The first church was completed in 1891.[/caption]
Name of Church St. Richard
Address 1210 9th Street W, Columbia Falls MT 59912
Phone number 406-892-5142
Website www.strichardsparish.org
Mass times Sunday, 8 & 10 am (the 8 am Mass is in Latin), Fridays, 11 am (Fr. Raftis also celebrates Mass at St. Charles Borromeo, Whitefish (about nine miles away) on Wednesdays, 12:15 pm, Saturdays, 5 pm, and Sundays noon.
Confessions Saturdays, 11 am.
Names of priests Father Sean Raftis, pastor. Father is an orthodox priest, and a good homilist. Listen to him on the parish YouTube channel or his podcast.
School No.
Special activities Adoration, 1st Sunday, 6 to 7 pm and Saturdays, 11 am to 2 pm; group rosaries Thursdays, 9:30 am and Saturdays, 11 am; morning prayer, 9 am
Special parish groups Knights of Columbus, Council of Catholic Women
Music choir
Fellow parishioners This is a small town, English-speaking.
Parking There is ample parking around the church.
Additional observations This is a conservative parish in the small town of Columbia Falls in the Diocese of Helena. The first St. Richard’s church was completed in 1891, a brick Gothic Revival church which the parish outgrew (it still exists today). The current church was built in 1959 and is located less than a mile away from the original.
Nice!
At least the new church doesn’t look crazy. God is good.
Good to see a Latin Mass there.
The original church is so much nicer naturally.
The average age of Knights of Columbus members is like 78 in my parish. What’s it here?
In some councils, the average age is 62-63. The average age of online members is 42.
What’s the average age of men in your parish who attend more than Sunday Mass?