Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio will be having a modified version of the 40 Hours Devotion at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Newark, New Jersey this coming weekend (Friday, Nov. 21st through Sunday, Nov. 23rd).

The hours of exposition are as follows:

Friday, Nov. 21 – 8:30am to 7pm
Saturday, Nov. 22 – 8:30am to 5:30pm (Traditional Mass for Peace at 3pm)
Sunday, Nov. 23 – 12pm to 5pm.

N. B.  A group will be meeting on Saturday Nov. 22 at Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan at 10 am to go as a group via NJ Transit to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Newark.  If you are interested, please contact Eddy Toribo, ejtm83@aol.com.

The parents of Regina Pacis Academy and its sister school, Cardinal Newman Academy, have organized an online auction to raise much-needed funds for the school.  Regina Pacis Academy is an independent Catholic school located in Norwalk, CT.  This year, by permission of Bishop Caggiano, the school has moved into the beautiful school building of St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT.

If you could find it in your heart to support this school, you may go online to see many items to bid on in an online auction that culminates next Sunday, November 23, during the school’s fund-raising dinner.

Link to online auction

The school receives no funds from any parish or the diocese.  The parents raise all of the funds through a reasonable tuition and various fund-raisers including this one, the most important of the year.

According to the school’s website:

“Regina Pacis and Cardinal Newman Academies offer students their patrimony in the Catholic Faith within a classical education. Students learn to do all things well, aware that they act in the presence of their heavenly Father. Our teachers demonstrate their witness to the Faith, their dedication to education and their affection for their pupils. The reception of the Sacraments sustains the life of the schools.”

Students assemble for a daily morning assembly.

Father Paul Check, the school’s chaplain, leads students, faculty, and parents in the Angelus, the first of many prayers offered during the school day.

Last Spring, the school was honored by a visit of Bishop Frank Caggiano.  Here he is visiting a Latin class of Cardinal Newman Academy high school students.  The schools instruct all students in Latin, from Kindergarten through twelfth grade.

All students participate in weekly schola practice, receiving instruction in Gregorian Chant. The students chant the divine office once a month, sing at week-day school Masses and on occasion at  Sunday Extraordinary Form Solemn Masses.  Students, parents, and faculty have the opportunity to attend daily Mass before the start of each school day—and most do.  Regular Confession is also available to the students.

Last Spring his Eminence Cardinal Burke visited the school, offered a special Mass, and addressed students, parents and faculty.

Regina Pacis Academy is proud of its yearly drama productions.  Last spring’s play was Robin Hood.

A scene from the beloved annual Christmas pageant

Student Schola performs at the Christmas pageant.

Another annual event that is treasured at the school is the May crowning.

Here is a link to the online auction, where you can provide support for the school.

Online Auction

Regina Pacis Academy website

The Roman Forum has been asked by a number of friends attending the Summer Symposium from June 29th through July 10th, 2015 to organize an eleven-day “introductory tour” of the Greek world preceding the gathering in Gardone Riviera. Fr. Richard Munkelt and Dr. John Rao will be the tour guides. There is space for twelve more participants.
At the moment, the planned date of departure is June 14th, arriving the next morning in Athens. After four nights in Athens (from which we will be visiting Delphi and other surrounding sites of importance), we will tour Epidaurus, Mycenae, Sparta/Mystra, and Monemvasia by means of private vans. From Monemvasia we will travel north by boat, staying a night on the island of Hydra, passing Salamis to spend one last evening in the Athens area. Participants may leave for home from Athens on June 26th, but those taking part in the Summer Symposium will fly to Venice. Tour guests attending the Summer Symposium will remain two nights in Venice, proceeding to Gardone on June 28th.
There will be one lecture each day, either by Fr. Munkelt or Dr. Rao, dealing with Greek History and Culture, as well as Early and Byzantine Christian Civilization.
Exact cost is not yet known. The estimated  amount is c. $2,300 (possibly less).   NB: Participants’ travel costs to and from Greece are not included.

Anyone interested in taking part should contact the Forum at this address/email by January 15th, 2014.

Roman Forum Greece Tour
An Introduction to the Hellenic World
11 Carmine St., Apt. 2C
New York, NY 10014
drjcrao@aol.com

Announcing an international conference on liturgical formation in the light of the new evangelization, Sacra Liturgia USA 2015, to take place in New York City from June 1 to 4, 2015.  This conference continues the work of Sacra Lituriga 2013, in Rome, organized by Bishop Rey of Frejus-Toulon.  Speakers will include Raymond Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, and our own Father Richard Cipolla.  More information will be posted as it becomes available.

This coming weekend, from Friday, November 7th, 2014 at 6pm through Sunday, November 9th, 2014 at 10:30am, the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manahattan will have the 40 Hours Devotion. (it will also be the first Friday all-night vigil).

The Mass of Exposition will be a Solemn Mass on Friday at 6pm and it will be the votive Mass of the Most Blessed Sacrament, accompanied by the procession of the Blessed Sacrament inside the church and by the singing of the Litanies of the Saints and other prayers for all ranks and ways of life in the Catholic Church.

We invite and encourage all to attend and celebrate with us the news that the Church of the Holy Innocents will remain open, as well as to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. This, of course, is a very pious and salutary devotion that always brings great benefits for a parish and those who participate in it. Please share the information with those who would like to attend.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/04/churchs-closure-could-be-the-end-of-its-treasured-murals/

Readers of this site will be familiar with the beloved statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Harlem. The Holy Name Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine is mounting a fund raiser to restore the statue. The statue of the Virgin was crowned with Vatican authorization in 1903 – one of only a handful of Crowned Virgins in North America. Pope Pius X contributed an emerald but the rest of the gold and jewels for the crowns of Our Lady and the Christ Child came from the wedding rings and other jewelry contributed by the Italian ladies of the parish. The feast and procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel draws a huge crowd in the summer.

The interior of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Pontifical Shrine, where the historic statue stands over the main altar