The events at St. Mary’s Greenwich include a Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at 7:30 pm on Wed. May 4, with Fr. George Rutler as homilist.

For the “Year of Mercy.” The pilgrimage started with a procession through an adjacent city park. Unfortunately it seems that most of the park’s many cherry trees had already bloomed.

The pilgrims conclude their walk on a rainy day with the recitation of the Rosary before the cathedral.

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Newark, begun in 1899 and completed in 1954, is one of the largest in North America. Regrettably it attracts few visitors nowadays, primarily because of security concerns, although it is very easy to reach from main roads and parking is abundant. The cathedral was eventually completed in a style derived from 13th century French Gothic cathedrals with an admixture of other elements. For example, the towers, angled to the facade, are reminiscent of those of the church of Ingolstadt, Germany (15th century)

The cathedral is remarkable for the superabundance of sculptural detail, woodcarving, fine metal work and stained glass. The stained glass, from Munich Germany, was the largest order that the Franz Zettel firm of Munich ever received. (Along with the Mayer firm (with which it eventually merged) Franz Zettel supplied innumerable American churches with stained glass into the 1950’s.

(Below) Even the stands to hold restraining ropes are elaborately detailed!

(Above) The cathedral has three rose windows, including the second largest in North America (after that of St. John the Divine in New York)

(Below) Greeted by chant from within the cathedral, the pilgrimage procession enters through the “holy door.”

(Above and below) The pilgrimage was greeted and then blessed by Archbishop Myers. It is a far cry from the reception Traditionalists used to receive in Catholic Cathedrals(one thinks of the earlier years of the Chartres pilgrimage – both in Chartres and Paris)

(above) A large congregation was in attendance.

(Above) Canon Jean-Marie Moreau, ICRSS, was celebrant, homilist and leader of the pilgrimage

(Above) A photo op for the assembled liturgical forces.

(above and below) David Hughes led the musical forces from the sanctuary.

At the procession: Improvisation
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady in Paschaltide: Salve sancta parens
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (with versets after Victoria)
Motet at the Communion: Beata viscera (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

As at the annual Chartres pilgrimage, the Newark pilgrimage for the year of mercy concluded with the singing of “Chez Nous soyez Reine.”

Traditional Latin Requiem Mass Scheduled for Mother Angelica of EWTN-TV Fame…
JERSEY CITY – The Latin Mass Community of Jersey City announces the celebration of a Month’s Mind Requiem Mass for Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA who died on Easter Sunday. The Month’s Mind Mass will take place on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00PM at historic St. Anthony of Padua Church located in the downtown section of the city.
Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo in Canton, Ohio on April 20, 1923. She entered the contemplative Franciscan Order of Poor Clares in 1944 and was best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.
In 1981, Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage on the grounds of her monastery in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media. Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death at age 92 on March 27, 2016.
The Month’s Mind Mass refers to the traditional practice of offering a Mass for the dead thirty days after the person’s death or burial for the repose of his soul. The Traditional Requiem differs significantly from what most Catholics experience when attending Funerals Masses today. Besides the use of Latin those in attendance will immediately notice the color of the vestments worn by the priest are black, not white and the Mass is celebrated at the main altar while facing Liturgical East. At the end of Mass there is a final blessing at the catafalque which is a coffin-like object surrounded by candles representing the deceased.
The celebrant of the Mass is Rev. Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D. who worked with Mother Angelica when producing a series for EWTN. The resident choir, Cantantes in Cordibus will sing the beautiful Renaissance Requiem Mass by the Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales. Mass Programs in Latin and English will be available for the congregation

At Holy Innocents parish, New York (Canon Jean -Marie Moreau, ICRSS, celebrant)

..in a Solemn High Nuptial Mass. With music by Mozart.  At St. Mary’s, Norwalk, today.

On Monday, April 4 at 7:30 in the evening there will be a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation at:

Saint Mary Church
178 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, Connecticut
06830

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