The show must go on! – that seemed the watchword yesterday at the church of the Most Precious Blood Manhattan. Despite a seemingly endless series of challenges and glitches before, during and after the Mass, the Society’s Missa Cantata for the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows was celebrated with appropriate dignity (Fr.Richard Cipolla, celebrant) and with splendid music (the latter courtesy of Charles Weaver and associates). Our special thanks also to Fr. Christopher Salvatori who assisted and to Edwin Gonzales who stepped in as MC. This all took place before the largest congregation we have ever had the pleasure to greet at our Masses at Most Precious Blood. It’s an important sign for that church which very much remains on the Archdiocesan “endangered species” list. And it is heartening to see so many people in attendance for so many different reasons: the celebrate the feast, to see Fr Cipolla again, to hear the music or just because they wandered in from the San Gennaro Festival and stayed. Afterwards some of us – including many much younger than I who had assisted at the mass – gathered for a meal and companionship. It was a festive end to the day.
Fr Cipolla’s sermon can be found HERE
The reliquary of San Gennaro.
An image of the Madonna del Soccorso a Sciacca, on loan to the church. (Someone has found a good place to present a petition to Her Son.)
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