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 […]

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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).

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother is this Thursday, Dec. 8th. This feast day is a holy day of obligation. The following churches will offer traditional Masses: Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Solemn Mass, 7 pm St. Pius X, Fairfield, CT, 7 pm, Fr. Richard Cipolla, celebrant Sacred Heart Oratory, Georgetown, […]

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Today at the altar of Our Lady at the Church of St Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, CT. See our post : Novena of the Immaculate Conception in Bridgeport and Waterbury.

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