24 Apr

2019

Requiem Mass for Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro

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Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula
Born 22 October 1947, Montevideo
Ordained 14 November 1987, New York
Died 13 April 2017, Hawthorne

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!

Msgr Barreiro in congenial company near Siena in 2006.
Msgr Barreiro in the Rome offices of Human Life International, which he directed for many years.
Msgr Barreiro was always a steadfast advocate of the Traditional liturgy. (Above) Msgr Barreiro (left) at special vespers with the Archbishop of Siena in 2006.
(Above) In 1989 Msgr Barreiro celebrated at the Princeton University Chapel what was – perhaps incorrectly – reported as the first “official” Traditional Nuptial Mass in the United States since the 1960’s.
(Above and Below) In the last year of his life Msgr Barreiro served as parochial vicar at St. Mary’s, Norwalk .
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