Traditional Masses for Christmas and the Octave of Christmas

Mosaic in the Martorana Church in Palermo, Sicily

Christmas

The following churches will offer the traditional Mass on Christmas.  Please help us complete our schedule by notifying us of Masses that are not listed.  We wish you and your family a blessed Christmas!

Connecticut

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT,  Christmas Eve:  11:30 pm Christmas carols, 12:00 Solemn Midnight Mass with Mass in G major, K. 140 “Pastoral” (W. A. Mozart); Christmas Day:  9:30 am, Solemn Mass

St. Patrick Church (the Cathedral Parish)  Bridgeport, CT, Christmas Day, 12:15 pm, High Mass.

Saints Cyril and Methodius Oratory, 12:00 am, Midnight High Mass; 8:30 am low Mass; 10:15 am high Mass.

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven,  Christmas Day, 2 pm, High Mass

St. Patrick’s Church,  Waterbury, CT, 12:00 Midnight (beginning with carols at 11:30 pm),  8:30 am, 10:30 am.

St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, Brookfield, CT,  12:30 pm

St. Martha Church, Enfield, CT,  12 Midnight; 11 am.

New York

Church of St. Catherine of Siena, New York, NY, 12 Midnight, Missa Cantata,  with Haydn’s Missa Cellensis in C Major with orchestra.

Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, NY,  12:00 Midnight,  Solemn Midnight Mass; 1:30 am, Low Mass at Dawn;  9 am Low Mass; 10:30 am, Solemn Mass followed by Benediction.

St. Agnes Church, New York, NY,  9 am

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY,  Christmas Eve, 11 pm Church opens for confessions, carols and Holy Rosary, 12:00 am, Solemn Midnight Mass; 1:30 am, Second Mass at Dawn;  10:30 am, Missa Cantata.

Our Lady of Refuge, Bronx, NY,  Sung Midnight Mass.

St. Josaphat Church, Bayside (Queens), NY, 11 pm Christmas carols, 12 am High Mass,  9:30 am, High Mass.

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY,  1:30 pm, Missa Cantata (please note earlier time)

St. Paul the Apostle Church,  Yonkers, NY,  6 am.

Annunciation Church, Yonkers (Crestwood), NY,  Christmas Day:  9 am and 1:30 pm, Father Benedict Andersen OSB celebrant.  (Masses during the Christmas season:  6:45 am on Dec. 26 & 27; 9 am on Sat. Dec. 28; 11:15 am on Sun. Dec. 29; 6:45 on Dec. 30 & 31; 9 am on Jan. 1 & 2.)

St. Patrick’s Church, Newburgh, NY, 3 pm

St. Matthew Cburch, Dix Hills, NY (Long Island),  Christmas Day 12:30 pm in the Parish Center Chapel

St. Rosalie Church, East Quoque, NY  (Long Island), Christmas Day  12:45 pm.

Sacred Heart Church, Albany, NY,  12 am Solemn Midnight Mass

St. Joseph Church, Troy, NY, 12 noon.

New Jersey

Annunciation All Saints Church, Jersey City, NJ, 11:30 pm, Christmas Carols, 12:00 am, Midnight Mass featuring Missa Solemnis in C major KV 337 by W.A. Mozart

St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, NJ,  Christmas Eve:  10 pm confessions, 10:30 Christmas carols, 11:00 pm Solemn Midnight Mass;  Christmas Day:  7:30 am, 9 am, 11:00 am.

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, NJ,  Christmas Eve:  11 am carols, 12:00 am Midnight Mass;  Christmas Day, 7 am, 9 am,  11 am.

Our Lady of Victories, Harrington Park, NJ,  Christmas Eve, 9 pm.

Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, NJ,  11 am

St. Catherine Laboure, Middletown, NJ,  8:45 am Missa Cantata.

Corpus Christi Church,  South River, NJ,  12:00 am,  Sung Midnight Mass

St. John the Baptist Church, Allentown, NJ, 12:oo am Solemn Midnight Mass. Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka  conducting the Schola Cantorum of St. John the Baptist, Peter Carter,  organist.

January 1

Wednesday, January 1, the Circumcision of Our Lord, the Octave of Christmas, is a Holy Day of Obligation.  The following church will offer the traditional Mass.

Connecticut

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 9:30 am Solemn Mass.

St. Patrick Church (the Cathedral Parish)  Bridgeport, CT, 12:15 pm, High Mass.

St. Francis Church, New Britain, CT,  5 pm

New York

Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, NY,  New Year’s Eve:  11:30 pm, High Mass; New Years Day,  9 am, Low Mass; 10:30 am High Mass

St. Agnes Church, New York, NY,  10:30 am

Annunciation Church, Yonkers (Crestwood), NY,  9 am

Immaculate Conception Church,  Sleepy Hollow, NY,  3 pm

Holy Trinity Church, Poughkeepsie, NY, 6 pm, Solemn Mass.