The events at St. Mary’s Greenwich include a Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at 7:30 pm on Wed. May 4, with Fr. George Rutler as homilist.

For the “Year of Mercy.” The pilgrimage started with a procession through an adjacent city park. Unfortunately it seems that most of the park’s many cherry trees had already bloomed.

The pilgrims conclude their walk on a rainy day with the recitation of the Rosary before the cathedral.

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Newark, begun in 1899 and completed in 1954, is one of the largest in North America. Regrettably it attracts few visitors nowadays, primarily because of security concerns, although it is very easy to reach from main roads and parking is abundant. The cathedral was eventually completed in a style derived from 13th century French Gothic cathedrals with an admixture of other elements. For example, the towers, angled to the facade, are reminiscent of those of the church of Ingolstadt, Germany (15th century)

The cathedral is remarkable for the superabundance of sculptural detail, woodcarving, fine metal work and stained glass. The stained glass, from Munich Germany, was the largest order that the Franz Zettel firm of Munich ever received. (Along with the Mayer firm (with which it eventually merged) Franz Zettel supplied innumerable American churches with stained glass into the 1950’s.

(Below) Even the stands to hold restraining ropes are elaborately detailed!

(Above) The cathedral has three rose windows, including the second largest in North America (after that of St. John the Divine in New York)

(Below) Greeted by chant from within the cathedral, the pilgrimage procession enters through the “holy door.”

(Above and below) The pilgrimage was greeted and then blessed by Archbishop Myers. It is a far cry from the reception Traditionalists used to receive in Catholic Cathedrals(one thinks of the earlier years of the Chartres pilgrimage – both in Chartres and Paris)

(above) A large congregation was in attendance.

(Above) Canon Jean-Marie Moreau, ICRSS, was celebrant, homilist and leader of the pilgrimage

(Above) A photo op for the assembled liturgical forces.

(above and below) David Hughes led the musical forces from the sanctuary.

At the procession: Improvisation
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady in Paschaltide: Salve sancta parens
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (with versets after Victoria)
Motet at the Communion: Beata viscera (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

As at the annual Chartres pilgrimage, the Newark pilgrimage for the year of mercy concluded with the singing of “Chez Nous soyez Reine.”

Traditional Latin Requiem Mass Scheduled for Mother Angelica of EWTN-TV Fame…
JERSEY CITY – The Latin Mass Community of Jersey City announces the celebration of a Month’s Mind Requiem Mass for Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA who died on Easter Sunday. The Month’s Mind Mass will take place on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00PM at historic St. Anthony of Padua Church located in the downtown section of the city.
Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo in Canton, Ohio on April 20, 1923. She entered the contemplative Franciscan Order of Poor Clares in 1944 and was best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.
In 1981, Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage on the grounds of her monastery in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media. Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death at age 92 on March 27, 2016.
The Month’s Mind Mass refers to the traditional practice of offering a Mass for the dead thirty days after the person’s death or burial for the repose of his soul. The Traditional Requiem differs significantly from what most Catholics experience when attending Funerals Masses today. Besides the use of Latin those in attendance will immediately notice the color of the vestments worn by the priest are black, not white and the Mass is celebrated at the main altar while facing Liturgical East. At the end of Mass there is a final blessing at the catafalque which is a coffin-like object surrounded by candles representing the deceased.
The celebrant of the Mass is Rev. Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D. who worked with Mother Angelica when producing a series for EWTN. The resident choir, Cantantes in Cordibus will sing the beautiful Renaissance Requiem Mass by the Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales. Mass Programs in Latin and English will be available for the congregation

On Friday, May 27, at 5:30 PM our Society will be sponsoring a lecture by Mr. Sam Schmitt:

” ‘Like the octave of some great feast’: Musical Life of English Catholics under Elizabeth.”

(The quotation is a paraphrase from a passage in the autobiography of the Jesuit William Weston, describing his time in the house of Richard Bold, where William Byrd joined them for a time and they had sung mass with choir.)

The presentation will take place in the church hall of St. Vincent Ferrer parish in New York City. Mr Schmitt’s lecture will be illustrated by the performance of works of the recusant musical culture of the Elizabethan era.

Following the lecture, at 7:00 PM a Solemn High Mass in the Dominican rite will be celebrated in the magnificent church of St. Vincent Ferrer. The music will include examples of English polyphony of the 16th century. A reception will follow.

We are proud to be able to sponsor this splendid Mass and the preceding lecture; we hope as many of you as possible can attend!

By Manya Brachear Pashman
Chicago Tribune

April 19, 2016

“Threatened with the wrecking ball in 1988, St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, with its opulent baroque interior, stands as one of Chicago’s many symbols of resurrection.

But the introduction of the “Sacred 64″ bracket quickly changed that. By April 7, four days after the contest debuted, the blog was up to 70,000 views from 3,500 visitors. It had about 7,000 visitors Saturday, the day St. John Cantius took the title.”

Patrick Murray (the blogger):

“It had an extraordinary impact on my faith,” he said. “That was my first time ever understanding that we have this great Catholic heritage of art and tradition and liturgy that’s all so important, and through baptism it’s mine.”

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE.

America’s most beautiful church? Well – I don’t know about that. There are quite a few other candidates – think of Manhattan’s St. Vincent Ferrer. But having visited this Chicago shrine, I can testify that St. John Cantius is a magnificent church and parish. Now what the article doesn’t mention, of course, is that St. John Cantius is devoted to the Traditional liturgy. This website has had for years a link to this parish. Moreover, a separate religious community has grown up around this parish which has extended its apostolate, featuring prominently the Traditional liturgy, to other parishes. Indeed, St. John Cantius resembles several other parishes – like Holy Innocents in New York City, or the Shrine of Christ the King, also in Chicago – in having “returned from the dead” on the strength of their commitment to the immemorial liturgy.

A fine group of young men, all of whom serve mass at St. Mary’s Church Norwalk, at the annual altar server dinner given this evening by the Knights of Columbus at the St. Ann Club in Norwalk.

For some Traditionalists, the 1980’s have never ended. We understand, for example, that in a city to the east of the fair town of Greenwich a Traditional  Liturgy is now celebrated every Friday in a prominent parish. It is a Low Mass, of course, and is not mentioned in said parish’s schedule of services. And in a town to the west of us, across the border, we understand that a low-profile Low Mass may still be celebrated every Sunday. It has been celebrated for years now, although, in the wake of “Making all Things New”  it is now in a different parish. You see,  a town which had four Catholic parishes in 2015 in two years will have one.

Continuing the Indult “tradition” of off-the-record Low Masses is perhaps a misunderstanding of what “Traditionalism ” means. But we would certainly like to hear more about these and other “clandestine” masses that may be out there. Perhaps the Traditionalist movement is broader than we think!