To celebrate Christmas day: a small photographic essay on the Midnight Mass for Christmas celebrated this morning at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk. (click on the images for a larger view). A congregation of over 330 was in prayerful attendance. The sermon was given in Spanish and then in English.  The music included works of Victoria, […]

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For a Christmas treat, we bring you pictures of the Anchor Academy Christmas pageant, which was recently performed on December 15. Anchor Academy school is an independent Catholic school in Norwalk, CT. The school is committed to providing a curriculum from the classical tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, with a strong emphasis on religious […]

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A Blessed and Holy Christmas to all Our Readers! We have compiled the follow list of churches that will have Masses for Christmas.  Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk Christmas: Solemn Mass, Midnight (carols at 11:30 pm) and at 9:30 am Octave of Christmas, Jan.1, 9:00 am Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, Christmas, 10:15 am St. […]

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   By   Fr. Jonathan Robinson  (Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2005) The literature on the Catholic mass in its current forms – modern, Latin, Traditional – is legion. Works which try to situate the current state of the mass in a broader philosophical and historical context are very few.  Fr. Jonathan Robinson has undertaken that task […]

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The following sermon was given by Fr. Richard Cipolla on Gaudete Sunday, Dec. 12 at St.  Mary Church, Norwalk At that time, the Jews sent to John from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him: “Who are you”? Who are you, they asked.  A good question.  For he was impressively strange, or strangely impressive. And […]

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Here are some images of the Advent Service held on Friday, December 10 at St. Mary’s Church Norwalk, CT. It was a carefully stuctured program of readings and music, proceeding in general terms from the simple to the more complex. It gave St. Marys’ a chance to show off the musical program of the parish, […]

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There will be Vespers in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite on Sunday, December 12th,at 3 PM, Gaudete Sunday, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan.

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St. John the Evangelist Basilica in Stamford will once again offer a 9:30 Traditional Mass every Tuesday morning, starting this coming Tuesday. The Mass was temorarily moved to St. Gabriel Church in Stamford while restoration work was taking place at St. John’s. Help encourage the scheduling of daily Traditional Masses–please make an effort to attend […]

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For the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, this Wednesday, December 8:  St. Mary Church, in  Norwalk, CT, will celebrate a Solemn High Mass, 5:30 PM.  Solemn High Mass at Holy Innocents on West 37th Street,  Manhattan at 6:15 PM. St. Stanislaus, New Haven, CT at 5:30 PM. St. Peter’s Church, 160 Main Street, Hartford, CT at […]

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St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT will have  its annual service of Advent Lessons & Carols Friday, 10 December 2010, 7:00 p.m.  The choirs of St. Mary’s Church, under the direction of David Hughes, will perform, including The St. Mary’s Choir, El Coro Hispano de Santa Maria, The St. Mary’s Students’ Scholas and The Anchor Academy Schola […]

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