Cathedral of St Raphael — Attraction in Dubuque

I was visiting my son and went to Christmas Day mass. Oh my. A harpist was playing when I walked in. Very beautiful. The building is quite mesmerizing as well. I could tell the priests care about their parishioners. While saying mass, a parishioner appeared to have a heart condition and passed out in the second to last row of the church . The priest saw this and immediately went to his parishioner and a doctor was summoned. I could tell he truly cared about his “flock”. He could have asked someone to helo, instead he rushed immediately to the person in need. I cried in church. The scene was very touching. I Will definitely visit this...

I do construction work and got to see the inner workings of the Cathedral. Amazing how they could build something like that so long ago. I got to work in the bell tower so I posted a couple pictures of the bells. It's just a loudspeaker right now, but very soon the bells will actually be...

Beautiful. But very liberal. We can receive on the tongue but there have been times we have had to sit out and not receive being traditional, because the priest sat down and let only ministers hand out the Eucharist. But I know that once.... The TLM thrived here. Once...