is used on one of the most untraditional parishes around…?), and St Benedict’s in Wallingford.

St Mark is excellent, you can go to the 7:30 AM Mass on sundays which has the Canon in latin(the gloria, sanctus, angus dei, and so on), the 9:00 which has a mixed choir(male, female, usually polyphony, sometimes traditional english hymns, sometimes chants, a mix of all three,e tc), and then the 11:00 which is a womens schola. The Saturday vigil is…different. Folky, girl servers, and so on. [edited]

Don’t be turned off because the actual building at St Mark is very modern(its shaped like a hexagon). The interior has been slowly altered by the last few priests, adding traditional statues, a nice crucifix, tabernacle, etc, and some nice stone inlays and such, like the one that reads ‘Introibo ad altare Dei’ near the door.

Confessions are at 3:30-4:30 on saturday.
 
Also, the TLM indult is almost always a Low Mass, so it is kind of a dissapointment to pay 10$ for parking, walk 5 blocks, push your way in, sit in a tiny chapel made for 150 that is filled with 200-250 people, and then have a Mass with no music! Maybe it’s just me, but I wish it was a missa cantata.

Beware- there is a CMRI parish that comes up when you search for a latin Mass in the seattle area.
 
Our family loved visiting Saint James’ Cathedral

I was at a convention in Seattle on Ash Wed. I went to Mass there.

You are right, it’s a very beautiful Church and they used lots of Latin.

But, not only did they consecrate the Precious Blood in a pitcher, and THEN pour it into chalices, they had an EMHC with a another pitcher full of Christ walking around filling up chalices.

The consecration in a pitcher is already a grave violation of Church instructions, the re-filling of chalices was unspeakably wrong.

No thanks, I’ll pass on St. James until they stop that practice.
 
The Low Mass at Holy Family in South Seattle is nice. Fr. Bloom is a good, holy priest. The liturgy is celebrated in the Extraordinary Form on Tuesday evenings at 7 or 7:30, I can’t remember exactly. However the parish recommends that one calls ahead of time to confirm that the EF will be offered that evening.
 
🙂 Take the ferry and go to Our Lady Star of the Sea, across from Seattle in Bremerton (a short walk from the ferry terminal). Mass is at 5:15 on Saturday, 8:15, 11:00, and 5:00 on Sunday.

Ishii
 
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