Thursday, May 30 Saint Gabriel Church, Newfield Avenue, Stamford, Connecticut, Solemn High Mass at 7:30 PM Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices with Gregorian Propers. Outdoor Eucharistic Procession with Benediction Light Reception to follow in Parish Meeting Room. St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, NJ,  9 am. The Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, […]

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“Settimo Cielo:Tra confidenze ed esorcismi un papa tutto da decifrare” by Sandro Magister (Translated by Fr. Richard Cipolla) Among the Italian bishops who went to Frances for the “ad limina” visit, those from Puglia were the most talkative with reference to what was said by the Pope. There was not only the “revelation”—later in part […]

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The church of St.Nicholas in 1878 (Shea, “The Catholic Churches of New York City”) Over the years not a few Catholic churches of New York have fallen victim to the wrecker. There have been “natural” causes: fires have claimed many an old church – from Old St. Patrick’s cathedral in the 1860’s to St Agnes […]

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    Due to the inclement weather tomorrow,the Mass and picnic at the Marian Shrine,Stony Point,N.Y. , scheduled for tomorrow, is cancelled.  A rain date will be announced in the future.  However it is not the end.   Instead we will have the same Missa Cantata tomorrow at the Church Of The Holy Innocents at […]

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This Pentecost three  “events”  nicely illustrated the current state of affairs, spiritual and artistic, in the Church. First, the Vatican – under the leadership of Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi – offers us a preview of its pavilion at the Venice Art Fair.  Obviously concerns about the “poverty of the Church” do not affect such initiatives.  The […]

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  Sunday, 19 May, is Pentecost Sunday, Whitsunday. Historically, the Vigil of Pentecost was a day of fasting. Norwalk, Connecticut Solemn Mass, 9:30 am at St. Mary Church New Haven, Connecticut Solemn Mass at 2 PM at St Stanislaus Church (State & Eld Streets). Sleepy Hollow, New York Sung Mass at 3 PM atImmaculate Conception […]

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it was a fortunate audience who had the chance to hear  last Saturday the final performance this season of Poulenc’s Dialogues. The staging – from 1977 – was magnificent, the performances of the singers almost uniformly splendid and the conducting inspired. Poulenc’s modern musical idiom – if very much restrained here – works well in […]

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Our Lady of Lourdes 467 West 142nd Street West 142nd Street and environs – Hamilton Heights – is a remarkably serene oasis tucked away in upper Manhattan. East of Broadway are quiet tree-lined streets featuring rows of townhouses, circa 1900, displaying a variety of stone facings. It reminds a visitor more of parts of Brooklyn […]

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The Catholic Artists Society’s Annual Mass for Artists will be offered at the Church of Our Saviour in New York City at 1pm on Saturday, June 29th – the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul. Father Gerald Murray, pastor of Manhattan’s Church of the Holy Family, will be the celebrant. There will be a reception […]

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