Merry Christmas! Pictures from Midnight Mass at St. Mary’s

The creche at St. Mary’s Norwalk.

This morning a congregation, completely filling the Church of St. Mary’s, welcomed the birth of the Saviour at the midnight Solemn Mass. A glance at our prior posting on Christmas masses, moreover, reveals that such splendid Traditional liturgies are no longer “extraordinary” at least in the greater New York area. And I do not believe that list is exhaustive. We welcome receiving any pictures or reports of these other masses.

We wish all our readers Merry Christmas and we will be posting on the masses on January 1 shortly.

The Mass was preceded by a musical program followed by a procession concluding with the placing of the Christ Child above the tabernacle.

The reading of the gospel: “In illo tempore, exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto….”