Love this church!!…read more Have never been anywhere that was more welcoming and life-giving! Would highly recommend!

What a great little church! The pastor is a very engaging preacher. The music was good and the…read morepeople were very, very friendly. It was quite crowded for the small sanctuary, so our family was going to split up until some of the regulars were kind enough to move and give us room. Highly recommended place of worship.

We came here, the destination, the REASON for our Jubilee 2025 Pilgrimage, of the USA, that my…read morehusband gave ourselves for our 51st Wedding Anniversary, was to be HERE! We made it, finally! I am jumping up and down with joy. We're privileged to complete this dream. We took the tour. We were hoping to attend mass inside the shrine, but it happened, downstairs at the Crypt Church, where Mother Angelica was buried (along with the other Poor Clare Nuns. The shrine was probably like walking in Heaven. We get to join the sisters (on tape) pray the Rosary, and we sat in the front. Attending the Mass there, would have made my trip 1,000% satisfied. So, I'm mostly reviewing of our tour of the shrine. Brother Leo, a Lifetime Brother, gave us the tour. He was also the Altar Server, of the Live ETWN Mass we were at earlier. He was so informative, and answered all the questions I've been wanting to know about the shrine, indoors and outdoors, upper and lower churches, and St. Joseph's Garden, and the surrounding acreage, who lives there, who farms there, who were buried in the crypt, etc. It was something I would come back and explore more of the other tours they have. Maybe, even come back just to attend the mass, at the shrine. That's something to think about, in our next Road Trip. I LOVE THIS PLACE! It reminds me what going to church was like in my youth. If I wasn't married, that was what I wanted to do, live in a convent and be a nun. No joke! I walked and dressed and veiled like a nun, and walked around the garden, carrying my Rosary, and did just that, with a towel pinned to my head.

Most beautiful place to go for prayers and just a place of worship to walk around and feel the…read moreenergy. Sometimes you just need to sit at the shrine higher power.

St Cecilia's Catholic Church has an excellent location in Jasper and is home to some of the nicest…read morepeople you'll ever meet! Close knit group of people and will make you feel right at home! Beautiful church with an excellent priest in Father Wayne!

This has been my place of worship since my family has moved up in 1989. The church preaches a…read morepositive message of hope and fellowship.

This place is underrated . Drove past many times and never stopped til today . Went to a lovely…read moremass this morning in a beautiful church on Divine Mercy Sunday . After we toured the grounds . Much bigger . It has a college attached .grave yard , grotto . Need at least an hour here . Spent 2.5 hours including mass .

You really should visit Ava Maria Grotto in Cullman, or "little Jerusalem" as we called it when we…read morewere growing up. Admission is $10.00 per adult, Teens (13-17): $8; Children (5-12): $7; Seniors/AAA/AARP: $8; Military/Veterans/1st Responders: $7; Children 4 and under: Free. There have been Groupon offers in the past, also. The stone and concrete models are the work of Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk of St. Bernard Abbey, who devoted ~50 years to reproducing/replicating architectures and things like Noah's ark, the colosseum in Rome, Spanish missions, and other historic Christian buildings and displays and secular recreations including the Alamo, the leaning tour of Pisa, German castles, South African shrines, Hansel and Gretel's Temple of the Fairies (complete with a "caged" dragon). Having not visited most, if not all of the actual sites, himself, Br. Zoettl used 300 postcards he owned and I imagine, books, as points of reference for his designs. The film, "Brother Joseph and the Grotto," was released in 2013. Plan to spend from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours including spending time in the gift shop. I can't give 5 stars because the grotto is not wheelchair accessible, and I think that is a sad shame!

My family stopped by for the pumpkin festival. We just happed to be passing by and thought it…read morelooked fun. Wow. The people were so nice. I enjoyed meeting and talking with the pastor. There were lots of games for children and of course- costumes and candy. We will come back to attend a service.

An attractive church that reminds me of churches from the past. It is in the Smith Lake area of…read moreAlabama. I found it to be a comforting place to stop and embrace my thoughts.