Holy Name of Jesus Church will be celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus this Friday night, June 23rd at 7:00pm. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the day requested by our Lord – the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi or 19 days after Pentecost Sunday. There is ample parking in the church lot.

Here is a note from the Latin Mass Choir Director about the music featured in Friday’s Mass:

“Music has it’s own tradition, which is deeply tied to the Traditional Catholic Church. Particularly Gregorian Chant, with its long modal lines expressing the sober realities and depth of the True Faith. During the Renaissance, chant continued to hold it’s rightful place as multiple voices were added to it and thereby raising the level of inspiration to exordinary heights. Today, as Traditionalism regains it’s rightful place, so too does music emerge to give added meaning to our spiritual life.

Six singers, the best of the best that New York City offers, will sing chant and polyphony as the Church has so gloriously done in the past for the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Mass setting is by David Adam Smith, as well as the offertory motet. At communion the anonymous hymn “Cor_dulce” in three voices will be sung, as well as appointed palms.”

Mrs. Mildred Perricone, mother of Fr. John Perricone, passed away on June 17. A Solemn High Requiem Mass will be said Tuesday, 11am at St. Anthony’s Church in Jersey City

The Reverend Mister Timothy Iannacone will be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Bridgeport this Saturday, June 24th at 11 am in St. Augustine’s Cathedral in Bridgeport.

He will celebrate his first Mass the following day, Sunday June 25,  a Solemn Mass in the extraordinary form, at 9:30 am at St Mary Church, Norwalk.  First priestly blessings and a festive reception will follow in the church hall.

Deacon Iannacone is pictured in the center of this photo from the recent Confirmation Mass at St. Mary’s

Next Thursday, June 15th at 7 pm, in honor of the Feast of Corpus Christi, there will be the first Traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of Peace Church in Fords, N.J will be celebrated since Vatican II. Come support this great endeavor for the Greater Glory of God.  (Fords is in Middlesex County, near Woodbridge and Edison)

This weekend a major relic of Saint Anthony of Padua will visit Saint Mary Parish in Greenwich, CT.   The relic will arrive on Saturday, June 10 at 12 noon and remain until after the 5:15 evening Mass on Sunday, June 11th.

On Sunday, June 11 at 3 PM there will be  a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form.   A Franciscan Friar from Padua will preach about the Saint.

Our photo shows a relic of St. Anthony on a visit to the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, Stamford, last June during a Solemn Mass.  link

On May 27 Bishop Frank J. Caggiano administered the sacrament of confirmation in the  in the Traditional rite to  more than 40 young men and women of St. Mary’s parish, Norwalk CT.

(Above) Fathers Paul N. Check and Joseph Gill served as chaplains to the Bishop of Bridgeport.

(Above and below) A Solemn Mass in the presence of Bishop Caggiano followed administration of the sacrament of confirmation. The celebrant of the Solemn Mass was the pastor of St. Mary’s, Father Richard Cipolla; the deacon was Timothy Iannacone and the subdeacon William Riccio, Jr.

John Pia was master of ceremonies; David Hughes directed the music (which included the “Missa Octavi Toni” by Orlande de Lassus).

Friday, May 26 is the Feast of St. Philip Neri. St Mary Church, Greenwich, CT will have a Solemn Mass at 7:30 pm.