These churches have specially scheduled traditional Masses on Thanksgiving Day. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT: Solemn Mass at 9 am for the feast of St. Clement I concluding with a sung Te Deum. (There will be no 7:30 am or 12:10 pm Mass) Saints Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, CT, 7:45 am. St. Paul the Apostle […]

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As this recent display attests, the Bookstore of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT is well-stocked with Advent and Christmas presents for adults and children, as well as an excellent selection of Catholic books—perhaps the best in the area.  Also Catholic greeting cards, statues, medals and scapulars.  It’s worth the trip. The bookstore is located in […]

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Saturday, December 16, Rorate Mass in honor of Our Lady, St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 6:30 am. Rorate Mass in honor of Our Lady, St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 6:30 am. Rorate Mass in honor of Our Lady, St. Anthony of Padua Church, Jersey City, 6 am, information Monday, December 18,  Sung Requiem Mass, Church […]

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  1537 was a dire year for the Catholic Church or, as it was said at that time, for Christendom. Rome was still staggering after the sack of 1527. The Turks were advancing by land and by sea. Worst of all, Protestantism continued to advance by leaps and bounds. It had swept across Germany and […]

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A special thanks for Jim Morlino for creating this video. See our photos of this Mass: link

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by Father Richard Cipolla Once again we hear from the highest circles of power in the Church of the possibility of ordaining married men to the priesthood. But this time, what is being talked about is not men in “special circumstances” but in general. I was able and gratuitously blessed to be ordained a Catholic […]

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Monday evening at St Vincent Ferrer: a Solemn Requiem in the Dominican rite – accompanied by Mozart’s requiem directed by James Wetzel. The combination of ceremonial, music and the Gothic splendor of this church, vast and mysterious in the semi-darkness, left a unique impression in this month of prayer for the dead. It was not […]

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 On Tuesday, November 21st at 7:30 p.m., there will be a Solemn  Mass for the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, New York. The sermon and readings from the pulpit will be in Spanish. After Mass there will be […]

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