About St. Monica · Mobile, Alabama
St. Monica Parish is a Roman Catholic parish located at 1131 Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Alabama, within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mobile. The parish is notable for being a multicultural worshipping community: Sunday Mass is offered in both Vietnamese (9:00 AM) and English (11:00 AM), a Tagalog/Filipino Mass is celebrated on the first Saturday of each month, and a daily 8:00 AM English Mass is offered Monday through Friday. Under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Cu Minh Duong, St. Monica runs a CCD religious-education program, celebrates the sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion with its families, and welcomes visitors and returning Catholics into its life.
- Patron
- St. Monica
- Rector
- Rev. Cu Minh Duong
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Mobile (Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mobile)
Why belong here
St. Monica is a small but culturally rich parish where English, Vietnamese, and Filipino Catholics worship side by side under one faith. The parish offers the full rhythm of Catholic life — daily Mass, weekend Mass in three languages, Saturday confession, CCD religious education for children, First Communion, and Confirmation — in an intimate, family-sized setting. It is a place where recent immigrants and longtime Mobile Catholics share the same pews, and where visitors are personally welcomed by the pastor's own greeting on the website.
Mass times at St. Monica
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Saturday 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
- Or by request
Welcome from the Pastor
The front page of the parish website carries a personal greeting from Rev. Cu Minh Duong, Pastor: 'Welcome to Saint Monica Catholic Parish! We are pleased of your visit to our site. Our parish is made up of parishioners from different cultural backgrounds unified in one faith.' The welcome is offered in three languages — English, Vietnamese ('Thân Chào'), and Filipino ('Mabuhay') — reflecting the parish's trilingual worship life. Visitors are warmly invited to join the celebration of the Catholic faith at one of the posted Mass times.
Faith Formation – CCD and the Sacraments
St. Monica runs a CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) program that walks parish children through the sacraments of initiation. Parish news on the website records the milestones: on June 2, 2024, families gathered for the First Communion of the class of 2024 in a celebration the parish described as 'aglow with the light of faith and the joy of anticipation,' and on September 12 of the same year seven young members of the parish received the Sacrament of Confirmation. The CCD program closes each year with an end-of-year Mass and a lawn-party fellowship, underscoring the parish's family-style approach to faith formation.
- CCD religious-education classes (year-round program)
- First Communion preparation (class of 2024 celebrated June 2, 2024)
- Confirmation preparation (7 confirmands on September 12, 2024)
- CCD End-of-Year Mass and Lawn Party
Parish Life and Multicultural Community
St. Monica is best known for the way it gathers three Catholic communities — English-speaking, Vietnamese, and Filipino — under one roof on the south side of Mobile. The 9:00 AM Vietnamese Mass and the 11:00 AM English Mass share Sunday morning at the parish, and the first-Saturday 6:30 PM Tagalog Mass (Misa sa Filipino) anchors the Filipino community. Parish announcements — including a June 9, 2024 Mass of Thanksgiving for Fr. Hoang Nguyen and the June 4, 2024 memorial for parishioner Mrs. Anna Huu Prine — show that the parish treats these milestones as occasions for the whole community to gather, regardless of language.
- Vietnamese Mass community (Sunday 9:00 AM)
- Filipino Mass community (Misa sa Filipino, 1st Saturday 6:30 PM)
- English-speaking community
- Parish fellowship events following major liturgical milestones
Clergy and Staff
The parish is led by Rev. Cu Minh Duong as Pastor, who signs the website's welcome message personally. Fr. Hoang Nguyen is also associated with the parish — a Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated in his honor on June 9, 2024, reflecting his role in the life of the community. A dedicated parish staff page is not published on the website, so other lay staff or deacons are not currently listed online.
- Rev. Cu Minh Duong — Pastor
- Fr. Hoang Nguyen — priest associated with the parish (honored with a Mass of Thanksgiving, June 9, 2024)
Visit, Contact, and Location
St. Monica sits on Dauphin Island Parkway on Mobile's south side, a corridor that runs southwest toward the Dog River and Dauphin Island. The parish office can be reached by telephone during parish hours, and the website's 'Contact Us' link on the homepage is the primary gateway for inquiries. Visitors are invited to consult the posted Mass schedule before arriving and to call ahead for confession or to request the sacrament outside the regular Saturday window.
- Address: 1131 Dauphin Island Parkway, Mobile, AL 36605
- Phone: (251) 479-7360
- Website: http://www.stmonicaofmobile.com/
- Parish is a member of the Archdiocese of Mobile