THE ACADEMY OF SACRED DRAMA:
“THE BIRTH OF MOSES”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 AT 7:15 P.M.

The NYC-based Academy of Sacred Drama will perform the modern premiere
of the 1682 oratorio Il Nascimento di Mosè by Vincenzo de Grandis.

FREE ADMISSION
Followed by a light reception

Donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds benefiting the sacred music program, particularly future concerts.

St. Mary’s Church and the St. Cecilia Society are delighted to announce a special concert event featuring the New York–based Academy of Sacred Drama, on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 7:15 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 669 West Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut.

The Academy of Sacred Drama is an artistic and intellectual community dedicated to the exploration of the forgotten cultural treasures of sacred dramatic music. This program is the inaugural concert of the Academy’s incredibly ambitious Year of Moses, which features the modern American premieres of three Italian-Baroque oratorios (all with librettos by Giovanni Battista Giardini). More information about this season’s oratorios and salon concerts can be found at sacreddrama.org.

Vincenzo de Grandis’s 1682 oratorio Il Nascimento di Mosè (The Birth of Moses) was dedicated to Duke Francesco II of Modena, and was first performed for a Modenese audience at the oratory of San Carlo rotondo. Giardini’s libretto tells the harrowing story of Moses’s birth as a slave in Egypt, when the tyrannical Pharaoh, fearing the growing power of the Hebrews, had ordered that all male new-borns were to be thrown into the river Nile. The Academy’s performance will feature five voices and seven instrumentalists, as well as a brief talk at intermission about the original context of the oratorio.

Violinist Jeremy Rhizor, founder and director of the Academy of Sacred Drama, describes its music and its mission: “Seventeenth-century oratorio combined the tremendously popular music of the opera with stories chosen for the intellectual and spiritual enrichment of its listeners. The Academy continues this mission by uniting emotion, intellect, and community in presentations that incorporate great oratorios, contextual lectures, and community receptions. From the philosophical and storytelling lens of Baroque-era sacred dramatic music we learn from history, share the rich ideas and music of past ages, and re-imagine the place of art and music within our own communities.”

The concert will be performed in St. Mary’s Church at 7:15 p.m. Admission is free of charge, though donations will be gratefully accepted. All proceeds will benefit the sacred music program at St. Mary’s and make more concerts possible in the future. A light reception in the church hall (school building) will follow the concert.

A number of churches in the area will offer special Masses for celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14.

St. Patrick Church, Bridgeport, CT, Solemn Mass, 7:30 pm.

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 7:30 pm

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, CT,   on Sunday Sept. 16, 2 pm, Missa cantata, Fr. Peter Langevin, celebrant

Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, 7:30, Missa Cantata and Te Deum followed by an all night vigil.  Further information

Holy Name of Jesus Church, Brooklyn, NY, Missa Cantata, 7 pm

St Anthony Church, 1776 Mansion St., Bronx, at 7 pm: Solemn Mass for reparation for the sins of the Church for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

St. Dominic Church, Brick, NJ,  Solemn Mass, 7 pm. Sacred Music by the Schola Cantorum of St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ. Reception to follow Mass.

On Friday, September 14, 2018 into Saturday, September 15, 2018, there will be an All Night Vigil of Adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament Exposed.

Friday, September 14, 2018 – 7:30 PM – Sung Mass & Te Deum in Latin, 1962 MR-EF – Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Saturday, September 15, 2018 – 5:00 AM – Sung Mass in Latin, 1962 MR-EF – Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Preliminary Schedule

Friday, September 14, 2018

6:00 PM – Angelus
6:15 PM – Recitation of the Holy Rosary & Divine Mercy Chaplet
6:45 PM – Stations of the Cross and Confessions
7:30 PM – Sung Mass in Latin, 1962 MR-EF
8:30 PM – Chanting of the Te Deum
9:15 PM – Talk by Ricardo Saludo, Marian Speaker from the Archdiocese of Manila (see flyer below)
After the Talk, there will be moments of Silent Adoration and vocal prayers

Saturday, September 15, 2018

12 Midnight – Angelus and the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
12:45 AM – First Break, Silent Adoration
1:30 AM – Prayers to the Holy Black Nazarene and Our Lady of Caysaysay, followed by the Recitation of the Holy Rosary
2:00 AM – Silent Adoration
3:00 AM – Divine Mercy Chaplet
3:15 AM – Second Break, Silent Adoration
4:30 PM – Procession with and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament
5:00 AM – Sung Mass in Latin, 1962 MR-EF

The following churches will offer traditional requiem Masses on Tuesday, September 11, for the victims of 9/11.

St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York, NY, 7 pm

St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church, 141 Washington Ave, Kearny, NJ, 7 pm

Below:  St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny, NJ:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018 @ 9:30 AM, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 381 Grand Street, Paterson, NJ 07505: The Most Reverend Arthur Serratelli will offer a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form.

This Mass is sponsored by Sacred Heart Church, Clifton NJ, and Our Lady of Fatima Chapel of the FSSP, Pequannock, NJ.

There will be free parking at the County Parking Garage on the corner of Grand Street and Jackson Street.

The Mass will feature the combined voices of The Northern Jersey Catholic Chorale, the Metropolitan Catholic Chorale, and the Schola Cantorum of St. John the Baptist.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 9 AM – The Church of St. Catherine Laboure, 130 Bray Avenue, Middletown, NJ    Traditional Latin Mass followed by POTLUCK Breakfast in the Parish Hall across the street from the School. Please bring your favorite breakfast food / snack /drink plus some to share. Please feel free to invite others to assist at Mass and come to breakfast afterward. This is an opportunity to introduce others to Catholicism and in particular to the Latin Mass, and to make them feel welcome in the Church.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 @ 7 pm, St. Dominic’s Church, 250 Old Squan Road, Brick, NJ 08724: Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Rev. Brian Patrick Woodrow, celebrant; Rev. Michael C. Barone, Deacon, and Rev. H. Todd Carter, Subdeacon. Sacred Music by the Schola Cantorum of St. John the Baptist, Allentown, NJ. Reception to follow Mass. THANKS BE TO GOD FOR AN ANSWER TO THE PRAYERS OF MANY FAMILIES IN AND OUT OF OCEAN COUNTY!

The Roman Forum
27th Annual New York City Church History Program
2017-2018

The Pontificate of Blessed Pio Nono (1846-1878):
Catholic Renewal and the Discovery of the Frauds of Modernity
Lecturer: John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford University)
Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University

September 9: The Last Days of the Restoration Era & the Election of Pio Nono
September 16: 1848: A “Spring Time of the Peoples”?
September 30: The Revolutionary Reality & Catholic Retrenchment
October 7: France, the Party of Order, & the Catholic “Civil War”
October 21: Germania Docet!
November 11: A Second Spring in England & the Netherlands
November 18: La Civiltà Cattolica, L’Univers, Der Katholik & the Critique of Liberalism
December 2: The Risorgimento & the Assault on the Church & Italy
December 16: Quanta cura & the Syllabus of Errors
January 13: Vatican Council: The Theological Background
January 27: Vatican Council: Politics, the Debates & the Decrees
February 10: The Franco-Prussian War, the Breach of Porta Pia, & the Long-Term Effects of Vatican Council
February 24: Liberalism, Protestantism, & Catholicism in the New Europe
March 10: Kulturkampf & Catholic Response: Germany, Austria, Belgium, & the Netherlands
March 24: France: From “National Repentance” to “the Republic of the Republicans”
April 7: Anti-Liberalism & the Catholic Social Movement
April 14: Progress & Confrontation in the Americas
April 28: An Ever More Missionary Church
May 12: Russia and the Religious “Eastern Question”

All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.
N.B. Participants will now have to be buzzed in at the Rectory entrance on Carmine Street, from 1:30 onwards. Access may still be available through the interior of the Church to the left of the main altar.
Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $15.00
Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Rectory Entrance, on Carmine Street
A, B, C, D, E, F, M trains to West 4th Street Station; 1 to Christopher Street

Today’s 9 am traditional Mass at St. Anthony Church, 1776 Mansion St., the Bronx, Fr. Louis Anderson, celebrant.  St. Anthony’s has a 9 am traditional Mass every Sunday.  Most are sung masses.

Upcoming traditional Masses at St. Anthony’s:

Friday, September 14th at 7 pm:  Solemn Mass for reparation for the sins of the Church for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

Wednesday, September 19 and Friday, September 21 at 6 pm plus Saturday, September 22 at 12 pm:   Ember Day Masses in reparation for the sins of the Church