The current church is a former Protestant church purchased in 2019.[/caption]
Name of Church St. Jude Maronite Catholic Church
Address 5445 South 2700 West, Taylorsville, UT 84129
Phone number (801) 268-2820
Website https://www.stjudemaroniteutah.org/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stjudemaroniteutah/
Mass Schedule Saturday vigil, 4 p.m. Sundays, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. Maronite liturgies are reverent and involve much singing; the words of consecration are said in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic, the language of Christ. Watch past services on the parish Facebook page.
Confessions 30 minutes before masses.
Names of priests Monsignor Joubran BouMerhi, pastor. Monsignor BouMerhi is from Lebanon. He was ordained in 1988 and assigned as pastor of St. Jude. He was reassigned to California in 2006, but returned to St. Jude in 2012. He celebrates Mass in both the Roman and Maronite rites.
Special activities Religious education classes.
Fellow parishioners Lebanese Catholics who are Roman rite, Melkite rite, and Maronite rite Catholics.
Parking There is ample parking around the church.
Additional observations The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic community in union with Rome. Bishop Elias Zaidan is head of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, the eparchy (or diocese) of which St. Jude is a part. St. Jude was established in 1980; Taylorsville is a suburb of Salt Lake City. Its current church is a former Protestant church purchased in 2019 and renovated for Catholic worship. Bishop Zaidan joined Salt Lake Bishop Oscar Solis for its dedication in 2020. Its exterior has a three-cross bar Antiochian Cross associated with the Maronite Church.
Nobody’s asked yet, so I will. Do they celebrate the TLM here?
Only the Latin Church has the TLM. The other Catholic Churches are not Latin (or Roman Rite).
As one Maronite bishop wrote, “All the divine liturgies of the Church share the same core structure and content. Catholic worship focuses on the reading of the Scriptures and the re-enactment of the Last Supper. … The Maronite Divine Liturgy or Service of the Holy Mysteries is one of the oldest in the universal church and has its roots in Apostolic times. It perpetuates the liturgical practice of the ancient churches of Edessa and Antioch. These churches which were established and developed at the same time if not earlier than the church of Rome allow us to experience how the earliest Christians worshipped.”
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It’s a Maronite Church. I doubt they would celebrate the TLM. The Maronite Liturgy/consecration is in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and the common language of first Christians- much older and more traditional than the Latin.
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