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

Statue in the Asamkirche, Munich

Friday, March 17, The Feast of St. Patrick
On Friday, March 17, 4 pm, at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Center, NY, Fr. Ryan Creamer will offer a Sung High Mass (1962 Missal) on the feria Friday in Lent, the Commemoration of St. Patrick, Bishop and Confessor (III Classis). Organized and sponsored by the Sursum Corda Society.

Monday, March 20, The Feast of St. Joseph, transferred

Church of the Holy Innocents, 37th and Broadway, New York, Triduum in honor of St. Joseph (litany, novena, benediction), Saturday, March 18 following the 1PM mass, Sunday March 19 following the 10:30 mass, Monday March 20 following the 6PM mass,  St. Joseph’s table in the Church Hall

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine, New York, Missa Cantata, 8 pm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newark, Missa Cantata, 7 pm

St. Mary Church, Roslyn, NY, Missa Cantata, 7 pm

Saturday, March 25, The Feast of the Annunciation

See our schedule

This coming week,  St. Mary’s Church in Greenwich will hold Forty Hours Devotion.  Fr. John Perricone and Fr. Joseph Koterski will give conferences.

A Statement on the Current Situation of Sacred Music.

It is a important document, with many remarkable signatures attached.

Of course, Pope Francis, in the most significant paragraph of an address he gave last week on the same occasion (the 50th anniversary of the Instruction Musicam Sacram), had already essentially rejected the recommendedations of the above Statement:

“To facilitate this process,” Pope Francis said, “we need to promote proper musical education, especially for those who are preparing to become priests – in dialogue with the musical trends of our time, with the demands of the different cultural areas, and with an ecumenical attitude.”

Vatican Radio

See link

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/from-chapels-to-condos/