Only one week before Easter is left to make your confession.

(Street in the old town of Geneva, Switzerland)

Notizia importante per Roma!

Note:  This conference will be proceeded by  Solemn Traditional Vespers  at 5:30 PM. The location will be the magnificent setting of Old St.Patrick’s Cathedral/Basilica. See here for details.

Please be aware of the dress code of the Union League Club:  business attire . . . jackets for men, no jeans or sneakers

For more details about the conference  and the speakers, see here.

UPDATE: Loreto Publications, the American publisher of Prof. de Mattei’s history of Vatican II, will be selling the book at the conference. Don’t miss this chance to get your copy signed by the author!

There will be a Traditional Solemn Mass tonight at 7 pm at St. Denis Church, Yonkers, NY for  the Feast of St. Patrick.

Window of St. Patrick is at St. Columba Church, Manhattan.

This year the annual symposium founded and organized by Donald Reynolds in tribute to Rudolf Wittkower will take place on Friday, March 21, 2014 from 8:30am to 6pm.

The symposium will put a particular emphasis on the work and legacy of Patrick Charles Keeley, who was the architect of the Church of the Holy Innocents.

Everyone is encouraged to attend!

See more detailed information below, or visit: www.monumentsconservancy.org

PLACE: Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center
1271 Avenue of the Americas (at 50th Street)
Henry Luce Room, 2nd Floor
DATE: Friday, March 21, 2014
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Admission: Free. R.S.V.P. (212) 764-5645, Ext 10
E-Mail: symposium@nationalsculpture.org
SPEAKERS AT 2014 SYMPOSIUM
In order of appearance

Morning Session

DONALD M. REYNOLDS, Art Historian
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
ADDRESSING THE FAILURE OF RECORDED HISTORY

ROBERT MURPHY, Historian, North Haven, Connecticut
PATRICK CHARLES KEELY: THE ARCHITECT, THE MAN

MICHAEL DOYLE, FAIA, Principal, Acheson Doyle Partners Architects, New York City
RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH OF ST. BRIGID-ST. EMERIC

CHRISTOPHER ROME, PROJECT ARCHITECT, THOMAS A. FENNIMAN ARCHITECT, NEW YORK CITY
HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT ACCOMMODATES ITS MODERN PARISH THROUGH RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION

JASON LIVINGSTON, Principal, Studio T+L, LLC, Brooklyn, New York
PROPER LIGHTING BRINGS TO LIFE A FAMOUS MURAL AND A KEELY INTERIOR

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

EDWARD H. FUREY, Artist, Educator, Founder and President of The Keely Society, Enfield, CT
PATRICK CHARLES KEELY’S GLORIOUS ECCLESIASTICAL TREASURES OF LOWELL, MA

JOHN CANNING, Founder and Principal of John Canning Studios, Cheshire, CT
BRIDGING THE GAP WITH ST. PATRICK’S, NORWICH, CT, AND ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CLINTON, MA

DELMA TALLERICO, Independent Scholar, Author, Lecturer, Wexford, CT
KEELY CATHOLIC: IT’S BEGINNINGS AND ITS PROGRESSION

JEFF GREENE, Founder and President, EverGreene Architectural Arts, New York City
DECONSTRUCTING THE STYLE AND METHODS OF THE MASTER OF AMERICAN CATHOLIC ARCHITECTURE

PANEL DISCUSSION: Patrick Charles Keely at Convent Station
PENELISTS: Edward Furey, Moderator
Joseph DeMaria, AIA, Architect and Planner, Morristown, NJ
Delma Tallerico
Frank Greenagel: Author, Educator, Industrial Psychologist, Photographer, Phillipsburg, NJ
Randall Gabrielan, Monmouth County Historian, Author, Middletown, NJ,

Celebrating Diversity.

(Thanks to RM)

Courtesy of an Italian Website  and the Forum Catholique – 500 photos of the Novus Ordo.  (Well, almost 500 –  a perceptive reader has identified at least one Anglican service at Trinity Church right here in little old New York). But no need to worry!  After all, unlike the Traditional Mass all this is not a mere fashion that will go away…

ORIGINAL SOURCE.

DIRECT LINK to the pictures.

Thanks to CMdelaRocca and Le Forum Catholique.

“All over the country, buildings formerly owned by the Catholic Church are being repurposed.”

“The church’s divestment of buildings has been going on for a decade. Sometimes, there’s pushback from the parishes where divestment occurs, which in many cases supported the development and maintenance of those properties. NPQ would love to hear how other buildings sold by the Catholic Church are being put to new uses, and how the local parishes and community have responded”

From the “Nonprofit Quarterly’ HERE.

(Thanks to Roger McCaffrey)

The Old Altar: “God forgive me, but I hope the ones responsible for that altar are still in purgatory.”

The “new” Altar – from a destroyed church.
PHOTOS: ANDREW THEODORAKIS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
 

The restoration of a Brooklyn church….

And an Article in the New York Daily News about it.

We rejoice at the restoration of a Brooklyn church and at the rediscovery of the sense of the sacred and of the artistic heritage of Catholic Tradition underlying it.

“But when I heard how many people had strayed from Holy Name because of the modern altar, I got on board. It would be part of the evangelization of Windsor Terrace.” (The pastor of Holy Name parish)

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/new-altar-brooklyn-church-article-1.1581425#ixzz2qoVn9G7Y

Yet me must not forget that this success comes at a bitter cost: that altar came from a historic Brooklyn church recently destroyed. And sold to developers for a great sum.

(Thanks to Prof. Walter Petrovitz)