St. Mary Church in Norwalk, CT is planning a “Day With Mary” on Saturday, June 26, 9 am to 3:30 pm. “A day of instruction, devotion and intercession based on the message given at Fatima in 1917.” Events will include a procession of Our Lady, crowning ceremony, Traditional Mass in honor of Our Lady celebrated […]

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Fr. Greg Markey, Pastor of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT wrote the following column for the parish bulletin and the parish website http://www.stmarynorwalk.net/ Msgr. Klaus Gamber (1919–1987) was a German liturgist who enthusiastically supported the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium, but then later became one of the chief critics of how […]

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The National Coalition of Clergy and Laity announces its 15th annual “Pilgrimage for Restoration” to the Shrine of Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, September 22 – 25, 2010. Walk, sing, pray along the paths, the actual places where the NorthAmerican Saints lived and died for Christ, for their persecutors, andfor […]

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Archbishop Francois Gayot, Archbishop emeritus of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, celebrated a magnificent solemn Pontifical Mass for the feast of the Sacred Heart yesterday, June 11th, at St Jean Baptiste Church in Manhattan. The Confraternity of the Sacred Heart, which sponsored the mass as well as a conference today, did its usual very professional job regarding ceremony, […]

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By popular demand, here are additional pictures of Sunday’s celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi – including more of the Solemn mass that preceded the procession. On that day St Mary’s had some prominent visitors: Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and Mr. Mark Froeba of the Society of the Sacred Heart in […]

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On Thursday, June 3, at 6 pm, the Church of the Holy Innocents will mark the final First Thursday of the Year for Priests with a Solemn Mass and Corpus Christi procession down Broadway and through the streets around the midtown church, located on 37th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The liturgical procession will […]

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Follow the horizon: the first chapters are far advanced before the Americans are scheduled to start. Note: My report of the 2010 Chartres Pilgrimage begins at this link It is the conclusion of a remarkable experience. The last day’s route generally leads through open countryside and for the first time the pilgrims can get a […]

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Cardinal Vingt-Trois and his staff survey the second day’s camp. A major distinction between the Chartres pilgrimage today and its predecessors 15+ years ago is the increasingly close interaction with the local hierarchs. Whereas the ordinaries of both Paris and Chartres initially ignored the presence of 12,000+ pilgrims, there is now accommodation and even active […]

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We resume our report when the pilgrimage recommences with reveille at 5:00 in the morning. Quite a few of the pilgrims are suffering by this point: aches, blisters, chafing, exhaustion – and in some cases worse. But by 6:45 the first chapters march out and the the pilgrimage is underway again. The Pilgrimage resumes on […]

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