At Our Lady of Mount Carmel, NY (Photo courtesy of Fr. Christopher Salvatori)

St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, has advanced to the Faithful Four in the Church Madness competition. View this video and then vote for St. Mary’s at https://artandliturgy.com/2017/03/30/church-madness-2017-faithful-four/

Voting ends on Sunday night.

The video was created by Elizabeth Weaver from photos that have appeared on this website. Audio: The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum sings the Credo from William Rasar’s Mass “Christe Jesu” (their CD is being released later this month).

Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series:  “Daring To Love The Beautiful One”
The final lecture of the season is on Saturday, April 8th at 7:30 PM. His Excellency, Frank J. Caggiano, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, will speak to us about “Daring To Love The Beautiful One.” The event takes place, as always, at the Catholic Center at NYU. Afterwards, meet Bishop Caggiano and make new friends at the wine and cheese. We end the evening with sung Compline.
Bishop Caggiano was born in Brooklyn on Easter Sunday, 1959. He attended Ss. Simon and Jude Elementary School in Gravesend, and Regis High School in Manhattan. He entered Yale University as a political science major, but later decided to enter the priesthood. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Cathedral College, a M.Div. from Immaculate Conception Seminary, and a licentiate and doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University, Rome. He was named Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006, and installed as Fifth Bishop of Bridgeport in 2013.

Admission for Sustaining Members: FREE
Suggested admission for non-members: $10

Sponsored by the Catholic Artists Society

The Art of the Beautiful lecture series is designed to explore how the Catholic Faith informs the arts.

Please note the new time and location

“Songs of Love: Secular and Sacred Victorian Songs and Anthems.”
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT
Sunday, May 7, 3 pm

Elizabeth Baber Weaver, soprano, member of the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

The Parish of St. Mary’s in Norwalk, CT, will feature a rare fundraising concert highlighting the church’s outstanding choir. Repertoire will feature music from the Victorian and Edwardian eras led by Organist and Choirmaster David Hughes.

Charles Weaver, bass, member of the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

On Saturday, April 1, 2017 9 AM,  the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in New York will offer a Missa Cantata followed by Eucharistic Adoration, Novena Prayers to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Servant of God Pierre Toussaint & Benediction; Confessions heard before Mass and during Eucharistic Adoration.

In addition, on Tuesday April 4th at 7 PM there will be a Sung Requiem Mass – Month’s Mind for Jacques Pierre.

On Easter Friday, April 21st at 7:00, the Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio will celebrate the first Traditional Latin Mass in Saint Stephen’s Parish, or for that matter in the entire town of Kearny, since the changes of Vatican II.

Tenebrae according to the 1962 liturgical books will be celebrated at St. Anthony of Padua in Jersey City on Wednesday, April 12th at 7:00 p.m.

On the Feast of the Annunciation, the Children’s Schola of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, directed by David Hughes, performed at a Solemn Mass at St. Agnes Church in New York. The schola sang Palestrina’s Missa Ave Maria.
Fr. Jeff Langan was Celebrant, Fr. Christopher Cullen was Deacon, and Fr. Michael Barrett was Homilist.  (Photos courtesy of Dr. Timothy Lock and Laurie Furey)

St. Agnes Church