Welcome to the English-speaking Latin Mass community in Stuttgart!
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Stuttgart is serving a very international community of traditional catholics in the area. Since October 2019 we're offering a monthly Sunday Mass with English sermon for the growing anglophone community. This section is meant to give you an outline about our identity and pastoral work. Our rectory is located in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen near the subway station Zuffenhausen and our church Saint Albert's is near the subway station Porsche / Neuwirtshaus. On Sundays one of the fathers serves a German-speaking community at Saint Leonhard's in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
We are thrilled to meet you in church as soon as possible!
What's latest at Saint Albert's?
Next Sung Mass with English sermon and potluck/fellowship afterwards: Oct, 6 2024, 12PM
► German Newsletter with Mass Schedule
Homeschooling
Are you a U.S. family in the Stuttgart area with permission to homeschool?
Do you need supervision, hints? Do you want to meet other American families in the area?
Reach out to Father to get in touch with the local community!
!!! Our "Ordo Amoris Homeschool Group" already has a year schedule for the Academic Year 2023-24 !!!
Mass Schedule
Monday - Friday
18:00-18:20 Confessions
18:30-19:15 Holy Mass
Saturday
08:30-09:15 Holy Mass
09:30-10:30 Adoration and Confessions
Sunday
08:00-09:00 Low Mass, confessions before and after
09:30-10:30 High Mass
*First Sundays of the month (please check German Newsletter)
12:00-13:00 Sung Mass with English sermon, confessions at 11:30
Who we are
Using the ancient liturgy as our well-spring, we form our priests in the traditions of the Church to serve at the altar and in the parish so that the fullness of Christ might enter the emptiness of the world.
Why the extraordinary form
The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is the liturgy of the Catholic Church in use before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. This includes the Mass, the Sacraments, various rites of blessing and more.
On July 7th 2007, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic letter called Summorum Pontificum . In this letter he declared that older form of the Roman rite was never abrogated, and that it “must be given due honor for its venerable and ancient usage.” (SP Art. 1)
His Holiness termed the traditional Latin Mass – the older form – the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. This older form has been in use for many centuries. During this time it was at the heart of the Church and Western culture, nourishing countless generations.
Our Fraternity has chosen to place the Extraordinary Form, the traditional Roman Rite, at the heart of our charism because we believe that it distinctly expresses the sacrificial nature of the priesthood and provides a steady, unchanging and beautiful mode of prayer sanctified by time and usage.