A Solemn Mass was celebrated yesterday at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Harlem to celebrate the patronal feast day.

Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament concluded the Mass.

In New Jersey:

We read that the influential blog Messainlatino.it has been removed by Google, much to the joy of the Church establishment in Germany, which interprets this action as one further step in the (continuing)war against the TLM. This view has a degree of plausibility, but seems to indicate that Google acted upon the instigation of Church authorities. For Messainlatino confined itself almost entirely to ecclesiastical issues revolving around the TLM, in contrast to two other sites (kreuz.net and LifeSitenews) whose advocacy on politcal and social issues came into conflict with the secular and Church establishments (Of course, LifeSite News itself has been in the news again this week!). Over the years we have referred to Messainlatino many times – since 2007 it has become an invaluable source of information. Messainlatino is taking legal action against this preposterous decision.

Please note a change in the parish’s schedule at St Mary, Norwalk, CT, during July.

Fr. Ringley will be away Monday through Friday for two weeks, returning on the weekends.

While he is away during the weeks of Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18 and Monday, July 21 – Friday, July 25 there will be no Masses, Confessions or Tuesday Adoration. 

The weekend schedule remains unchanged.

The church will be open daily from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm for private prayer.

His secretary, Leo, will be working in the parish office during Father’s vacation, so if you have any questions, please contact her.

We have just had news that Raymond Cardinal Burke has agreed to be the patron of the 14th annual Summorum Pontificum Traditional Mass Pilgrimage to Rome, which will take place from October 24-26. More information about the pilgrimage: https://en.summorum-pontificum.org

The Feast of Corpus Christi is Thursday, June 19. The following churches will have Traditional Masses

Thursday June 19:

Connecticut

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 12:10 pm Low Mass

Immaculate Conception High School Chapel, Danbury, 6 pm Solemn Mass followed by procession and Benediction.

Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport: 6 pm Solemn Mass and Eucharistic procession with Benediction at an outside altar.

St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 6pm  High Mass & Eucharistic Procession to bring the Real Presence of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament to the neighborhood surrounding our parish. Please note that there will be no 8am Low Mass that day. Following the procession, join us for a light reception in the church hall. 

New York

Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 6 pm Missa Cantata followed by outdoor procession with triple Benediction. (On the seven days following the Feast of Corpus Christi, a 2nd class votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament may be celebrated (when the Liturgical Calendar permits) followed by a Eucharistic procession. This option will be done beginning on Friday, June 20 until Thursday June 26 (with the exception of Monday, June 23 which is the Vigil of St. John the Baptist and Tuesday, June 24 which is the Feast of St. John the Baptist, which outrank the 2nd Class Votive Mass) at the 6:00 p.m. Mass, which will be offered Coram Sanctissimo).

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY, 5:00 PM Set up of Outdoor Altars, 6:00 PM Confessions, 7:00 PM Corpus Christi Mass, 8:00 PM Outdoor Eucharistic Procession with Benediction at Outdoor Altars

St. Josaphat Church, Bayside, Queens, 7 pm Mass followed by procession

St. Margaret of Cortona, Riverdale, Bronx, 6 pm Solemn Mass followed by Eucharistic procession

St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 12 noon

Annunciation Church, Crestwood, NY, 7pm Mass & Procession Thur. June 19th.

Sacred Heart Church, Esopus, 11:30 am

New Jersey

Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, 7 pm Mass followed by a procession

Our Lady of Fatima, Pequannock, 9 am, 7 pm

St Anthony of Padua, West Orange, 9 am Low Mass; 7 pm High Mass followed by a procession

St. John the Baptist, Allentown, 7 pm Solemn Mass followed by an outdoor procession and start of 40 hours adoration of Our Lord continuing through the night until Saturday closing with a 1 pm Mass

Transferred Feast: Sunday June 22:

Connecticut

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 10 am Solemn Mass

Georgetown Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Redding, CT, 12 noon followed by procession

New York

Holy Innocents Church, New York, NY, 9 AM; 10:30 AM High Mass followed by Eucharistic Procession in the church and Benediction

Our Lady of Peace, Carroll Street Brooklyn, 9:15 am, Missa Cantata with Procession to follow

St. Josaphat Church, Bayside, Queens, 9:30 am

St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers, 2:30 pm

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, 4 pm Missa Cantata followed by a procession and a convivium.

New Jersey

Our Lady of Fatima, Pequannock, 7 am, 9 am, 11 am Mass followed by a procession, 1:30 pm, 5 pm

Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, 11 am Mass followed by a procession, Benediction and picnic

A large fire destroyed a historic church that was beloved by the community – St. John the Baptist Church in Maria Stein(!). It was one of a number of Catholic churches in that region of Ohio which were built by German immigrants.

Steeple collapses after fire rips through historic Catholic church (WHIO -TV 7, 5/29/2025; with many photos)

Is this not as potent a symbol of the Catholic Church today as was the 2019 fire in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris? Particularly when the Catholic clerical, liturgical establishment is mustering its forces in and outside the United States for a decisive battle with both Traditionalism and “reform of the reform.”

Coincidentally Charles Coulombe has just published in Crisis an acccount of the crack-up of traditional American culture taking as its starting point the burning of historic Nottoway plantation in Louisiana.

Coulombe, Charles, “The Burning of Nottoway and the New Pope: American Identity and the Future of Catholicism,” Crisis Magazine (5/30/2025)

For the destruction of this magnificent 1859 mansion was greeted with indifference by most people, with equivocation by local poltical and cultural leaders and even with satisfaction by others. For to them this house was a symbol of an evil American past.

Mr. Coulombe thinks the end of our inherited Protestant American society and culture may open the door to a new Catholic revival. But how is a Church also at war with its own culture, history and beliefs going to accomplish this? For the Church of the Council is not an alternative, but the mirror image of Western, secular society – which it tries so hard to emulate. That is the ultimate origin of the liturgical war recently launched by the hierarchy in the Charlotte diocese. The burning of St. John the Baptist church in Ohio is a most telling sign – an “ideogram” (Ezra Pound!) – of Catholic disarray.