Mass for the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord at the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport CT – now in the care of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.

Fr. Carl McIntosh will offer a low Mass at St. Roch Church in the Chickahominy section of Greenwich, CT, this Saturday at 8 am.

Also coming up in Greenwich: On Monday, Jan 21 at 7:30 pm, Fr. La Pastina will offer a traditional Mass for the Feast of Saint Agnes.

…can you see this wonderful painting at the Pierpont Morgan Gallery, where it is the centerpiece of this exhibition:

Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters

Otherwise you will have to travel to a small town about ten miles outside of Florence to see it again.

Pontormo painted this work in 1529-30 at a key transitional point in Western art, religion and politics. In Italy, an aesthetic reaction was setting in against the seemingly immutable balanced “classicism” that had been achieved in the Renaissance golden age. North of the Alps, the Protestant Reformation had erupted – but the first stirrings of the Counter-Reformation were also already at hand. And Pontormo painted this work while the doomed Republic of Florence was under a devastating siege by the Imperial army.

This Visitation offers a perspective entirely different from that of the art of Pontormo’s immediate predecessors. The figures are elongated and almost float in the air. The colors are startling. But, for me, what is most impressive are the faces of the Virgin and St Ann. The entire painting concentrates on the moving encounter of these two women as they silently gaze at each other’s countenance… We can sense here the beginnings of a rebirth of a more intense, almost ecstatic religious feeling.

For more information see the WEBSITE of the Pierpont Morgan Library

…yesterday evening at Holy Innocents Church in New York, Solemn Mass for the patronal feast day.  

Followed by a procession and recitation of the rosary for the persecuted Christians in the world.

Tomorrow, December 29, Father Michael Novajosky will celebrate a Missa Cantata at St. Patrick Church, Bridgeport, CT at 12 noon.

The Roman Forum announces a new location for its annual New Year’s Eve party: Immaculate Conception Church at 199 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 8 pm onwards.

The organizer, Dr. John Rao describes the party as “a great Catholic Event -Finding more joy in the Christmas season. Family friendly – best recorded music.”

Bring your own food and drink to share.

Parking is on the surrounding streets.

Traditional Masses for the Octave of Christmas, Tuesday, January 1, the Circumcision of Our Lord. This day is a holy day of obligation

Connecticut

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, CT,

Low Mass 8:30 am,

High Mass 10:15 am

St. Patrick Church, Bridgeport, Solemn Mass, 12 noon.

St. Stanislaus, New Haven, CT, 2:00 pm

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, Solemn Mass, 9:30 am.

St. Martha Church, Enfield, CT, high Mass, 11 am.

New York

St. Agnes Church, New York, NY, 10:30 am

Holy Innocents, New York, NY,

Missa Cantata at 11:30 pm on December 31st;

Low Mass at 9:00 am on January 1st;

Missa Cantata at 10:30 am on January 1st.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, Missa Cantata, 10:30 am

St. Josaphat, Bayside, Queens at 12 noon

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY, low Mass, 3 pm

St. Paul The Apostle Church, McLean Avenue, Yonkers, NY, 12 noon

St. Ladislaus, Hempstead, NY (Long Island) at 9am

St. Isidore, Riverhead, NY (Long Island) at 2pm

New Jersey

St Anthony Of Padua, Jersey City, Missa Cantata at 9:00am

St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, NJ,

9:00 am Low Mass;

11:00 am High Mass

St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ, 11 am.

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, NJ, 

7:00 am
9:00 am
11:00 am
5:00 pm

Pictures supplied by our readers of traditional Christmas Masses

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Sung Mass of the Day, 10:30 AM

On Friday, December 28, 2018, there will be a Prayer Vigil for Persecuted Christians. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Latin, 1962 MR-EF) will be offered at 6:00 PM at Holy Innocents Church on West 37th Street and Broadway.

Following Mass, we will meet at the front steps of the Church to prepare the prayer books, banners and candles. At approximately 7:00 PM, we will walk south on Broadway to Herald Square, West 34th Street and Broadway.

At Herald Square, we will pray the Holy Rosary. Following the Holy Rosary, we will walk west on 34th Street and north on 7th Avenue while we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet and sing Hymns and Christmas carols.

PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR FEAST OF HOLY INNOCENTS A PLENARY INDULGENCE is granted to those who devoutly visit the parochial church on its titular feast, which in the case of the Shrine & Parish Church of the Holy Innocents is on Friday, December 28. In visiting the church IT IS REQUIRED that one Our Father and the Creed be recited as well as the usual conditions of Sacramental Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father, and detachment from all sin. Holy Innocents, pray & intercede for us!

(Below) The Third Mass of Christmas: “Puer Natus Est.”