St. Anne (Diocese of Little Rock, Berryville)

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Note on sourcing: the VERIFIED FACTS block listed `ParishWebsite: http://saintannenlr.org`, but independent search confirmed that domain ("saintannenlr" = Saint Anne North Little Rock) belongs to a *different* St. Anne parish in the diocese — its own pages are titled "St. Anne Catholic Church - North Little Rock, AR." Search results independently confirmed the correct, currently active site for this Berryville parish is `stannesberryville.com` (same address, 614 S Main St; same phone, (870) 423-3927; matching Mass schedule; West Ozark Deanery listing on dolr.org). To avoid publishing a link to the wrong parish, I used the verified-correct site rather than the erroneous one supplied.


St. Anne
Dedication: St. Anne
Type/Classification: Territorial Parish
Non-Parochial: No
Operated By: Diocesan clergy
Venerated Saints: None specified
Diocese: Diocese of Little Rock
Deanery: West Ozark Deanery
Address: 614 S Main St., Berryville, Arkansas 72616
City: Berryville, AR
Subdivision: Arkansas
Country: United States
County: Carroll County
Website: Website
Founded:
School: No
Email: None specified
AI Confidence: 6/10
Review Level: 0/5


St. Anne Catholic Church is a territorial parish of the Diocese of Little Rock, located in Berryville, Arkansas, in the Ozark region of Carroll County. Dedicated to Saint Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the parish belongs to the diocese's West Ozark Deanery and serves a small but geographically wide rural community in the northwestern corner of the state.

The parish maintains a bilingual worship life, offering Mass in both English and Spanish, and it has been noted in the diocesan press for continuing to offer the Traditional Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) on a weekly basis, a practice that has drawn worshippers from well beyond the immediate area.[1]

No confirmed founding date for the parish is documented in available public sources.

History

Limited historical documentation is publicly available for St. Anne Catholic Church. According to Arkansas Catholic, the newspaper of the Diocese of Little Rock, Father Thomas Arackal, then pastor of St. Anne in Berryville, began offering a weekly Tridentine (Traditional Latin) Mass at the parish in March 2008, following Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, which permitted priests to celebrate the older form of the Roman Rite without first obtaining permission from their bishop. The article reported that the Mass drew worshippers from as far away as Kansas City, Missouri, and quoted Father Arackal saying of the practice, "The people are appreciating it... There's no way I'll hold it back."[2]

The parish is listed in the Diocese of Little Rock's official parish directory as part of the West Ozark Deanery, headquartered at 614 S. Main Street in Berryville.[3] No further parish-specific founding history, building construction dates, or dedication records could be verified in available sources at the time of writing.

Special features

  • Weekly Traditional Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form), a practice documented in the diocesan press since at least 2008
  • Bilingual parish life, with regular Sunday Mass celebrated in both English and Spanish
  • Wednesday evening Holy Hour and Eucharistic Adoration, with confessions offered during this time

Relics

According to established Catholic tradition, the main altar of a dedicated Catholic church customarily contains relics of saints. Specific details regarding any relics housed at St. Anne Catholic Church are not publicly documented in available sources.

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