(Above) San Gennaro – or St. Januarius.

Solemn High Mass yesterday at the church of the Most Precious Blood – amid the noise and crowds of the San Gennaro Festival in New York’s Little Italy.

(Above) The first Solemn Traditional Mass in ages in this church – but the next is already scheduled for the 29th of September! It was a privilege for this Society to sponsor this mass in such a repository of Catholic tradition. The music included, among other works, Mozart’s Missa brevis in F (K. 192). Our thanks to Msgr Donald Sakano, Pastor of Old St Patrick’s and of Most Precious Blood, for the invitation to sponsor this mass during the San Gennaro festival!

(Above and Below) Occupying much of the rear of the nave is a huge Neapolitan Christmas creche. The church of the Most Precious Blood is a treasury of Catholic and Italian devotions. For more on this church see HERE

(Above) The Sermon – amid the forest of statues. For Fr. Cipolla’s sermon see HERE.

(Above) Good participation for such a small church – including some who ventured in from the nearby festa on Mulberry Street.

On Saturday, September 24th at 10 am, the Society will sponsor a traditional votive mass for San Gennaro at the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood in Little Italy, New York, during the famous Festival of San Gennaro.   David Hughes will lead the choir and strings in a Mozart program.

Prelude: Sonata da chiesa in B-flat (K. 212) (Mozart)
Missa brevis in F (K. 192) (Mozart)
Gregorian Mass of Several Martyrs: Salus autem
Motet at the Offertory: Justorum animae (Palestrina)
Motet at the Communion: Venite populi (Mozart)
Postlude: Sonata da chiesa in F (K. 244) (Mozart)

UPDATE: The music program of the mass.

Saturday, 24 September 2016
10:00 a.m.
Church of the Most Precious Blood, New York City
(National Shrine of San Gennaro)
Votive Mass of San Gennaro and Companions, Martyrs
Missale Romanum of 1962

Prelude: Sonata da chiesa in B-flat (K. 212) (Mozart)
Missa brevis in F (K. 192) (Mozart)
Gregorian Mass of Several Martyrs: Salus autem
Motet at the Offertory: Justorum animae (Palestrina)
Motet at the Communion: Venite populi (Mozart)
Postlude: Sonata da chiesa in F (K. 244) (Mozart)

There are two newly scheduled traditional masses in Connecticut:

Holy Apostles College and Seminary chapel,  Cromwell.  Mass is every Sunday at 12 noon, Fr. Gregoire Fluet, celebrant

St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Church, Brookfield,  every first Sunday of the month at 4 pm, Fr. Shawn Cutler, celebrant

St. Mary Church in Greenwich will off an Extraordinary Form Mass on Wednesday, Sept 14th for the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross at 7:30 in the evening.