A brand new traditional Latin Mass has begun at Our Lady of Lourdes in Gales Ferry, CT. The Mass is offered each Sunday at 2  p.m. Currently it is a Low Mass, but they hope to begin at least an occasional Missa Cantata.

Gales Ferry is just north of New London.

The church’s website.

N.B.: There is also a Sunday Traditional Mass at 12 noon at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT, high Mass during the academic year, low Mass during the summer.

A reader reports:

“There is a new daily traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of New York. It is at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel:   daily Mass at 7:45 am Monday thru Saturday. There is a 10:30 sung Mass on Sundays. The weekday Mass is offered in a chapel on premises, but the Pallottine fathers would happily move the Mass to the main Church if attendance warrants it.”

Saint Mary Church in Greenwich will celebrate a Votive Mass of the Precious Blood in the Extraordinary Form on Friday, July 14th at 7:30 in the evening. On Wednesday, July 26th at 7:30 in the evening Mass will be celebrated for the Feast of Saint Ann.

Mass will be celebrated in the lower Church as the upper Church is currently being painted.

For those travelling in Massachusetts, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes is a good church to know about. We visited this church yesterday for the 10:30 am Sunday Traditional Mass. Well-attended, with an altar boy count to rival St. Mary’s Norwalk, and a choir that skillfully performed all of the ordinaries of the Palestrina Missa Sine Nomine (including the Credo). Close to the Massachusetts Pike and I-95—we’ll remember this church for our next trip.

The bulletin says this about the parish: “A canonically open parish of the Archdiocese of Boston, which has a Traditional Latin Masss apostolate. Both the ordinary form of the Roman Rite and the extraordinary form are celebrated here with the blessing of His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley.”  The church also offers daily Traditional Masses.

It’s a beautiful Roman-style church with exquisite stained glass windows.

Many windows are copies of familiar paintings—here is Raphael’s Sistine Madonna
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary with the church itself in the background.

St. Agnes

The maker of the windows, from Munich

We recently posted that there is daily  Traditional Mass (every day except  Tuesday and Friday)  at St. Paul’s Church in Yonkers at 12 noon.

We’ve now discovered that the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford offers a Traditional Low Mass every  Friday at 2 pm.

These Masses are not on the posted Mass schedule—you have to know about them.  It’s the value of reading this blog.

On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 7:30 PM in the evening, there will be a Traditional Latin Solemn High Mass, 1962 Missale Romanum for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles at the Pontifical Shrine and Parish Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manhattan.

Please join us as we pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis and the Bishops, Successors of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in their mission to draw all people to Christ and His Church.

Canon Jean Marie Moreau will be in the NJ/NY area. He will be celebrating the following Masses.

Tuesday, June 27th, 7:00 pm Mass
St. Anthony of Padua Oratory
West Orange, NJ

Wednesday, June 28th, 6:00 pm Mass
Holy Innocents Church
New York, NY

Following the Mass and novena, Canon Moreau will give a presentation in the parish hall about his work on the island of Mauritius.
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The Island of Mauritius lies in the Indian Ocean, east of the big island of Madagascar on the east coast of Africa and south of the Seychelles. Once part of the British Empire, it has remained a French and Creole speaking independent country. Mauritius is known for its natural beauty, pristine waters, luxurious hotels, and is in fact a first-class tourist and honeymoon destination. The flip side of it is unfortunately a great material and moral poverty – prostitution, drug problems and a lack of education.

The Catholic Church is on the forefront of social problems in a multi-religious and multicultural society: 51% are Hindus, 30% Catholics and Christians and 17% Muslims. However, Blessed Father Jacques Laval, a French Holy Ghost missionary priest beatified by Saint John Paul II in 1979 is seen as the saint and father of the whole Mauritian nation, regardless of religion.

The Bishop there, His Eminence Maurice Piat, was created a Cardinal by Pope Francis in October 2016. In August 2016, he had invited the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to serve in his diocese of Port- Louis. Canon Jean Marie Moreau was sent to take care of the pastoral needs of the sick at the civil hospital in the capital and two private clinics, as well as to serve the newly organized Latin Mass community.

A note from a reader, Chris Benischek:

Or nearly daily–Sunday, Monday, Wednesday Thursday and Saturday. Weekdays at Noon. High noon. Can’t get any simpler.

Two minutes off the Major Deegen Expressway, I-87 at 602 McLean Avenue in Yonkers.

St Paul’s Church, Fr. Leonard Villa.

I went yesterday and found two–TWO[!!]–good people in the congregation.

So we cry about no Latin Mass, and how do we support it day-to-day on a daily basis, would seem to be the question. How many folks homeschooling or otherwise are within a ten mile rdius or two or three county radius of this Church?

Let’s get it together, and get the word out?@@!! Many thanks,

In corde Christi,

Chris Benischek

P. S. Big patronal Feast of St Petter and Paul next week–Fr Villa is planning a sung solemn Mass. Same with this Sautrday on a smaller scale–sung Mass for St John. The true Summer Solstice/Bonfire celebration..

The Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, NY,  will be holding an all-night vigil this weekend.

Friday, June 23, 2017 – 6 PM – Saturday, June 24, 2017 6 AM

* 2nd Pro Life All Night Vigil for Nascent Life

6 PM – Confessions
7 PM – Stations of the Cross
7:30 PM – Veneration of the Holy Black Nazarene

8 PM – Traditional Latin Solemn High Mass 1962 Missale Romanum
for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Prayers and Silent Adoration All Night for the Sanctity of Human Life
from Conception to Natural Death

1 AM and 3:15 AM – Breaks for Refreshments

4 AM – Indoor Procession with and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

4:30 AM – Blessing of the Bonfire outdoors,
116th Street entrance and lighting of Candles
Glass candles will be sold throughout the night for $6 for this purpose

5 AM – Traditional Latin Sung Mass 1962 Missale Romanum
for the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

This Friday, June 23, is the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. These churches will offer the traditional mass.

Friday, June 23

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 7:30 pm, Solemn Mass, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Litany of the Sacred Heart, Act of Reparation and end with Solemn Benediction.

Holy Name of Jesus Church, Brooklyn, NY, Solemn Mass, 7 pm information

Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, East Harlem, NY, 8 pm, Solemn Mass. Followed by Exposition and All Night Vigil for Nascent Life; 4 AM – Indoor Procession and Benediction; 4:30 AM – Blessing of the bonfire 116th Street Entrance, weather permitting (otherwise, inside the church) more information

Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, 6 pm

Sunday, June 25 (External Feast)

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 9:30 am, Solemn Mass. (This will be the first mass of Rev. Timothy Iannacone, who is being ordained in Bridgeport the day before. First priestly blessings and a festive reception will follow in the church hall.) information

Also coming up: July 2, the Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus

Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood, Little Italy, NY, 5 pm, Solemn Mass, information