Solemn Mass at the Shrine of St Frances Cabrini

On Saturday, September 22 at 10 AM our Society will sponsor a Solemn Mass at the Shrine of St. Frances Cabrini,  701 Fort Washington Avenue, New York. David Hughes will lead the schola. There is a room in which lunch may be taken after mass. For those who have the time, the nearby Cloisters Museum can be visited.  It is a unique treasure house of Christian and Catholic art. To get to the Cabrini shrine by subway take the “A” train to 190th street and the shrine is one or two minutes walk away.

In the Cloisters.

The shrine is the last resting place of the earthly remains of Mother Cabrini, once so renowned as the first American saint (canonized in 1946). Between 1889 and 1917, the year of her death, she and her sisters carried out an apostolate almost unimaginable in scale among the Italian immigrant population. Starting with six sisters and no resources at all, Mother Cabrini soon founded schools, hospitals and orphanages all over the United States and beyond. We would hope that this mass – in the form Mother Cabrini knew – will help in a small way to rekindle devotion to this saint in the city where she first lived and worked in the Americas. And naturally we hope for the greatest possible participation from the Italian American community! But we as Traditionalists should especially invoke her intercession. Where would the cause of Catholic Tradition stand if we had but a fraction of her boundless trust in God and indomitable perseverance in the face of odds, that, humanly speaking, seemed impossible!

See HERE for a brief biography of Mother Cabrini from the Shrine website.

The Cabrini shrine.