Catholics are seriously cooler..

This photo is too much for me, what I would not do to belong to such a church. I just got back from Mass – our recessional hymn was Joyful, Joyful – played on ukeleles. You can image what we had to endure before the closing act…

What church is it, and where is it located?I am seriously readying to move away from here and the relocation plan includes finding a city that has a real church and a real liturgy. I'll become bi-ritual if that's what it takes.Suggestions anyone?

if you follow the link to rome of the west and scroll down the church info is on marks blog.

Our small-town NC church looks like the backside of the Moose Lodge on Monday morning, but we've got an orthodox young priest who trains only altar boys and does a very nice liturgy. I wish I could say the music has caught up with the rest of it — and I can say that in total self-criticism, because today I was 1/2 of the choir — but we're working on it. No ukeleles, though. All the weekday Masses are celebrated ad orientem, and the Thursday noon Mass is the Latin Mass. We moved here last summer for my husband to take up a teaching job at a college with, uh, a motto that's the same as the name of this blog, and honestly, we didn't expect to find anything like our parish in the town we chose to settle in. We're blessed and spoiled.