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September 24, 2021Ordinariate Solemn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, organized by The Durandus Institute, is broadcasting on social media from St. Vincent Ferrer church in New York City the Friday, September 24 at 7 p.m.
This is the first Mass in New York City ever celebrated with the Divine Worship missal, the Ordinariate use of the Roman Rite that reflects its Anglican patrimony. This Ordinariate Solemn Mass can be watched via St. Vincent Ferrer’s Facebook page or their YouTube channel.
The Mass is organized by the Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy and Music, an apostolate for evangelizing through the beauty of the sacred liturgy in its many forms, and is held at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, the headquarters of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph.
The Mass celebrates the Virgin Mary’s apparition in 1061 to Lady Richeldis de Faverches, whom the Virgin Mary instructed to build a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth in Walsingham. The Walsingham pilgrimage would become one of the most popular pilgrimage destinations in Christendom until its destruction under King Henry VIII in 1538. Walsingham became a place of pilgrimage again in the late 19th and early 20th century, with Our Lady of Walsingham being venerated by both Catholics and Anglicans alike. She is of particular importance to Catholics of the Anglican tradition in the Ordinariates, which have the Anglican patrimony in the fullness of Catholic communion with the Pope.
Fr. Armando Alejandro, Jr., an Ordinariate and parochial administrator of St. Timothy’s Catholic Church in Sykesville, Md. is the celebrant of the Mass. Dominican Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, a Catholic who also came into full communion with the Catholic Church from Anglicanism, is serving as deacon of the Mass and also preach. Dominican Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, Pastor of St. Vincent’s, is serving as Subdeacon of the Mass.
The music derives from the Anglican choral tradition, which includes Herbert Howells’s Collegium Regale Communion Service. The Schola Cantorum of St. Vincent Ferrer, regarded as one of the finest church choirs in NYC, is singing under the direction of James Wetzel. Clara Gerdes Bartz, director of music at Most Holy Redeemer in NYC, is playing the organ.
See related ACS coverage: Durandus Institute Presents Ordinariate Choral Evensong and Solemn Mass in September 2021
