What is it? See HERE.

As many of you know, Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, who has served this past year at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, is seriously ill.  We offer to you this letter from Father Boquet, the Director of Human Life International, the organization that Msgr. Barreiro served for many years:
“Dear HLI Family,

I need to ask you something. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, who faithfully served Human Life International for over twenty-one years, is in need of our prayers.

Monsignor, who has been courageously battling cancer for over five years, is seriously ill and may be reaching the end of his earthly journey. He is receiving great care from a religious congregation of Sisters dedicated to the care of the sick and dying.

In our last conversation, I assured Monsignor of our prayers. He said in response, “What is important for me is to prepare myself to meet Jesus and prayers are particularly needed to be properly disposed.”

Please join me during these solemn days of Holy Week in prayer for Monsignor and for all who are ill and dying.

Thank you and God bless you,

Father Boquet”

Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Harlem, New York, Fr. Christopher Salvatori, Celebrant (courtesy of Father Salvatori)

St. Michael’s Russian Catholic Chapel, New York (courtesy of St. Michael’s)

St. Anthony of Padua Church, Jersey City (courtesy of Juventutem Jersey City)

Above and below: April 7, Solemn Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows at Most Precious Blood Church, New York, Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio, celebrant, Fr. Christopher Salvatori, deacon (courtesy of Diana Yuan)

St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk will be having a full traditional Holy Week schedule—the traditional liturgy every day on the week.  If you have never been to St. Mary’s for Holy Week, we urge you to consider attending this year.

To give you a taste for it, we offer to you a video of photos from Holy Week last year. ( The musical setting is the Agnus Dei from William Rasar’s mass “Christe Jesu” recorded by the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum and due to be released in a CD in a few weeks.)

Video:  Holy Week at St. Mary’s Norwalk

St. Mary’s Holy Week Schedule posted here:  link

Video courtesy of Elizabeth Weaver.

(Above) A scene from one of the (outdoor) stations of the cross in Bamberg, Germany. Dating to 1503, these are the oldest preserved stations of the cross in Germany.

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT

Palm Sunday, Solemn Mass with Procession, 9:30 am
Monday in Holy Week, Latin Mass 8 am
Tuesday in Holy Week, Latin Mass, 8 am
Wednesday in Holy Week, 8 am Latin Mass, 7 pm Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday
Holy Thursday, 7 pm Solemn Mass of the Last Supper; 8:30 pm Vespers and Stripping of altars; 9 pm, pilgrimage to the seven churches of Norwalk; all night vigil of the Blessed Sacrament in repose until noon
Good Friday: 8 am, Matins and Lauds of Good Friday; 3 pm Good Friday Liturgy; 7 pm outdoor Good Friday procession and burial with Compline,  followed by all-night vigil (9 pm-noon)
Holy Saturday, 8:00 am Matins and Lauds; 7 pm Easter Vigil Mass; 10 pm Festive Reception
Easter Sunday, 9:30 am Solemn Mass

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven

Palm Sunday, Missa Cantata, 2pm
Good Friday, noon
Easter Sunday, Missa Cantata, 2 pm

St. Martha, Enfield, CT
Palm Sunday, 12 noon
Easter Sunday, 12 noon

Holy Apostles College, Cromwell, CT

Palm Sunday, low Mass, 12:15
Easter Sunday, Missa Cantata, noon
Low Sunday (April 23), 8 am

Holy Innocents Church, New York

Palm Sunday (April 9):Low Mass: 9am, Solemn Mass (blessing & Procession of palms): 12:30pm, Sung Vespers & Benediction at 2:30, Confessions: 9:45-10:30am & 12noon-1:30pm

Monday in Holy Week: Low Mass: 8am and 6pm,  Confessions: 7:30-8:30am; 12noon-1:30pm; & 3:00-9:00pm

Tuesday in Holy Week, Low Mass: 8am and 6pm,  Confessions: 7:30-8:30am; 12noon-1:30pm; & 5:15-5:35pm

Spy Wednesday,  Low Mass: 8am and 6pm,  Office of Tenebræ: 7:30pm,  Confessions: 7:30-8:30am; 12noon-1:30pm; & 5:15-5:35pm

Holy “Maundy” Thursday,  Solemn Mass: 6pm with procession to the Altar of Repose, followed by all night adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the Repository, Confessions: 7:30-8:30am; 12noon-1:30pm; & 5:15-5:35pm

Good Friday,  Stations of the Cross: 11:15am and 5:15pm,  Three Hours Agony Devotions: 7 Last Words of Christ preached by the Rev. Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas at 12 noon,   Solemn Mass of the Pre-Sanctified: 3pm, Confessions: 7:30-8:30am; 12noon-1:30pm; & 5:15-5:35pm

Holy Saturday,  Church will open at 9am for veneration of the Cross and visits to the Lord’s Tomb,  Confessions: 12noon-1:30pm & 3:00-4:00pm, Solemn Easter Vigil Mass: 6pm.  A very festive reception will take place after the Mass in the parish hall.

Easter Sunday,  Low Mass: 9am,   Solemn Mass: 10:30am,  Sung Vespers & Benediction: 2:30pm,  Confessions: 9:45-10:30am & 12noon-1:30pm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine, New York

Sunday, April 9, 2017 – Palm Sunday , 10:20 AM – Blessing & Distribution of Palms, Procession and High Mass
Easter Sunday, 10:20 AM – High Mass

St. Agnes Church, New York

Palm Sunday, Missa Cantata, 11 am
Easter Sunday, Solemn Mass, 11 am

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY

Palm Sunday, 3 pm, Missa Cantata, includes blessing, procession and chanting of the Passion of the Lord
Easter Sunday, 1:30 pm (please note earlier time), Missa Cantata

St. Anthony of Padua, Jersey City

Palm Sunday Missa Cantata, 9 am
Spy Wednesday, 7:30 pm, Office of Tenebrae
Holy Thursday  5:30 pm, Missa Vespertina in Cena Domini, Solemn Eucharistic Procession to the Alter of Repose
Good Friday, 5 pm, Commemoration of the Passion and Death of the Lord
Easter Vigil and Mass, April 15, 10 pm
Easter Sunday, Low Mass 9am

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark

Holy Thursday, Missa Cantata, 7 pm, followed by a holy hour. The church will remain open until 12 midnight.

The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary’s, Norwalk
is proud to announce the professional recording debut of our own Schola Cantorum!
Lux Fulgebit, featuring the world premiere recording of William Rasar’s Mass Christe Jesu, will be available for purchase beginning on Low Sunday.

CD Release Party: Sunday, April 23, 2017, 4:00-5:30 p.m., St. Mary Parish Hall, Norwalk, CT
Hosted by David Hughes, Director of Music, and featuring a performance by the Schola Cantorum of excerpts from the CD.

What music is included on the CD?
The CD is the “soundtrack” of a sung Mass as it is done at St. Mary’s, Norwalk on Sundays and feast days. Everything musical that takes place in the Mass is included, from the bells to the organ, the chant, and the choral polyphony. The readings and chants all come from the Mass at Dawn of Christmas Day, and the polyphony featured is the Mass Christe Jesu by William Rasar, with motets by William Byrd, Alfonso Ferrabosco, and Walter Lambe.

What is the Mass Christe Jesu?
The Mass Christe Jesu is a sixteenth-century English setting of the Mass Ordinary for five voices, which is found complete in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (Bodleian Library) and incomplete in the Peterhouse partbooks (Cambridge University Library). It is the only extant composition of William Rasar, and is of very high musical quality. The model of the Mass is unknown or lost, and there are a couple of other features of the Mass that are unusual for the period: the entire text of the Gloria and Credo are set, and the Mass is entirely in duple meter.

Funeral Arrangements for Msgr. Barriero:  Monday, April 17, viewing in St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, all afternoon from 1 pm, Vespers of the Dead, 8 pm;  Tuesday, April 18, 11 am, Solemn Requiem Mass.  Obituary

Wed. Apr. 19, 7 pm, Missa Cantata, Easter Wednesday, St. Mary Church, Roslyn Harbor, NY, information
Fri. Apr. 21, 7 pm, Solemn Mass, Easter Friday, St. Stephen Church, Kearny, NJ, information
Sat. Apr. 22, 10 am-3pm, Classical Studies Conference, Montfort Academy, Mt. Vernon, NY, information
Sun. Apr. 23, 4-5:30 pm,  St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum CD Release Party, St. Mary Church, Norwalk, information
Sat. Apr. 29, 5 pm, Solemn Mass, St. Francis of Paola Church,  Williamsburgh, Brooklyn in Honor of St. Francis of Paola. information
Sun. May 7, 2-4 pm, Schola Cantorum of St. Mary Norwalk Concert at Lockwood Matthews Mansion, Norwalk, information

Stained glass window in St. Thomas More Church, New York

From  Prof. Luc Perrin:

“Once bitten, twice shy.”

We will rejoice greatly the day canonical recognition (of the FSSPX) will be proclaimed in Rome.

But already in 2012 all the traffic lights appeared green and indeed an agreement was imminent in May/June of that year. But it evaporated after a completely foreseeable offensive from cardinals of the curia erupted in the plenary sessions of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Since 2016 under Pope Francis many lights are also green but one is not at all safe from a 2012-style coup de Jarnac (a mortal, insidious blow – referring to a famous duel in 1547). Undoubtedly, though, the pressure exerted on the pope by bishops and cardinals regarding separated Traditionalists is less strong today. For the crises have so greatly multiplied since 2013 that the sensitive character of the regularization of the FSSPX has been put into perspective. When a great forest fire menaces the house, it appears a lot less critical whether a portrait of Msgr. Lefebvre should be hung in a corner of the living room….

Source: Le Forum Catholique