PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LECTURE THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16TH AT 7:00 PM, WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BASEMENT (UNDERCROFT) OF ST. PATRICK’S OLD CATHEDRAL. THE ENTRANCE IS AT 264 MULBERRY STREET.

Pictures from this evening’s Solemn Mass celebrating the Feast of the Holy Rosary at St. Mary Church in Greenwich.

Bishop Scheider will visit other churches in the United States. Schedule

THE ENGLISH MARTYRS VIEWED FROM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE
By Joanna Bogle

Where? Holy Innocents Church, Broadway and 37th Street, Manhattan

When? Monday, October 17, 7:00 p.m., following the 6:00 p.m. Mass

For whom? Open to the public.

The Presenter
Joanna Bogle is an author, journalist and broadcaster working in London. Her books include several historical biographies, and “A Book of Seasons and Celebrations” explaining the traditions and customs associated with the Church’s year. She leads Catholic History Walks around London, and lectures regularly to schools, colleges, historical societies and Catholic and community groups. A regular broadcaster with EWTN, she writes for a range of newspapers and magazines in Britain and elsewhere, and is chairman of Christian Projects, an ecumenical group organizing Scripture-based projects for schools across Britain. She lives in London with her husband, who is a barrister.

For the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer on November 7th, the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer will be joined by a band of Renaissance wind instruments: shawms, sackbuts, and dulcians. These instruments are the ancestors of the modern oboe, trombone, and bassoon. While this type of accompaniment was a frequent practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is seldom experienced today in liturgical use and will lend special solemnity to this occasion.

Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), a Renaissance composer from the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, spent most of his life as a Carmelite in residence at the Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Lisbon. He published extensively, often with through the beneficence of his friend King John IV, although much of his music was lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

Cardoso’s Missa pro defunctis a 6 is a masterwork of technical precision and emotive power, with many stylistic similarities with his two older contemporaries, Victoria and Palestrina. Much more so than in the Roman tradition, Iberian polyphony was often accompanied by instruments, and records from Cardoso’s own convent indicate that this was the case there.

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT will offer a traditional mass on Friday October 7 at 7:30 pm to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Benediction and adoration will follow.

St. Aloysius Church, 935 Bennetts Mill Road, Jackson, NJ will offer a Solemn Mass on October 7 at 7 pm.  More information at www.latinmasstrenton.org

The image of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York.

Tonight the New York Purgatorial Society will offer its monthly Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite at 7 pm. Please note the new location: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 869 Lexington Ave., New York.

On Thursday, September 29th, in honor of the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, there will be celebrated a Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Church of the Most Precious Blood located in New York City’s Little Italy. The intention of the Mass will be for the spiritual and physical well being of all police and law enforcement officers. This Mass and the Mass at Holy Innocents at 6:00 p.m. will make for two Solemn Traditional Latin Masses being celebrated almost simultaneously a few short miles from each other in Manhattan, and such an occurrence, just a few short years ago, would have seemed impossible.

(Above) San Gennaro – or St. Januarius.

Solemn High Mass yesterday at the church of the Most Precious Blood – amid the noise and crowds of the San Gennaro Festival in New York’s Little Italy.

(Above) The first Solemn Traditional Mass in ages in this church – but the next is already scheduled for the 29th of September! It was a privilege for this Society to sponsor this mass in such a repository of Catholic tradition. The music included, among other works, Mozart’s Missa brevis in F (K. 192). Our thanks to Msgr Donald Sakano, Pastor of Old St Patrick’s and of Most Precious Blood, for the invitation to sponsor this mass during the San Gennaro festival!

(Above and Below) Occupying much of the rear of the nave is a huge Neapolitan Christmas creche. The church of the Most Precious Blood is a treasury of Catholic and Italian devotions. For more on this church see HERE

(Above) The Sermon – amid the forest of statues. For Fr. Cipolla’s sermon see HERE.

(Above) Good participation for such a small church – including some who ventured in from the nearby festa on Mulberry Street.