Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, is visiting numerous churches in the Northeast this month. All masses listed here are traditional masses. (The photo shows Bishop Schneider during a Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk on January 6, 2013)

For a full schedule including Pennsylvania, Washington DC and Ohio: Schedule

Berlin, NJ:

Sunday, 23 October 2016, 10:30 AM
Solemn Pontifical Mass & Conference, Mater Ecclesiae Church information

Manhattan:  

Monday, 24 October 2016, 6:00 PM
Solemn Pontifical Mass, Church of the Holy Innocents

Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 6:00 PM
Pontifical Low Mass & Conference, Church of the Holy Innocents

THE ENGLISH MARTYRS VIEWED FROM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE
By Joanna Bogle

Where? Holy Innocents Church, Broadway and 37th Street, Manhattan

When? Monday, October 17, 7:00 p.m., following the 6:00 p.m. Mass

For whom? Open to the public.

The Presenter
Joanna Bogle is an author, journalist and broadcaster working in London. Her books include several historical biographies, and “A Book of Seasons and Celebrations” explaining the traditions and customs associated with the Church’s year. She leads Catholic History Walks around London, and lectures regularly to schools, colleges, historical societies and Catholic and community groups. A regular broadcaster with EWTN, she writes for a range of newspapers and magazines in Britain and elsewhere, and is chairman of Christian Projects, an ecumenical group organizing Scripture-based projects for schools across Britain. She lives in London with her husband, who is a barrister.

For the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer on November 7th, the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer will be joined by a band of Renaissance wind instruments: shawms, sackbuts, and dulcians. These instruments are the ancestors of the modern oboe, trombone, and bassoon. While this type of accompaniment was a frequent practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is seldom experienced today in liturgical use and will lend special solemnity to this occasion.

Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), a Renaissance composer from the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, spent most of his life as a Carmelite in residence at the Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Lisbon. He published extensively, often with through the beneficence of his friend King John IV, although much of his music was lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

Cardoso’s Missa pro defunctis a 6 is a masterwork of technical precision and emotive power, with many stylistic similarities with his two older contemporaries, Victoria and Palestrina. Much more so than in the Roman tradition, Iberian polyphony was often accompanied by instruments, and records from Cardoso’s own convent indicate that this was the case there.

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT will offer a traditional mass on Friday October 7 at 7:30 pm to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Benediction and adoration will follow.

St. Aloysius Church, 935 Bennetts Mill Road, Jackson, NJ will offer a Solemn Mass on October 7 at 7 pm.  More information at www.latinmasstrenton.org

The image of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York.

Tonight the New York Purgatorial Society will offer its monthly Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite at 7 pm. Please note the new location: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 869 Lexington Ave., New York.

On Thursday, September 29th, in honor of the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, there will be celebrated a Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Church of the Most Precious Blood located in New York City’s Little Italy. The intention of the Mass will be for the spiritual and physical well being of all police and law enforcement officers. This Mass and the Mass at Holy Innocents at 6:00 p.m. will make for two Solemn Traditional Latin Masses being celebrated almost simultaneously a few short miles from each other in Manhattan, and such an occurrence, just a few short years ago, would have seemed impossible.

(A friend of the blog provides a comparison of the recently released 2015 statistics with the three prior years.)