St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, Solemn Mass, 9:30 am Music: At the procession: Michael et Angeli ejus (Benedictine processional chant for Michaelmas) Missa L’homme armé sexti toni (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521) Gregorian Mass of Michaelmas: Benedicite Dominum Motet at the Offertory: Concussum est mare (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, c.1510-1556) Motet at the Communion: Tibi Christe, […]

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There will be a 9 a.m. Extraordinary Form Mass at St. Sebastian in Middletown on Friday October 4th. From the parish website: “We are happy to welcome you to this wonderful community with a beautiful baroque church, the only one in Connecticut.”   UPDATE: This mass will be continued for  all subsequent First Fridays (Courtesy […]

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A Traditional High Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 7:30 AM at St. Peter’s in Hartford. It is sung entirely in chant. The propers, including graduals, tracts, and alleluias, are sung in the full gregorian chant and are never abbreviated. (A picture of the blue velvet covered table at the altar of the Blessed Virgin […]

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    All Masses are Traditional Latin Masses unless otherwise indicated. Thursday, 17 October, 5:30 PM Pontifical Mass & Conference, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church, Newton, MA Friday, 18 October, 6:30 PM Pontifical Mass, Holy Name of Jesus Church, Providence, RI Saturday, 19 October, 11:00 AM Pontifical Mass, Holy Name of Jesus Church, Providence, RI Sunday, 20 October, […]

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On the Interview.

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I don’t think any of our readers can have missed the Bishop of Rome’s interview of last week – the making and publication of which was elaborately coordinated with his Jesuit friends. That in and of itself was important news. Obviously the statements of Pope Francis regarding “life issues” and sexual morality made the biggest […]

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The eighteenth ”Pilgrimage for the Restoration” concluded Sunday at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville. It was a chilly early autumn day in upstate New York – the overcast sky gray and somber.  Only now and then did patches of sunlight provide relief from the prevailing bleakness. This weather must have been […]

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Fr. Louis Van Thanh, priest of the Church of the Holy Innocents, celebrates the Last Extraordinary Form Mass at the Church of Our Saviour in NYC. (Low Mass for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost.). The end of a tradition that began in September 2007 after the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum.  In a perhaps unprecedented act, the current […]

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Agnus Dei Council Knights of Columbus annual Communion Breakfast will be held on Sunday, October 13 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in East Harlem. There will be a 10am sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form, followed by the Breakfast in the lower church hall. Tickets in advance are $7 (children 12 and under […]

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Andrea Tornielli conducts an interview to provide a forum for a raging defense by Fr. Alfonso Bruno, new Secretary general of the FFI:   http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/inchieste-ed-interviste/dettaglio-articolo/articolo/francescani-dellimmacolata-27941/   We adduce one extract, illustrating the character of the new management of the FFI and of their Vatican managers: (Tornielli) “What is the situation of the Tridentine Mass in […]

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