Name of Church St. Mary of the Assumption
Address 1505 White Pine Canyon Road, Park City UT 84060
Phone number 435-649-9676
Website www.stmarysparkcity.com
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5:30 p.m. Sundays, 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. (Spanish), 3 p.m. (Latin Tridentine). Monday – Friday, 8 a.m.
Confessions Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Names of priests/homilies Father Christopher Gray, pastor. Father Paulraj Rayappa, parochial vicar. Father Gray is originally from California and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Salt Lake City in 2013. He became pastor of St. Mary in 2018. He is an orthodox priest, and celebrates reverent liturgies. Listen to his “Virtual Morning Coffee with Fr. Gray” on the parish YouTube channel. He is bilingual and can celebrate Mass in Spanish and celebrates the Sunday Latin Mass.
Liturgy/Music Cantors and choirs.
Special groups/activities Summit (movie night and discussion), Knights of Columbus, nocturnal adoration for vocations, Hispanic ministry, men’s prayer and reflection group, Monday night rosary and potluck, women’s bible study, Divine Mercy Devotion Group, Abba Prayer Group, Wine, Dine and Divine, young family ministry, Virtual Morning Coffee with Father Gray.
Parishioners/Community This was formerly a big mining town but today welcomes many tourists. It is a short drive from Salt Lake City.
Parking Ample parking around the church.
Additional observations St. Mary’s began as a mission church in 1881 to serve the miners who worked in the region. It is a parish of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. This is a traditional parish, orthodox, with reverent liturgies and a strong evangelism outreach. It oversees St. Lawrence Mission Church in Heber City.
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St. Mary’s, Interior
Back off, Mormons- this is a REAL temple to God!
and to the real God, not to a fake Mormon God.
Looks like a beautiful church, with good priests. I have heard that Park City, Utah, is a great place to live and raise a family. Would love to move there.
Beautifully designed for the post-Vatican II liturgy.
Where is the tabernacle?
To the right of the altar behind the lectern. It is wood, gothic arch shaped.
Any bets/guesses on when some readers will hyperventilate about the Extraordinary Form Mass being offered here?
They seem to not know that Vatican II’s document on sacred liturgy presumed Mass was ad orientem and notes Latin has pride of place.
I don’t attend the TLM or get worked up about those who do. My blood pressure is in normal range. Maybe some readers have low blood pressure and mention of the TLM helps it spike, a health benefit of the TLM for those think the Roman Catholic Church has only one form of the Mass. What of the Ambrosian or Mozarabic Masses? What about the Dominican usage of the Roman Rite or the Masses of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter?
Anyway, here come the fireworks! You betcha.
Well, according to Traditionis Custodes, the Roman Rite has one unique liturgical expression, which is that of the liturgical books published after the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, i.e., the new Mass. According to that same legislation, the liturgical forms that were in use before the Council and are still permitted as a temporary concession should eventually be abrogated in favor of the reformed liturgical rites. I’m just saying what the liturgical legislation states. So, there’s that.
You are confusing the Catholic Church with various approved liturgical rites within the Church. Ambrosian Rite and Mozarabic Rite are approved liturgical rites within the Catholic Church, not churches unto themselves. The Roman Rite is at issue, and according to Traditionis Custodes, which is universal liturgical law, the reformed liturgical rites are to be considered the only acceptable ones for use in the Roman Rite, notwithstanding current temporary concessions for the use of the preconciliar rite.
I didn’t make it up. It’s what Pope Francis has legislated. Take it up with him.
Any Catholic at any time, should be able to worship God and fulfill their obligation to attend Holy Mass, at either the Novus Ordo Missae or Traditional Latin Tridentine Mass, the “Usus Antiquior.” The beautiful, sacred Tridentine Latin Mass is all we had, all our lives, from birth– and after we grew up and got married, we all expected to raise our children in this Mass. Send our sons to be altar boys, and perhaps some would become priests! Church rectories, religious orders, and seminaries all were very full, in those days. The beautiful, highly-revered 1500+ years-old Latin Tridentine Mass did not all of a sudden become an irrationally, crazily despised form of the Holy Mass, after all those centuries– packed to the hilt with the 100% correct Catholic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Years ago, before Vatican II, all the Catholic men– clergy and laymen– were extremely proud of that Mass. It meant so much to them. Plus, there have always been a few goofballs and extremist priests, prelates, popes, and parishioners, in every era, with goofed-up ideas of the Catholic Faith. (The extremist, brutal Spanish Inquisition, was a horrific thing.) After Vatican II, there were (and continue to be) more goofballs and extremists in our Church than ever before, with crazy, terrible abuses of the New Mass. One of the worst, was that awful Mass on YouTube, with dancing to a rock band, and the goofball priest who gave the Final Blessing wrong, making the holy Sign of the Cross with his guitar. All types of abuses of the Mass, either the Novus Ordo or the “Usus Antiquior”– the old Latin Mass– should be stopped by the Diocesan bishop. Including the Gay Mass and blessings of gay couples. You go to Mass to humbly worship God– not to abuse the Mass– and worship yourself, and your crazy, goofball, secular agendas.
There are about 17,000 parishes in the U.S. If 100 priests goof up the mass, that doesn’t make the other 16,900 bad places to worship . Let’s not assume that all parishes have un-reverent masses. Nor should we assume that all TLM masses are totally reverent. I remember one of the priests at my parish who used to tell us altar boys that we could just mumble the prayers at the foot of the altar because the people couldn’t understand Latin anyway and it would make the mass shorter. That didn’t mean that all masses were bad.
Millions of people each week find the NO mass ok.