In the midst of the wild gaiety of Covent Garden a Solemn Requiem Mass in the evening in an old church – Corpus Christi in Maiden Lane.

On Veterans Day, 11/11/2008 at 7:00 PM a Sung Requiem Gregorian Mass will be celebrated at St. Matthias Church, 58-15 Catalpa Avenue, Ridgewood NY 11385. A full choir will sing Gabriel Faure’s Requiem.
The church is easily accessible from the “M” train at Forest Ave.
The church phone number is 718-821-6447. Anyone who needs directions can email our correspondent: kclaib@yahoo.com.

Connecticut

Sacred Heart Church, 190 Columbus Avenue, New Haven, CT, All Souls Day, Nov. 3, High Mass, 7:30 pm

St. Bridget of Kildare Church, Moodus, CT, Missa Cantata, All Saints Day, 10:00 am. directions

New York

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY,
Nov. 1, low Mass, 2 pm
Nov. 3, All Souls Day, Gregorian Mass of the Dead, 7pm
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St. Matthew Church, 35 North Service Rd., Dix Hills, NY, All Saints Day, Missa Cantata, 9:00 am. parish chapel.

Church of Holy Innocents, 37th St. between 6th and 7th Avenues, Manhatten, All Saints Day, Missa Cantata, 1 pm

St. Agnes Church, 143 E. 43rd St., Manhatten, Nov. 3, All Souls Day, 6:15 pm

New Jersey

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 259 Oliver St., Newark, NJ, Sunday, Nov. 2, Solemn High Requiem Mass, 10 am

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, 32 West Franklin Ave., Pequannock, NJ
Nov. 1: 7,9, 11 am
Nov. 3: 7,8,9,11,noon, 7 pm

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We are interested in hearing about any Traditional masses in the Tri-State area.

The Traditional mass returned to the Dominican Church of St. Mary for the first time since the 1960s for the feast of Christ the King. The congregation filled the church and the music by the choir of the St. Gregory society was, as usual, close to perfection. This was a one-off event; let us pray that this mass leads to a more permanent presence of the Traditional mass at St. Mary’s.

It was a remarkable weekend for the Traditional Mass in Connecticut. On this glorious Autumn Sunday Solemn masses were celebrated in Norwalk and New Haven; sung traditional masses were celebrated in Waterbury and Moodus. A magnificent solemn high Mass was celebrated the day before in Stamford. Some of these masses involved the same personnel; a further solemn High Mass planned for Stamford on this feast had to be deferred simply because all trained servers were involved in one or more of the other masses. And these are only the masses that I know of!

As remarkable as the number of these services is the extraordinary level of sophistication in the ceremony, the music, the preaching etc. It is no exaggeration to say that the experience today of the Traditional Roman Rite at these services far surpasses what a congregation of a “normal” parish heard and saw prior to Vatican II.

Father Paul Keller, O.P. spoke on Summorum Pontificum at the reception following the mass.

Saturday,October 25 at St. John the Evangelist Church, Stamford, CT.

The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury will be celebrating a sung Traditional Mass for the feast of Christ the King at 6pm, Sunday, October 26. The Schola Cantorum will sing the Byrd Mass for Three Voices and motets as well as the propers.

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Eamon Duffy, the noted historian, will speak on Mary Tudor, England’s first ruling queen, and Cardinal Reginald Pole, Catholic reformer and Archbishop of Canterbury, who died 450 years ago this year. A sung requiem mass and concert, both with music from the Tudor Age, shall precede Professor Duffy’s address. All of these events are free to the public and will take place on Monday, November 17, 2008 at Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan.

The “Requiem Mass” will most likely be Novus Ordo (including some peculiar local customs of the parish) with fine music. Prof. Duffy requires no introduction to traditionalists. His work on the early reformation in England, The Stripping of the Altars, is the best work I know of on the role of the liturgy in the concrete daily life of Catholic culture and religion – and how that religion can be destroyed through manipulation of the liturgy. He has followed that up with several more specialized studies on 16th century Catholic culture in parish life and prayer books. I will not conceal that, outside of his specific field of historical and liturgical studies, Prof. Duffy adheres to the left wing of Catholic liberalism and is (accordingly) a favored commentator on things Catholic for the Tablet and the BBC. But it will be a privilege to hear his insights on the short lived Catholic renaissance under Queen Mary and Cardinal Pole, of which Prof. Duffy has already written favorably in The Stripping of the Altars.

For more information on the talk, the service and the music as well as directions please see:

Mary Tudor and Cardinal Pole

There will be a Missa Cantata this Sunday, October 26, at 10:30 am at the “new” St. Bridget of Kildare Church in Moodus, CT in celebration of the 50th Anniversary Jubilee of the new church. Fr. Gregoire Fluet will be the celebrant and the Gregorian Chants of the day will be sung by a schola of seminarians from Holy Apostle’s Seminary in Cromwell. The parish’s regular Tridentine Low Mass will also be celebrated at noon that day.

There will also be Missa Cantata sung by Fr. Fluet at 10am on All Saints Day, Saturday, November 1. A small choir will sing several polyphonic pieces and a lay schola will sing the Gregorian Chants of the day.

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On Saturday, October 25, Father Benedict Nivakoff OSB, from Monastero S. Benedetto, Italy, will celebrate his first Traditional Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church, Stamford, CT at 10 am. The deacon will be from St John Cantius, Chicago. Fr Greg Markey of St. Mary’s Norwalk will be the subdeacon. Fr. Richard Cipolla will be the assisting priest. John Pia will be the MC. The music will be Byrd Mass for four voices.

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