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The High Altar and shrine to the Madonna
Addolorata at Our Lady of Peace Church |
Palm Sunday, we celebrated Traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of Peace Church in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Blessing and distributing the palm before the church procession, Mass was sung by Fr. Christopher Cullen.
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I bought a copy of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando
Pessoa and Wlliam Blake at the Huntington by Robert N. Essick |
With some time to kill before Dr. John Rao’s Lecture at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Manhattan, we had our morning cortado at Despaña and croissant at Maman. While in the city, we picked up some much-needed art supplies at the Blick and found a couple of interesting titles at the Strand. Currently going through a renewed interest in the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), I found a copy of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro (New Direction Books, 2020), written under one of his three main heteronyms.
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| A look inside Most Holy Redeemer Church |
Arriving early to the talk, we took the opportunity to explore Most Holy Redeemer’s beautiful nave and crypt and pray before the Reliquary and Our Lady of Perpetual Help chapels.
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| The statues and Crucifix in the Sanctuary were veiled in violet cloth. Signifying Christ's hiding from the Jews until he entered Jerusalem (commemorated of Palm Sunday), they will remain covered until the Glória is sung on Holy Saturday, which signals the end of Lent and the beginning of Eastertide |
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| (L-R) The Reliquary and Our Lady of Perpetual Help chapels |
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| (L-R) Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and ex-voto |
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| Altar in the crypt |
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A half-hidden stained glass window depicting
the Resurrection of Christ in the church crypt |
Joining our friends in the meeting room, we listened to and discussed Dr. Rao’s riveting and revealing talk, “The Grand Coalition of the Status Quo and the Temptation to Obey the Zeitgeist: 1000s-1500s.” Most of Dr. Rao’s writings can be found at For the Whole Christ and his lectures (including this one) can be heard on Soundcloud.
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| While exploring the church, we ran into Dr. Rao preparing for his lecture |
