An island of faith in a sea of ugliness and unbelief: a reflective Ascension Thursday evening amid the Victorian splendor of Holy Innocents parish, New York.

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By Jonathan Riley-Smith (Columbia University Press New York 2008) Jonathan Riley-Smith, the eminent English historian of the crusades, published last year a slim volume containing lectures originally given at Columbia University in 2007. In it, Prof. Riley-Smith challenges this consensus among the media, academia, Christian religious leadership and the Muslim world: that the Crusades were […]

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On Pentecost Sunday, May 31, St. Bridget of Kildare in Moodus, CT, will have a Missa Cantata with choir and Gregorian schola at 10:30 am. There will be on that Sunday no noon Traditional Mass. directions

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The following churches have scheduled Traditional Masses for Ascension Thursday, May 21. If you know of a Mass that is not on our list, please inform us so that we can add it. Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Solemn High Mass, 5:30 pm Sacred Heart Church, New Haven, 5:30 pm. St. Bridget of Kildare, Moodus, […]

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On Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 3:00 P.M., Fr. Peter Miara, Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in the Bronx, will be celebrant of a Missa Cantata at Sacred Heart Church, 981 Castleton Avenue, Staten Island, New York for the Feast of Corpus Christi. The musical setting for the Mass shall be Missa […]

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Fr. Greg Markey, pastor of St. Mary’s in Norwalk, CT, will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for his 10th anniversary as a priest on Sunday, May 24 at 9:30 am according to the Extraordinary Form, at St. Mary’s. The Women’s Guild will host a reception afterwards in Msgr. Hajus Hall from 11:15 to 1:15. All […]

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On Friday, June 19th, 2009, Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Bishop Fernândo Rifan (Campos, Brazil) will celebrate a (traditional) Pontifical Solemn Mass at the Throne at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste (East 76th and Lexington Avenue) at 7 PM. This Mass would be the first Pontifical Solemn Mass in a long […]

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Sermon preached by Father Richard Cipolla, St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Holy Thursday, April 9, 2009 I remember when I was studying at the Yale Divinity School in the late 1960’s and early seventies, a prominent Catholic theologian was speaking about the problem about too much emphasis on the Mass in Catholicism. He summarized his position […]

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Holy Innocents Church in Brooklyn will offer the Traditional Latin Mass on Saturday, April 18 at 2:00 P.M. Holy Innocents is located on East 17th St. and Beverly Road. Subway directions: BMT (Brighton Line) to Beverly Road/East 16th St./ Q train 1 short block away from Holy Innocents Church.

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On a beautiful Palm Sunday, the parish of St. Mary’s Norwalk celebrates (in just under two hours) the blessing of palms, the procession and the mass according to the 1962 liturgical books. Outside altar prepared for the blessing of the palms. Sprinkling the palms held by the people. Incensing of the palms held by the […]

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