Liturgische Versoehnung Ein kirchenrechtlicher Kommentar zum Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum” fuer Studium und Praxis By Wolfgang F. RotheForeword by Msgr. Camille Perl Dominus Verlag, Augsburg 2009(208 pages; price 14.80 Euro) The reader may find it hard to believe that the second anniversary of Summorum Pontificum is fast approaching. In the general uproar that erupted over […]

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On Sunday, June 21 at 5:00 PM solemn vespers according to the Extraordinary Form will be sung at St Mary’s, Norwalk in the presence of Bishop Fernando Rifan.

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The Confraternity of the Sacred Heart has organized a novena of Masses in the Extraordinary Form to honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus, starting tomorrow night (Thursday, June 11) at Holy Innocents Church. According to the Confraternity website “Our Lord Himself asked St. Margaret Mary that a Feast honoring his Sacred Heart be established on […]

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Sermon by Fr. Richard Cipolla delivered on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, at St. Mary Church, Norwalk Remarkable. The Medes and the Parthians and the Cappodocians and the Romans: they all heard the same thing. They understood what Mary and the apostles were saying at the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Church even though […]

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This coming Friday, June 5th, 2009 there will be a Solemn Mass at the Church of the Guardian Angel (West 21rd Street and 10th Avenue) at 6:30PM. This Solemn Mass will be part of the nine Masses to promote devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Mass of that day will be Ember […]

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Fr. Robert Boyd, a priest at St. Mary’s who has celebrated the Traditional Mass at many area churches, will be leaving the Diocese of Bridgeport at the end of June in order to enter the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. Fortunately, he will not be traveling far, as he will be assigned to the Our […]

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The will be an outdoor procession with Our Lord’s True Presence at the end of the 9:30 Solemn High Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Sunday, June 14th, closing with benediction. A coffee hour will follow in the church hall. Our photo was taken at last year’s procession.

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At Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City there will be a Missa Cantata on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, at 10:00 a.m. The music will include Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo with string accompaniment and Gregorian chant propers.

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Below is Fr. Greg Markey’s sermon preached on the occasion of his 10th anniversary as a priest on May 24 at St. Mary Church, Norwalk. We have also posted pictures from the Mass: link I. Introduction Now that Our Blessed Lord has ascended to heaven, the Apostles are left with the question, “How will the […]

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On Sunday, May 24, the parish of St. Mary’s Norwalk celebrated a Traditional Solemn mass for the tenth anniversary of the ordination of Father Greg Markey, the pastor. It was truly a joyous occasion for the various communities that make up this parish. As Fr. Markey put it in his sermon, the day should not […]

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