Traditional Catholic towns? Any ideas? I am NEW here

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Hi!

I am new here, so please be patient with me.🙂
I would love to find a town where there is a good number
of Catholics that attend the Latin Mass. Catholics that
are more traditional in their beliefs.Ideally the Church
closeby offers a Latin Mass every Sunday. If they offer it
on a more regular basis,please let me know.I would love a
sense of community, of people from the Church helping others
in the area.
If there is a town like I described, but the Church is
farther away,please let me know as well.
I would love a place, where I could attend daily Mass, in
Latin, and where the Catholics from the parish, are
traditional.
Is there such a place? I am looking forward to
hearing your ideas. 🙂 Thank you.
Peace!
 
If you’re a metropolitan-city kind of person, may I humbly suggest beautiful Kansas City? We’ve got the FSSP, ICRSS and the American headquarters of the SSPX in town-- as well as a diocesean TLM in nearby St. Joseph… and I’ve heard of a renegade sedevacantist Mass, but I’ve never been able to substantiate those rumors.

If you’re into small-town living, you might enjoy St. Mary’s Kansas (SSPX-heavy) or nearby Maple Hill Kansas (FSSP territory).
 
😃 Well, I believe there are a couple of places in San Antonio,Tx that offer the latin mass or old mass. The Serafic Franciscan Sisters, who are polish have mass in their chapel people can attend.And I think there are a couple of other places as well.
You could go to the Archdiocese of San Antonio website for information.

Also, they are going to build the new John Paul II High School .
I heard it was going to be built near New Braunfels, just up the road on Interstate 35 North from me, the town that is. But I also saw something about them building it around here in Schertz some place,I’ll have to look it up. New Braunfels has Schlitterbahn,voted best water park in America if I recall, has been on the Travel Channel at various times.Plus you can drive from San Antonio to Dallas-Fort Worth area and also Houston too.
Plus, Port Lavaca is only like a 100 miles from here, and alot of people drive to Corpus Christi and Padre Island ,especially in the spring and summer.
 
Know, I don’t know about other areas that have the latin mass here in Texas,but there are some towns areound here who might.
Muenster,Tx has a website and is a german catholic town, so is Rhineland ,Olfen and Westphalia.www.texasescapes.com has information of the towns,do know Muenster has a website.
Just check out the various catholic diocese in Texas to see where they have latin masses. Panna Maria and Czestochowa are small Polish Catholic towns, as is Praha in Fayette County.
Also in Fayette is Moravia, St.John ,and High Hill, these are very small communities that are catholic, that’s the only church they have.
There is also St.Hedwig, near San Antonio, which is also Polish.St.Hedwig is in Bexar county, the county seat is San Antonio, and is mainly catholic. Panna Maria,and Czestochowa are in Kanres County and Kosiusko is I think in Wilson County. It too is a polish catholic community, and there is also Sweet Home in Lavaca County which is I think mainly catholic.
 
Well, in the Washington DC metro area, there is Saint John’s in McLean. The parish offers a TLM every Sunday.

There is a TLM parish in Alexandria, VA. (Can’t think of the name.)

Saint Mary’s, in the Chinatown section of DC, has TLM every Sunday at 9 am.

Good luck!
 
What about Ave Maria, FL? Anyone know what happened to that establishment?
 
JPUSC said:
What about Ave Maria, FL? Anyone know what happened to that establishment?
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Home of the accordion church!

I don’t think Ave Maria is doing so well. It was a bit of a roll of the dice if you ask me and with this economy. . .
 
Feanor said:
Home of the accordion church!

I don’t think Ave Maria is doing so well. It was a bit of a roll of the dice if you ask me and with this economy. . .
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Haha, yeah the design isn’t very attractive. I prefer the original glass design, but I suppose it would’ve been prone to the hurricanes there.
 
IrishDude45 said:
I think thats in heaven! 😃
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Ha Ha Ha 👍 I think you are right!😛
And if I told you my other requirements, you would definitely
laugh:D Thank you to all of the posters!

Please keep them coming! I will look into every suggestion!😃
Peace!
 
If you’re looking for a town that has a church in which the traditional Latin Mass is offered daily, you can find a number of them. If you’re looking for a small town where the majority of the residents attend that Mass, that is much harder to find! At St. Benedict’s Chapel in Chesapeake, VA, the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated daily and twice on Sundays and holy days. All the sacraments are offered according to the traditional (1962) form. However, I would not call the town, or actually the city, a particularly Catholic area.
 
cam100 said:
If you’re looking for a town that has a church in which the traditional Latin Mass is offered daily, you can find a number of them. If you’re looking for a small town where the majority of the residents attend that Mass, that is much harder to find! At St. Benedict’s Chapel in Chesapeake, VA, the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated daily and twice on Sundays and holy days. All the sacraments are offered according to the traditional (1962) form. However, I would not call the town, or actually the city, a particularly Catholic area.
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After reading that exorcism story that occurred in Earling, Iowa in 1928, it seems like some towns do exist in the United States where the majority of the population is Catholic and there is only one church for the entire town.

The population of the place is currently at 471, so I assume they are all registered parishioners. 😃

In this little “tour” of Shelby County, Iowa, the only places of interest are Catholic churches, haha:

shco.org/county_tour.htm

But I think once you leave the U.S. and start exploring the Catholic-majority countries, it wouldn’t be hard to find entire cities where everyone is Catholic. You might even find towns where everyone goes to the Latin Mass only.
 
I don’t know where you currently live, or what your restrictions on different nations are, but the whole country of Malta is wonderful. It’s a group of islands in the Mediterranean below Sicily. The national religion is Roman Catholic, so you can’t get much better than that. I don’t know how large, if any, the Traditional Latin Mass over there, but the NO masses there aren’t filled with abuses. Yes, the TLM is preferred, but the country and its culture in general are ridiculously Catholic.
 
This lady is seeking the same thing
my wife and I are seeking: a
catholic place that has a true sense
of community.

The only thing that seems to match that is
Ave Maria in florida.

Other than that, I don’t know of any
communities.

Focolare seems to have died when the foundress
passed. Also, it was not catholic.
It was an idealistic type of Deism.
I think it tried to go 2 far with its ecumencial approach.

There must be good catholic communities like Ave
Maria, FL, elsewhere in the USA?
 
The Idaho area east of Spokane, WA. Post Falls, and Couer d’Alene, Id. FSSP in the latter and SSPX on the former.

The SSPX has a huge congregation, over 600 families plus a school and a trad Dominican sisters monastery. The FSSP has a growing parish in Couer d’Alene and trad Carmelites in Post Falls.
 
WhollyRoamin said:
If you’re a metropolitan-city kind of person, may I humbly suggest beautiful Kansas City? We’ve got the FSSP, ICRSS and the American headquarters of the SSPX in town-- as well as a diocesean TLM in nearby St. Joseph… and I’ve heard of a renegade sedevacantist Mass, but I’ve never been able to substantiate those rumors.

If you’re into small-town living, you might enjoy St. Mary’s Kansas (SSPX-heavy) or nearby Maple Hill Kansas (FSSP territory).
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I would avoid St. Mary’s, or any other place like it, until if and when the SSPX clergy return to full communion with the Church. There is nothing traditional about going to priests who illicitly say Mass on a daily basis, etc. It is not Catholic tradition to do so. Catholic tradition involves going to priests who has been given permission to function in a diocese by the local bishop, unless an officially allowed alternative situation exists, none of which apply to the SSPX clergy, though maybe that will change in a few months if the rumor mill is finally accurate and they become a Personal Prelature. It will be fascinating to see what is set up if it happens.

Maple Hill is very close to St. Marys, fifteen minutes, but the town itself is pretty small and there is likely a bit of animosity between the two groups.
 
corsair said:
The Idaho area east of Spokane, WA. Post Falls, and Couer d’Alene, Id. FSSP in the latter and SSPX on the former.

The SSPX has a huge congregation, over 600 families plus a school and a trad Dominican sisters monastery. The FSSP has a growing parish in Couer d’Alene and trad Carmelites in Post Falls.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. 🙂 The wonderful Valparaiso Discalced Carmelites have just made yet another foundation, and this time in Post Falls.

Anyone living in that metropolitan area is quite fortunate. It’s a haven for any traditional minded Catholic
 
Hospodi_pomilui said:
I would avoid St. Mary’s, or any other place like it, until if and when the SSPX clergy return to full communion with the Church. There is nothing traditional about going to priests who illicitly say Mass on a daily basis, etc. It is not Catholic tradition to do so. Catholic tradition involves going to priests who has been given permission to function in a diocese by the local bishop, unless an officially allowed alternative situation exists, none of which apply to the SSPX clergy, though maybe that will change in a few months if the** rumor mill **is finally accurate and they become a Personal Prelature. It will be fascinating to see what is set up if it happens.
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It is not so much a “rumor”, but rather, every few months, for the last several years, there is a press release or interview by SSPX leaders, “We are very close to a Prelature, or some arrangement where our independence will be respected, but **only **if we all hold on just a little longer”.

Check the diocesan or parish website, do they seem open to homeschoolers? Are the local Catholic schools using Common Core?(red flag). While a reverent liturgy is crucial, you also want other supports for families nearby. Sometimes a small town, or urban parish where people live close and support each other, is the best solution.
 
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