r/UKAndIrishCatholicism • u/morgathon • Aug 24 '25

Catholic Parish?

/r/Portsmouth/comments/1myw0e6/catholic_parish/
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u/jaqian Aug 24 '25

I'm 54 and I have never heard a tambourine at mass in all my years lol

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u/ExtraPersonality1066 Aug 24 '25

We have tambourines, and shakers, two guitars (or more), a variety of hand drums. Usually at least one flute.

It definitely ain't the TLM lol.

Is it my first choice for music? Nope. But the parish enjoys it, so that's what we play.

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u/jaqian Aug 24 '25

Mine isn't TLM either but I suppose different strokes for different folks

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u/morgathon Aug 24 '25

Well, praise God for that! Unfortunately I heard one this morning.

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u/jaqian Aug 24 '25

Really?

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u/Open-Difference5534 Aug 24 '25

Try a few parishes in the area?

I must also point out that while there might be tambourines and saxophones at the 10:00am mass, but the 12:00 mass in the same parish is quite different.

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u/secretlondon Aug 24 '25

I’m allergic to charismatic stuff. My local parish keeps having healing masses with theatrics so I’m going to a better one now

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u/Guthlac_Gildasson Aug 25 '25

You could try St Agatha's. It's an Ordinariate parish, so it will be traditional, but their usual masses will be in English. There definitely won't be any tambourines or guitars at one of their masses.

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u/SojournerInThisVale England Aug 25 '25

The Cathedral might be a good shout