We share the following:

“At St. Mary’s, Greenwich, CT, a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Sacred Heart will be celebrated on Friday, June 3rd at 7:30 in the evening. Following Mass there will be the sung Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Mass will be celebrated by a newly ordained priest who will offer his first priestly blessing following Mass.”

The following churches will offer traditional Masses this week for the Feast of Corpus Christi. Please let us know if you know of a mass in the area that is not on this schedule.

As of this moment,  we know of six Solemn  Masses  – and at least two missae cantatae  – which will be celebrated between Thursday and Sunday in the New York area.  We perhaps take for granted the remarkable liturgical progress that has been achieved between the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum in 2007 and now.   A quick perusal of this blog’s “Archives” folder for  2007 or 2008 will demonstrate the point.  And thanks to Catholic Traditionalism, so many feasts of the Church that had fallen into semi- desuetude have been gloriously revived: Corpus Christi, Candlemas, All Souls. There have been bitter losses to be sure – we all know parishes that once welcomed the “Extraordinary Form” which have discontinued its celebration.  Others, however,  have taken their place.  The number and solemnity of the Traditional liturgies  in this region continues its slow but steady growth!

Thursday, May 26

Holy Innocents Church, 128 West 37th St., New York, NY, Solemn Mass and solemn outdoor procession around mid-town Manhattan, 6:00 pm, festive reception to follow.

Our Lady of Pompeii Church, 240 Bleeker St., New York, NY, Solemn Mass, 6:30 pm, reception following.

(Sponsored by the Catholic Artists Society (This is their annual Mass for Artists))

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 448 East 116th St., New York, Ny, Solemn Mass,  outdoor procession concluding with solemn Benediction. 7:00 pm

(The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny is Sponsoring this Solemn Mass and Procession.)

St. Anthony of Padua, Jersey City, NJ, 7:00 pm

External Feast: Sunday, May 29

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, Solemn Mass, 10:30 am (please note time change), outdoor procession through the streets of Norwalk, Benediction, followed by picnic lunch on the grounds of the church –  please bring your own picnic.

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, CT,  high mass, 2 pm, outdoor procession
Our Lady of Peace Church, Brooklyn, NY,  Solemn Mass at 9:30 am with an outdoor procession.  (The celebrant will be Bishop James Massa.)

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY, Missa Cantata, Procession and Benediction, 3 pm.

Also this weekend:

Friday, May 27 

“Like the octave of some great feast”: Perspectives on the musical life of English Catholics under Elizabeth”
at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Ave. Manhattan.

Lecture at 5:30 pm by Samuel Schmitt, Ph.D., with live musical examples provided by Grant and Priscilla Herreid and Charles Weaver

Solemn Mass in the traditional Dominican rite at 7 pm, featuring the Missa Regali of Robert Fayrfax performed by the Schola of St. Hugh under the direction of Charles Weaver

A festive reception will follow mass

(The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny is Sponsoring this Lecture and Solemn Mass.)

Father Thomas Rosica, PR assistant to the Vatican and aggressive proponent of the Francis agenda, is visiting Brooklyn. In the past he has often clashed with pro-life forces,  especially on the internet. He has this to say of his critics – including liturgical Traditionalists:

“Many of my non-Christian and non-believing friends have remarked to me that we ‘Catholics’ have turned the Internet into a cesspool of hatred, venom and vitriol, all in the name of defending the faith!”

Often times the obsessed, scrupulous, self-appointed, nostalgia-hankering virtual guardians of faith or of liturgical practices are very disturbed, broken and angry individuals, who never found a platform or pulpit in real life and so resort to the Internet and become trolling pontiffs and holy executioners!” Rosica said.

“In reality they are deeply troubled, sad and angry people,” he said. “We must pray for them, for their healing and conversion!”

It’s the vintage, inimitable style of Francis: pouring personal abuse and calumny on opponents – almost exclusively Catholics – while whining about the alleged injuries these enemies have inflicted.  But it’s been the modus operandi of progressives and “liberals” forever.

Thank goodness Pope Francis has had an entirely different approach!

“Prior to Pope Francis, when many people on the street were asked: ‘What is the Catholic Church all about? What does the pope stand for?’ The response would often be, ‘Catholics, well they are against abortion, gay marriage and birth control’,” Rosica said.

“Today I dare say that the response is somewhat different,” Rosica said.

“What do they say about us now? What do they say about the pope?

People are speaking about our leader who is unafraid to confront the sins and evils that have marred us,” he continued.

“We have a pope who is concerned about the environment, about mercy, compassion and love, and a deep passion, care and concern for the poor and for displaced peoples roaming the face of this earth,” he added. “Pope Francis has won over a great part of the media.”

The pontiff “has changed the image of the church so much that prestigious graduate schools of business and management are now using him as a case study in rebranding,” the priest added.

So “our leader” confronts the sins and evils that have marred “us” (the Catholic Church?) And he has won over  “a great part” of the (secular) media and “prestigious schools of business and management.”  “Abortion, gay marriage and birth control” no longer are issues, apparently. Rarely has the entirely secular course of Francis been as blatantly presented.  I also seem to recall that the (alleged) Founder of this Church had an entirely different view of pleasing the world and seeking to conform to the opinion of men.

In conclusion,  of course, “who am I to judge?” We can no longer say any individual is sinning:

“May our way of communicating help to overcome the mind-set that neatly separates sinners from the righteous,” he said. “We can and we must judge situations of sin – such as violence, corruption and exploitation – but we may not judge individuals, since only God can see into the depths of their hearts.”

SOURCE

Father Rosica is in Brooklyn to receive an award: “Rosica was presented with the Brooklyn Diocese’s St. Francis DeSales Distinguished Communicator Award by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (of Brooklyn). And the fawning, uncritical report from which we have quoted was prepared by Crux staff (Crux  (John Allen) is now sponsored by the Knights of Columbus). So the Catholic Establishment, lay and clerical, is making its peace with the most aggressive supporters of the Francis “revolution.” You should remember that – if you are a Traditionalist – when  donation time comes…..

In the EF.

There is a daily traditional mass (low mass) every morning, Monday through Saturday,  at 7:30am at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 70 Park Hill Avenue, Yonkers, N.Y.   For details,call Father Salvatori at 914-433-8596 or at 914-963-4766.

For the TLM. From Fox News:

Veiled women, incense, Gregorian chants, kneeling, standing, kneeling again, long periods of silence — think all of this is a scene from a Catholic Mass in 1950?

It was then, to be sure — but it is now also happening every Sunday, and in some places every day, in churches all over the United States. The Latin Mass of years gone by is becoming more popular again.

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Alfonso DiGirolamo, a lifelong Catholic, started a website, GetTLM.org, to help parishioners bring the Traditional Latin Mass to their own parish. The website includes videos that explain what to expect when attending the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, and it shares resources to help formally introduce parishes to the TLM.

DiGirolamo has been attending the TLM in Philadelphia for more than four years. He learned how to serve as a master of ceremonies for it, which means he’s the adult male altar server who responds in Latin on behalf of the congregation during the Mass and helps direct the altar boys. He explained, “Between the reverence, the prayers, and the adoring respect for the Holy Eucharist, it has become an essential part of my and our prayer life, which is just not available, even in the most reverent, in the Ordinary Form.”

Complete Article HERE.