Immaculate Conception Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY had a Solemn Mass for Palm Sunday. It was their first Solemn Mass in ten years. The photo is courtesy of Ann Whelan.
The Palm Sunday liturgy began in the church this year with the blessing and distribution of palms. The procession followed outside around the perimeter of the church grounds. A congregation of over 400 attended the liturgy which lasted almost 3 hours (including the procession). The reading of the Passion, featured three cantors and the schola cantorum, which sang the polyphonic turba settings by Tomás Luis de Victoria. The extensive chanting and polyphonic motets, which involved three of St. Mary’s choirs, were particularly beautiful and well-rehearsed.
Deacon Stephan Genovese, Father John Ringley, the celebrant, and Subdeacon Bill Riccio enter the sanctuary
Blessing the Palms
The Children’s Schola, led by David Hughes chants from the vestibule of the church
The Holy Gospel
“Procedamus in pace”
The subdeacon bangs on the door to the church thrice with the cross and all enter.
After the procession vestments and altar frontispiece are changed to purple
Father Cipolla, Father Ringley and Father Markey chant the Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew
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Window in St. Paul’s Church, 121 E. 117th St., New York
The following churches in the area have scheduled Traditional Masses and liturgies for Holy Week. Please let us know about any that are not included here and we will post the schedule.
St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT
April 1, Palm Sunday: 9:30 Solemn Mass beginning with an outdoor procession
Missa O Rex gloriæ (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594), Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum (polyphonic turba settings by Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
April 4, Spy Wednesday: 7 pm Low Mass, 8 pm Solemn Office of Tenebrae
April 5, Holy Thursday: 7 pm Solemn Mass of the Last Supper, followed by adoration until Midnight, 9 pm, Stripping of the Altars and visit to the seven churches of Norwalk
Missa Pange lingua (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
April 6, Good Friday: 3 pm, Lord’s Passion
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem (polyphonic turba settings by William Byrd, 1540-1623)
April 7, Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil at 8 pm, Solemn Mass
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
April 8,Easter Sunday, 9:30 am Solemn Mass
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, Stamford, CT
Palm Sunday, 8:30 am
Easter Sunday, 8:30 am, Low Mass
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport
Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, 10:15.
St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, CT
Palm Sunday: 2 pm, Blessing of Palms, Procession, and Solemn Mass
Missa Je suis Desheritee by Orlando di Lasso
Good Friday, 12 noon, Lessons and Collects, Chanting of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross, Mass of the Presanctified
Easter Sunday, 2 pm, Solemn Mass and Benediction
Missa Regina Caelis by Palestrina
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, 74 West Main St, Waterbury CT
Easter Sunday, 6 pm
St. Margaret Church, Willow St, Waterbury CT
Easter Sunday, 10:30am
Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Palm Sunday, 3 pm, Blessing of Palms, Procession, Solemn High Mass and Luncheon Reception
Easter Sunday, 3pm, Missa Cantata
Church of the Holy Innocents, New York, NY
Palm Sunday – Solemn Mass at 10AM
Holy Monday – Mass at 6PM
Holy Tuesday – Mass at 6PM
Holy Wednesday – Sung Mass at 6PM
Holy Thursday – Solemn Mass at 7:30PM; all night vigil with Tenebræ at 11:30PM
Good Friday – Solemn Mass of the Pre-Sanctified at 3PM
Holy Saturday – Solemn Easter Vigil at 9:30pm
Easter Sunday – Mass at 10 am
Church of Our Saviour, New York, NY
Palm Sunday, 9 am
Easter Sunday, 9 am
Church Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, New York, NY
Palm Sunday, 9 45 am
Easter Sunday, 10 am.
Our Lady of Peace Church, Brooklyn
Easter Sunday, 9:30 am
St. Matthew’s Church, Dix Hills Long Island
Palm Sunday, 9 am, High Mass
Easter Sunday, 9 am, High Mass
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Pequannock, NJ
The Sacred Triduum will be held at Holy Cross Church, 17 Van Duyne Avenue, Wayne, NJ
Holy Thursday, 6 pm, preceded by Confessions for one hour, followed by Adoration until Midnight
Good Friday, 3 pm, Mass of the Presanctified, preceded by Confessions for one hour
Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil, 10 pm, preceded by Confessions for one hour
Easter Sunday Masses will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Chapel
Easter Sunday, 7 am, 9 am, 11:00 Missa Cantata
St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, West Orange, NJ
Palm Sunday: 7:30 a.m. Low Mass, 10:00 a.m. High Mass, No 9 a.m or 11 a.m. Masses.
Each Holy Mass is preceded by Palm Blessing, distribution and a short procession.
Maundy Thursday: 8:00 a.m. Tenebrae, 6:00 p.m. Confessions
7:00 p.m. Solemn High Mass of the Institution of the Holy Eucharist including the Gospel of the Washing of Feet
8:30 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration at the Altar of Repose
Good Friday: 8:00 a.m. Tenebrae
2:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross & Confessions
3:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion & Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Holy Saturday: 8:00 a.m. Tenebrae, 8:00 p.m. Confessions
9:00 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass
Easter Sunday: 7:30 a.m. Low Mass, 9:00 a.m. Low Mass with Hymns, 11:00 a.m. High Mass
Holy Rosary Church, Jersey City, NJ
Palm Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Blessing of palms & Missa Cantata
Good Friday 4:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion & Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Easter Sunday 9:45 a.m. Solemn High Mass
Schubert’s Mass in G, Gregorian chant propers
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The Annunciation, Window at Holy Innocents Church
Yesterday a magnificent Solemn Pontifical Mass was celebrated at Holy Innocents Church, New York. It was denominated a “mass for life” – very appropriately, since this church is the shrine of the unborn victims of abortion. The celebrant was James C. Timlin, bishop emeritus of Scranton. Assisting him were Father James L.P. Miara, Deacon, Father Michael C. Barone, Subdeacon, and Father Jean-Marie Moreau (Institute of Christ the King Soveriegn Priest), Assistant Priest. Need I mention that the music and conduct of the ceremonies were of the highest order? The polyphony was conducted by Pedro D’Aquino. The chant was directed by Charles Weaver. David Hughes was the organist. The music featured the Missa O Soberana Luz by Filipe de Magalhaes. The masters of ceremonies were Eddy Toribio and Jeffrey Collins. The mass was sponsored by the Agnus Dei and Regina Coeli councils of the Knights of Columbus.
The sanctuary was shrouded in drapery as the restoration of the apse murals proceeds.
Confirmation in the old rite was administered by Bishop Timlin prior to the mass.
The “slap” once dreaded by boys in days of yore…
The vesting for Mass.
Bishop Timlin recalled the five words with which the founder of Christendom College began every class: “Truth Exists. The Incarnation happened.” He spoke of the current troubles in Ireland and of the daunting task facing Archbishop Charles Brown, a priest of the New York Archdiocese, the new Nuncio there. It is a crisis that culminated in the closing of the Irish embassy to the Vatican. How tragic, because in the case of both Bishop Timlin and Archbishop Brown the faith was handed down to them by their Irish parents and forbears. Faith is something that is handed down to us by others (Tradition!). And the very start of that chain of transmitted faith was the feast celebrated today: the Annunciation.
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St. Malachy’s Church, New York
New York’s Agnus Dei and Regina Coeli councils of the Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a Pontifical Mass for Life on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 26 6:00 PM at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York. His Excellency, James C. Timlin, bishop emeritus of Scranton, will celebrate the Pontifical Mass and administer Confirmation in the ancient form in a separate ceremony beforehand.
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This evening the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum held its annual fund-raising concert featuring music appropriate to the Lenten season. The chant Media Vita of Notker of St. Gallen (also sung in a Sarum variant) introduced Gombert’s Missa Media Vita. There followed other works in both chant and polypony including the tragic Ne irascaris Domine of Byrd and In Jejunio et Fletu of Tallis – both of which were created in the time of dire persecution of English Catholics. The St. Mary’s Schola under David Hughes’ direction has reached a level of rare perfection in both chant and sacred polyphony. Those wishing to experience this music or who desire to hear more should attend the 9:30 Solemn Traditional mass at St. Mary’s each Sunday!
Mary Rose Garych
Judith Malafronte
Terence Fay
Richard Dobbins (right); Terence Fay.
Charles Weaver
David Hughes
David Hughes
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(above) St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church New York
Martin Mosebach and the Madonna of Lourdes
By Dr. Alexander Kissler
How can you recognize a conservative revolutionary? What would he have to do not to be a mere historical phenomenon? He would have to stand in contradiction to the “spirit of the times” from carefully thought out reasons. He would have to love the Present so much that he wants to overthrow it with the means that the Past offers. He would have to have been saturated with that which he opposes and to yearn for that which once was – and therefore speak more or less like Martin Mosebach did on the “Artists’ Ash Wednesday” in the Munich Muffathalle.
The Cardinal Archbishop gave the invitation. Artists, employees of the diocese and PR-people had come and stood at bar tables in the hall which is usually used for pop and rock concerts. There were pretzels, bread, sandwiches and water. High up on the walls of both sides of the hall were TV screens which later showed a stream of dark colors with blue dominating. Up front were chairs for the invited and sometimes aged clerical VIPs. In front of them was the stage and above it a screen. It offered a film about ten minutes long which recorded how a dance troupe threw ashes on the floor of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich – and then danced on them.
When the lights came back on in the hall, Mosebach presented his “In Praise of Our Lady of Lourdes”, a daring undertaking. The Madonna of Lourdes doesn’t have a good reputation among those “educated, art-loving and literate people” precisely “in our circles” which Mosebach now identified as his own background, and which was probably that of the majority in the hall.
The “West European liturgy experts of the Twentieth Century” – criticized by Mosebach in his lecture – and the “higher levels of the hierarchy, papal councils for the arts and similar venerable institutions” – likewise criticized by Mosebach – have also passed judgment. The Madonna of Lourdes is kitsch and should be repudiated.
Mosebach did not dispute this judgment but took it seriously. Yes, that could very well be so. But how is it then – so runs the author’s cunning reflections – that the same experts and councils and hierarchs don’t have any problem with other forms of kitsch? For example, with the “barren,” the “sour” and the “green” kitsch, with the kitsch of “concern” and that of “authenticity?”
Hardly a single contemporary expert in art and/or ecclesiastical art flies into a rage over “concrete churches.” Rather, among them it is the “small, sweetly made up doll face” of the Madonna of Lourdes that becomes the symbol of resistance. The “believing people” rise up with her against the imposed “individualism and subjectivism” to which modern art has been abandoned. With the Madonna of Lourdes popular piety rebels against compulsory abstraction and thus practices a powerful “re-iconification” from below. The Madonna of Lourdes is the icon of the West.
What distinguishes an icon? That it does not owe its existence to the invention of an artist, that it doesn’t even want to be art at all, but rather is of divine origin. So it is with the icons of the East that derive from the “cloth of cloths” with the countenance of Christ. So it is with the icon of the West which originated with the visions of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. Since then, wherever the Madonna of Lourdes stands there is the Catholic Church. In the face of such power of assertion – and how gentle is this force! – every judgment of taste regarding her shrivels away to highly petty, personal feelings of attraction or repulsion.
Moreover, in the East an icon is always made according to “strict laws;” it is “always another and yet always the same.” It banishes all that is contingent in favor of fixed forms and accordingly has a downright anti-subjective character. The Madonna of Lourdes is the same. These icons are revered by the people as a conscious renunciation of individualism, but are regarded with suspicion by the theologians and artists of the West.
In this way, according to Mosebach, Our Lady of Lourdes heals a break in cultural history. A thousand year old “special path” (Sonderweg) of the West – the renunciation of the “Tradition of the images of the Ancient Church” – ends with the white woman in the attitude of prayer, bearing the rosary over her folded hands. One can therefore conclude that the so often ridiculed Madonna of Lourdes anticipates a unity which does not (yet ) exist theologically. She is the pledge of the hope for a reconciliation of the Western and Eastern Churches of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and ultimately its preemptive real presence. Spe Salvi!
But doesn’t the fact that she is the industrial product of the assembly line speak against this smiling lady, who is usually made of plaster? Mosebach concluded his talk with this utterance of crystal: Yes, she, the Madonna of Lourdes, is indeed a mass produced image, but “who dares to assert that we deserve anything better?”
St Francis Church New York
Translated by Stuart Chessman. By kind Permission of Dr. Alexander Kissler. Original of 03/05/2012 HERE.
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