Catholic Priests On Cruise Ships

Miami Fla Jan 16 2005 2200 pm.

Catholic priests on cruise ships. Ensure cruise lines are assigned approved and trained priests in good standing. We had a Catholic priest on our cruise on the Holland American Ryndam. Sunday Mass even on a cruise ship holding a relatively small number like 1200-1500 passengers will draw 500 worshipers he added.

Royal Caribbean ships offer one interdenominational service for all faiths per voyage. These are often advertised on Catholic radio or TV as well as Catholic newspapers and church bulletins. Barring unavoidable circumstances HAL has a Catholic priest on every sailing.

Conference of Catholic Bishops has started screening those celebrating Mass on cruise ships a plan geared toward preventing former rental and even fraudulent priests from ministering to Catholic passengers. Cruise Ship Priest Program. Providing Catholic priests in good standing to cruise lines.

Mass is celebrated every day normally in the morning on sea days and late afternoon on port days. Ships that are at sea or in a foreign port on Sunday generally provide the passengers with on board church services performed by Catholic Priests andor Protestant Ministers. On our Amazon cruise on the Prinsendam the Priest missed the ship so we did not have one for that cruise.

We are not able to guarantee that a priest is onboard for all our sailings but we do try to book Priests for our Christmas and Easter sailings and on repositioning sailings. Of Catholics who are cruise line passengers and crew members. Conceived in Scotland in 1920 this Apostolate of the Catholic Church was founded in an effort to minister to the many mariners who often spent months away from their families and had no one to provide them spiritual guidance.

Back to All Shipboard Positions. They dont get a salary but they also dont pay the full fare of the typical. There are some ocean cruises organized by Catholic groups with a priest along as well as Catholic speakers.