St. Mary’s Church, Nowalk, held its annual festive Christmas Coffee Hour after the 10 am traditional Mass today, including Christmas caroling.

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“Please join us tomorrow, January 2nd, at 5:30 P.M. for our inaugural installment of ORGAN AT THE ORATORY.  On the first Sunday of each month, a guest organist will offer a recital prior to Vespers.  The first recitalist will be David Hughes, Organist & Choirmaster at St. Patrick’s Oratory.  He will play a program of festive Christmas music by […]

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During the papacy of Pius IX the theory and, to a great extent, the practice of the modern ultramontane regime were perfected.  This system did secure internal unity and stability, leading the Church through one of the most pivotal periods of world and European history. Yet the lead-up to the Second Vatican Council,  the course of the […]

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The following churches will celebrate the traditional Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany on Thursday, January 6. Please inform us of Masses that are not on our schedule. Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Low Mass 8 am; Solemn Mass 7 pm (Solemn Mass with the Proclamation of the Moveable Feasts of the Year, and […]

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The following churches have scheduled Traditional Masses on January 1 to celebrate the Octave of Christmas, the Circumcision of Our Lord. Please contact us with information about traditional Masses that are not on this schedule. Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Solemn Mass 9 am. St. Roch Church, Greenwich, 8 am. Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, […]

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Below is the notice of the ritual in the current parish bulletin. N.B.: St. Mary’s, New Haven is NOT traditionalist.

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By 2013 – the year of Pope Benedict’s resignation  – the stalemate that has arisen at the end of the 1960’s had lasted for 45 years. The popes had not dared to force a showdown with the progressive forces on a significant issue. That would have called into question the Council. But neither would they adopt […]

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Amid the surrounding unbelief, the lonely Holy Family. Courtesy of “The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.” Even if the Christ Child appeared some ten days before Christmas Day….

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