Masses for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newark NJ.

The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, for whatever reason, seems to have evolved into an important “Traditionalist” celebration in this vicinity. Our readers in the New York metroppolitan area will be able to participate in a number of major liturgical events.

Connecticut:

Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Tuesday, July 16th at 7:30 PM
Church of Saint Gabriel
914 Newfield Avenue
Stamford CT
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Procession to the Lady Altar following Mass
Investiture in the Brown Scapular
Refreshments in the Parish Meeting Room

Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Blessing and Imposition of the Brown Scapular
Tuesday, July 16th, 7:00 pm
St Mary Church, Norwalk, CT

New Jersey:

Pontifical Mass at the faldstool by His Excellency, Arthur Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey
Tuesday, July 16 at 12 noon.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
259 Oliver Street
Newark, NJ
07105

The music at Mass will include the Messe Solennelle by Louis Vierne (1870-1937), the renowned blind composer who, during most of his career, was principal organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, as well as motets by Franz Schubert and Tomas Luis da Victoria and traditional Italian hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

New York:

The Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, New York

Monday, July 15, 2013, at 7:30pm
Traditional Vespers and Benediction.    After traditional Vespers (at 9pm) there will be a traditional candlelight procession followed by a public recitation of the Rosary in several languages (Spanish, Italian, Latin, French, and English) and of the Litany of Our Lady.

Then, for the first time in a very long time, the midnight Mass will be a traditional Solemn High Mass celebrated by the new pastor, Fr. Marian Wierzchowski, S.A.C.

Saturday, July 20, at 11 a.m.   Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass.  Second annual pilgrimage of faithful attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite.

The Rosary, Litany of Loreto and Solemn Benediction will follow at 3:30 p.m.

(Above and below) The procession at the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark, 2012

(Above and below) Procession and Traditional Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York (East Harlem), 2012.