Father Peter Lenox celebrated a Missa Cantata today for Ember Saturday at St. Roch Church in Greenwich. This ancient Mass contains five Old Testament prophecies, an epistle and a Gospel
17 Dec
2022
Father Peter Lenox celebrated a Missa Cantata today for Ember Saturday at St. Roch Church in Greenwich. This ancient Mass contains five Old Testament prophecies, an epistle and a Gospel
13 Dec
2022
Reliquary in the Cathedral of Syracuse, Italy – her home town. (Above and below) Closer to home, the epic neo-baroque decoration of the Church of St. Lucy, Newark, NJ. (For even more images from St. Lucy’s Church, see our report.) (Above and below) Finally, tragically, two statues from the now-shuttered parish of St. Lucy in […]
12 Dec
2022
10 Dec
2022
Last year The New York Times featured an article on the Archdiocese’s disposition of the contents of closed New York Churches: Gill, John Freeman, “These Churches Have Been Closed, but Their Artifacts Live On,” Tne New York Times, December 24, 2021 (1) IN this report we encounter “artifacts” (the reporter’s term) from several churches on […]
10 Dec
2022
This morning at 6 am Canon Estrada celebrated a Rorate Mass at St. Patrick Oratory in Waterbury, CT.
8 Dec
2022
From the Sheen Center description: “Just in time for the Advent and Christmas season, this stunning exhibit features mosaic icons created in the tradition of Byzantine masters. Exquisitely fashioned from tiny bits of colored glass fit together to bring forth a divine image, the icons are created by Oksana Prokopenko, a Ukrainian artist. They offer […]
8 Dec
2022
The library of the once famous French Oratorian school of Juilly, closed in 2012. Now a monument to Catholic intellectual decline. Courtesy of Le Forum Catholique (posted by JVJ).
6 Dec
2022
The discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph have scheduled their final Mass in their Brooklyn monastery this Monday, Dec. 12 at 6:45 am. They will be moving to a new monastery in Pleasant Mount, PA. Here is the announcement on their website: It is with both […]
5 Dec
2022
Strolling by the locked and forlorn Centro Maria today – in the distant past the parish of St.Ambrose. Closed by the Archdiocese in 2020 and reported sold (resold?) in January 2022 for $25 million. (Hells Kitchen Development Site Sells for $25M (Bldup Newsletter, 1/10/2022) It now awaits demolition – how long before that occurs? For […]
5 Dec
2022