Photo: Diane M. Korzeniewski, OCDS

We at the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny are honored to sponsor the visit to Brooklyn, Norwalk and New York of his Excellency Athanasius Schneider ORC, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan and titular of Celerina. Bishop Schneider is a noted author and speaker. His best known work is Dominus Est – It is the Lord! – a defense of the Traditional discipline of receiving communion.

On Saturday, January 5, at 2 PM, Bishop Schneider will celebrate a pontifical liturgy at the Cathedral of St. James in Brooklyn. Afterwards, Bishop Schneider will give a lecture on “Holy Communion and the Renewal of the Church.”

On the Feast of the Epiphany, Sunday, January 6, at 9:30 AM, Bishop Schneider will celebrate a pontifical liturgy from the throne at the parish of St. Mary in Norwalk, Connecticut. Music of Morales, Bruckner, Victoria and Byrd will be sung. A light reception in the parish hall will follow.

On Sunday, January 6 at 5 PM, Bishop Schneider will preside at solemn vespers at the church of the Most Holy Redeemer, 173 East 3^rd Street New York.

Additional details will soon be posted. We extend an invitation to each of our readers to come and welcome Bishop Schneider to Brooklyn, Norwalk and New York!

Yesterday members of the Society, readers of this blog and parishioners of St Mary Norwalk – a small but select group – came to the north reaches of Manhattan island to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Providence, patroness of Puerto Rico, and to explore the Spanish cultural heritage. And what better place to do that than at the Hispanic Society of America, which houses perhaps the most magnificent collection of Iberian art in North America?

The mass took place in the nearby parish of St Catherine of Genoa. It marked the return of the Traditional Mass to this altar after many decades of absence. St Catherine of Genoa (itself an unusual dedication) features unique stained glass skylights narrating the life of St. Catherine (above). The pastor of St Catherine was a most gracious host.

Reverend Mr. Steve Genovese served as deacon; Fr. Richard Cipolla was subdeacon. Mr David Hughes led the schola. A mass by Guerrero was sung. Mr Hughes had to improvise the chant for the propers – solo- since none have been provided for this recently instituted feast.

Fr. Greg Markey, pastor of St. Mary’s, Norwalk, preached in Spanish.

After the mass and a quick lunch, the “pilgrims” headed over to the nearby Hispanic Society. A docent of the museum gave us a very professional review of the museum, its history and collections – especially the unique room devoted to the depictions of life in the various Spanish regions by Joaquin Sorolla. Above, most appropriately, is the Holy Week procession in Seville.

The museum further contains a magnificent collection of Spanish religious art from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, whether in stonework (above), in polychromed terra cotta ( immediately below) or in painting ( second image below)

The creator of the Hispanic Society Museum, Mr Huntington, also financed in 1912 the building of a Catholic parish, Our Lady of Esperanza, as an integral part of the museum complex. it appears, however, that the celebration of the Traditional Mass is not welcome here. (Above, a highly stylized representation of
St Theresa of Avila from the facade)

On Saturday, November 17th the Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny invites you to the First Annual Hispanic Heritage Pilgrimage In Honor Of Our Lady of Divine Providence Patroness of Puerto Rico. Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at 10 AM at The Church of Saint Catherine of Genoa Between Amsterdam & Broadway 506 West 153rd Street New York, NY 10031 Followed by a visit to The Hispanic Society of America located on Audubon Terrace, Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets.

The Catholic Artists Society, in conjunction with the New York Purgatorial Society,  will sponsor a special Solemn Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form, on Thursday, November 29th at the Church of St. Agnes in New York City. The setting for the Mass will be Gabriel Faure’s Requiem (opus 48), sung by The Schola Cantorum of St. Agnes, led by organist and choirmaster James Wetzel. This is a rare chance to hear Faure’s beautifully soaring Requiem in its entirety, in the liturgical setting for which it was written.

This Mass will be offered for the repose of the souls of  deceased family members, friends, colleagues and the Holy Souls in Purgatory.   The celebrant and homilist for the Mass will be Father Justin Wylie (Archdiocese of Johannesburg, South Africa). Father Wylie is currently attaché to The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

The Catholic Artists Society is also sponsoring an evening of recollection  at 7pm on Thursday, December 13th at The Church of St. Catherine of Siena, 411 E. 68th Street, Ny, NY. Father Jordan Kelly, OP, the parish pastor and an accomplished musician, will lead the recollection and will offer an Advent mediation on the work and spiritual life of the artist. 

On Thursday, December 13 at 7 PM the Society of St Hugh of Cluny will sponsor sung vespers in Honor of St Lucy at the Church of Our Saviour, East 38th Street and Park Avenue, New York. We thus continue our celebration this year of the heritage of the many peoples making up the Catholic population of New York by commemorating a saint especially revered in the seemingly wildly disparate regions of Scandinavia and Sicily.

Image from Our Lady of Pompeii

On Saturday, November 17th, The Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny invites you to the First Annual Hispanic Heritage Pilgrimage In Honor Of Our Lady of Divine Providence, Patroness of Puerto Rico.

Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at 10 AM
The Church of Saint Catherine of Genoa
Between Amsterdam & Broadway
506 West 153rd Street New York, NY 10031

Followed by a visit to
The Hispanic Society of America
located on Audubon Terrace,
Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets
613 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032

RSVP IF YOU INTEND TO VISIT THE MUSEUM

El Cid in the courtyard of the Museum complex.

The Museum is one of the greatest collections of Spanish art in the United States.

This Sunday, September 16 at 5 pm, Solemn Three Cope Vespers in the Extraordinary Fomr will be held at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT.  The St. Mary Schola Cantorum will sing the complete office of vespers along with motets by Victoria, Crecquillon and Lassus. 

At 6:oo pm in the church hall there will be a presentation by Leonard Porter, the artist commissioned to paint an oil painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the central reredos for the high altar of the church.  The artist’s rough model of the finished painting is pictured above. 

 St. Mary began a multiphase renovation in 2009.  The fund-raising is beginning  for the final phase, which includes completing the painting of the interior, a rood beam, and Mr. Porter’s painting, which  will be mounted in a frame designed by architect Duncan Stroik.  Come and hear the artist speak about his project.

The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate offer a ‘day of recollection’ called “A Day With Mary”.  This “A Day with Mary” will be offered in the Diocese of Bridgeport on Saturday, September 22 at St. Mary Parish in Norwalk, CT.  The whole family is invited but really the day is directed toward adults.                                           

 Day begins at 9 am and ends at about 3:45 pm (unless running overtime), includes Holy Mass ( sung Traditional Latin Mass ), adoration, Benediction, rosary, confession, excellent talks, and a movie about Our Lady of Fatima.  The celebrant of the Mass will be Fr. Ignatius Mary, Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate.  The schola is the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate.

The day will also include the enrollment in the Brown Scapular and conferment of the Miraculous Medal (for those who have not been enrolled or conferred).  Don’t be late because it begins with the movie about Our Lady of Fatima which sets the framework for the day.

 BYOL (bring your own lunch).