The Passion according to St. John: The Conclusion of the Passion, sung by the Deacon in the “Weeping Tone.” The Intercessions: Flectamus Genua: Ecce Lignum Crucis: The Veneration of the Holy Cross:

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The Mass: The Sermon of Fr. Richard Cipolla: Washing of the Feet: The Consecration and Commmunion: The Procession: The Altar of Repose: The Stripping of the Altar:

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Matins and Lauds for Holy Thursday.

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  A growing euphoria seems to be gripping the Church Establishment and the forces of Catholic progressivism. Everyone from the German Catholic hierarchy to the LCWR is expecting great things from Pope Francis – for starters, the reversal of all of his predecessor’s initiatives and the confirmation of the Church Establishment in the national hierarchies […]

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Sacred Then and Sacred Now: the Return of the Old Latin Mass Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Roman Catholic Books,(Fort Collins, CO 2008) (Reprint 2013) A kindly, smiling Benedict XVI appears on the cover of this 2008 work. Benedict’s signature also appears prominently. Sacred Then and Sacred Now, reissued without apparent change, was one of the […]

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A chilly Palm Sunday in Norwalk Connecticut…… Fr. Paul Check is the celebrant, Mr.Steve Genovese the deacon, Mr. William Riccio the subdeacon. David Hughes rehearses the massed scholae of the parish.

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St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT Palm Sunday, 24 March 2013, 9:30 am, begins with outdoor procession Missa super In die tribulationis (Lassus) Gregorian Mass of Palm Sunday: Domine ne longe facias Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum (Guerrero) Motet at the Procession: O Jesu Christe (Jacquet de Berchem) Motet at the Offertory: Improperium (Palestrina) Motet […]

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In obedience to the decrees of Urban VIII. of holy memory, I protest that for all miraculous events, visions, apparitions, revelations, graces and incidents ascribed in these e-pistles to certain servants of God, which have not been formally investigated and approved by the Church, they claim no other authority and belief than that which is […]

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St. Mary, Norwalk CT Tuesday, 19 March, 7:00 p.m. Music for the Feast of St. Joseph (Missale Romanum of 1962) Prelude: Prelude pour le fete du Saint Joseph (Tournemire) Missa Quam pulchri sunt (Tomas Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611) Gregorian Mass of St. Joseph: Justus ut palma Motet at the Offertory: Veritas mea (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594) Hymn at the Communion: Te Joseph celebrent (plainsong, […]

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Once upon a time in the sweltering summer of 1968 on the storied stoop of a tired tenement that had seen better bucolic days a small group of Puerto Rican migrants gathered to share some company including one very visibly pregnant but quite content young lady. The local boorish busybody impetuously came up and derisively scoffed, “Well there […]

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