NY Purgatorial Society’s monthly sung Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite yesterday evening at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, New York.

The next sung Requiem Mass will be on Monday, July 24.

Photo courtesy or Diana Yuan

Holy Name of Jesus Church will be celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus this Friday night, June 23rd at 7:00pm. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the day requested by our Lord – the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi or 19 days after Pentecost Sunday. There is ample parking in the church lot.

Here is a note from the Latin Mass Choir Director about the music featured in Friday’s Mass:

“Music has it’s own tradition, which is deeply tied to the Traditional Catholic Church. Particularly Gregorian Chant, with its long modal lines expressing the sober realities and depth of the True Faith. During the Renaissance, chant continued to hold it’s rightful place as multiple voices were added to it and thereby raising the level of inspiration to exordinary heights. Today, as Traditionalism regains it’s rightful place, so too does music emerge to give added meaning to our spiritual life.

Six singers, the best of the best that New York City offers, will sing chant and polyphony as the Church has so gloriously done in the past for the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Mass setting is by David Adam Smith, as well as the offertory motet. At communion the anonymous hymn “Cor_dulce” in three voices will be sung, as well as appointed palms.”

Mrs. Mildred Perricone, mother of Fr. John Perricone, passed away on June 17. A Solemn High Requiem Mass will be said Tuesday, 11am at St. Anthony’s Church in Jersey City

The Reverend Mister Timothy Iannacone will be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Bridgeport this Saturday, June 24th at 11 am in St. Augustine’s Cathedral in Bridgeport.

He will celebrate his first Mass the following day, Sunday June 25,  a Solemn Mass in the extraordinary form, at 9:30 am at St Mary Church, Norwalk.  First priestly blessings and a festive reception will follow in the church hall.

Deacon Iannacone is pictured in the center of this photo from the recent Confirmation Mass at St. Mary’s

(Above) Corpus Christi procession on Sunday at Immaculate Conception Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY (courtesy Ann Whelan). (Below) At the Church of the Hollow Innocents in New York, on Thursday evening (courtesy of Arrys Ortanez).

Eddy Toribo reported: “A great number of faithful parishioners attended the 6PM Sung Mass and Blessed Sacrament Procession at Holy Innocents for the 9th annual celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi this past Thursday, June 15, 2017. Fr. James Miara was the Celebrant, and we had 14 servers who devoutly served Holy Mass.
As has been the case in all previous years, Midtown Manhattan, was still not used to such religious processions and public demonstrations of active and vibrant faith in the traditional way. Many people stopped and asked what was going on and many more stopped and stood silently as the procession passed by.
The faithful parishioners jubilantly sang traditional hymns in Latin, English, Spanish, and Italian. The music for the Mass was Lassus’ Missa Doulce mémoire, including two Motets by Byrd and Charpentier. Additionally, this year there were two “stational” altars at which Benediction was given: one was outside of a Mexican food restaurant and the other one right outside of the parish rectory. At the end, once we were back at the High Altar, the final Benediction was done.
For many of those in attendance, those two hours and fifteen minutes were the best two hours and fifteen minutes in the whole year!”

Photos of the Solemn Mass and Procession yesterday evening at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem.  As special thanks to Diana Yuan for providing the photos.

What is the Roman Rite? Today, the talk is of “Ordinary” and “Extraordinary” forms, the Novus Ordo Mass and the Traditional Mass. How did this dichotomy arise and what is its basis? And what will be the future of this dual path – confrontation or “mutual enrichment”? Or was Fr. Gelineau right when he claimed that the Roman Rite was “destroyed”?

(Prof. Kwasniewski’s new book Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages will be available for sale during the evening, and the author will be glad to sign copies.)

Information about Prof. Kwasniewski’s new book: link