On Saturday, June 11, 2016, a group Holy Innocents of parishioners will go on pilgrimage to Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the Year of Mercy. The doors of The Shrine of the Most Precious Blood (merged with Old St. Patrick’s) have been designated Doors of Mercy. Immediately after the 1PM Mass at Holy Innocents […]

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  Tomorrow, June 3, is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The following churches will offer the traditional mass. St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 7:30 pm, Solemn High Mass with Sung Litany of the Sacred Heart and Benediction. Mass will be celebrated by a newly ordained priest who will offer his first priestly […]

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(Above and below) The procession begins in the church. A brass band added an Italian/Hispanic accent (although this is common elsewhere; e.g., Southern Germany and Austria) The spire of St. Mary’s in the background. Fireworks!

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The celebration of Corpus Christi at St. Mary’s Norwalk CT. Along with a visit by Monks of Norcia….. (Above) Since there were only two masses this day, the assembled musical forces of the parish performed – including the student schola.

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Three hundred and forty (340) faithful attended the 6PM Solemn Mass and Procession at Holy Innocents Church, New York, for the 8th annual celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi this past Thursday, May 26, 2016. Fr. Leonard Villa was the Celebrant, Fr. Tomasz Szczepanczyk was the Deacon, Fr. Robert Rodriguez was the Subdeacon, and […]

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For the first time since Vatican II, on Saturday, June 4, 2016, at 11:30 a.m., at Holy Face Monastery, 1697 Route 3, Clifton, New Jersey, there will be celebrated a Solemn High Mass with Gregorian chant in honor of Our Lady of Sacro Monte of Novi Velia, Salerno at her shrine. Following Mass there will […]

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Yesterday, at the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, Solemn High Mass in the Dominican Rite was celebrated at the church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City. The church of St Vincent Ferrer is worth a visit in itself. Bertram Goodhue’s masterpiece is a seemingly inexhaustible treasury of architecture, stained glass, sculpture, painting […]

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Solemn High Mass for Corpus Christi was celebrated on Thursday Evening in East Harlem. The shrine statue of the Madonna was resplendent in newly restored robes. Fr. Marian Wierzchowski SAC, the pastor of Our Lady of Mt Carmel,was celebrant and homilist. Fr. Christopher Salvatori SAC served as deacon; Fr. Charez “Don” B. Gringco, as subdeacon. […]

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EVENING OF RECOLLECTION BY DOMINICAN BROTHER JOHN PAUL KERN, O.P. On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, Dominican (student) Brother John Paul Kern, O.P., will offer an evening of recollection at the Church of the Holy Innocents (West 37th Street, NYC). PROGRAM: 5:15PM – The evening will start with the recitation of the Rosary (according to the […]

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This event explores the riches of English Catholic musical and religious culture under the Tudors. The lecture by Dr. Samuel Schmitt will describe the musical life of recusant Catholics in the time of Elizabeth, with live examples provided by Grant and Priscilla Herreid and Charles Weaver. The mass which follows, in the traditional Dominican rite, […]

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