Catholic Priests On Cruise Ships

These are often advertised on Catholic radio or TV as well as Catholic newspapers and church bulletins.

Catholic priests on cruise ships. They came on strongly. Mass aboard ship draws 20-80 passengers. We were on the repo cruise in 2011 from LA to Vancouver and there was a priest on the ship who said Mass on Sunday which was an at sea day.

We are not able to guarantee that a priest is onboard for all our sailings but we do try to book Priests for our Christmas and Easter sailings and on repositioning sailings. Provide cruise passengers validly ordained and accredited priests to serve onboard. Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts.

Conceived in Scotland in 1920 this Apostolate of the Catholic Church was founded in an effort to minister to the many mariners who often spent months away from their families and had no one to provide them spiritual guidance. The Apostleship of the Sea AOS. In 2002 the USCCB asked the AOS-USA to create a system to verify the names of approved priests for cruise ship.

Royal Caribbean ships offer one interdenominational service for all faiths per voyage. A few cruise lines used to have a Catholic priest on board all cruises. Priests traveling on cruise ships are not just there for the wind and the waves.

We would supply Catholic priests in good standing with competent authority to the cruise lines Celebrity Father Oubre added was the first to come on board. Rarely on those days when the ship is in port from extremely early until very late once I was off the ship at 600 AM and not back until after 700 PM there is no. In other words because some anti-Catholics objected to daily Mass onboard the ship Celebrity Cruises threw the priestsand the lay.

Our mission was to communicate with the cruise line Father Oubre said. Much smaller ships designed for river cruising maybe 50-100 people on board dock in the heart of town shore. There are some ocean cruises organized by Catholic groups with a priest along as well as Catholic speakers.