Father Jon Tveit will celebrate the following Traditional Masses to mark his 10th anniversary of ordination:
Sunday, May 24: Annunciation Church in Crestwood, NY, Solemn Mass, 2 pm, convivium to follow
Saturday, May 30, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New Rochelle, NY, 12 noon, Ember Saturday Solemn Mass
10 May
2026
This Thursday, May 14, is Ascension Thursday, a Holy Day of Obligation. The following churches will offer the Traditional Mass.
If you know of a Mass that is not on our schedule, please contact us so that we can add it.
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, low Mass 8 am; Solemn Mass 7 pm
Georgetown Oratory of the Most Sacred Heart, Redding, Missa Cantata, 6 pm
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, low Mass 7:45 am; high Mass, 6 pm
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, low Mass 8 am; high Mass 6 pm preceded by Benediction
St. Martha Church, Enfield, 7 pm
New York
Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, NY Low Mass 8 am; High Mass 6 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 7 pm
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 am Low Mass (Confession after Mass); 6 pm Eucharistic Holy Hour (Confession will be heard during adoration); 7 pm High Mass
St. Rocco Church, Glen Cove, Long Island, 7 pm
St. Matthew Church, Dix Hills, Long Island, 10:30 am
St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 12 noon
Annunciation Church, Crestwood, Missa Cantata 7 pm
Immaculate Conception, Sleepy Hollow, low Mass, 5 pm
Sacred Heart, Esopus, 11:30 am
St. Mary and St. Andrew, Ellenville, 7 pm
St Joseph’s, Troy, 5:30 pm. Carmelite Rite.
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, High Mass, 7 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, Missa Cantata, 7 pm
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 7 am, 9 am, 12 noon, 7 pm
St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, Low Mass 9 am; HIgh Mass 7 pm
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 7 pm
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, High Mass 7 pm
CREW is a Catholic Leadership Program that serves teens in the greater Danbury area and brings community, tradition, and the Traditional Mass to teens who would otherwise never have access to or experience it.
“The program will display the dizzying range of music that coexisted in one place a one time.”
Cifras nuevas presents music from the 16th and 17th centuries for the duo of harp and guitar or vihuela. Widely attested to in European iconography and Latin American folkloric traditions, this combination of instruments performed music ranging from ornamented canto llano to dances of African origin. The first half of our program will feature sacred works and instrumental fantasies from the 16th century, including Luis Venegas de Henestrosa’s setting of the “Ave maris stella.” The second half will explore the preludes and dances of the 17th century, spotlighting the dual influences of Italian harmonic innovations and the rhythms of Spain’s colonial possessions.
28 Mar
2026
(Above) Raphael: The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia. From Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale (at the Exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry)
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 29–June 28, 2026
The Metropolitan Museum has just opened a new exhibition on Raphael. Now Raphael Sanzio has been, even in his own lifetime and up to the present day, one of the most famous artists who ever lived. This exhibition collects many paintings and drawings of the artist. It’s a unique opportunity to study the artist’s development as well as the development of his individual works of art based on this unique juxtaposition of works from all over the world.
Now Raphael’s time (he died in 1520 at just 37 years of age) was of course a unique culmination of Renaissance and Western art. It was the age of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Giorgione, Bellini, and Titian, among many others. Raphael at an early age showed a complete mastery of the technical handicraft of art. But early on he also showed a unique organizational talent and an ability to receive and understand contributions of others which he incorporated creatively into his style.
Raphael’s career reached its apogee in the Rome of Popes Julius II and Leo X, where he found appropriate challenges for his artistic genius. As time went on the commissions grew ever larger and he was able to meet the situation by assembling and managing a well-trained workshop. A true universal genius of the Renaissance, Raphael later had a role in the planning of the new basilica of Saint Peter. Moreover, he was able to work with artists in other media, creating influential works that for centuries diffused his style all over Europe (the prints of Raimondi; the great tapestries for which Raphael prepared the cartoons). All this can be seen in this exhibition.
But Raphael was not merely an exemplar of a static, “canonized” art. In his interactions with the art of Leonardo or Michelangelo he was already laying the foundations for further developments. Especially his later frescoes introduce movement, drama and conflict. It was these principles that would dominate the next period of art – mannerism – after Raphael’s death.
In this exhibition we see abundant evidence of the various aspects of his genius. Take the many images of the Madonna, each one carefully differentiated from the others. The portraits are of unique quality. Then, there are the great religious paintings. The religious works demonstrate the significance of Raphael’s and Renaissance Italy’s Catholicism for the art of the High Renaissance – this is no “art for art’s sake.” The Madonnas, as the exhibition points out, derive ultimately from a Byzantine icon of the 12th and 13th centuries. It was an image that was particularly relevant when the mortality of both mothers and children in childbirth was exceedingly high. The tapestries, depicting events from the Gospels or the acts of the apostles, are of epic grandeur.
But of particular relevance to the spiritual vision of Raphael is the painting of Saint Cecilia in ecstasy. The saint turns her eyes to heaven, viewing a chorus of angels singing, while she holds, facing downward, a small organ. At her feet, strewn on the ground, are various worldly musical instruments, “broken and unstrung”. She is surrounded by four other saints involved in a mysterious dialogue with each other or with the viewer. The style is not didactic but displays great insight into the personages depicted.
The Metropolitan Museum was able to restrain its woke commentary more than it usually has done recently. Yes, in this exhibition there are passages in the Museum’s texts about the dire position of women in Renaissance – ignoring the role that extremely well-educated women played in the unfolding of the Renaissance as the exhibition itself points out. I also did not appreciate the use of the Alba Madonna as a logo on posters, scarves, refrigerator magnets and mugs.
(Above) The “Alba Madonna.” Currently in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. – previously in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.(From the exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry)
Now such an exhibition, involving consideration and comparison of many drawings and paintings, summons the visitor to contemplation. That is difficult to achieve in the crowded exhibition halls of the Metropolitan Museum. With a few exceptions the crowd was definitely older or to put it more frankly, old. Some visitors were in wheelchairs or using walkers. Is this because the art of Raphael – that once had been almost a cliché – now is known only to those who attended high school or college art courses in the distant past? I don’t know!
And what is a Catholic to think about the light this exhibition may shed upon the current situation in the Catholic Church? Because Raphael, in contrast to the artists of modernity was not an individual creator but was embedded in a society that shared his ideals and offered him the patronage to realize them. These was especially true of Raphael’s two principal patrons, Julius II and Leo X. If we move forward to our own day there’s quite a different situation. Even though it may be an invidious comparison to set the current regime of the Vatican against that which produced perhaps the highest development of Western art, we have to admit that the current artistic patronage of the Roman Catholic Church is a sick joke. We have the cartoon-like images of Marco Rupnik. We have the obsequious courting of contemporary artists by clerics like Cardinal Ravasi and Bishop Fisichella. By introducing the “Luce” mascot of the 2025 jubilee year, the Catholic Church abased itself before what their semi-senile leadership thinks is popular “youth” culture. Then we have, with the direct involvement of the late Pope Francis, agitprop-like art: statues of migrants, art created in women’s prison etc.
Raphael, with his precocious ability, seemingly unlimited facility, organizational skill, authentically classical harmony -as well as his evident religious faith – may seem alien to our day’s notion of the artist. The Metropolitan Museum itself offers a strangely contrasting exhibition, now in its final days, of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946). We see, in her works, the final stages of the Western figurative tradition: isolated individuals, dreamy symbolist landscapes, self-portraits revealing a person seemingly in dissolution or even on the brink of madness.
We ourselves cannot recreate the art or the specific circumstances of the High Renaissance. Much of 19th century Catholic ecclesiastical art was a commendable but not totally successful attempt to do so (e.g., the “Nazarenes”). But what we can do is study the masterpieces of an artist like Raphael, and attempt to understand the great skill, discipline and intellectual effort that were necessary to create them. And perhaps from this study, God willing, a new Christian art may arise in some way and at some time not yet known to us. For it is by engaging with the masters of the past that a rebirth ( that is, a “renaissance “) of culture will come.
27 Mar
2026
The following churches will offer traditional liturgies during Holy Week. Please let us know about churches that are not on this list.
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 10 am, Solemn Mass, Procession of Palms, St. Matthew’s Passion by Victoria
Georgetown Oratory, Redding, 12 noon
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 8:30 am low Mass; 10:15 High Mass
Immaculate Conception School Chapel, 73 Southern Blvd, Danbury, 2:30 pm
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 8 am Confession, 8:30 am Low Mass; 10 am Confessions, 10:30 am High Mass
St. Martha Church, Enfield, 11 am
St. Michael Church, Pawcatuck, 11:45 am High Mass
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 9 am, 10:30 am
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 10 am at 116th St entrance of convent: blessing of palms, procession, followed by Mass in the church in Latin.
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 9:30 am Solemn Mass and Procession
St. Rocoo Church, Glen Cove, Long Island, 11:30 Mass and blessing of palms
St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 1:30 pm
Annunciation Church, Crestwood, 2 pm
Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, 4 pm Missa Cantata, blessing and distribution of palms
St. Patrick Church, Newburgh, 3 pm
St. Joseph Church, Middletown, 10:15 am
St. Mary Church, Ellenville, 11:30 am
Holy Trinity, Poughkeepsie, 1 pm
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, 8:30 am
Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, 12:30 pm
Our Lady of Victories, Harrington Park, 8 am
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 7 am, 9 am, 10:30 blessing of palms, chanting of the Passions, Solemn Mass, 1:30 pm, 5 pm
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 7:30 am Low Mass; 9 am Low Mass; 10:30 am Blessing of palms, procession and High Mass
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 10:30 am, Palm Sunday Mass with blessing of palms and procession
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 12:30 pm
St. Catherine Church, Middletown, NJ, 9 am
St. Gianna Beretta Molla Church, Northfield, 12 noon
St Dominic Church, Brick, 12 noon
Connecticut
St. Pius X Church, Fairfield, 7 pm celebrated by Fr. Richard Cipolla
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 7:15 am Confessions, 7:45 am Low Mass
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 6 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 7 am Low Mass
St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 12 noon
New Jersey
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 9 am Low Mass
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 11:30 am Confessions, 12:10 pm low Mass
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 7:15 am Confessions, 7:45 am Low Mass
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 6 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY,, 7 am, Low Mass
New Jersey
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 9 am Low Mass
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 11:30 am Confessions, 12:10 pm Missa Cantata; 7 pm Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday.
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 7:15 am Confessions, 7:45 am Low Mass, 7 pm Office of Tenebrae
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 11 am Confessions; 12 noon low Mass; 6 pm Office of Tenebrae
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 6 pm Mass; 7 pm Office of Tenebrae
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 7 am Low Mass
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm Tenebrae
St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 12 noon
Saced Heart, Esopus, 11:30 am
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, 7 pm Tenebrae
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 9 am low Mass
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 7 pm Solemn Mass in Cena Domini; 9 pm Vespers and Stripping of the Altars; 9:30 pm Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament in lower church
Georgetown Oratory, Redding, 6 pm
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 11 am-11:45 Confessions; 12 noon Mass of the Lord’s Supper; followed by procession of Blessed Sacrament, Vespers, stripping of the altars; 7 pm Tenebrae. The church will remain open until 10 pm
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 4 pm Confessions, 6 pm High Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Adoration at the altar of repose until Midnight
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 6 pm Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper, All-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the repository
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 8 am Tenebrae, 7 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, 8:30 pm Sung Mass of the Lord’s Supper and procession to the altar of repose. Vigil at altar of repose until midnight.
Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, 5 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Fr. John Perricone, celebrant
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 9 am Tenebrae; 5:30 pm Confessions; 7 pm Solemn Mass of Holy Thursday with adoration at the altar of repose until Midnight
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 6 pm Confessions; 7 pm Solemn Mass followed by procession to altar of repose vespers, stripping of the altars, mandatum, adoration until midnight at altar of repose
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 7 pm Holy Thursday Mass
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 8 pm Traditional Latin Holy Thursday Mass followed by adoration at the altar of repose until Midnight
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 11 am Stations of the Cross in Latin, English and Spanish; 3 pm Mass of the Presanctified; 7 pm Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ
Georgetown Oratory, Redding, 3 pm
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 11 am -11:45 am Confessions; 12 noon Mass of the Presanctified followed by Vespers; 6 pm Stations of the Cross followed by the burial of Our Lord; 7 pm Tenebrae
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 10 am Confessions; 12 pm Stations of the Cross; 1 pm High Mass of the Presanctified
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the repository continues until 3 pm; 3 pm Traditional Latin Rite liturgy
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, East Harlem, NY, 8 am Tenebrae; 3 pm Mass of the Presanctified, 7:30 PM Outdoor Procession with the Relic of the True Cross, Stations of the Cross
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 3 pm Mass of the Presanctified and Stations of the Cross
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrow, Jersey City, 3 pm Mass of the Pre-Sancitified
Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, 5 pm Pre-Sanctified Liturgy, procession to follow, Fr. John Perricone, celebrant
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 8 am Tenebrae; 1 pm Confessions; 2 pm Stations of the Cross; 3 pm Good Friday liturgy
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 1 pm Confessions; 2 pm Stations of Cross; 3 pm Solemn Pre-Sanctified LIturgy and Vespers
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 3 pm Good Friday liturgy
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 12 noon, Traditional Latin Good Friday liturgy
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 12:30 pm blessing of the Easter food (gym); 7 pm Great Vigil of Easter; 11:30 pm Festive Easter Reception
Georgetown Oratory, Redding, Easter Vigil 6 pm
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 8 am – 8:45 am Confessions; 3 pm Great Easter Vigil followed by blessing of Easter baskets and Compline
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 10 am Confessions; 12 pm Easter Vigil High Mass, blessing of Easter baskets and reception in the hall
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, Church opens at 9 am for veneration of the Cross and visits to Our Lord’s tomb; 12 noon, blessing of the Easter food; 6 pm Solemn Easter Vigil
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 8 am Tenebrae, 7 pm Easter Vigil Mass
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm Easter Vigil
New Jersey
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 9 am Tenebrae; 12:30-1:30 pm Confessions; 8:30 pm Easter Vigil
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 12 noon Easter Vigil High Mass
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 6 pm Easter Vigil
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 12 noon Traditional Latin Holy Saturday liturgy
Connecticut
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 10 am Solemn Mass
Georgetown Oratory, Redding, 12 noon
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, 8:30 am Low Mass; 10:15 am Solemn Mass; 6 pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction celebrated by Canon Matthew Talarico, with 6 coped assistants
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 8:30 am Low Mass; 10:30 am High Mass
Immaculate Conception School Chapel, 73 Southern Blvd, Danbury, 2:30 pm
St. Martha Church, Enfield, 10:30 am
St. Michael Church, Pawcatuck, 11:45 am High Mass
New York
Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 9 am Low Mass; 10:30 am High Mass
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 10:30 am
Our Lady of Peace, Brooklyn, 9:30 am Missa Cantata
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 9:30 am Solemn Mass
St. Rocoo Church, Glen Cove, Long Island, 11:30 am Missa Cantata
St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 1:30 pm
Annunciation Church, Crestwood, 2 pm
Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, 2 pm
St. Joseph, Middletown, 10:15 am
St. Mary Church, Ellenville, 11:30 am
Holy Trinity, Poughkeepsie, 1 pm
New Jersey
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, Easter Vigil 10:30 pm, featuring Palestrina Miss Papae Marcelli
Our Lady of Victories, Harrington Park, 8 am
Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, 12:30 pm Solemn Mass, Fr. John Perricone, celebrant
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, 7 am; 9 am; 10:30 pm; 1:30 pm. (no 5 pm Mass)
St. Antony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, 7:30 am low Mass; 9 am High Mass; 11 am High Mass
Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 10:30 am
St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 12:30 pm Solemn Mass
St. Catherine Church, Middletown, NJ, 9:30 am
St. Gianna Beretta Molla Church, Northfield, 12 noon
St Dominic Church, Brick, 12 noon
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation. The following churches have traditional Masses for the feast:
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, 6 pm low Mass
Georgetown Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Redding, CT, 6 pm, Missa Cantata
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, 7:45 am
St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 12 noon
Transfiguration Church, 29 Mott Street, New York, NY, 7 pm Missa Cantata featuring Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices.
Holy Innocents, New York, NY 6 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Harlem, 7 pm Solemn Mass
St. Josaphat Oratory, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm high Mass (Confessions 6:15 -6:45)
Notre Dame Church, New Hyde Park, NY, 7 pm Missa Cantata
St. Paul Church, Yonkers, NY, 12 noon
Annunciation Church, Crestwood, NY, 6:30 pm Solemn Mass in the upper church for patronal feast
St. Mary’s/ St. Andrew’s Church, Ellenville, NY 7 pm
Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, Missa Cantata, 6 pm
2 Mar
2026
