Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass Photopost 2021 (Part 5)

With our last Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass photopost of this year, we surpass last year’s record with the same number of posts (five), but more photos and more churches (almost 50), in twelve countries and fifteen American states. Once again, our heartfelt thanks to everyone who sent these in, and don’t forget to  have your cameras ready for Christmas and the following feasts. We wish you all a most blessed and peaceful Christmas Eve - today you shall know that the Lord will come, and in the morning, you shall see His glory.

St Mary’s Catholic Parish – Helsinki, Finland

The following four sets all come from one of our favorite photographers, Allison Girone. I wish we had room to include every one of the many beautiful images she sends our way, but that would required a whole separate blog; I did here include here one particularly nice shot, even though it’s off topic, of a veil at a wedding ceremony.

St Mary – Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (FSSP)

Gaudete Sunday

Rorate Mass

Tradition will always be for the young!

St Patrick – Wilmington, Delaware

Mary, Queen of Peace – Cleveland, Ohio

Congratulation to Anthony and Maria - feliciter! (See this recent article about the use of the care cloth at weddings.)

Monastery of the Holy Cross – Chicago, Illinois

Church of St Francis of Assisi – São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Procession on the feast of the Immaculate Conception

Cathedral of the Assumption – San Francisco, California

We posted some photos yesterday of this Rorate Mass celebrated by His Excellency Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, but I accidentally overlooked a second set sent in by Mr Robert Graffio.

St Therese the Little Flower – Memphis, Tennessee

Decorations of the Lady-altar for the feast of the Immaculate Conception 

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Gaudete Sunday

Rorate Mass

St Mary of Mount Virgin – New Brunswick, New Jersey