Solemn High Mass for The Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. On Thursday September 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM Saint Gabriel Church in Stamford will celebrate a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Latin Mass according to the 1962 Missal) for the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. […]

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From the bulletin of St. John’s, Stamford: “Beginning September 29th, the 8:30 Extraordinary Form Mass will be cancelled. When we began the Latin Mass nearly three years ago, we had a great number of people attending. Now, the numbers certainly do not demonstrate a “need” for this extraordinary Mass. I like the Latin Mass, but, […]

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The following salutation, benediction and felicitation escapes one’s lips when one is introduced to a blushing bride in her first pregnancy “Congratulations on your second child!” At first, the lovely lady’s countenance betrays a sentiment of bewilderment but in an instant an intuitive illumination opens wide her emotive eyes and, knowingly nodding, she resignedly replies: […]

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Fr. Richard Futie (Photo credit: The Daily Voice) We regret having to give a belated report of the death of Fr Richard Futie on August 25. His “Mass of Christian Burial” took place today at St. John’s in Stamford. Let me say a few words about Fr. Futie and the support he gave to the […]

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  By Andrew Esolen – from Crisis Magazine Photo: Crisis Magazine “We’re human beings, not calculators.  The building that was once my parochial school and the parish hall still stands, but it belongs to the borough now.  What is left of it?  Certainly the statue of Thomas Aquinas at the entry had to be taken […]

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Once upon a notoriously noxious time, the tough thoroughfares of Manhattan’s Alphabet City had, how shall we say, endearing epithets: Avenue A was for Assault, Avenue B was for Battery, Avenue C was for Crippling, and Avenue D was for Death. In that lovely little land was an adorably scrawny little boy; so scrawny in […]

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This week St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT will have its annual Triduum in honor of St. Monica to pray that fallen away Catholics will return to the fold: Sunday August 25 at 5:00 P.M., Monday at 6:20 P.M., and Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. The final night will begin with an extraordinary form Low Mass followed […]

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Mary Help of Christians – now gone. I found this ‘holy card” affixed to the billboard.

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The conclusion of the Homily given at the funeral mass of Jean Madiran, Monday, August 5, 2013 at Notre Dame des Armées at Versailles, by Dom Louis-Marie, Abbot of the Abbey of Sainte- Madeleine du Barroux. “ I conclude by citing our brother oblate, for Jean Madiran had received the scapular under the patronage of […]

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The former Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles yielded to the “Taj Mahoney.” The former church now serves was an “event space.” http://www.leforumcatholique.org/message.php?num=729741 (Courtesy of Le Forum Catholique) And even more scandalous, the website of the “event space.” http://www.vibiana.com/index.html The Archdiocese of Los Angeles? – as someone remarked of the creator of certain video […]

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