Our Mission

The Mission of the Catholic American Community of St. Patrick’s Church in Rome:

United by our Catholic faith and English language, we celebrate and live together the faith of Saints Peter and Paul founded in this holy city of Rome.  We welcome those who come to Rome as pilgrims and tourists seeking to grow in their Catholic faith celebrated in language and ways familiar to them. We reach out to those in our city who depend on others for the compassion that leads to human dignity and opportunity. We join in ecumenical collaboration with those of other Christian traditions to know and live our gospel faith most fully.

 All of our Masses are at the St. Patrick's Church/Chiesa di San Patrizio, Via Boncompagni, N. 31 (00187 Rome, Italy). 

ALL OF OUR MASSES ARE SUSPENDED THROUGH APRIL 3, 2020 AS DECREED BY THE CARDINAL VICAR OF ROME:

 

Good morning.

Here is the link for our Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 29, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/256690495494829/?t=10

Here is the link for the Mass for Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent, March 27, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/2844638452270538/

Here is the link for the Mass for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, March 26, 2020: 

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/495594244444633/ 

Here is the link for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, March 25, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/825830544584823/

Here is the link for the Mass for Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, March 24, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/209075703523901/

Here is the link for the Mass for Monday, March 23, 2020, Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent:

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/263544897985043/?t=13

Here is the link for the Mass for Sunday, March 22, 2020: 

https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/215511813030397/   

YouTube:  https://youtu.be/vB_Y27nL12A 

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/399556467

Also look for our Stations of the Cross service which is now posted on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/cacrome/videos/2508066879456605/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/dZvp2qHMsYA    

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/399552697

For Sunday Mass, we thank: our musicians, Dafrosa Cho and Raimundo Pereira; our Lectors, Joan Lewis, Gabriella Spadaro and Ann Haring; and our Paulist brothers in Washington DC and New York who edited all this together and upload the Mass on the different sites.   

Next week we will be Livestreaming our daily Masses on Facebook, beginning at 9:30 AM, Monday through Friday.

 

A “virtual” Collection Basket will be passed around before and after Mass. To all of our parishioners, alumni and friends, we make an appeal to contribute to our parish as you would if you were attending Mass. We need to pay our salaries, living expenses and ongoing taxes and this has become very difficult. We realize that we are not the only ones in need at this time, and that many of you are suffering with the closures and loss of income. So we appreciate anything you can offer to help. Please use this Paulist link https://www.paulist.org/helprome/ or go to the home page of our website www.stpatricksamericnarome.org and donate through Paypal, or send a bank transfer (bonifico) to our Chiesa di San Patrizio a Villa Ludovisi account at the credem bank: IT35D 03032 03201 01000 0005028. We are incredibly grateful to all of you who have donated so generously thus far. We appreciate this very much.

And let us continue to pray for each other.

Click here for Map and Public Transportation to St. Patrick's Church. 

(Our mailing address is: Paulist Fathers, Via Antonio Salandra 6, 00187 Rome, Italy).         

To contact us, click here.   We do not list our email addresses, but if you click on "here" or the names below, it will set up an email response for you.    Our new office telephone number is:  (+39)  06.8881.8727.  Our Fax Number is:  (+39) 06.474.0236

Our newest edition of As Romans Do, our periodic guide for pilgrims to Rome, is now available. This 100-page guide to Rome and the Catholic American Community of St. Patrick’s Church is a real treasure. The Paulists currently on staff (Fr. Greg Apparcel and Fr. Steve Petroff) and the entire St. Patrick’s Community are ready and willing to assist all pilgrims coming to Rome in 2020 and 2021 and to do everything to make your visit as fulfilling as possible.All of our Masses are in English.

This edition of As Romans Do is dedicated to all of you who seek to deepen and enrich your faith during your time in Rome. It makes many and varied recommendations for what to see and do, provides opening times and costs for museums and other places of interest, and gives an overview of our parish, our Church and life in Rome.  Just send your name and address and he will happy to mail you a copy: . (We do not have an email version.) All we ask is that you consider sending us a donation to help with postage and to support our ministry here at St. Patrick’s.