Traditional Mass at Immaculate Conception Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York, for the Feast of Pentecost, celebrated by Father Richard Munkelt. Photo courtesty of Dennis DeVito

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).

Yesterday evening, Father Robert Boyd, FSSP, celebrated a Missa Cantata at Holy Family Chapel in Convent Station, NJ to honor Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, whose body is interred there. Blessed Miriam Teresa was beatified in 2014 and is New Jersey’s first blessed. Born in Bayonne, NJ in 1901, Teresa became a Sister of Charity in 1925. While still a novice, she wrote of series of conferences, which were published posthumously in a volume entitled Greater Perfection. According the the biographical sketch available in the chapel “Teresa’s life in religion was short but filled with much work and suffering of both body and soul. Like St. Therese of Lisieux, she apparently lived a long time in a short space. She died May 8, 1927.”

Holy Family Chapel, where yesterday’s mass took place, is on the campus of the College of St. Elizabeth next door to the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth.

The motherhouse, where Blessed Miriam Teresa lived as a novice.

Holy Family Chapel

The schola from Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, NJ

(Above and below) Blessed Miriam Teresa’s relics are interred in an octagonal wooden box, in what used to be a confessional in the transept. A guidebook to the chapel explains that she used to go to confession there. A Sister of Charity, (standing to the right of the reliquary)  explained about Teresa’s life.  The photo at the base of the reliquary shows Teresa in her college graduation photo before she entered the order.

The chapel is well preserved and has many fine details.

Holy Saturday at St. Mary’s, Norwalk CT.

Lumen Christi!

The Exsultet.

The Twelve Prophecies

Holy Thursday: The Mass.

Holy Thursday: The Procession

Holy Thursday: The Altar of Repose

Vespers and the Stripping of the Altar

At St. Paul the Apostle church, New York. Note the folded chasubles and the large boys’ choir (for which the sanctuary was specifically designed).

(From The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York by Joseph I. Malloy, CSP (1939?))

Palm Sunday at St. Mary’s, Norwalk: the Mass of the Palms

Distribution of the blessed palms.

The procession begins.

(Below) The entry into the church.

Continue to Part II

Continued from Part I

The Mass of the Passion. (Below) The reading of the Passion according to St. Matthew.

(Above and below) The reading of the Passion.

See Part I