BIG news from the Cathedral Parish in Bridgeport, CT. The parish is having a 40 Hours Devotion starting tomorrow!

There will be three Solemn High Masses, all at St. Patrick Church in Bridgeport. Times:

Thursday, October 22nd at 7:00 PM: Votive Mass of the Holy Eucharist. Following this Mass the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the high altar.-

Friday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM: Traditional Missa Pro Pace (Mass of Peace)-

Saturday, October 24th at 9:00 AM: Another votive Mass of the Eucharist, followed by reposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

From the first Mass to the third one, Our Lord will be exposed on the altar, without interpretation. Come and pray at any time!

There will be the scheduledl Low Mass on Friday morning at 7:00 AM but it will take place on one of the side altars.

**Due to this event, there is no Low Mass at St. Pius X in Fairfield, Thursday at 7PM

The Church of the Holy Innocents in New York will start its annual Forty Hours Devotion THIS COMING Friday, October 23^rd, 2020.

First Day: The opening Mass will be on Friday, October 23^rd at 6PM, and it will be a Votive Mass of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 

At the end of the opening Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be solemnly exposed: there will be a Eucharistic procession inside the church, and the Pange lingua, the Litany of the Saints, and some other special psalms, versicles, and prayers will be chanted.  

–The church doors will be closed and locked at 9PM and only those who have signed up for the night adoration will remain in the church keeping vigil before Our Lord until 6AM.

Second Day: On the second day, Saturday, October 24^th at 1PM, we will have the traditional Votive Mass Pro Pace.

–The church doors will be closed and locked at 9PM and only those who have signed up for the night adoration will remain in the church keeping vigil before Our Lord until 6AM.

Third Day: The closing Mass will be on Sunday, October 25^th at 10:30AM, which will also be the 1^st class Feast of Christ the King. This closing Mass will be celebrated coram Sanctissimo (in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed). 

At the end of the closing Mass, the Litany of the Saints and other special psalms and prayers will be chanted and we will have another Procession of the Blessed Sacrament inside the church.

The Forty Hours Devotion is surrounded with 3 special dimensions: 

1) The protection from evil and temptation; 

2) Reparation for our own sins and for the poor souls in purgatory; and 

3) Deliverance from political, material and spiritual calamities.

This beautiful devotion was permanently established by Pope Clement VIII “in order that day and night the faithful might appease their Lord by prayer before the Blessed Sacrament solemnly exposed, imploring there His divine mercy.“

St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk will hold Eucharistic Adoration in the downstairs chapel from 8 pm on November 2 to 6:30 pm on November 3.

On Monday, November 2 at 7 PM Father John Ringley will offer a Solemn Mass for All Souls. After Mass at 8 PM Father will have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel with Adoration all night long AND all day Tuesday, Election day until 6:30 PM November 3. 

We are asking parishioners to sign up for one or more hours of adoration. Sign up sheets are on the table in the chapel foyer with your name + your contact information. We also need one gentleman at each hour between 11 PM to 5 AM Monday night during nocturnal adoration. We will need coverage during both the 8 AM and 12 noon Masses on Tuesday, Election day.

The regular parish Adoration will resume on Wednesday, November 4 from 1-4 PM.

Any questions, please contact Jacquie at 475-206-7109 or email jacquelinejuh@gmail.com. 

The First Annual Soul of the Apostolate Online Conference will make its debut this coming weekend – July 24-27, 2020. Some of the major speakers at this conference will be Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Dom Alcuin Reid, Sam Guzman, and Dr. Ralph Martin.

This conference is being run by a new organization called Souls of the Christian Apostolate (SOCA – https://socapostolate.org), whose  goal is to help form the laity both young and old in the constant teaching of the Church regarding the Interior Life and the Call to Holiness as taught by the saints, doctors, and mystics.

Only saints can sanctify the Church and convert the world. The goal of this conference is to provide practical instruction for the faithful:

• Prepare For Judgment
• Become A Saint
• Sanctify the Church
• Convert the World

Register now for The Soul of the Apostolate free online conference and free formation repository opening July 24^th 2020: https://soca.mykajabi.com/a/30485/bhC5Qwqb

Fr John Wachowicz will be coming back to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Greenlawn (on Long Island) for an evening of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and a traditional sung Latin Mass for the  feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the prototype of the repentant adorer of Jesus.

On Wednesday, July 22, from 6:30 to 7:30, there will be a Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart, with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Fr. John will be available for confession during the Holy Hour. Mass will follow at about 7:40. The miraculous Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be present and will stay for veneration after Mass. She is also available for events in or outside your churches, Rosary walks, home and hospital visits, etc. Please text Jane Schiano Wigatow at 631-827-2510 if you are interested or have an idea for her.

St. Francis Church has reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus every Wednesday from 630-730 pm. Sadly, attendance at this, which has been going on for about 40 years, has dwindled just at the time when we need it the most! The Blessed Sacrament is usually exposed, and beautiful prayers of reparation for sin are offered.

July 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An online conference focusing on the importance of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue has been announced by Voice of the Family.

The conference, “Love and reverence to Our Lord: Let’s always receive Holy Communion on the tongue” will begin at 12:00 p.m. noon EST and run until 2:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, July 16, 2020. 

It can be viewed for free on LifeSite’s YouTube channel and on the LifeSiteNews Catholic Facebook page. To visit the LifeSite YouTube channel, click here.

The event schedule is (tentatively) as follows:

• 12:00 p.m. – John Smeaton: welcome and introduction 
• 12:15 p.m. – VIDEO: Let’s always receive Holy Communion on the tongue (part 1)
• 12:30 p.m. – Fr. Serafino Lanzetta: Theological reasons for always receiving Holy Communion on the tongue
• 1:00 p.m. – Dr. Peter Kwasniewski interviewed by John-Henry Westen
• 1:30 p.m. – Alexander Tschugguel and Theresa Habsburg interviewed by John-Henry Westen
• 2:00 p.m. – John Smeaton: Closing remarks and call to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in reparation for the sins against Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist
• 2:10 p.m. – VIDEO: Let’s always receive Holy Communion on the tongue (part 2)
• 2:25 p.m. – Plea to always receive Holy Communion on the tongue and Fatima prayer
• 2:30 p.m. – Conclusion

Today Raymond Cardinal Burke visited St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, for recitation of the Rosary and Benediction.

(Above) Virgin, 1150 France.

Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art from Europe

Luhring Augustine Gallery/Sam Fogg

531West 24th Street, New York, NY

www.luhringaugustine.com

(Exhibition lasts until March 7, 2020)

The Luhring Augustine gallery is offering until March 7 a special exhibition of medieval art. What a pleasure to view treasures of medieval art up close, away from the crowds and surrounded  by quiet!  The works cover the entire period of medieval art – with a few outliers before and after that age – and are splendidly illuminated. Yes,  on the whole the exhibits are not colossal masterpieces, but the quality is very high and leading artists are represented: Michel Erhart, Hans Leinberger, Luca della Robbia.

As we might expect, this art is overwhelmingly religious in character. Most of Europe is represented in the exhibition, with perhaps a focus on Germany/the Holy Roman Empire. We encounter art from locations that were in former ages artistic leaders in Europe, like Cologne or Ulm. The uniform quality of the workmanship in artwork created over many centuries and in many different countries is amazing.

(Above) From the Shrine of St Ursula.

We get a sense of the enormity of  losses from the remnants of great artworks that have come down to us. An enameled orb is one of the few  surviving fragments of the magnificent shrine of St Ursula, melted down and destroyed after the occupation of Cologne by French revolutionary armies in the 1790’s. A roundel with a depiction of the Presentation comes from an image of the Virgin surrounded by the mysteries of the Rosary, created by Hans Leinberger of Bavaria.

(Above)  One of series of reliefs carved by Hans Leinberger depicting the mysteries of the rosary.

(Above and below) Stained glass windows from Cologne, 16th century. We get a sense of this city’s former artistic grandeur, which lasted some six centuries.

Perhaps most impressive are two wooden sculptures: a highly stylized figure of the Virgin from the earliest beginnings of Gothic art and dramatic crucifixion scene from 16th century Germany, made shortly before this art disappeared in the chaos of the Reformation. You can get from these works an “ideogram” (Ezra Pound)of what medieval Christian art could achieve both at its origin and in its final flowering. This small exhibition gives the visitor a chance to study at close hand examples of the great art that flourished in between these bookends.

(Above) An early Gothic Virgin, France; (Below) 3 figures from a Crucifixion, Ulm 1510-20.