23rd Annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, 2018 A.D.

Friday – Sunday
28-30 September
A traditional walking pilgrimage from the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament at Lake George Village, NY to the Shrine of Our Lady’s Martyrs of New France at Auriesville, NY

Come to restore. The rest will come.

contact:
Reuben DeMaster
Chief of Brigadiers
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New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
484-201-8249 mobile
610-298-2197 tel-home

r.demaster.pilgrimage@gmail.com

As in past years, there will be discounted days to register during the summer. However, this early registration (until July 1) is the lowest price that you will see.

Pilgrimage for Restoration| 610/435-2634 Website

National Coalition of Clergy & Laity | 610/435-2634 Website

On Sunday, June 24 at 1PM, Bishop James Massa of the Diocese of Brooklyn will offer a Solemn High Mass at Holy Rosary Church in the Bronx.  A schola will sing music by Gounod and Victoria.  Parking is available; the church is also accessible by public transit.

On Friday, June 29, 2018, there will be a Procession of Prayer for Persecuted Christians and Minorities in New York City. The Traditional  Mass  will be offered at 6 PM for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles, Evangelists and Martyrs at Holy Innocents Church, West 37th Street and Broadway. Following Mass, we will get ready with signs, rosaries, prayer books and the canopy.

We will process to Herald Square with the True Relic of the Holy Cross to pray the Holy Rosary (34th Street and Broadway). Next, we will pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet while we process to Times Square. The Chaplet of Saint Michael will be prayed in Times Square (43rd Street and Broadway). The Prayer Vigil will conclude with the Litany for Persecuted Christians in front of Holy Innocents Church.

On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 7:30 PM, the Traditional  Solemn Mass will be offered for the Feast and Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles. The Holy Rosary will be recited at 7:00 PM. Confessions will be heard before Mass.

All are welcome to join us this night as we pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, our Bishop, Timothy Cardinal Dolan and all Bishops in their mission to draw all people to Christ and His Church.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

7th Annual Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY

10:00 AM – Marian Talk and Rosary
10:30 AM – Serenade, Hymns and offering of flowers to the Blessed Mother by Children
10:45 AM – Penitential Procession in the Nave on knees or discalced
11:15 AM – Traditional Latin Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form
12:30 PM – Eucharistic Procession, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Veneration of the Relics of the Saints
1:00 PM – Potluck Lunch
2:30 PM – Enrollment in the Brown Scapular

On Friday, June 15, the 6PM Mass at Holy Innocents will be a Sung Requiem Mass to commemorate the centennial celebration of the death of Joyce Kilmer, Catholic poet. After the Mass, Fr. Stravinskas will give a lecture in the parish hall on Catholic poetry.

Revisiting two churches closed by the Archdiocese….

Where the church, school and other buildings of Mary Help of Christians stood on East 12th and 11th streets until 2013  we now find, ready for occupancy, luxury condominiums and storefronts.

The large (for the East Village) complex fronts on three streets (including Avenue A).

These dwellings permit the well-to-do to enjoy luxurious amenities while savoring the East Village lifestyle (purveyors of latex garments, aromatic oils etc).

For our 2013 report on the former church see HERE and subsequent articles.

Further east, at 740 East 13th street, the closed but intact church of St. Emeric still stands amid its ghastly surroundings of a power plant and housing complexes.

The school – is it still being used by the parish of St. Brigid – into which St Emeric parish was merged? In any case, there are recent posters in the windows…

HERE is a 2013 report on St. Brigid and St. Emeric.(We hope to able able to report soon on more recent developments at St Brigid.)