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

Photos from a reception for Manfred Honeck, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony following his lecture “Faith in Music” at the Catholic Center at NYU. This event was sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Catholic Artists Society.

Traditional Mass on Easter Sunday at Regina Pacis Chapel, Maywood, NJ, Fr. Charez Gringco celebrant. Photos courtesy of the Bergen Latin Mass Group.

Vidi Aquam:

The Blessing of the Baptismal Water.

The Aspersion of the congregation.

(There were no baptisms this evening)

Administration of the Sacrament of Confirmation:

The Litany:

The Mass:

The preparation of the Sanctuary.

The unveiling of the Images.

(Above) Alleluia!

And a festive reception afterwards:

The new fire.

The deacon changes into the white dalmatic of joy.

Lumen Christi!

The Exsultet.

The Chanting of the Twelve Prophecies:

(Above)Procession to the Baptismal font.

St. Michael’s Russian Catholic Church

(Courtesy of Walter Petrovitz and Mauro Carrasco)

The Procession of the Dead Christ.

The Burial of the Body of Christ – The Office of Compline

The vigil before the sepulcher continues throughout the night.

(Above and below) New Vestments – the folded chasubles courtesy of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny

(Above and below) The singing of the Passion

THE ANNUNCIATION AND PASSION.
by John Donne

TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-day
My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.
She sees Him man, so like God made in this,
That of them both a circle emblem is,
Whose first and last concur ; this doubtful day
Of feast or fast, Christ came, and went away ;
She sees Him nothing, twice at once, who’s all ;
She sees a cedar plant itself, and fall ;
Her Maker put to making, and the head
Of life at once not yet alive, yet dead ;
She sees at once the Virgin Mother stay
Reclused at home, public at Golgotha ;
Sad and rejoiced she’s seen at once, and seen
At almost fifty, and at scarce fifteen ;
At once a son is promised her, and gone ;
Gabriell gives Christ to her, He her to John ;
Not fully a mother, she’s in orbity ;
At once receiver and the legacy.
All this, and all between, this day hath shown,
Th’ abridgement of Christ’s story, which makes one—
As in plain maps, the furthest west is east—
Of th’ angels Ave, and Consummatum est.
How well the Church, God’s Court of Faculties,
Deals, in sometimes, and seldom joining these.
As by the self-fix’d Pole we never do
Direct our course, but the next star thereto,
Which shows where th’other is, and which we say
—Because it strays not far—doth never stray,
So God by His Church, nearest to him, we know,
And stand firm, if we by her motion go.
His Spirit, as His fiery pillar, doth
Lead, and His Church, as cloud ; to one end both.
This Church by letting those days join, hath shown
Death and conception in mankind is one ;
Or ’twas in Him the same humility,
That He would be a man, and leave to be ;
Or as creation He hath made, as God,
With the last judgment but one period,
His imitating spouse would join in one
Manhood’s extremes ; He shall come, He is gone ;
Or as though one blood drop, which thence did fall,
Accepted, would have served, He yet shed all,
So though the least of His pains, deeds, or words,
Would busy a life, she all this day affords.
This treasure then, in gross, my soul, uplay,
And in my life retail it every day.

(in 1608, as in 2016, the Annunciation and Good Friday fell on the same day)

(Above) Flectamus Genua

(2 above and 2 below) Ecce Lignum Crucis

(Above) the Adoration of the Holy Cross

(Above) Vexilla Regis prodeunt

The Mass

(above) Ringing of bells at the Gloria.

The Procession

The Altar of Repose

The Stripping of the Altar