Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newark NJ. The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, for whatever reason, seems to have evolved into an important “Traditionalist” celebration in this vicinity. Our readers in the New York metroppolitan area will be able to participate in a number of major liturgical events. Connecticut: Solemn High Mass […]

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On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, The Reverend Raymond Flores was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn. The following Friday, Father Flores celebrated his First Traditional Latin Mass at the Brooklyn Carmelite Monastery. The Low Mass was the Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on First Fridays. It was […]

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  From St Paul’s epistle to the Romans: But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. Surely one of the seminal works of Western culture is Virgil’s Aeneid, the story of the founding of Rome but also the deposit of […]

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The Church of the Transfiguration 25 Mott Street If you pay a visit to Chinatown you will come upon an ancient Catholic church on Mott Street at the corner of a curious one block street, Mosco (up till 1982 Park, and originally Cross Street). You realize it is very, very old from the neoclassical exterior […]

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St. Teresa 141 Henry Street Recently, Catholic New York covered the 150th anniversary of the parish of St Teresa – one of those stark survivors (like St. Mary’s, Transfiguration or St James) from the distant foundational age of New York Catholicism. Truly there is much to celebrate in a parish that has lived through such […]

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Erroneously referred to as “Spanish soap opera” but forming a distinct genre of serial dramatic popular programming by having a predetermined duration and termination, the telenovela is an almost sacred staple in many a happy Hispanic household. Recently strolling through the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art one encountered a late 15th century Netherlandish […]

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Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Tuesday, July 16th at 7:30 PM Church of Saint Gabriel 914 Newfield Avenue Stamford CT Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Procession to the Lady Altar following Mass Investiture in the Brown Scapular Refreshments in the Parish Meeting Room

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New York City Second Annual Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage to the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem On Saturday, July 20, 2013, at 11 a.m., there will be celebrated at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, New York, a Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass […]

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Holy Innocents Church 128 West 37th Street Surely the Garment District is one of the most mind-numbingly ugly areas of Manhattan. And what these buildings spew out in the way of women’s’ fashions is consistent with their exterior. In the midst of these oversized and dilapidated architectural horrors the visitor is overjoyed to find an […]

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The Church of St. Peter in Danbury is worth a visit just for its stained glass (by F.X. Zettler in Munich) Baroque Catholicism still flourished mightily worldwide in the 18th century. From White Russia to Portuguese India, in missions everywhere from the Philippines to Paraguay and New Mexico a Catholic culture had been established in […]

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