North American Martyrs Parish
in Seattle, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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North American Martyrs Parish is a Roman Catholic parish in Seattle, Washington, served by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). The FSSP offers the Mass according to the Tridentine Rite, the form that was in use prior to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Following the publication of Summorum Pontificum in 2007, North American Martyrs Catholic Church became the first Tridentine Rite parish in Seattle to be directly supported by (then) Archbishop Alexander Joseph Brunett. Established as a quasi-parish, it was elevated to parish status in 2015.On September 30, 2018, the parish celebrated its tenth anniversary with a Solemn Mass with Archbishop J. Peter Sartain in attendance. During his homily, Archbishop Sartain remarked, "The Church gives us a beautiful liturgy, with fitting prayers and readings, to remind us that each of us is called to be a witness — literally a martyr, in Greek — by steadfastly holding on to our faith in Jesus in His holy Church."North American Martyrs offers most Masses at St. Alphonsus Church in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, with some at Holyrood Cemetery in Shoreline or Bastyr University Chapel in Kenmore. The parish does not yet have a permanent home. Its current pastor is Fr. Joseph Heffernan, FSSP.The parish is named after the North American Martyrs, eight Jesuit missionaries martyred in the mid-17th century.
