Immaculate Conception 414 East 14th Street The Catholic churches of New York offer so many unexpected sights to the inquisitive researcher! Walking toward the eastern end of 14th Street at First Avenue, you see on the north side of the street the phalanx of unprepossessing redbrick apartment buildings that is Stuyvesant Town. To the south […]

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St.  Mary’s, Norwalk, CT, Solemn High Mass,  5:30 PM Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599) Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii) Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i) Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Juxta vestibulum (plainsong, mode iv) Motet at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in […]

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The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT,  has announced the first installment of this season’s concert series, a recital by James Wetzel, the organist of St. Agnes on 43rd Street in Manhattan. The concert will feature works of Bach, Mendelssohn and Franck and take place this Sunday, Feb. 22 at 4 pm. […]

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(Above and below) In the “upper church” the great window of the Second Coming – with a commemoration of St. Etheldreda(Audrey) One of the few medieval London churches to survive the Great Fire of London… Returned to Catholic hands in the 19th century. And now the “lower church” or “crypt” has become a venue for […]

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From the Facebook Page of the event:   As a basilica, (Old. St. Patrick’s Cathedral) observes with special care a number of feasts: one of them is the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle. This year, to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the basilica, the Schola will sing a Renaissance Vespers […]

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There will be a Missa Cantata in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes on Wednesday, February 11th at 7:30 in the evening at St. Mary Church, 178 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT  

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Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite celebrated on February 3rd in the Princeton University Chapel by Fr. Carlos Hamel of the Fraternity of St. Joseph the Guardian (yet another remarkable initiative of the diocese of Frejus-Toulon), assisted by Br. Gerhard ( recent graduate of Princeton) and followed by a blessing of the throats. […]

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  (Readers may recall the case of the “Bishop of Bling” who had been forced to resign in March 2014 after an unprecedented campaign against him both in the German-language media and in the German Church. A glance at the German  Wikipedia article on Bishop Tebartz-van Elst gives an idea of the real sources of the conflict. […]

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High Mass for the Feast of St. John Bosco in the new chapel of Mary Help of Christians in the basement of Immaculate Conception church on East 14th Street,  with the gracious permission of the pastor, Msgr. Kevin J. Nelan.   The chapel is named after the former parish on East 12th Street that is now […]

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