Requiem Mass for Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro

On Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM, the Society of St Hugh of Cluny will be sponsoring a Solemn Requiem Mass on the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of Msgr Ignacio Barreiro, who died on April 13, 2017. The Mass will be celebrated in the church of the Holy Family, 315 E 47th St, New York, NY. Fr. Richard Cipolla will be the celebrant. The music will include works by Morales and Victoria; Charles Weaver will direct. Msgr Barreiro’s own generous gift makes this liturgy possible.

I hope to be able to greet there many of us who knew Msgr Barreiro well.

It is entirely appropriate that this Mass takes place at Holy Family church. For Msgr Barreiro spent one summer at this parish during his studies at Dunwoodie seminary prior to his ordination. And, earlier, when he was serving in the Uruguayan delegation to the United Nations, had he perhaps visited the nearby “Church of the United Nations?” Finally, the architecture of Holy Family represents the first, if timid, breakthrough of modernism in the design of a New York Catholic parish church. Is it not fitting then, that we will gather in this place to pray for the soul of such a tireless champion of the recovery the Traditional liturgy as was Msgr. Barreiro? I am sure he would be amused!