Catholic dating in Alabama
Catholic dating in Alabama: the EWTN Mass in Irondale, St Bernard Abbey, Maronite and Melkite parishes, the Latin Mass in Huntsville, and Spring Hill.
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Short answer
Every morning at seven, a Mass is televised from a chapel in Irondale, fifteen minutes from downtown Birmingham, and anyone may attend it. EWTN's own visitor page says so plainly: "No reservations are needed to attend Mass. Just walk into the Chapel."
The network began in a cloistered monastery. Mother Angelica's Our Lady of Angels Monastery in Irondale was dedicated in 1962, and the nuns later turned its garage into a television studio. In December 1999 her order moved about an hour north, to the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, in Cullman County, where Benedictine monks have prayed since the nineteenth century and Benedictine sisters keep a monastery of their own.
Eighteen places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: the EWTN chapel, St Bernard Abbey and its grotto, the Benedictine sisters of Cullman, the cathedral in Birmingham, a Maronite and a Melkite church half a mile apart, a parish of the traditional Latin Mass in Huntsville, Masses in Spanish and Korean, and the Catholic ministries at UAB and Spring Hill. They are not every parish; they are the places whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Alabama
Alabama has two dioceses: the Archdiocese of Mobile in the south and the Diocese of Birmingham in the north. Both dioceses' websites, and most parish sites in the Mobile archdiocese, refused automated visitors, so the Mobile side of this page is the thinnest.
In Birmingham's Southside, St Elias, a Maronite parish, and St George, a Melkite Greek Catholic parish, stand half a mile apart. The Maronites began here in 1910, when a priest living at St Paul's celebrated their liturgy in a room of St Paul's School, in the parish that is now the cathedral.
From EWTN's, the abbey's and the parishes' own pages, opened 24 September 2026
The traditional Latin Mass has a home at Our Lady, Help of Christians in Huntsville, a personal parish of the Diocese of Birmingham that celebrates the 1962 form, and at Blessed Sacrament in Birmingham on Sunday mornings. Holy Spirit in Huntsville has Sunday Masses in Spanish and in Korean, and Spanish Masses are celebrated from Cullman to Montgomery and Prattville.
Where the community gathers
The eighteen places fall into five parts of the state: Huntsville, Cullman County, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile.
Huntsville
Huntsville holds two: Our Lady, Help of Christians and Holy Spirit.
Cullman County
Cullman County holds three: St Bernard Abbey with the Ave Maria Grotto, Sacred Heart Monastery and Sacred Heart parish in Cullman.
Birmingham
Birmingham holds eight: the EWTN chapel in Irondale, the Cathedral of St Paul, St George, St Elias, Blessed Sacrament, St Stephen the Martyr University Chapel, St Francis Xavier and St Mark the Evangelist.
Montgomery
Montgomery holds two: the City of St Jude and St Joseph in Prattville.
Mobile
Mobile holds three: Spring Hill College's chapel, St Joseph in Maysville and St Mary's.
Meeting places worth knowing
A personal parish of the Diocese of Birmingham celebrating the traditional Latin Mass of 1962, with four Sunday Masses, low and high.
1201 Kingsbury AvenueHuntsville
AL 35801
A parish with Sunday Masses in English, two in Spanish and one in Korean at four, and a bilingual Mass on Wednesday evenings.
625 Airport Road SWHuntsville
AL 35802
A Benedictine abbey founded in 1891, with Sunday Mass at half past ten and Solemn Vespers, beside the Ave Maria Grotto, a garden of miniature shrines open every day.
1600 Saint Bernard Drive SECullman
AL 35055
The Benedictine Sisters of Cullman, with Lauds, Eucharist on Sunday at ten and Vespers, and a retreat centre for guests.
916 Convent Road NECullman
AL 35055
A parish with Spanish Masses every weekend, and a mission, St Boniface in Hanceville, with a bilingual Saturday evening Mass.
205 3rd Avenue SECullman
AL 35055
The chapel of the Catholic television network, where the daily televised Mass at seven is open to anyone without a reservation, with a second Mass at noon on weekdays.
5817 Old Leeds RoadIrondale
AL 35210
The cathedral of the Diocese of Birmingham, dedicated in 1893, with Sunday Masses from quiet to solemn and confessions every weekday before noon.
2120 3rd Avenue NorthBirmingham
AL 35203
A Melkite parish of the Diocese of Newton with nearly a century in Birmingham, with Orthros and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning.
425 16th Avenue SouthBirmingham
AL 35205
A Maronite parish whose church was dedicated in 1914, with a Sunday liturgy at eight and half past ten and a food and cultural festival every April.
836 8th Street SouthBirmingham
AL 35205
A parish with Latin Masses early on Sunday morning and at a quarter to eleven, and a potluck lunch after it on the third Sunday.
1460 Pearson Avenue SWBirmingham
AL 35211
The Catholic chapel for students at UAB, Samford and nearby colleges, with Sunday Mass at half past ten and a free meal for students after it.
1515 12th Avenue SouthBirmingham
AL 35205
A parish with Sunday Masses in English and two in Spanish, and a young adult group of its Hispanic ministry.
2 Xavier CircleBirmingham
AL 35213
A parish whose young adult community meets for social events every month, with a Solemn Mass on Sunday morning and a Mass at seven in the evening.
7340 Cahaba Valley RoadBirmingham
AL 35242
A parish begun in 1934 as a Catholic mission to the African-American community, with a sung Sunday Mass at nine and a Mass in Spanish at noon.
2048 West Fairview AvenueMontgomery
AL 36108
A parish with Sunday Masses in English and a Spanish Mass at four in the afternoon.
511 North Memorial DrivePrattville
AL 36067
The Jesuit college founded in 1830 by Mobile's first bishop, with a Sunday Mass at eleven and a student Mass at nine at night when classes are in session.
4000 Dauphin StreetMobile
AL 36608
A parish of the Josephites, a cornerstone of the African-American Catholic community since 1930, with Sunday Mass at half past nine.
1703 Dublin StreetMobile
AL 36605
A parish with Sunday Masses at half past nine and half past eleven, coffee and doughnuts in between, and five Marriage Nights a year for married couples.
1453 Old Shell RoadMobile
AL 36604
Some places appear without a card. The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville has daily Mass that visitors attend, but its website refused automated visitors, so we could not read the hour. Christ the King Monastery near Cullman celebrates the Extraordinary Form and posts its schedule as an image. The University of Alabama's St Francis of Assisi parish in Tuscaloosa, the Cathedral-Basilica in Mobile and the Auburn campus ministry have websites we could not read.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
Irondale is fifteen minutes from the Birmingham cathedral, and St Elias and St George are two minutes apart. Hanceville is about an hour north of Birmingham, and in Cullman County the abbey and the sisters' monastery are three minutes apart.
Huntsville is under two hours north of Birmingham and Montgomery about an hour and a half south. Mobile is around four hours from Birmingham, at the far end of the state.
So Catholic Alabama has its heart around Birmingham and Cullman County, with Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile each a drive away. Inside Birmingham, two people can meet after work; from Huntsville to Mobile, it is a long day on the road.
The cana.love form asks where you live and whether you would move, so the length of the state is no surprise.
The Catholic year in Alabama
The televised Mass in Irondale
In the EWTN chapel, open to anyone who walks in.
Potluck after the Latin Mass
Blessed Sacrament in Birmingham, after the quarter-to-eleven Mass.
Marriage Nights in Mobile
Dinner and a speaker for married couples at St Mary's.
A Korean Mass in Huntsville
Holy Spirit, after the Spanish Mass.
The festival at St Elias
Lebanese food and culture at the Maronite parish in Southside.
Students at St Stephen's
Mass and a free meal after it, near UAB.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Alabama
A televised Mass in Irondale, Vespers with the monks of St Bernard, a Maronite Liturgy in Southside and a Korean Mass in Huntsville: Catholics in Alabama pray in many ways. cana.love asks which is yours.
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Parish and meaning, in your own words
Your parish and what gives your life meaning are written in your own words; an abbey in Cullman and a campus chapel in Mobile do not share a list.
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What cana.love is and is not
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Orthodox Christians, Protestants and people still deciding are welcome too, when they want the same kind of marriage, and your settings choose who can see you. Alabama's Catholic parishes pray in Spanish and Korean, and in the Maronite and Melkite rites, as well as in English, and a site that closed its door would be narrower than they are. Its promise is on every profile: faith, practice and intentions, written to be read first. Cana SpA, a company in Chile, operates the site; the About page has more.
Meeting safely
- Choose daylight and a public place for the first meeting, and agree when you will leave: coffee after Mass, a café in Five Points South in Birmingham or downtown in Huntsville. Tell a friend where you will be and, if the drive home is I-65 after dark, when to expect you. Your address can stay private for now.
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Common questions
Can I attend the EWTN Mass?
Yes: the televised Mass is at seven every morning in the chapel in Irondale, and EWTN says no reservation is needed.
Where is the traditional Latin Mass?
Our Lady, Help of Christians in Huntsville, a personal parish for the 1962 form, and Blessed Sacrament in Birmingham on Sunday mornings.
Are there Eastern Catholic churches?
St Elias, a Maronite parish, and St George, a Melkite parish, both in Birmingham's Southside.
Are there Masses in other languages?
Spanish in Huntsville, Cullman, Birmingham, Montgomery and Prattville, and Korean at Holy Spirit in Huntsville.
Is there anything for students?
St Stephen the Martyr for UAB and Samford, and Spring Hill College in Mobile.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Alabama?
Yes, from eighteen, in a browser, with nothing to install.
Next steps
In Birmingham, go to the seven o'clock Mass in Irondale one morning and to St Mark's young adults one evening; in Huntsville, try the Sunday Latin Mass. And to see how someone practises before you meet, open a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.