The following churches will offer Traditional Masses on Saturday, August 15 for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Connecticut

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 10 am Missa Cantata

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 8 am Missa Cantata. n.b. in lower level chapel: enter through parish center door to left of the church.

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, 8:30 am Low Mass; 10:15 Solemn Mass

St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, CT, 8 am Low Mass; 10:30 am High Mass

New York

Holy Innocents Church, Manhattan, 10:30 am High Mass; 1pm Low Mass

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Manhattan (Harlem) 9 am, followed by adoration of the Most Blessed Sacarment.

St. Josaphat Oratory, Queens, 9:30 am High Mass

St. Rocco Church, Glen Cove, Long Island, 10 am Missa Cantata

St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 12 noon

Annunciation Church, Crestwood, 12 pm, Missa Cantata in lower church

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 12 noon.

Holy Trinity, Poughkeepsie, NY, Missa Cantata, 7 pm

New Jersey

Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, 11 am Missa Cantata

Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, 8 am Missa Cantata

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 7 am, 9 am, 11 am

St. Anthony of Padua, West Orange, 9 am Low Mass; 11 am High Mass

Due to travel we regettably could not be present at the Traditional pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem last Saturday. We have covered this pilgrimage since its inception in 2012. For the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel had become dear to CatholicTraditionalists. Did they somehow sense that Pope Francis would promulgate Traditionis Custodes – aiming at their destruction – on that feast in 2021?

I heard a favorable report from someone present, even though publicity for the pilgrimage (see the flyer resproduced above) had been limited. Let me add a few details. Members of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George helped to organize the event. And the Society of St Hugh of Cluny funded the excellent music, which included:

Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices.

Offertory Motet Quam pulchra es by John Dunstaple (Song of Songs 7).

Communion Motet Flos florum by Guillaume Dufay

Charles Weaver ( the music director of St. Mary’s, Norwalk) led the music.

Fr. Joseph Marie Falciano, FSSP, celebrated a traditional Solemn Mass last evening at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk. Having been ordained to the priesthood on May 28, Fr. Falciano was celebrating his first Mass in his former parish. After Mass he offered his first priestly blessing to each of the faithful. This Mass and the music was sponsored by our Society.

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, is giving to the Church two new priests this year.

Fr. Joseph Marie Falciano, FSSP, was ordained to the priesthood at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha on May 28.   He will be celebrating at Solemn Mass at St. Mary’s on Tuesday, June 9 at 7 pm. He will be giving first priestly blessings after Mass. A reception will follow.

Deacon Juan Colon will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Bridgeport on Saturday June 13 at 11 am in St. Augustine Cathedral.   He will be celebrating his First Mass at St. Mary’s  on Sunday June 14 at 12 noon (Spanish Mass). 

Please keep both of these young men in your prayers.

Fr. Falciano will be celebrating traditional Masses at the following churches in the area:

Tuesday June 9, St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 7 pm Solemn Mass, reception to follow

Wednesday, June 10, St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm, Solemn Mass, reception to follow

Friday, June 12, St. Vincent Ferrer, New York, NY, 9:30 am, Solemn Mass for Feast of the Sacred Heart, Missa Pange Lingua by Josquin des Prez.

Saturday, June 13. St. Margaret of Cortona, Bronx, NY, 10 am, Solemn Mass

Sunday, June 14, Annunciation Church, Crestwood, NY, 2 pm, Solemn Mass, reception to follow

Father Jon Tveit will celebrate the following Traditional Masses to mark his 10th anniversary of ordination:

Sunday, May 24: Annunciation Church in Crestwood, NY, Solemn Mass, 2 pm, convivium to follow

Saturday, May 30, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New Rochelle, NY, 12 noon, Ember Saturday Solemn Mass