For those Catholics who want to do their very best to observe the Third Commandment (known as the Fourth Commandment to Protestants) while travelling by attending Mass on Sundays (or Saturday evenings) and Holy Days, who want to be nourished by the Body of Christ and the Word of God on a weekday, or who need to find a priest to receive the sacrament of confession, this website is a good one to keep in mind.

http://www.masstimes.org/dotNet/Default.aspx

I often prefer going to confession to a priest I'll never see again! :o

;)

If you discover a Mass location that is not on the list or needs to be updated, such as at a small airport chapel or national park mountaintop, I'm sure they'll appreciate a correction. :cool:

Perusing the site a bit, it looks like their primary input is from parishes. Some participate, some don't. But it's a start. The two biggest churches on Saipan are included, with the correct Mass times.

It's not clear that updates can be submitted for unverified entry by private travellers, perhaps for good reason. In that case, one should ask the pastor to include the information.

Another tip, ask your hotel concierge to find out. Sometimes local parishes will leave leaflets with information with them.

Heck, if you are attending a big conference that goes on a sunday as well, a lot of times the convention will have a list of churches preprinted with mass times, directions/distance, and contact information

Though far from complete coverage of the entire world, I have found that Rough Guides provide pretty accurate coverage of religious services in English, and for multiple demoninations too. I am a Catholic and have used them to find Catholic masses in Moscow, Paris, London (not too hard, I'll admit), Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Mass Times website for the United States, in my experience, is excellent and I have used it to find masses in extremely obscure corners of the US and in the big cities.

For Spanish speakers www.misas.org is quite good and correct

Casimir - where is the Rough Guide site?

I trid here - http://www.roughguides.com/default.html but had no luck.

TIA

Husky Jim,

Sorry -- my post was ambiguous. I was referring to the actual, hard copy Rough Guides, which are travel guides. These are found at most bookstores and often at airport bookstores too. They do have a website, but obviously do not give all the information in their guides away for free.

If I were you, I'd go to my local Border's and check out the guide for the destination to see what they have re: religious services. Good luck, Casimir

Well, as a Filipino, all I have to do to find a church is to ask one of my countrymen when I run into them :D

However, the OP's tool was pretty useful, as I was a little worried about not being able to find a church in BKK. There's only one, but that usually makes things easier :) Thanks!

I haven't checked the site yet but I really wish I saw this one before I left for Japan. Similar to what Solblanc said, if I need to find a Filipino community abroad, I just have to find the church. :D

BTW Solblanc, it's me Skyblade. Great to see you in FT! :)