Gaelic Mass in KC - St Patrick’s Season 2009
The annual Gaelic Mass in Kansas City as part of the St Patrick’s Day season takes place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, or Redemptorist Church as you may know it, on Broadway by Linwood on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 5pm
If parking and seating is your thing, you are encouraged to arrive early.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Redemptorist Church is located at 3333 Broadway. There is a little bit of parking behind the church and as much street parking as your ability to walk allows. Once again though the VFW building across the road has allowed the use their lot.
St Patrick’s Day is a holy day in Ireland, though less obviously so now than 30 years ago when mass was probably the main event of the day. As such a mass as part of the St Patrick’s Day season seems highly appropriate, though I’m not sure why there’s a need for it to be in Irish, a language almost nobody in attendance in Kansas City understands.
I’ve been to hundreds of masses myself in Gaelic, and some of my favourite hymns would be in Irish, but I imagine if you don’t know what is being said you may as well be listening to mass being said in Latin. Or Klingon.
The Gaelic Mass is open to all, Irish or not, Catholic or not. Please come celebrate with us this most significant part of the St. Patrick’s season as we pay tribute to our patron saint.
Members of the Christine O’Riada Academy of Irish Dance will lead us down the aisle. They will be followed by the bagpipes and the presidents of the local Irish committees.
After communion, new members will be inducted into the “Order of St Patrick”. The Kansas City Police Emerald Society will be assisting mass goers with parking.
This event is posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar.
See more 2009 St Patrick’s Day events in Kansas City.
See Also:
• St Patrick Fact #1: Inflatable Shamrock
• St Patrick Fact #2: Black Puddings
• St Patrick Fact #3: The Irish Panda
• St Patrick’s Day 2008 in Dublin, Ireland
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