(From the website of St. Mary’s Church of Piscataway, Clinton, Maryland (1)) Henry Wingate is an artist dedicated to traditional art and specializing in oil paintings – many of Catholic religious subjects. He describes in a letter his recent work illustrated above: “I received a great commission last summer to do a painting for a […]

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“Below the radar screen,” the restoration of Catholic Tradition steadily continues. “A traditional mass took place for the first time in almost 50 years at St. Gregory the Great parish in Harrison, NY this past Wednesday. It was a Requiem Missa Cantata . Music was provided by the Sleepy Hollow Schola directed by Art Bryan […]

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On Saturday, July 19th at 1 PM, there will be a Solemn High Mass for the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Vincentians). The Mass will be at the Church of Our Lady of Peace; 522 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. The celebrant is Rev. Canon […]

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Saint Mary Church, 178 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut Missa Cantata, Fr. Cyprian LaPastina, celebrant Wednesday, July 16th at 7:30 PM (NB: This is the first Traditional Mass at St. Mary’s Greenwich since 2008!) Saint Mary Church, 669 West Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut Missa Cantata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014, at 7:00 p.m. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, […]

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At St. Anthony of Padua Oratory in W. Orange there will be a Requiem Low Mass said for the repose of the soul of Reverend Father Paul A. Wickens on the tenth anniversary of his death, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. After Mass there will be a video presentation of an interview with […]

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A recent initiative of the Archdiocese of New York seems to have finally ended the existence of one the most mysterious parishes of New York City. In announcing the new “Fulton J Sheen Center for Art and Culture,” Archbishop Dolan mentions that the building housing it was “decades ago home to Our Lady of Loreto […]

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St John Nepomucene 411 East 66th Street If, leaving St. John the Martyr, we take a stroll south down Second Avenue and head over to First at East 66th Street, we find the second church dedicated to St. John of Nepomuk – St. John Nepomucene. Amid the undistinguished surroundings of commercial structures and second-rate modernistic […]

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Saint John the Martyr 250 East 72nd Street Here and there throughout the city we find Catholic churches that, for one reason or another, are next-door neighbors to each other. We hear, for example, that in 1924 the predecessor of the church of the Holy Family was built almost directly across the street from the […]

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Church of the Annunciation 88 Convent Avenue and West 131st Street We already have traced the history of the neighborhood known as Manhattanville in our account of the originally German parish of St. Joseph. The first Catholic church in the area, however, was Annunciation parish, founded in 1852. Its original territory was everything west of […]

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The Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at 448 East 116th Street, Manhattan has announced the schedule for this year’s Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Traditional Liturgies: Traditional Latin Vespers, July 15th, 7:30 pm Solemn Extraordinary Form Midnight Mass of Our Lady, Midight between July 15 and July 16. Traditional Sung […]

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