St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, will celebrate the Assumption of Mary this Saturday, August 18th at 4 pm with a solemn Mass, then a parish picnic immediately following Mass. The church will provide hamburgers and hot dogs. Please bring a dessert or side dish to share.

Visiting priest Fr. Peter Van Lieshout will celebrate a sung Votive Mass of the Holy Trinity in the Traditional Rite at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in New Britain, CT, on Mon, July 30.

Today is the first day of the solemn Novena to St. Anne at the Church of the Holy Innocents. All Masses at 6PM, including Saturday and Sunday from today Tuesday, July 17 through Thursday, July 26, 2017 will be Sung Masses.

The Novena will include: the 6PM traditional Sung Masses (including Saturday and Sunday), beautiful novena prayers, and a candlelight procession inside the church. St. Anne candles will be available in the back of the church. Every day of the novena, there will be veneration of the Relic of St. Anne (and St. Joachim).

All petition slips will eventually be taken to the Shrine of St. Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec, Canada.

Stained glass window in St. Cecilia Church, Manhattan.

Photos of this past Sunday’s 9:30 am solemn Mass, Fr. Cipolla’s last as pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT. In the afternoon there was a festive reception held in his honor with surprise choral entertainment.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

7th Annual Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY

10:00 AM – Marian Talk and Rosary
10:30 AM – Serenade, Hymns and offering of flowers to the Blessed Mother by Children
10:45 AM – Penitential Procession in the Nave on knees or discalced
11:15 AM – Traditional Latin Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form
12:30 PM – Eucharistic Procession, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Veneration of the Relics of the Saints
1:00 PM – Potluck Lunch
2:30 PM – Enrollment in the Brown Scapular

On Friday, June 15, the 6PM Mass at Holy Innocents will be a Sung Requiem Mass to commemorate the centennial celebration of the death of Joyce Kilmer, Catholic poet. After the Mass, Fr. Stravinskas will give a lecture in the parish hall on Catholic poetry.

Corpus Christi Procession at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in New York. Below, an outdoor altar set up. (Photos courtesy of Teddy Thongratnachat)

Above and below: Corpus Christi procession at St. Joseph’s Church in Albany. Photo courtesy of the Extraordinary Form in Albany Diocese Facebook page.

Sung Mass for the Novena to the Sacred Heart last night at Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Art Bryan Manabat. Mr. Manabat reports: “The mural over the altar depicts the revelation of Our Lord’s Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun. About 100 faithful in attendance, not counting the sisters at the monastery hidden in the chapel wing to the right of the sanctuary. Servers included a seminarian and NYPD officer. Fr. Saffron preached about how Our Lord’s side was pierced with a lance by the blind Roman soldier Longinus, who according to tradition was healed of his cataracts when the blood and water poured over his eyes. Father prayed that Our Lord likewise remove any spiritual cataracts due to sin and false theology plaguing the Church.”