Traditional Masses for the Feast of the Assumption

The following churches are offering the Traditional Latin Mass for the feast of the Assumption, this Friday, August 15:

Connecticut:

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, Missa Cantata, 5:30 pm. directions

Music:
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
Missa de Beata Virgine (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Gregorian Mass of the Assumption: Signum magnum
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: Ave maris stella (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Postlude: Ricercare dopo il Credo (per la Messa “In Festis Beatae Mariae Virginis”) (Frescobaldi)

St. Bridget of Kildare, Moodus, CT, Missa Cantata, 10 am. directions

The music at St. Bridget’s will include a Gregorian Mass and chant sung by the schola, the Gregorian Ave Maris Stella with organ verses by Jehan Titelouze, and the Ave Maria of Saint-Saëns sung by visiting vocal artist Lorna Mulvaney.

Sacred Heart Church, New Haven, low Mass, 5:30 pm. directions

Church of St. Mary, 544 Main St., New Britain, 5:30 pm

New York

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY, low Mass, 5 pm. directions

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, the Bronx, 8:30 am. directions

Church of Our Saviour, 38th and Park Avenue, New York, NY, low Mass, 12:05 pm.

Church of the Holy Innocents, W. 37th St. between 7th Ave. and Broadway, New York, NY, 6:15 pm.

St. Matthew Chapel, 35 N. Service Rd., Dix Hill, Long Island, low Mass, 9 am.

New Jersey

St. Anthony of Padua Chapel, West Orange, NJ, 9:00 a.m. Low Mass; 7:00 p.m. Missa Cantata. directions

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, 32 W. Franklin Ave., Pequannock, 7 am, 8 am, 12 noon, 7 pm.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark, 7:00 p.m. Low Mass

Holy Rosary Church, Jersey City, 5:30 p.m. Missa Cantata

The music at Holy Rosary Church will include Missa Te Deum Laudamus by Lorenzo Perosi, Ave Maria by Saint Saens, and Ave Maris Stella by Grieg sung by the choir; Gregorian chant sung by the schola; and Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini, Panis Angelicus by Cesar Franck, and La Vergine degli Angeli by Giuseppe Verdi from La Forza del Destino sung by visiting soprano Paula Scalera.

Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, Broadway and Market St., Camden, Solemn Mass, 7:00 pm.

The musical selections are as follows: The Ordinary of the Mass is the Messa della Cappella (1641), by Claudio Monteverdi. Other selections: Canzon XII a 8, Giovanni Gabrielli; Sonata Sopra “Sancta Maria”, C. Monteverdi; Venite Populi and Sonata #12 in C major, K 263, W.A. Mozart; Pulchra est amica mea, Palestrina-Bassano; Ave Maria, Harold Boatrite; Hymns – Repeat My Soul, Walter Greatorex and Sing We of the Blessed Mother, Timothy McDonnell. The preacher of the Mass is Father John Zuhlsdorf, a renowned commentator and the author of the Blog, “What does the Prayer Really Say.” We are also honored to have in attendance, a long time friend of Mater Ecclesiae and pastor of St. Athanasius Parish, Phila., the Bishop Elect of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Reverend Monsignor Herbert Bevard.

We are grateful to our many readers who sent in information to help make this list complete.