Thursday, December 11, 7 pm,  Advent Evening of Recollection, featuring Rev. John Perricone, St. Anthony of Padua Church, Monmouth St., Betweeon 6th and 7th, Jersey City, NJ.

Friday December 12, 7 pm, Advent Lessons and Carols, St. Mary Church, Norwalk

The St. Mary’s Choir, El Coro Hispano de Santa María, The St. Mary’s Student Schola,The Regina Pacis Academy Schola.
Chants of Advent, choral motets, & congregational hymns will culminate in Adoration Benediction of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. A festive reception will follow.

Saturday December 13, 6:30 am, Rorate Mass, St. Mary Church, Greenwich, information

Saturday, December 13,10 am, Chapel of Santa Febronia at 557 5th Street, Hoboken, N.J., Sung Mass in honor of St. Lucy, information

Sunday, December 14, 3:30 pm, Vox in Rama, A Program of Sacred Christmas Music, Church of Holy Innocents, New York, NY, Solemn Vespers and Benediction, Sacred Music from Around the World

Thursday, December 18, 7 pm, Advent Evening of Recollection, Catholic Artists Society, The Catholic Center at NYU, 238 Thompson Street, New York

Evening Missa Cantata at Holy Innocents parish in New York on the Feast of of the Immaculate Conception. Father George Rutler is the celebrant.

On Saturday, December 13th at 10:00 a.m. there will be a Traditional Latin High Mass sung in honor of the feast of St. Lucy, at the Chapel of Santa Febronia at 557 5th Street, Hoboken, N.J., where her statue is venerated.

The Santa Febronia Chapel was founded in 1927 by immigrants from Patti, Sicily to honor their patroness the Virgin Martyr Saint Febronia and the Madonna of Tindari. The chapel, still the private property of the society, is one of the most important Sicilian American as well as Catholic heritage sites in the country due to its very unique history. The chapel both in its interior and exterior have been unchanged from its founding and its faux marble niched altar is a brilliant work of immigrant folk craftsmanship. The statues of Santa Febronia and Our Lady of Tindari are simply stunning.

This will be the first Traditional Mass held at the chapel since the Second Vatican Council. Proceeds from the collection will be used to restore the chapel basement destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

The Sisters of the Divine Compassion suddenly have put their White Plains campus – on the National Registrar of Historic Places – on the market. Endangered are an elementary school, a high school and the beautiful Chapel of Divine Compassion. In the chapel is the tomb of the founder of this order, Msgr. Thomas Preston, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York. His famous parish in New York, St. Ann’s, has already been destroyed – will he now lose the chapel that was his final resting place as well? The foundreess is buried in the chapel as well.

Alumnae and others are organizing to save as much as they can. They have the benefit of a video, prepared by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion themselves last year to assist in fundraising!

For more information on the – so far unavailing – campaign to save the Good Counsel Academy (the high school) and chapel see HERE.

It’s official – from Radio Vatican.

UPDATE:

Since the post on the Vatican Radio site seems to have disappeared, here is the post from Abuse Tracker:

Schweiz: Kein „Franziskus-Effekt“
SCHWEIZ
Radio Vatikan
[The numbers of Catholics in Switzerland who left the church increased slightly in most cantons during 2013.]
Die Zahl der Kirchenaustritte ist 2013 in den meisten Kantonen wieder leicht angestiegen. Das zeigt sich beim Blick auf neue Daten des Schweizerischen Pastoralsoziologischen Instituts (SPI). Es könne also nicht von einem „Franziskus-Effekt“ gesprochen werden, vielmehr belegten die neuesten Zahlen das Gegenteil, schreibt das Institut in einer Medienmitteilung. Sowohl die Kircheneintritte als auch die Kirchenaustritte weisen laut SPI „keine ‘positive’ Tendenz“ im Sinne eines starken Rückgangs bei den Austritten und einer starken Zunahme bei den Eintritten auf. Im Gegenteil sei etwa seit den letzten fünf Jahren eine Zunahme der Austritte feststellbar. Betroffen von einer stetig wachsenden Zahl von Mitgliederaustritten sind sowohl die römisch-katholische als auch die evangelisch-reformierte Kirche.

(It never existed except in the reports of Western news media – SC)

(Thanks to “Abuse Tracker“)

Norwalk, Connecticut:

(Monday, December 8 at 5:30 PM) St. Mary’s, Latin Mass
Prelude: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (Langlais)
Missa Ave sanctissima Maria (Pierre de La Rue, c.1452-1518)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Ave cujus conceptio (Nicholas Ludford, 1485-1557)
Motet at the Communion: Ave vera virginitas (Ave cujus conceptio, secund pars) (Ludford)
Postlude: Fantasie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (Tournemire)

Bronx, NY:

(Monday, December 8 at 10:00 AM.) St. Anthony’s Church

Brooklyn, New York:

(Monday, December 8, 2014 at 7:00PM) Church of St. Cecilia: Solemn High Mass. Fr. Joseph Zwosta will celebrate the mass and other clergy from the diocese of Brooklyn will assist at the altar.

New York, New York:

(Monday, December 8 at 8:00 AM: 6:00 PM) Holy Innocents Church, Latin Mass

Sleepy Hollow, New York:
(Monday,December 8, at 5:00PM) Immaculate Conception Church, Low Mass.