The distinction of “best city to move to” has been awarded to Nashua, New Hampshire. This, of course, is very secular news, but there is a traditional Catholic angle. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter has a flourishing, TLM-only, personal parish in Nashua: Saint Stanislaus Church. The church has three priests, many Sunday and Holy-Day Masses, and is packed virtually to overflowing.
From the New York Post:
New York City might be the best city in the world, but the best city to move to is located more than four hours away.
That’s according to a new study ranking the country’s most desirable metros along key quality of life metrics: job opportunities, cost of living and safety.
The report, authored by MRI Software, crowned Nashua, New Hampshire, the best city to move to.
The titular patron of the parish in Nashua is Saint Stanislaus of Cracow, the great Polish Martyr-Bishop.
Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, is about an hour and fifteen minutes from this parish.
But there is another TLM-only personal parish in this same (statewide) Manchester, New Hampshire Diocese: Saint Stanislaus Kostka. This parish, fifteen minutes down the road from the publishers of this site — we were there for Holy Mass this morning! — is staffed by priests of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP). As the name of the parish says, its titular is the young Polish Jesuit whose feast is today. It was wonderful to be at the Mass of a newly ordained IBP priest, from Poland, who blessed us with the relic of Saint Stanislaus Kostka at the end of Mass.
It’s a lovely tribute to the faith of the Polish immigrants to New Hampshire that our two TLM-only parishes are both old Polish parishes named after two different Saints Stanislaus.
Nashua Millyard. Photo credits: Jane023, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
