I'd like to attend Mass on Saturday evening in Rome. My itinerary for Saturday puts me at Il Gesu around 5 pm, so that seems like a logical place for Mass. Their website says that Mass is at 7 pm on Saturdays, but the website hasn't been updated in a while. Does anyone know if that schedule is correct, and if so, do any of the nearby churches offer a slightly earlier Mass (like around 5 or 6)?
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Sammamish, WA
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Santa Maria Sopra Minerva,just of couple of blocks away, has a 6:00p.m. Saturday mass. The church (minor basilica) is absolutely beautiful and well worth visiting. The name tells you that it is a church supposedly built on top of the Roman temple to Minerva. And Bernini's elephant is right out front!
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NEW IBERIA
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The Pantheon has a Saturday afternoon mass. It is at 5:00. I have been twice and it is a beautiful place for a mass. Tourists are cleared out for the Mass and only those who actually want to attend Mass are allowed. You may have to make your wishes known to the guards in order to be allowed in to attend. The wonderful thing is that Mass usually takes about 50 minutes and the crowds are kept out until 6pm. You virtually have the whole place to yourself to explore.