Sung Dominican Rite Requiem Mass
The Church of the Holy Innocents, Fr. Thomas Kallumady, Pastor
Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 1PM
Fr. Austin Dominic Litke O.P, NYU Catholic Center Chaplain will be the celebrant.
There will be absolution at the catafalque following the mass.
The Mass will be the Gregorian Chant Setting for Requiems.

THROUGH 129 YEARS HARLEM HONORS ITS BLESSED MOTHER

Processions, Novenas, and Prayers to Honor Our Lady of Mount Carmel, with 2nd Annual Special

Traditional Latin Pilgrimage on July 20

The Shrine Church of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel, located at 448 East 116th street in Manhattan has announced plans for its 129th Feast in honor of its patron Madonna. It has long  been the largest  sponsored religious procession in New York City, including its 2nd Annual Traditional Tridentine Latin Pilgrimage on July 20.

Drawing thousands of pilgrims to the feet of the Blessed Mother, the feast, originally created by Italian immigrants, now unites Catholics of all racial, economic and social classes in their love and devotion to Mary. I

The Vatican itself has specially recognized the Mt. Carmel Shrine. In 1904, Pope St. Pius X, following the approval of Pope Leo XIII who had just passed on, ordered that the image of the Madonna be given the right to wear a golden crown. This was done in recognition of the graces received, and prayers answered at the Shrine. This privilege, known as “incoronation”, is an extremely rare one in Catholicism, and has been granted to only five Marian images outside of Europe. Indulgences were also attached for visits to the Shrine during the Feast.

Events of the 2013 Latin Pilgrimage

10:15AM Entrance of Pilgrims  on knees

10:30AM Second entrance of Pilgrims

11:00AM Solemn Mass

1:30PM History of Shrine/ Spiritual Talk

2:00PM Rosary, followed by Investiture of Scapular/Indulgence Prayers/Benediction

Confessions available as needed

There will be a Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Sacred Heart at 6 pm tonight at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manahttan. Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ, Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University will be the celebrant. Immediately after the Mass, the monthly all-night First Friday vigil will begin with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

In the collect of the Mass for the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus we pray: “O God, Who in the Heart of Your Son, wounded by our sins, mercifully lavish upon us the infinite riches of love, grant, we beseech You, that as we offer Him the faithful service of our devotion, we may also show forth fitting reparation.” In that spirit a precariously pious little altar boy penned a pithy poetic prayer.

A Soliloquy Before a Sanctuary Lamp

Closed are my eyes, joined are my hands
Listening for the beating of the Sacred Heart
Faith seeking understanding
Returning love for Love
Kneeling before the silent tabernacle
Devotion burning like a sanctuary lamp

Belief in the Real Presence brings me here
Though I may nod during my vigil
Comforted by the Divine Prisoner
Returning love for Love
Kneeling before the silent tabernacle
Devotion burning like a sanctuary lamp

In the quiet I hear my name, like a sunbeam through the rain
Human comforts are naught; human frailty abounds
But in the tabernacle Thou art there to ease the pain
Never permit me to be separated from Thee.

Mr. Screwtape

You’re waiting for the punch line, that’s right.
Here it is: The preceding piety was inspired not by neither Aquinas nor Alacoque but rather by Susanna Hoffs and The Bangles.

That yardstick ruler is getting a little too close for comfort….

Since the election of Pope Francis the drumbeat of comment – now euphoric in regard to the future, now critical in regard to the immediately preceding papacy – from the progressive Catholics has steadily increased. What was spoken of behind closed doors before is now said out loud. For these forces feel empowered by Pope Francis. Perhaps he could be the man will erase the policies of Pope Benedict – and of John Paul II as well – and return the Catholic world to the chaotic experimentation in liturgy and morality of the 1960’s and 70’s? On his part Pope Francis is doing very little to restrain these voices who grow ever louder.

In the most recent example, Cardinal Lehmann of Mainz, leader of the German progressive episcopate, spoke out against the expansion of the Traditional liturgy in the “Tridentine rite” at a German Eucharistic conference in Cologne. In an interview with the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger the Cardinal stated:”I have the impression that the whole enthusiasm for Latin has a lot to do with prestige and the pretenses of a supposed cultural elite.” After giving a tendentious account of the recent history of the “extraordinary Form,” Lehmann claimed the increased availability of the Traditional mass has not been matched by increased demand. Lehmann is of the view that “a more intensive juxtaposition of both liturgical forms is not meaningful today – also because it has not grown from below.”

It is good that Catholics hear what the “princes of the Church” think when they feel empowered to speak out loud. “It has not grown from below” when the entire impetus for the Traditional Mass has come from the laity and committed priests wholly outside the power structures of the Catholic Church. “Demand has not grown” when Lehmann and his cronies have done everything in their power first to block Summorum Pontificum and then to discourage those wishing to make use of it. “Pretenses of a supposed cultural elite” when the Vatican and German episcopate spend fortunes trying to ingratiate themselve with the practitioners of “modern art.”

One point of Lehmann’s struck me and confirmed one of the missions that this Society has developed – although it was not its original purpose at all. We do publish a lot of photographs of traditional services – both of those we sponsor and those supported by others. It establishes a pictorial record of what has gone on in this area as Summorum Pontificum has been implemented. Now if, God forbid, gentlemen like Lehmann gain the upper hand here, their first claim will be that nothing ever happened – that no one attended the traditional mass when it was available. Pictures “worth a thousand words” will make that more difficult than usual to sustain.

Source:

(thanks to Kath.net)

The Student Schola of St. Mary Church, Norwalk will be singing a Missa cantata at the Carmelite convent in Brooklyn for the feast of the Sacred Heart this Friday at 11:30 a.m.  Fr. Michael Barone is the celebrant.    The monastery is  at 341 Highland Boulevard, just off the Jackie Robinson Parkway.

Carmelite Monastery, Brooklyn, New York
Music for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Gregorian Mass of the Sacred Heart: Cogitationes
Kyrie Rector cosmi pie (plainsong, mode ii)
Gloria: Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Hymn at the Offertory: Jesu dulcis memoria (Palestrina)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa Pater cuncta (Mass XII)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode i)

June 5, 6:30-7:30pm (Wed) (all through June)
Free Gregorian Chant classes
Location: St. Peter’s Church, 160 Main Street, Hartford

Come learn the ancient chant of the Roman Church. The fundamentals of Gregorian Chant will be taught, Learn about the four lined staff, the different notes and how to sing them. Two brief pieces in Gregorian chant will be studied, learned and perfected. Good singing technique will also be emphasized with proper pronunciation of Latin.

Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Saint Gabriel Church
Newfield Avenue
Stamford, CT
Friday, June 7th at 7:30 PM
Litany of the Sacred Heart and Benediction will follow Mass

Refreshments in the Parish Meeting Room.

It was a windy day…

The first altar – of the Indian parishioners.

The second altar (above and below)

We post pictures of the solemn Mass and procession at St. Mary’s Norwalk, 2013. All who participated experienced a liturgy almost perfect in ceremonial, music and preaching. Fr. Richard Cipolla was the celebrant, Mr Steve Genovese the Deacon and Mr. Bill Riccio the subdeacon. The massed choirs and scholae of St. Mary’s – professional, adult and children’s – were directed by Mr. David Hughes and Mr Charles Weaver.

David Hughes directing the children from the choir loft…

At ground level…

And, in conjunction with Charles Weaver, in combination with the professional schola and adult choir (above and below). The children, among other things, sang  the chant propers:
Introit [St. Cecilia trebles]
Gradual [St. Cecilia basses]
Alleluia [St. Cecilia trebles]
Sequence [tutti]
Offertorium [St. Cecilia basses]
Communio [St. Gregory trebles]

Coram Sanctissimo – the veiling at the sermon.

The monstrance veiled again at the communion.