The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny will be sponsoring a lecture by Professor Roberto de Mattei on Friday April 4th, at 6:30 PM at the Union League Club, New York. This address will be preceded by Solemn Vespers at Holy Innocent Church. We will provide further details as they become available.

Sunday at Holy Innocents Church: the traditional Blessing and distribution of candles, as well as the procession inside the church. The Mass on this occasion was the Mass for the Dedication of a Church because it was the anniversary of the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Innocents. The Celebrant of the Mass was Fr. Joseph DeGuzman, FSSP
 

Photographs courtesy of Mr. Arrys Ortanez. For more pictures see HERE.
(Thanks to Eddy Toribio)

Syversen Touring has organized a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on April 23 to May 2 traveling with Rev. Canon Jean Marie Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King and  rector of St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, Orange, NJ.  The trip will include daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form.  There are still a few spaces left on the tour.  The deadline to register is February 28. The itinerary includes sites connected to Jesus’ life from His childhood to His public ministry to Calvary, including four nights in Jerusalem.

The webpage for the trip is at www.syversentouring.com/holyland

The pdf, which is also linked to the webpage is http://syversentouring.com/ancientbiblelands2014.pdf

At St. Mary’s Norwalk…

The music, directed by Mr. David Hughes, included an improvisation on a theme of Mahler, the Missa in Illo Tempore by Claudio Monteverdi and two motets also by Monteverdi.

The reception afterwards – after a festive toast:

But th’ holy men of God such vessels are,
As serve him up, who all the world commands:
When God vouchsafeth to become our fare,
Their hands convey him, who conveys their hands.
O what pure things, most pure must those things be,
Who bring my God to me!

Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand
To hold the Ark, although it seems to shake
Through th’old sinnes and new doctrines of our land
Onely, since God doth often vessels make
of lowly matter for high uses meet,
I throw me at his feet.

George Herbert

A small but intrepid group of pilgrims journeyed on a frigid evening on this past 22nd of January to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem to celebrate the feast of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotine Order that staffs the parish and also to pray for an end to abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Father Marion Wierzchowski, SAC was the celebrant, assisted by Fr. Christopher Salvatori, SAC as deacon and Mr. Teddy Barboza as subdeacon. The Holy Innocents Volunteer Parochial Choir provided the music which consisted of Mass in G major by Joseph Rheinberger, Iste Confessor with alternate verses by Delfino Thermignon at the offertory, and Tantum Ergo by Deodat de Severac. The music of Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier and Swedish Wedding March by August Söderman was also played. Fr. Wierzchowski preached on the life and ministry of St. Vincent. Immediately following the conclusion of the mass there was a solemn veneration of a first class relic of St. Vincent Pallotti at the altar rail. Refreshments, courtesy of the Agnus Dei and Regina Caeli councils of the Knights of Columbus, were enjoyed in the rectory’s meeting room. Incidentally, January 22 is Fr. Chris Salvatori’s anniversary of ordination at Our Lady of Mount Carmel back in the year 2000. Organizers plan on making this pilgrimage of thanksgiving and reparation an annual event.

Manuel Albino

For those unable to attend the March for Life in Washington next Wednesday, January 22nd, there will be a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in East Harlem at 7:pm to pray for the unborn at a Solemn Mass for the Feast of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotine Fathers, who staff the shrine. A Rosary for life will begin at 6:30 pm.
Fr. Marion Wierzchowski, SAC, pastor, will celebrate the Mass. Fr. Christopher Salvatori, SAC, will be the deacon of the Mass. After the Mass, there will be solemn veneration of the relic of St. Vincent Palloti. A reception with refreshments, sponsored by the Agnus Dei and Regina Coeli councils of the Knights of Columbus, will follow in the church hall.

The Theology Forum of Sleepy Hollow is sponsoring a lecture by Dr. E. Michael Jones entitled: “Catholic Social Teaching in Relation to Capitalism and Socialism,” Friday, January 24 at 7 pm. The lecture will be held in the auditorium of Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Light fare and refreshments will be served from 6:30 pm. Suggested donation is $10.

This Sunday, January 5, at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, Ct., the Most Reverend Frank J. Caggiano, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport,  will be presiding at the 9:30 am Extraordinary Form Mass, which will be a High Mass before a Greater Prelate (coram episcopo).   During the Mass the renovations of the church will be blessed.  The Mass to be celebrated will be the Feast of the Epiphany.  Clergy are asked to attend in choir dress of cassock and surplice.

 Afterwards everyone is invited to a reception in the church hall, with an opportunity to greet the bishop.  

(Photo from the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan)