Photos from a reception for Manfred Honeck, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony following his lecture “Faith in Music” at the Catholic Center at NYU. This event was sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Catholic Artists Society.

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4 Apr

2016

You Laugh so Hard you Cry

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

“The Upper Room: Monday, April 25th at 7:30 pm: in the Upper Room at Columbus Park Trattoria on Broad Street in downtown Stamford. This is for Catholics aged 30 and up. Join us for a glass of wine and a lively discussion. This month’s topic: Dr. Joe McAleer will speak on “The Wisdom of Cardinal […]

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4 Apr

2016

News on “Making all Things New”

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Making all Things New

(Above) Candlelight vigil in front of the closed church of Our Lady of Peace. (Photo from http://olpchurchnyc.typepad.com) Some interesting articles have appeared recently on this and allied issues. First, Melanie Grace West in an article in the Wall Street Journal documents important procedural wins for a number of parishes appealing the Archdiocese’s decision to close […]

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3 Apr

2016

United in Matrimony…

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

..in a Solemn High Nuptial Mass. With music by Mozart. At St. Mary’s, Norwalk, today.

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31 Mar

2016

Art of the Beautiful Series Concludes on Tuesday

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

The Art of the Beautiful series concludes Tuesday, April 5th, at 7 PM, with conductor Manfred Honeck, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Born in Austria, Honeck has worked to great acclaim with the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, […]

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30 Mar

2016

Father John Halborg, R.I.P.

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

Father John Halborg died on Monday, March 28.* Many of us met Father Halborg for the first time during his years of service at St. Thomas More parish. In the 1980’s St. Thomas More was one of the few parishes in New York to engage in any kind of evangelization. The parish welcomed social and […]

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30 Mar

2016

Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation at St. Mary’s, Greenwich, CT

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

On Monday, April 4 at 7:30 in the evening there will be a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation at: Saint Mary Church 178 Greenwich Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut 06830

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28 Mar

2016