Saint Philip Neri Church

Saint Philip Neri Church is a Catholic church at 11411 South Leelanau Highway in Empire, MI 49630. It is one of 2 churches in Empire.

It all started when…The history of St. Philip Neri Church begins in the middle of the 19th century when the first Catholic settlers came to the Glen Lake/Empire area.

11411 South Leelanau Highway, Empire, MI, 49630

Service times

  • Saturday 4pm · Mass
  • Sunday 8am · Mass
  • Thursday 9am

Saint Philip Neri Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 748 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Michigan — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Saint Philip Neri Church

It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Social Isolation: 27.4%
  • Depression: 23.8%
  • Child Poverty: 22.7% (9.5–35.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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