Traditional Masses for the Feast of St. Ann, Wednesday, July 26 Church of the Holy Innocents, New York:  The solemn Novena to St. Anne is taking place at the Church of the Holy Innocents every day from Monday, July 17 through Tuesday, July 25, 2017. The Novena will include: the 6PM traditional Sung Masses (including […]

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A brand new traditional Latin Mass has begun at Our Lady of Lourdes in Gales Ferry, CT. The Mass is offered each Sunday at 2  p.m. Currently it is a Low Mass, but they hope to begin at least an occasional Missa Cantata. Gales Ferry is just north of New London. The church’s website. N.B.: […]

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A reader reports: “There is a new daily traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of New York. It is at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel:   daily Mass at 7:45 am Monday thru Saturday. There is a 10:30 sung Mass on Sundays. The weekday Mass is offered in a chapel on […]

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On Sunday, July 9, at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manhattan, Divine Liturgy according to the Rite of Alexandria (Egyptian Coptic Catholic) was be celebrated. The Celebrant was  Abouna Francis Fayez from the Coptic Catholic Church of the Resurrection in Brooklyn. There was beautiful chanting throughout the liturgy. After the […]

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A window in St Veronica’s showing the patron saint of the Parish. As we just wrote, Archdiocesan information on the subject of church closings is never complete or reliable. We now read that the beautiful church of St Veronica on Christopher Street will now be celebrating its last mass on July 23. It had received […]

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Saint Mary Church in Greenwich will celebrate a Votive Mass of the Precious Blood in the Extraordinary Form on Friday, July 14th at 7:30 in the evening. On Wednesday, July 26th at 7:30 in the evening Mass will be celebrated for the Feast of Saint Ann. Mass will be celebrated in the lower Church as […]

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel over the main altar in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine, New York Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newark   Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,  259 Oliver Street,  Newark: There will be a Solemn High Latin Mass on Saturday July 15th at 5pm followed by a Procession […]

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For those travelling in Massachusetts, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes is a good church to know about. We visited this church yesterday for the 10:30 am Sunday Traditional Mass. Well-attended, with an altar boy count to rival St. Mary’s Norwalk, and a choir that skillfully performed all of the ordinaries of the Palestrina Missa Sine Nomine […]

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost by Father Richard Cipolla, St. Mary Church, Nowalk, Ct, July 9,2017 And who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you suffer anything for justice’s sake, blessed are you So have no fear of their fear and do not be troubled; but […]

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(Continued from  Part 1) To be sure, the last ten years have not been only a tale of a triumphant progress. For in practice, in many ways, the indult regime has continued. Traditional Catholicism remains extraneous to the mission and self-understanding of the “establishment” Catholic church. Regardless of what SP says, the Traditional Mass is […]

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