St. Thomas More

Craig Coe (11.01.2017 21:02)
Made it easy to find where I had to go. I could zoom on and see everything around where I had to go. Thanx☺

David de Angel (23.12.2016 21:57)
Mass
 50 to 70 minutes. Weekdays 5:30 PM, Sundays 10 AM, 5 PM, 10 PM.
Priests
 All humorous, intellectual, and charismatic. You will not be bored.
 Father Bob is very good with faces and names, makes you feel at home.
 Varied backgrounds, helps serve a multicultural community.
Music—amazing
 Choir and band play a varied repertoire.
 Music mainly in English, they include hymns in other languages every so often.
 Best rendition of “Silent Night” I have ever heard/seen.
 Enjoyed Mariachis for the Feast of the Guadalupe.
Community
 A very academic type.
 Not many kids or teenagers.
 Half or more of the congregation is in New-Haven for a brief period (College, graduate school, Medical training, etc.)
 Very welcoming, they have breakfast/lunch/snacks after mass.
Community Service
 They manage soup kitchen and organize minor local events.
 They have missions outside USA during vacation, mainly for students.
Additional Activities
 They do “Theology on Tap” where a theologian is invited to talk of a subject at a pub while the audience enjoys beer.
 They have an activity center. They screened “Spotlight” (on the Boston pedophiles disaster) and had a community discussion on it.
 They actually have a number of activities for the different subgroups they have in the congregation. It’s impressive.
Accessibility
 It is very easy to contact them! They were incredibly helpful in providing pre-baptismal classes and working with my brother’s home parish outside the USA in arrangements for my godson’s baptism.

Cons:
 The chapel is linked to Yale University so its hours and activities diminish when school is not in session.
 Due to the ever-changing congregation it can be difficult develop a sense of a long-lasting community, though I know many who have been going there for several years and feel fine with this.

Anila Abraham (23.10.2015 03:54)
Small chapel, great prayerful ambience, great choir, short and sweet sermons, great socializing time after 10.00am mass on Sundays.

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