This Sunday, October 14,  Fr. Paul Check, rector of the St. John Fisher Seminary Residence in Stamford, Connecticut will offer the 9:30 AM Solemn Traditional  Mass  at St. Mary’s, Norwalk, Connecticut, with the seminarians from Fisher House present in choro.   Fr. Check and seminarians then will attend the coffee hour after Mass.    Anyone interested in speaking with Fr. Check or the seminarians is encouraged to attend this Mass and coffee hour.    Fr. Check was in residence at St. Mary’s for a number of years before becoming rector of the seminary.

There will be a Traditional Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at 74 W Main St, Waterbury Ct on Saturday October 13th at 10am offered by Fr Greg Markey (high Mass).

The show must go on! – that seemed the watchword yesterday at the church of the Most Precious Blood Manhattan. Despite a seemingly endless series of challenges and glitches before, during and after the Mass, the Society’s Missa Cantata for the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows was celebrated with appropriate dignity (Fr.Richard Cipolla, celebrant) and with splendid music (the latter courtesy of Charles Weaver and associates). Our special thanks also to Fr. Christopher Salvatori who assisted and to Edwin Gonzales who stepped in as MC. This all took place before the largest congregation we have ever had the pleasure to greet at our Masses at Most Precious Blood. It’s an important sign for that church which very much remains on the Archdiocesan “endangered species” list. And it is heartening to see so many people in attendance for so many different reasons: the celebrate the feast, to see Fr Cipolla again, to hear the music or just because they wandered in from the San Gennaro Festival and stayed. Afterwards some of us – including many much younger than I who had assisted at the mass – gathered for a meal and companionship. It was a festive end to the day.

Fr Cipolla’s sermon can be found HERE

The reliquary of San Gennaro.

An image of the Madonna del Soccorso a Sciacca, on loan to the church. (Someone has found a good place to present  a petition to Her Son.)

St. Theresa Church in Trumbull, CT will celebrate its patronal feast day with a Mass in the Extraordinary Form, Sunday, September 30 at 2:30 pm.

Saint Agnes Church in New York will offer a Traditional Latin Mass in honor of Saint Michael the Archanagel on Saturday, September 29th at 10:30am.

Don’t forget: Saturday, September 15 at 11 AM a mass will be celebrated for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows at the Church of the Most Precious Blood on 113 Baxter Street in New York’s Little Italy. A time for reflection amid the San Gennaro festival – accompanied by rare Italian and 18th century Mexican orchestral music!

(Above and below) Images from the church of Our Lady of Sorrows on the lower East Side – including ceiling paintings which were in place by 1878.