A new twist for youth masses. The pilgrimage does not appear to have been a hit – there seem to be as many celebrants and photographers as “youth” present. (Thanks to le Forum Catholique)

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http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350567?eng=y The use of the Traditional mass prohibited to the Friars of the Immaculate Conception….by Rome. UPDATE: We should add a few words as to why this action has such exceptional significance. Here in Connecticut supporters of the Latin Mass first may have encountered the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (“FFI”) as frequent visitors to […]

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Church in Nova Scotia, 2005 (above and Below) Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark, 2013

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The ancient Greeks had Odysseus; Medievals had Arthur; Americans have Superman. In celebration of the seventy fifth anniversary of the Last Son of Krypton this year a major cinematic commercial, I mean, presentation was released entitled “Man of Steel”. The title is amazingly appropriate as steel is an alloy and a major thematic undercurrent regards […]

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St Cecelia – and feathered friends. St. Cecilia 112 – 120 East 106th Street It is a strange and wondrous vision: a vast red brick complex rises amid the colorless, nondescript and frequently decrepit high- and low-rise streetscape of Spanish Harlem, broken only here and there by a row, somehow intact, of old townhouses. The […]

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Last year yet another parish celebrated its last mass: Mary Help of Christians. 1) Now this was a small, originally Italian ethnic parish erected in 1908. It was in the care of the Salesians. The present church was built in 1918. The architect, Nicholas Serracino, was a prolific builder of churches in a baroque, beaux-arts […]

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The famous Abbey of Cluny – once the largest church in the West. We are grateful that a reader at Le Forum Catholique has compiled materials on St Hugh of Cluny HERE -in French, of course! And, as we previously may have mentioned, the parish with the name of our patron in Philadelphia is closing […]

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Concluding this week’s liturgies in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was this Solemn High mass celebrated this morning at Our Lady of Mount Carmel shrine in New York.

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In the multilingual metropolitan microcosm of the Lower East Side of youthful yore endearing expressions of enthusiasm were euphemistically engendered in “French”. This boyhood recollection came to mind as one came across a press blurb (obviously written by a feverish Francophile) from Yale University Press announcing a centennial edition of literary modernist Marcel Proust’s most […]

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The Master of the Della Rovere Missals – Mass with a Pope in attendance (The Morgan Library) Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art Morgan Library and Museum (Until September 2) The Morgan library has unlocked many of the masterpieces from its store of illuminated manuscripts to tell for us the story of […]

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