All Saints, All Souls and Christ the King Photopost 2022 (Part 2)

The second part of our All Saints and All Souls photopost also includes three sets of images of celebrations on the feast of Christ the King, starting with a particularly nice set from one of our favorite photographers, Allison Girone. How encouraging it is to see such young people taking responsibility for preserving the authentic liturgical traditions of the Roman Rite, and passing them on to the coming generations - tradition will always be for the young! 

St James – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

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Bish. Schneider Celebrates Pontifical Mass in Pennsylvania

This past Sunday, His Excellency Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Maria Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan, celebrated a solemn Pontifical Mass at the very full church of St Joseph in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Allison Girone was there, working together with her daughter-in-law Alyssa to take these beautiful photos, and we thank them for sharing them with us. (The full album of about 600 photos can be seen here.) Two of our other frequent collaborators were also present, James Griffin of the Durandus Institute, who served as the subdeacon, and photographer Arrys Ortañez (just attending this time.) As always, it is extremely encouraging to see how young most of the people are who putting in the hard work of preserving and promoting our Catholic liturgical tradition. Meet the guardians of the tradition!

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Corpus Christi 2015 - Third Photopost, from Sacra Liturgia in New York

Once again, we are grateful to Mr Arrys Ortanez for sharing some of his great photographs with us, this time from the celebration of Corpus Christi as part of the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in New York City. The Mass was celebrated by H.E. Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, with Bishop John O’Hara attending in choir and delivering the sermon. The Blessed Sacrament procession then went from the Church of St Catherine, where the Mass was celebrated, through the streets of New York to the Dominican church of St Vincent Ferrer, concluding with Benediction.

We can only post a small selection of the photos here; do go and check out the rest of them (over 100), which Mr Ortanez has made publicly accessible, as they give a better idea not only of the ceremony itself, but also the large number of clergy and faithful in attendance.

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Solemn High Mass in NYC for the Feast of St Mark

The tireless Mr Arrys Ortanez was kind enough to send us a link to his very large photoset of a Solemn High Mass celebrated on the feast of St Mark at the Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, the second Spanish church in the city. The Mass was sponsored by the Society of St Hugh of Cluny, and accompanied by music of classical Spanish artists; afterwards, there was a visit to the museum of the Hispanic Society of America. I just don’t have room to include all of Arrys’ excellent photographs, but here is a small selection; you can check out the rest at the link given above. The Museum has a fine collection of Spanish art, including a number of liturgical objects.

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