St. Ambrose Catholic Church — Attraction in St. Louis

I love going to St. Ambrose parish for 5 pm Saturday Mass. The friendly attitude of all the parishioners is the best. I do not live in this parish but love going to Mass there & then have dinner on the Hill. Fr. Bommarito walks down the aisle before Mass greeting people & making everyone feel so welcome. I always enjoy his sermon. He makes sense in his sermons and is to the point and doesn’t linger on & on like many other priests do. The church is always packed when we go & that says a lot too. Thanks for giving a good experience St....

It's a "modern Italian" church. It's more about the people in the pews than the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I'm used to old school Italians and silence and beads. If you want a reverent Mass, I don't suggest going here. It is a beautiful church but with all the noise it's rather difficult to appreciate the devotion with which it was built. It was built with the acoustics for Gregorian chant and polyphony. These acoustics make anything contemporary rather unpleasant sounding. So, attend at...

Most Italian neighborhoods in American cities were inhabitated by Italian immigrants from the south. St. Louis is different in the fact that it had also a consistent immigration from the north. Hence St. Ambrose church: it's a famous church in Milan, where Saint Ambrose lived (and converted Augustine of Hippo) in the early...