A. OUR LADY OF VILNA Recently, in writing an obituary for Fr. Nicholas Gregoris, Fr. Peter Stravinskas recalled: On September 27, 1987, as I was vesting for the Sunday evening Latin Mass at Our Lady of Vilna Church downtown, a young fellow approached me, cassock and surplice slung over his arm, and asked, “Father, may […]

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Below is a listing of churches in the area that offer Traditional Masses on First Friday and First Saturday. Please let us know about other churches to add to this schedule. First Friday, September 6 St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 8 am and 12:10 pm; Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 9 am -11:15; 1-8 pm […]

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Parishioners at Most Precious Blood, a 120-year-old Church in Little Italy that is at the heart of the annual San Gennaro festival each September, were told they were going to be assigned a pastor that they will share with an East Village parish. The move comes after Cardinal Dolan rescinded its ten year merger with […]

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Here is the schedule for September 2024 TLMs at the Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Flyers below. SAT 9/7 – 9am – First Saturday MON 9/9 – 7pm – Pontifical Requiem, Purgatorial Society WED 9/11 – 7pm – Blessed Maria de Micheli SAT 9/14 – 9am – Exaltation of the Holy Cross THU 9/19 – 7pm – […]

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Dimes Square is back in the news! This emerging outpost of bohemianism – yet with a traditionalist Catholic  flavor –  is the subject of a recent article in The Christian Science Monitor. 1) “Dimes Square” is a downtown area bordering Chinatown and the Lower East Side. The author of this piece, Leonardo Bevilacqua, describes this scene and some […]

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Here is a note from, Fr. Sean Connolly, the new pastor of St. Margaret of Cortona, Bronx: The Low Latin Mass at St. Margaret’s on the first Sunday of each month at 3:00 p.m. is discontinued. We will be offering instead, a Sung Latin Mass at 12 noon in honor of the Immaculate Heart of […]

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By Jill Chessman If one is travelling in the Wisconsin area, it is worth it to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. The shrine project was conceived by Raymond Cardinal Burke, while he was Bishop of La Crosse in the 1990s. Beginning with the ground breaking in 2001, Cardinal Burke […]

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That didn’t take long! On 5/20/2024 the Archdiocese of New York published the decree of merger of the parish of St. John the Evangelist into the parish of Holy Family. On 8/6/20024 the archdiocese announced the “relegation” of the church of St. John the Evangelist to profane use in anticipation of the sale of the […]

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