More inspiring news from Brooklyn at the newly renovated Holy Name of Jesus church.

On October 11, 2014, Rev. Fr. Brandon P. O’Brien (Diocese of Rockville Centre) celebrated a Solemn High Mass at Holy Name of Jesus Church located in the Diocese of Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Jon Tveit was the Sub-Deacon and Mr. Eddy Toribio was the Master of Ceremonies. Among the clergy assisting in choir was the pastor, Rev. Fr. James K. Cunningham.

(Notice and photos courtesy of Mr. Arrys Ortanez)

At St. Mary Church in Greenwich, CT, on Friday, October 17th at 7:30 in the evening there will be a Solemn High Mass Votive Mass in honor of Pope St. Pius X commemorating the centenary his death.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 I 6:30 PM

TWELFTH ANNUAL SOLEMN
REQUIEM MASS
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem á 8) Duarte Lôbo (c. 1565-1646)
sung by the Schola Cantorum of Saint Agnes
James D. Wetzel, Organist and Choirmaster
The Church of Saint Agnes
143 East 43rd Street (between Lexington & Third Avenues) New York City

sponsored by the CATHOLIC ARTISTS SOCIETY, NEW YORK PURGATORIAL SOCIETY and the
SOCIETY OF SAINT HUGH OF CLUNY (stagneschurchnyc.org catholicartistssociety.org nypurgatorial.com sthughofcluny.org)

REMEMBER THE SOULS IN PURGATORY DURING NOVEMBER!


Mr. Arrys Ortanez reports:

“The Rite of Confirmation in the “traditional” form (EF) was celebrated by the Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, His Excellency, The Most Rev. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, at the chapel in St. John’s Cemetery in Queens, NY. Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Latin Mass) preceded the Confirmation Rite. Fr. James Massa, Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens was present in Choir and assisted at the Confirmations. Also assisting His Excellency, were Frs. Daniel Champoli and Joseph Wilson, who said Mass, both also priests of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. The Ceremony was amazing and moving. 26 young people were confirmed by His Excellency.” 1)

(All Photographs also curtesy of Mr.Arrys Ortanez.)

1) I would ask our Brooklyn correspondents if this style “The Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens” is in unofficial use? The diocesan website still uses the traditional “Diocese of Brooklyn” – SC.

At St. Theresa’s parish in Trumbull, Connecticut – the second Traditional Mass in just a few months. Fr. Brian Gannon, the pastor of st. Theresa’s was the celebrant; Fr. Shawn Cutler, parochial vicar at St. Theresa, was the deacon. Fr. Richard Cipolla, parochial vicar of St. Mary’s Norwalk, was the subdeacon. Mr. William Riccio was the Master of Ceremonies.

(above) St. Theresa’s is a 1961 structure of grand dimensions. It is one of the last great churches built before the fall – and much more successful than sister churches of that era. Mucb of the “pre-conciliar sanctuary survives. There is wood, there is stone and there is marble.The stained glass windows are not bad at all either!

The mass was for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary but the collect of the XVII Sunday after Pentecost was also read:
“Da, quaesumus, Domine, populo tuo diabolica vitare contagia……” How appropriate for these times!

A large congregation attended this liturgy.

Carolina Flores was choirmistress; Samuel Schmitt was the organist. The music included the “Missa de Beata Virgine” of Cristobal Morales and motets by Guerrero, Saint-Saens and Hassler. The gradual was a setting by William Byrd.

Window in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. I wonder how long that’s going to remain there?

If the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary is forever associated with the battle of Vienna in 1683, that of the Most Holy Rosary commemorates the battle of Lepanto, fought on October 7, 1571. How relevant to 2014! And how contradictory to the current pacifist teachings of Rome (which recently had to be adjusted – if unclearly – for ISIS).

In a church in Seville.

Schedule:

Sunday October 5(“External Solemnity”):

St. Mary, Norwalk, CT; Solemn High Mass 9:30 AM

St. Theresa, 5301 Main Street, Trumbull, CT. Solemn High Mass 2:30 PM.

Immaculate Conception, Sleepy Hollow, NY, low Mass, 3 pm.

Tuesday, October 7th:

Church of St. Casimir, Yonkers, Missa Cantata, 7 pm.   NB: St Casimir’s parish is also the site of the new Cardinal Neumann Classical school.

Today, in glorious weather, the Society of St Hugh of Cluny sponsored a Votive Mass of St Frances Xavier Cabrini at the saint’s shrine in Upper Manhattan. Fr Richard Cipolla was the celebrant; Fr Chris Salvatori was deacon. Music was provided by David Hughes (director and organist), Charles Weaver and Judith Malafronte(members of the schola of St. Mary’s, Norwalk CT). The music included the Mass for Three Voices of William Byrd.

(above) The high altar of the shrine as it appeared shortly after the shrine’s opening circa 1959. From a postcard still being sold today at the shrine! The massive communion rail with quotes from the Traditional Mass, however, remains.(Below) The high altar today, shorn of its tabernacle and many permanently affixed stone candlesticks. The clergy, master of ceremonies and other ministers adapted it with considerable ingenuity to the celebration of a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form.

Fr. Cipolla spoke in his homily of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, who represented an image of the Italian American entirely different from that of today, so often reduced to “three Godfather films, the Sopranos and bad food at a St. Gennaro festival.” She was the 11th and youngest child in her family, and at birth so frail that her imminent death was feared. Yet this was the woman who travelled all of the Americas, surmounting incredible difficulties and hostility – including sometimes from within the Church – to care for the often impoverished Italian immigrant masses. She was a saint who had to lead a life of unceasing practical work on behalf of the poor, a saint who could never be reduced to a figure of mawkish piety. But above all there is this overriding feature of her life and spirituality: despite her immense achievements in health care and education, she never lost sight of the fact that all these works are oriented to and subordinate to the spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.