28 Feb

2012

Two Evenings of Recollection this Week

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

1) There will be a Lenten evening of recollection on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at Holy Innocents Church after the 6:00 p.m. Solemn High Mass. Holy Innocents is on West 37th St. between Broadway and 7th Avenue. The evening is being sponsored by the Agnus Dei and Regina Coeli Councils of the Knights of Columbus. […]

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28 Feb

2012

Mass for the Feast of St. Joseph

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

A High Mass (Missa Cantata) for the Feast of Saint Joseph will be celebrated at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 259 Oliver Street, Newark, NJ, Monday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m. The celebrant will be Rev.Msgr. Joseph F. Ambrosio, V.F, pastor.

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21 Feb

2012

Catholic Traditionalism in the United States: Notes for a History – Part 1

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Catholic Traditionalism in the United States, Essays

Since the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum, the Catholic Traditionalist movement has left the ecclesiastical “skid row” (Prof. Robert Spaemann) and has been gradually entering, tentatively and with setbacks, the Catholic mainstream. Even some of the “crown jewels” of the Church have seen at least one Traditional mass: e.g., St. Mary’s in New Haven, […]

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21 Feb

2012

Traditional Masses on Ash Wednesday

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT will be offering a Solemn Latin Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. The following music will be a part of the Mass: Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599) Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii) Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur […]

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9 Feb

2012

The Churches of New York XX: Endangered Species

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

St. Vincent de Paul The Church of St. Vincent de Paul 123 West 23rd Street A visit of the bishop of Nancy to New York in 1841 galvanized a French community, present in the city for many decades, to organize its own national parish. The bishop himself provided the seed money. The fruit of these […]

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6 Feb

2012

Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Essays

Mosaics in narthex of St. Bartholemew’s, New York, by Hildreth Meiere Museum of Biblical Art 1865 Broadway (at 61st Street) New York, NY 10023 Finally, New York gets a chance to see the first exhibit on the work of an artist whose vast output is ubiquitous in and around this city – yet […]

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6 Feb

2012

John XXIII and Obama

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

The Vatican Insider (Giacomo Galeazzi) interviews “96 year old Archbishop Loris Francesco Capovilla, the right arm of John XXIII.” The Archbishop, rhapsodizing on John XXIII’s political accomplishments, states: “If Obama is president today, it is also because in the 60’s Roncalli created the first black cardinal.” How interesting, in the light of the current dispute over […]

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5 Feb

2012

Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Purification at St. Mary’s, Norwalk

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

The Distribution of the Blest Candles. Pictures of the Solemn Mass celebrated last Thursday for the feast of Candlemas…… The distribution of the blest candles to the congregation. The procession. The schola of St. Mary’s and the childrens’ schola. Bill Riccio demonstrates a world-class incensation of the congregation.

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3 Feb

2012

Feast of Purification Observed This Sunday in New Haven

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

Sunday, 5 February is Septuagesima Sunday. However, as is permitted by the rubrics, this Sunday at St. Stanislaus Church in New Haven, the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady, or Candlemas, will be observed with a Blessing of Candles, Procession, and High Mass at 2:00 P.M., to be celebrated by The Rev. John Ringley, […]

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1 Feb

2012