SVDP Catholic Parishioner, Holladay Utah

SVDP Catholic Parishioner, Holladay Utah For the Parish Members / By the Parish Members St. Our parishioners accept the challenge of building a diverse community of service and worship.

Vincent de Paul Catholic Parish is comprised of Christians serving the church and community in the center of the Salt Lake Valley. Our web site is designed to provide you with current events and other information about the needs and opportunities of our parish. Don't miss our "Ministries and Organizations" page found in Parish Resources! We invite you to browse through the information and visit us often. We welcome your comments and participation!

06/11/2026

Amid the ruins, Mary continues to hold Jesus and teach the world the true meaning of faithfulness. 🤍

06/11/2026
06/10/2026

☘️ Only the Irish looked at death and decided the appropriate response was to throw a party. The Irish wake isn't a failure to grieve properly. It's a sophisticated cultural technology for processing loss that the rest of the world is only beginning to understand. You gather everyone who loved the person, you put them in a room together, you tell every story you can remember about the deceased, and you laugh until you cry and cry until you laugh and by morning something has shifted that couldn't have shifted any other way.

The tradition goes back centuries, rooted in a pre-Christian Irish relationship with death that treated the transition between worlds as something to be marked with ceremony, music, storytelling, and community. The body was never left alone. The family was never left alone. The community showed up and stayed, not out of obligation but out of a genuine understanding that grief shared is grief made survivable. That wisdom crossed every ocean the Irish crossed and showed up in Irish-American communities where wakes became legendary for exactly the same reasons.

What gets missed in the outside perception of the Irish wake is the profound respect underneath the laughter. The stories being told aren't trivializing the person who died. They're refusing to let that person be reduced to their absence. Every laugh in that room is an act of love. Drop a comment if your family still does it this way and follow The Irish Remembered for more. 🕯️☘️

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1375 E Spring Lane
Salt Lake City, UT
84117

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9:30am - 11:30am
Saturday 4pm - 4:45pm

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(801) 272-9216

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