This Pentecost three  “events”  nicely illustrated the current state of affairs, spiritual and artistic, in the Church. First, the Vatican – under the leadership of Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi – offers us a preview of its pavilion at the Venice Art Fair.  Obviously concerns about the “poverty of the Church” do not affect such initiatives.  The […]

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  Sunday, 19 May, is Pentecost Sunday, Whitsunday. Historically, the Vigil of Pentecost was a day of fasting. Norwalk, Connecticut Solemn Mass, 9:30 am at St. Mary Church New Haven, Connecticut Solemn Mass at 2 PM at St Stanislaus Church (State & Eld Streets). Sleepy Hollow, New York Sung Mass at 3 PM atImmaculate Conception […]

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it was a fortunate audience who had the chance to hear  last Saturday the final performance this season of Poulenc’s Dialogues. The staging – from 1977 – was magnificent, the performances of the singers almost uniformly splendid and the conducting inspired. Poulenc’s modern musical idiom – if very much restrained here – works well in […]

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Our Lady of Lourdes 467 West 142nd Street West 142nd Street and environs – Hamilton Heights – is a remarkably serene oasis tucked away in upper Manhattan. East of Broadway are quiet tree-lined streets featuring rows of townhouses, circa 1900, displaying a variety of stone facings. It reminds a visitor more of parts of Brooklyn […]

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The Catholic Artists Society’s Annual Mass for Artists will be offered at the Church of Our Saviour in New York City at 1pm on Saturday, June 29th – the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul. Father Gerald Murray, pastor of Manhattan’s Church of the Holy Family, will be the celebrant. There will be a reception […]

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On Tuesday, July 16th, at 12:00 there will be a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of OUr Lady of Mount Carmel. The Celebrant will be Arthur Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson. The Mass will be celebrated at: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 259 Oliver Street Newark, NJ 07105 Following the […]

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The 18th annual “Pilgrimage for Restoration” to the shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, New York will take place this year on Friday to Sunday, September 20-22. For further information and registration see HERE. (Above and below: scenes from the 2010 Pilgrimage) (Of course since the last pilgrimage, Kateri Tekakwitha has been canonized […]

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St Monica (Church of St Monica, New York) Holy Mother Church reserves this reading from the thirty first chapter of the Proverbs of Solomon to be chanted during the Nocturns of the Office of Matins of Sainted Matrons. “Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. […]

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The Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny, once upon a fictional time, in order to raise funds for their worthy apostolic endeavors raffled off a brand new Lexus. Stu and Jill really wanted to win so they decided to ask some revered priests to pray a novena. The Benedictine monk said: “Ut In Omnibus Glorificetur […]

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Finally correcting the (deliberate?) errors and tendentious passages – courtesy of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. HERE are the original Latin, the Vatican translation and the new LMS translation. And HERE is an explanation from the LMS chairman with examples.

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