Mass in Allentown PA
  • ViolaViola
    Posts: 411
    Greetings from NE Scotland.
    Husband and I will be venturing across the pond next week and will be in Allentown on Sunday 27th. Please could someone direct us to the Catholic Church there?
    Thanks in anticipation!
  • ViolaViola
    Posts: 411
    Actually I've now seen the Find a Mass thread. The Reverent Mass site lists St Stephen of Hungary in Allentown, which looks promising.
    We came over a few years ago, won't mention the city, and had a rather disappointing experience, hence the advance preparation this time.
  • francis
    Posts: 10,816
    I am an organist of this parish… we have two locations… you might want to come to Holy Ghost in Bethlehem, our newer location where the choir sings at the 10:30. .. and come up to the choir loft after Mass so we can shake hands.
    Thanked by 3Viola MatthewRoth tomjaw
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,307
    Francis, the grey-on-black of the website is hard to read. (I went to check; I had no idea that you'd gotten a new home!) It may be that the site accounts for my system being in dark mode, but I would much rather there be no change than to be unable to read the website…
    Thanked by 1francis
  • OMagnumMysterium
    Posts: 256
    Looks like a beautiful parish! I'll have to stop by if I'm ever in the area (I don't travel much).
    Thanked by 2francis tomjaw
  • francis
    Posts: 10,816
    Yes… come by… let me know when if you do. Gothic German architecture built in 1800’s.
    Thanked by 2OMagnumMysterium tomjaw
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    Allentown-Bethlehem and the Lehigh Valley have a lot of wonderful people and things.

    *Not* sacred music, but a lovely, silky, folk song from the 1980s that the group wrote inspired by news accounts of interviews with the veteran (as in decades-long) workers of when the last silk mills of Allentown closed:

    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jjy4EDCxCuc&list=OLAK5uy_l9QTi_YpR8QiE3FVd3jO9-zhJwdwRphSQ
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • ViolaViola
    Posts: 411
    Following my request for where to hear Mass near Allentown.
    Last Sunday my husband and I and my sister who lives in Allentown attended Mass at the Holy Ghost Church in Bethlehem PA. The music was wonderful and I want to congratulate the musicians (who, I am told, practise three times a week. I have let our own singers know this).
    The Mass was reverent and dignified, the church packed, and the number of young families was so encouraging. We will certainly return there on our next visit, whenever that is. And it was very good to meet a well-known contributor to this forum.
    We very much enjoyed our stay, now recovering from an overnight transatlantic flight.
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen MatthewRoth tomjaw
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