Fr. G. Fluet will be offering a low Mass in the Extraordinary Form at Saint Bridget of Kildare in Moodus on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel July 16 at 7:30 AM (morning).

The Society will be sponsoring a sung mass and address by Fr.U.M. Lang at St. Mary’s Norwalk on Wednesday, August 19. The mass will begin at 7:00 PM. We will provide further details of Fr. Lang’s lecture and of the mas shortly. Most of us remember Fr. Lang’s informative presentation he gave when he visited the New York area with Martin Mosebach in the fall of 2007.

The setting: one of the most sumptuous churches in New York. With an extraordinary altar designed for the devotion of Perpetual Adoration originally promoted by the founding order (the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament).

The very large church was full….

The Procession.

At the altar.

The incensation of the altar.

Before the Gospel.

The Sermon.

At the Creed.

The magnificent vestments – which I understand belong to this church.

Domine non sum dignus…

Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan will be the celebrant at Solemn Pontifical Vespers and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Extraordinary Form) at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Connecticut on Sunday, June 21 at 5:00 pm. It will be five-cope Vespers, meaning that in addition to the bishop, there will be four Assistant Priests. Each intones one of the five psalms.

Bishop Rifan is the Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Apostolic Administration of St. John Mary Vianney in Campos, Brazil. These Vespers mark the conclusion of a novena of Masses in New York City that is being sponsored by the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart.
information on the novena of Masses

The music, to be performed by the Schola Cantorum of St. Mary Church under the direction of David Hughes, will be as follows:
Prelude: Variations sur Lucis Creator (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)
Lucis Creator optime (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Magnificat sexti toni (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-c.1562)
Salve Regina (Martin de Rivaflecha, 1470-1528)
O Salutaris Hostia (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Tantum ergo (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Prière d’action de grâces (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)

directions to St. Mary’s

Some pictures of today’s celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi at St. Mary’s Norwalk. The Blessed Sacrament was exposed during the celebration of the mass.

The monstrance is veiled during the sermon.

The Mass.

Preparing for the procession.

The Procession.

Through the streets of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Benediction at the altar outside the Church.

Benediction at the conclusion of the procession.

On Sunday, June 21 at 5:00 PM solemn vespers according to the Extraordinary Form will be sung at St Mary’s, Norwalk in the presence of Bishop Fernando Rifan.

This coming Friday, June 5th, 2009 there will be a Solemn Mass at the Church of the Guardian Angel (West 21rd Street and 10th Avenue) at 6:30PM. This Solemn Mass will be part of the nine Masses to promote devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Mass of that day will be Ember Friday of Pentecost. This event is organized by the Oratory of the Sacred Heart.
for more information

Fr. Robert Boyd, a priest at St. Mary’s who has celebrated the Traditional Mass at many area churches, will be leaving the Diocese of Bridgeport at the end of June in order to enter the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. Fortunately, he will not be traveling far, as he will be assigned to the Our Lady of Fatima Chapel in Pequannock, New Jersey, beginning in July. Fr. Boyd will offer his last Mass as a priest at St. Mary’s on Sunday, June 21 at 9:30. This will be, as usual, a Solemn High Mass. A reception will follow in Msgr. Hajus Hall hosted by the Legion of Mary, an organization he started in the parish.

Our picture of Fr. Boyd was taken at his first celebration of the Traditional Mass, at St. Mary Church, Greenwich on September 14, 2007, which he celebrated in thanksgiving for the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. cf. http://hughofcluny.blogspot.com/2007/09/traditional-mass-celebrated-in.html

The will be an outdoor procession with Our Lord’s True Presence at the end of the 9:30 Solemn High Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Sunday, June 14th, closing with benediction. A coffee hour will follow in the church hall.

Our photo was taken at last year’s procession.

At Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City there will be a Missa Cantata on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, at 10:00 a.m. The music will include Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo with string accompaniment and Gregorian chant propers.