Lumen Dei Union celebrates High Mass on Christmas Day with The Church of the Holy Innocents in NYC.

For more pictures see HERE.

(Photos by Arrys Ortanez. Thanks to Eddy Jose Toribio.)

Midnight Mass at St. Mary’s, Norwalk. The celebrant was Fr. Greg Markey; Steve Genovese was the deacon and Fr. Richard Cipolla the subdeacon.

(Above and Below) Before the Mass and the singing of carols, Fr. Markey led the congregation in the recitation of the rosary before the manger scene.

Mr David Hughes was the director of music. (Above) Carols were sung before the mass.
(Below) Lighting the candles.

(Above) Reading by Mr. William Riccio of the Proclamation of the Birth of Christ.

(Above and below) Candles at the entrance procession.

(Above) Placing the statue of the Christ Child in the manger.

(Above and below) Lighting of candles at the Gospel.

The offertory.

Window in Our Lady of Guadalupe/St. Bernard church, New York

Connecticut:

Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport
Christmas Day: 10:15 AM

St. Martha, Enfield

Christmas Day: Mass, 12:00 PM

St. Mary Church, Norwalk

Christmas Eve: 11:00 PM, Rosary at the Creche

11:30 PM, Christmas Carols and Organ Music:
Prelude: Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Hymn: Once In Royal David’s City (Irby)
Hymn: A La Nanita Nana (anon. Spanish, XVIII C.)
Carol: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
Hymn: Joys Seven (arr. Hughes)
Carol: Il est né, le Divin Enfant (arr. Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Hymn: Riu riu chiu (Mateo Flecha el Viejo, 1481-1553)
Carol: Tu scendi dalle stelle (St. Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori, 1696-1787)
Motet: There Is No Rose (anon. English, XV C.)
Carol: Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

12:00 AM Solemn Midnight Mass:

Hymn at the Procession: Adeste Fideles (John Francis Wade, arr. Willcocks)
Messe solennelle (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Midnight: Dominus dixit
Motet at the Offertory: Verbum caro factum est (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Quem vidistis pastores (Cipriano de Rore, 1515-1565)
Motet at the Communion: O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Christmas Day: 9:30 AM, Solemn Mass:

Prelude: Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 700) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Dies sanctificatus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Gradual: Viderunt omnes (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Motet at the Offertory: Puer natus est (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Viderunt omnes (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Dies sanctificatus (Palestrina)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 1 (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

St. Peter’s Church, 160 Main Street, Hartford

Christmas Eve:  Midnight Mass

St. Stanislaus, New Haven

Christmas Day: High Mass 2:00 PM (St. Gregory Society)

New Jersey:

Mater Ecclesiae,261 Cross Keys Road, Berlin

Christmas Eve: 10:30 PM Christmas Carols
10:50 PM Blessing of Manger and Christmas Proclamation
11:00 PM Midnight Choral Mass

Christmas Day:
8:30 AM Low Mass
11:00 AM High Mass

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark,
Christmas Eve: Midnight, Missa Cantata

Our Lady of Fatima,32 West Franklin Avenue, Pequannock

Christmas Eve:
11:00 PM Christmas carols
Midnight: Missa Cantata

Christmas Day:
7:00 AM Mass at Dawn
9:00 AM Mass of Christmas Day
11:00 AM Mass of Christmas Day

Our Lady of Victories, Harrington Park

Christmas Eve: High Mass 9:00 PM

St. Anthony’s, Monmouth St. between 6th and 7th St.; Jersey City

Christmas Eve: 8:30 PM Concert of Seasonal Sacred Music; 9:00 PM High Mass (with music including the “Spatzenmesse” of Mozart)

St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange

Christmas Eve:
5:00 PM Confessions
5:30 PM First Mass of Christmas (fulfills the Christmas obligation)
9:30 PM Confessions
10:30 PM Traditional Christmas Carols
11:00 PM Solemn High Midnight Mass (First Mass of Christmas)

Christmas Day:
7:30 AM Low Mass (Second Mass of Christmas)
9:00 AM Low Mass (Second Mass of Christmas)
11:00 AM High Mass (Third Mass of Christmas)

St. Catherine Laboure, 110 Bray Avenue (off of Route 36);Middletown

Christmas Day: Solemn High Mass 8:45AM

New York:

Holy Innocents, New York

Christmas Eve: 7-8 PM – Christmas Carols; Church doors open at 11PM for Carols in preparation for the Midnight Mass; 12:01 AM, Christmas Midnight Mass

Christmas Day: Mass, 10:30 AM

Immaculate Conception, Sleepy Hollow

Christmas Day: Missa Cantata, 3 PM

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 448 East 116th Street, New York

Christmas Day: Sung Mass, 10:00 AM

Our Lady of Peace Church, Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York

Christmas Day: Missa Cantata, 9:30 AM ( Fr. Joseph Koterski, SJ, celebrant)

St. Agnes, New York

Christmas Day:  High Mass, 11:00 AM (with Schola Cantorum)

St. Anthony’s Church, Bronx, New York

Christmas Day: 8:30 AM

St. Ladislaus Church,18 Richardson Place,Hempstead (Nassau County, LI)

Christmas Day: 9:00 AM

St. Matthew,35 North Service Road, Dix Hills, New York

Christmas Day: 12:30 PM (in the chapel)

St. Anthony’s, Jersey City (Courtesy of Mark Bertotti)

At St. Mary’s Norwalk. (The complete rose set of vestments provided by our Society)

A “Rorate Mass” – a Traditional Mass celebrated in honor of Our Lady on the Saturday, December 13. “The title comes from the first words of the entrance antiphon for the Mass which translated means: ” Drop down ye heavens from above” This reminds us that the Lord came down from heaven and became Man in the womb of the Virgin. What makes this Mass so unusual is that it is celebrated in the early morning by candlelight. The celebration should be timed so that the sun begins to rise by the time of the consecration of the Mass.” (Father Cyprian La Pastina, pastor of St. Mary’s)

A mass for the feast of St Lucy in the private chapel of St. Febronia in Hoboken, New Jersey….

The Santa Febronia Chapel was founded in 1927 by immigrants from Patti, Sicily to honor their patroness the Virgin Martyr Saint Febronia and the Madonna of Tindari. The chapel, still the private property of a society of these immigrants, is one of the most important Sicilian American as well as Catholic heritage sites in the country. The chapel both in its interior and exterior has been unchanged from its founding and its faux marble niched altar is a brilliant work of immigrant folk craftsmanship.

This was the first Traditional Mass held at the chapel since the Second Vatican Council. The schola from Saint Anthony of Padua Latin Mass community, Jersey City (formerly of Holy Rosary, Jersey City)sang the Mass. Father Michael Barone was the celebrant.

The chapel is an amazing example of Catholic folk art in this country. The statue of St. Lucy, whose feast was commemorated today.

Our Lady of Tindari – a “Black Madonna.” Her sanctuary is in Patti, Sicily.

Prayer to Our Lady of Tindari in Sicilian – recited by the congregation after the mass:

Bedda ‘n terra
Bedda ‘n cielu
Bedda siti ‘n paradisu
Bedda assai, e’ lu Vostru visu.

(Bello sulla terra, Bello nel cielo, Bello Lei e in paradiso; Molto bello e la Sua faccia.)

(Beautiful on earth, beautiful in the sky, beautiful are you in paradise; most beautiful is your face)

St. Febronia of Nisibis. An early Christian nun martyred in Northern Mesopotamia under Diocletian, her cult spread over Constantinople in the 7th century to Sicily (an Eastern Roman possession ground around 530 to 840). She is venerated in Patti, among other places. The statue really should reside in the central niche of the altar, but had been removed for a procession.

The Madonna of Tindari – with the banner of the Society. it is hoped that this mass will be an important step towards the restoration and preservation of the chapel.

Some photos from the Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which was celebrated last Sunday at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk.

Evening Missa Cantata at Holy Innocents parish in New York on the Feast of of the Immaculate Conception. Father George Rutler is the celebrant.

On Saturday, December 13th at 10:00 a.m. there will be a Traditional Latin High Mass sung in honor of the feast of St. Lucy, at the Chapel of Santa Febronia at 557 5th Street, Hoboken, N.J., where her statue is venerated.

The Santa Febronia Chapel was founded in 1927 by immigrants from Patti, Sicily to honor their patroness the Virgin Martyr Saint Febronia and the Madonna of Tindari. The chapel, still the private property of the society, is one of the most important Sicilian American as well as Catholic heritage sites in the country due to its very unique history. The chapel both in its interior and exterior have been unchanged from its founding and its faux marble niched altar is a brilliant work of immigrant folk craftsmanship. The statues of Santa Febronia and Our Lady of Tindari are simply stunning.

This will be the first Traditional Mass held at the chapel since the Second Vatican Council. Proceeds from the collection will be used to restore the chapel basement destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.