10 Mar

2017

Traditional Masses for the Feast of the Annunciation

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

N.B. The stained glass window is in Our Lady of Peace Church in Manhattan. The church was recently leased to a coptic orthodox parish. The following churches will offer traditional masses on the Feast of the Annunciation on Saturday, March 25. Please let us know about masses in the area that we have not yet […]

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10 Mar

2017

Forty Hours Devotion in Greenwich

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

This coming week, St. Mary’s Church in Greenwich will hold Forty Hours Devotion. Fr. John Perricone and Fr. Joseph Koterski will give conferences.

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9 Mar

2017

Traditional Mass for Feast of St. Joseph in Newark

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

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9 Mar

2017

Traditional Mass to Pray for the Church in West Orange, NJ

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

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9 Mar

2017

Art of the Beautiful Series with Dr. Evelyn Vitz

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

March 25: Lecture By Dr. Evelyn Birge Vitz Beauty, Piety, and Delight in Medieval Literature The next lecture in the Art of the Beautiful Series is March 25, 7:30 PM, at the Catholic Center, NYU. Dr. Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz will speak about “Beauty, Piety, and Delight in Medieval Literature.” A Professor of French, and […]

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8 Mar

2017

Upcoming Traditional Masses at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

The following schedule of Traditional Masses will be offered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine, 448 East 116th Street, New York, NY Sung Mass – Feast of Saint Joseph On Monday, March 20 at 8 PM in the evening, we will have a Sung Mass 1962 Missale Romanum in the Extraordinary Form for the […]

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8 Mar

2017

A First Encounter with the Traditional Mass

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Essays, On the Trail of the Holy Roman Empire

(Above) The towers of the cathedral of Bamberg (early 13th century) seen on a dark winter day. We have heard, endlessly repeated over the decades, that the Traditional mass constitutes a barrier to those “outside”: the young, those not practicing their faith and non-Catholics. It is supposed to lock these devoted to it in an […]

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5 Mar

2017

Restructuring Comes to Hartford

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Making all Things New

Restructuring comes to the Archdiocese of Hartford. Actually, closings of parishes and schools have been proceeding there for years now – look what happened to the New Haven parish which originally hosted the St Gregory Society. Now, however, the number of parishes are to be reduced from around 212 to 100 and, in ten years, […]

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5 Mar

2017

“CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM”

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

A Statement on the Current Situation of Sacred Music. It is a important document, with many remarkable signatures attached. Of course, Pope Francis, in the most significant paragraph of an address he gave last week on the same occasion (the 50th anniversary of the Instruction Musicam Sacram), had already essentially rejected the recommendedations of the […]

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1 Mar

2017