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Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Sung Mass of the Day, 10:30 AM

Solemn Mass for the Remission of Sins yesterday evening at St. Mary’s Norwalk. Fr. John Ringley was the celebrant, Fr. Michael Novajosky was Deacon and Fr. Tim Iannocone was the sub-deacon. The men’s chant choir, Viri Galilei, under the direction of David Hughes, sang the Missa Rex Splendens (Mass VII in the Vatican Gradual) Afterwards was a talk by Martin Mosebach.

Martin Mosebach, author of Heresy of Formlessness, speaking last night at the Union League Club in New York. A lively discussion on the state the the Church followed.
If you missed it, you have one more opportunity to hear him: tonight at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT. Solemn Mass of Reparation at 6 pm. Martin Mosebach at 7 pm in the church hall. Discussion and a reception will follow.

Olympia Council #394 of the Knights of Columbus sponsored a Solemn Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form at St. Ann Church in Flushing, Queens, commemorating the Council’s involvement in the WWI effort which included close relations with Fort Totten.

(Photos by Arrys Ortanez)

The stained glass window over the sanctuary of St. Ann Church is dedicated to  Knight of
Columbus  Joseph Stapleton, who gave his life in the service of his country, and his brother Ernest. Special thanks to Brian Hilley for organizing this special Mass.

Solemn Vespers according to the Traditional Latin Rite this evening at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk. Vespers are sung to the proper Gregorian chants by the parish men’s chant choir ‘Viri Galilaei’ on the first Sunday of every month at 5:00 p.m.

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.)

This afternoon St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, celebrated its patronal feast of the Assumption with a solemn Mass, a procession in the church and a celebratory parish dinner. Fr. John Ringley, who has arrived this summer as the new pastor, was the celebrant.

Today a Solemn Mass was celebrated at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Harlem, NY, for the Traditional Tridentine Latin Pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

This year the church celebrated its 134th Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Masses and celebrations all week.  In the program for the feast:  “As time goes by, the faces of the pilgrims may have changed, yet still they come as faithfully as they did in 1884.  Still the same questions, still the same entreaties, and still they have the same gratitude for their answered prayers.”

The Mass began with a penitential entrance of pilgrims on their knees, a long-time traditional at the church.

After Mass there was a Eucharistic procession and Benediction.

Photos of this past Sunday’s 9:30 am solemn Mass, Fr. Cipolla’s last as pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT. In the afternoon there was a festive reception held in his honor with surprise choral entertainment.