The following churches will offer a traditional Mass for Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10 St. Mary Norwalk, Solemn Mass, 5:30 Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii) Motet at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur / Juxta vestibulum (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553) Responsory at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, […]

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Image of St. Paul in the Church of St. Francis de Sales, New York Sermon for Sexagesima Sunday 2016 By Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro As we prepare for the coming of Lent in this Sunday of Sexagesima we reflect on the life of St. Paul and we ponder on the Parable of the Sower. St. Paul […]

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St. Joseph’s Church 371 Sixth Avenue The Catholic Center at New York University 238 Thompson Street It’s a strange sight: the shining white and yellow façade of an elegant if modest Greek temple on an otherwise formless, deteriorating stretch of Sixth Avenue near New York University. Obviously we have before us a neoclassical monument from […]

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The Art of the Beautiful series continues next Saturday, February 6th! Architectural historian Dr. Denis McNamara, of the Liturgical Institute at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein Seminary, offers a talk entitled “Incarnation and Transfiguration: Rediscovering the Iconic Nature of Church Buildings.” Dr. McNamara is the author of Heavenly City: The Architectural […]

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The following churches will offer the traditional Mass for the Feast of St. Blaise on Wed. Feb. 3, including the traditional blessing of the throats. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 6 pm St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, Solemn Mass, 7:30 pm. Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, 6 pm The statues are located in […]

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Regina Pacis Academy in Norwalk, CT, will be holding an open house week from Monday Feb. 1 to Thursday Feb. 4, 9:00 – 11:00 am for parents who are interested in enrolling their children for the 2016-2017 school year. Please call the school at (203) 642-4501 to make an appointment to visit. The mission of […]

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The stained Glass window is in the church of St. Paul, East Harlem. The following churches will offer the Traditional Mass for the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady, Candelmas, on Tuesday, February 2. (Above) Candlemas at St. Mary’s, Norwalk, in 2011. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 6 pm, Solemn Mass, blessing of candles […]

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We received the following schedule of special Masses at Holy Innocents Church, Manhattan.  All are according to the extraordinary form. On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 is the Feast of the Presentation (Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary). On that day, the Church of the Holy Innocents will have a Solemn Mass at 6 PM.  On […]

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At Immaculate Conception Church, 414 E 14th St, New York, there will be a votive mass in the extraordinary form in honor of St. John Bosco this Saturday, Jan. 30 at 6 pm. (Rumor has it that the Annual Meeting of the Pious Consumption of Chartreuse will follow immediately after in the church hall.)

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Beginning on Sunday, February 7, 2016, the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena in Manhattan will offer a three-part series of workshops on Dominican chant, the dialect of Gregorian chant used by the Order of Preachers. Led by Fr. Innocent Smith, o.p., the workshops will take place on three successive Sundays, […]

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