All Saints Church by Renwick – on the hit list? Photo: Craig Warga for The Wall Street Journal From the Wall Street Journal: SOURCE “Attendance, Priest Shortages Are Cited” The WSJ addresses “Making All Things New” in an article with number of surprising – and not-so-surprsing- omissions and inaccuracies. There is no mention, for example, […]

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On Friday November 22, 2013 at 7:30 in the evening at St. Gabriel Church in Stamford, CT there will be a Missa Cantata for the Feast of Saint Cecilia. Light refreshments to follow.

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But it will be celebrated by a monk from one of my favorite monasteries in Bavaria, which brews one of Germany’s finest beers, and takes place in one of the most magnificent churches in Manhattan – Most Holy Redeemer! Kloster Andechs Week – See below: Blessing from Kloster Andechs with Father Valentin, a wooden keg, […]

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After so many decades, the Traditional mass returns to the magnificent high altar of our Lady of Esperanza, the second  (1912) Spanish-speaking parish in New York City. The congregation was appreciative; the music, as always, outstanding. Afterwards, we visited the Hispanic Society of America next door. There was an outstanding tour through the collection. Above, […]

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    Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) Music by Richard Strauss; Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal I had the good fortune to view a very special event at the Metropolitan Opera yesterday evening – the return of Die Frau ohne Schatten. A supremely demanding work for any opera company to stage, The […]

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Extraordinary Form Mass on Dec. 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM at St. Sebastian Church, Middletown, CT. (The church is located on Washington St. which is also Hwy 66)

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Once upon a time there were two fellows of a traditionalist bent interested in pursuing the religious life. As their ecclesiastical outlook, as noted by certain institutional authorities, was in need of a certain amount of “dialogue” they cultivated a novel, yet ancient, model. They approached a young Dominican friar who wished to revitalize locally […]

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Photo: Will Lew for The Wall Street Journal From the article of the same name in The Wall Street Journal by Karen Johnson (Nov. 5, 2013): “Inside the former Saint-Jude Church in Montreal, personal trainers mill about where priests once did and hot-stone massages have replaced baptisms. In this city, a former Roman Catholic stronghold […]

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The timing is perfect. Just as the Society are preparing to visit Our Lady of Esperanza, Granda, the well known Spanish purveyor of ecclesiastical furnishings, informs us of the following in their newsletter (we reproduce the original text): “We knew at Granda that the first item crafted by our workshop for the US was an […]

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