Yesterday was celebrated the Patronal Feast of Most Holy Name of Jesus parish, Brooklyn – a Solemn High Mass in their newly renovated church. Some more great photos courtesy of Arrys Ortanez:
5 Jan
2015
Yesterday was celebrated the Patronal Feast of Most Holy Name of Jesus parish, Brooklyn – a Solemn High Mass in their newly renovated church. Some more great photos courtesy of Arrys Ortanez:
4 Jan
2015
“Three miracles Glorify this day…” (Window from the Cathedral of St. James, Brooklyn – on the table is a fruit from the New World) January 6, 2015 Epiphany Saint Mary Church, 178 Greenwich Ave, Greenwich, Connecticut 7:30 PM Solemn High Mass. The Mass setting will be Missa Sancti Gabrielis by J. Michael Haydn with Gregorian […]
4 Jan
2015
St. Thomas More 65 East 89th Street It’s an elegant area indeed around East 90th Street near Park, the so-called “Carnegie Hill.” Even up to the early 1980’s it had the reputation of being a lesser known, less socially prominent but quieter alternative to the Upper East Side to the immediate south. But those days […]
3 Jan
2015
High Mass at St. Agnes church for the feasts of Mary, Mother of God, Circumcision and the Octave day of Christmas. Fr. Michael Barone was the celebrant and the Veni Creator Spritus was sung to gain the plenary indulgence granted on that day. (Courtesy of Arrys Ortanez)
1 Jan
2015
The Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven has made in recent years a valuable contribution to the preservation and dissemination of the Catholic art of the Christmas season. The latest in their series of exhibits of Christmas creches deals with Italy – where the tradition was created by St Francis of Assisi and where […]
29 Dec
2014
The church of St. Joseph with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. St. Joseph’s (St. James and St. Joseph) 5 Monroe Street The high façade of St Joseph’s – San Giuseppe – enjoys a rare unobstructed site overlooking the Lower East Side. Not too far away stands the Brooklyn Bridge, surrounded by its […]
29 Dec
2014
St. Stephen of Hungary 414 East 82nd Street With St. Stephen of Hungary we depart from “Spanish Harlem” and enter old Yorkville or, nowadays, the gentrified “Upper East Side.” A neighborhood that as recently as the early 1980’s contained a treasure trove of German, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak churches, shops and restaurants – although even […]
29 Dec
2014
Eddy Toribio reports on the 10:30 AM Mass yesterday: “Three hundred and twenty (320) faithful attended this splendid Mass at this very active and vibrant church. Many of them prayed one Our Father and one Creed, as well the prayers required for the intentions of the Holy Father in order to gain the plenary […]
28 Dec
2014
The complex of the church of the Holy Agony seen from Third Avenue. Church of the Holy Agony 1834 Third Avenue at 101st Street Just a short walk away from St. Lucy’s is the church of the Holy Agony. It was founded in 1950 as a mission of the Church of Our Lady of […]
28 Dec
2014
St. Lucy (from the original high altar? St. Lucy 344 East 104th Street Four smaller, lesser-known parishes, each originally founded as a mission to a specific nationality. Four parishes that from their beginnings to the present day have more or less retained the status of an ethnic parish (but not necessarily of the same ethnicity!). […]