Rambouillet: Many People But Only One Mass a Month
17 years later, the number of worshippers is growing rapidly. Proof of this is the prosperity of the parish of Saint-Martin-de-Bréthencourt, run by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, 20 km to the south, where the two Sunday masses are now full to bursting, especially on Sundays when mass is not celebrated in Rambouillet.
Depending on the Sunday, the mass in Rambouillet attracts between 120 and 180 people on the second Sunday at 9.30 am.
The celebrant is Abbé de Filiol de Raimond, ordained in 2000, "assisted by Abbé Ménard and two new vicars, Abbé Jean-Baptiste Bellet and Abbé Vincent van Geirt".
Rambouillet is a dynamic town and parish, constantly attracting new inhabitants from Paris and Versailles. As a result, the number of worshippers is growing.
The FSSPX celebrates Mass in the chapel of Saint-Hubert, a former commercial building between Essarts and Le Perray. Mass is celebrated there every Sunday of the year at 8.30 and 10 a.m. and welcomes more than a hundred worshippers each week.
Saint-Martin de Bréthencourt doubled in size during the Covid, when it was the only mass for miles around.
Other worshippers travel further afield to the chapels of Versailles and even Chartres.
The dynamism of Catholicism in Rambouillet can also be seen in the children. Since 2002, Rambouillet has had a Catholic school, Jacinthe et François, run by the parish and the FSSP. In 2022, it had 220 pupils, and a Catholic college, Don Bosco, founded in 2006, which currently has 136 pupils.
The two institutions merged in 2021 as part of the Providence project to increase their capacity, and the school moved close to the college.
Another Catholic school was set up in Le Perray-en-Yvelines, in premises rented by the town hall on a long-term basis. In June 2024, it had 62 pupils.
However, there is only one monthly mass in Rambouillet...
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