St Dominic’s Parish,in Brick, New Jersey, offered at Solemn Mass for the Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14. This was the parish’s first Mass in the traditional rite since the implementation of the Novus Ordo, celebrated by the newly installed pastor, Fr Brian Woodrow, who is the liaison for the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Trenton. Servers and musicians came to help from St John the Baptist Parish in Allentown, New Jersey.

The Mass was attended by a larger number of people than expected, around 325-350 in all. The liturgy concluded with the hymn “Lift High the Cross” sung by all with great fervor, and was followed by a dinner convivium in the parish hall.

Future Traditional Latin Masses at St Dominic’s are currently being planned for particular feasts throughout the liturgical year.

These photos and text appeared in New Liturgical Movement.

Yesterday evening, the Academy of Sacred Drama performed a delightful oratio from the 17th century “Il Nascimento di Mose” (The Birth of Moses) by Vincenzio de Grandis. At least two of the performers were well known at St. Mary’s, Elizabeth and Charles Weaver, members of the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum.

Academy of Sacred Drama

We call to your attention a special concert of early music to be performed this Friday and Saturday night by the Academy of Sacred Drama.

de Grandis’s Il Nascimento di Mose (The Birth of Moses)

Fri, Sept 14 7:15 PM at St. Mary’s, Norwalk, CT
Sat, Sept 15 7:15 PM at Calvary Church, NYC

The Academy of Sacred Drama is a New York based ensemble dedicated to reviving the forgotten cultural treasure of sacred dramatic music. Il Nascimento di Mose (The Birth of Moses) is an oratorio composed in 1682, receiving its modern American premiere at these concerts.

If you live in Connecticut, this is an opportunity to hear this premier New York ensemble close by and free of charge, at St. Mary’s in Norwalk.

For more information about both concerts:  Academy of Sacred Drama     and our post

See our review of their spring concert:   Guiditta by Antonio Draghi,   performed at Corpus Christi Church, New York, pictured below.

THE ACADEMY OF SACRED DRAMA:
“THE BIRTH OF MOSES”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 AT 7:15 P.M.

The NYC-based Academy of Sacred Drama will perform the modern premiere
of the 1682 oratorio Il Nascimento di Mosè by Vincenzo de Grandis.

FREE ADMISSION
Followed by a light reception

Donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds benefiting the sacred music program, particularly future concerts.

St. Mary’s Church and the St. Cecilia Society are delighted to announce a special concert event featuring the New York–based Academy of Sacred Drama, on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 7:15 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 669 West Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut.

The Academy of Sacred Drama is an artistic and intellectual community dedicated to the exploration of the forgotten cultural treasures of sacred dramatic music. This program is the inaugural concert of the Academy’s incredibly ambitious Year of Moses, which features the modern American premieres of three Italian-Baroque oratorios (all with librettos by Giovanni Battista Giardini). More information about this season’s oratorios and salon concerts can be found at sacreddrama.org.

Vincenzo de Grandis’s 1682 oratorio Il Nascimento di Mosè (The Birth of Moses) was dedicated to Duke Francesco II of Modena, and was first performed for a Modenese audience at the oratory of San Carlo rotondo. Giardini’s libretto tells the harrowing story of Moses’s birth as a slave in Egypt, when the tyrannical Pharaoh, fearing the growing power of the Hebrews, had ordered that all male new-borns were to be thrown into the river Nile. The Academy’s performance will feature five voices and seven instrumentalists, as well as a brief talk at intermission about the original context of the oratorio.

Violinist Jeremy Rhizor, founder and director of the Academy of Sacred Drama, describes its music and its mission: “Seventeenth-century oratorio combined the tremendously popular music of the opera with stories chosen for the intellectual and spiritual enrichment of its listeners. The Academy continues this mission by uniting emotion, intellect, and community in presentations that incorporate great oratorios, contextual lectures, and community receptions. From the philosophical and storytelling lens of Baroque-era sacred dramatic music we learn from history, share the rich ideas and music of past ages, and re-imagine the place of art and music within our own communities.”

The concert will be performed in St. Mary’s Church at 7:15 p.m. Admission is free of charge, though donations will be gratefully accepted. All proceeds will benefit the sacred music program at St. Mary’s and make more concerts possible in the future. A light reception in the church hall (school building) will follow the concert.

A number of churches in the area will offer special Masses for celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14.

St. Patrick Church, Bridgeport, CT, Solemn Mass, 7:30 pm.

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 7:30 pm

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, CT,   on Sunday Sept. 16, 2 pm, Missa cantata, Fr. Peter Langevin, celebrant

Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, 7:30, Missa Cantata and Te Deum followed by an all night vigil.  Further information

Holy Name of Jesus Church, Brooklyn, NY, Missa Cantata, 7 pm

St Anthony Church, 1776 Mansion St., Bronx, at 7 pm: Solemn Mass for reparation for the sins of the Church for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

St. Dominic Church, Brick, NJ,  Solemn Mass, 7 pm. Sacred Music by the Schola Cantorum of St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ. Reception to follow Mass.

The following churches will offer traditional requiem Masses on Tuesday, September 11, for the victims of 9/11.

St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York, NY, 7 pm

St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church, 141 Washington Ave, Kearny, NJ, 7 pm

Below:  St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny, NJ: