St. Benedict's Chapel

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St. Benedict’s Chapel in Chesapeake, Virginia, is home of Daily Confession and Daily Tridentine Mass (Mass in the Extraordinary form) in the Tidewater area.

About St. Benedict’s Chapel: St. Benedict’s Chapel is a mission Chapel of the Church of St. Gregory the Great, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Chapel was established by virtue of Pope John Paul II’s Motu Proprio, Ecclesia Dei, under the aegis of the Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan, DD, then Bishop of Richmond. Many of the details were ironed out with the help of his Auxiliary, who went on to become the Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, and with the capable assistance of its first pastor, Father Paschal Kneip, OSB. The Chapel was functional when the present Bishop of Richmond was installed, who invited the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter into the Diocese to staff St. Benedict’s Chapel, when members of the Chapel, in response to Bishop DiLorenzo’s charge to do so, were unable to find a diocesan priest to relieve Fr. Damian Abbaticchio, OSB. St. Benedict’s Chapel continues under the provisions of the Moto Prioprio, Summorum Pontificum, with the permission of His Excellency, The Most Reverend Francis X. DiLorenzo, Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond. St. Benedict’s Chapel is the sole Apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in the Richmond Diocese, and is staffed with a priest from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Our New Church:

Link to larger pictures

Capital Campaign for our new Church

Pictorial Tour of New Church (08 Jun 2009)

Explanation (Pictorial Tour):

Attached is a virtual tour of the chapel as of today.
- After you go in the entrance the camera shoots first the right side of Narthex and then the left.
- The next shots are the “cry room/ stairwell” and then on the left the confessionals.
- Next shots are looking out toward old chapel and then to the left looking out toward the trees.
- After shooting the ceiling the tour moves into the priest sacristy then down the hall behind the altar and into the server sacristy.
- The tour shows the side of the chapel looking out to the porch from the server sacristy and then back through the hall to look out the porch from the priest sacristy.
- There is a shot looking up directly over the altar before going out on the priest sacristy porch.
- It ends with shots of the chapel viewed from the entrance to the property with a final outdoor altar end shot.