Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

Let us keep the Holy Father in our prayers in a special way in this
time — it seems that his “Motu Proprio” will not be long in coming!

Our calendar for the next two weeks is as follows:

* Third Sunday after Easter
Sunday, April 29th. Low Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick (Holy Cross, Fairfield).

* Fourth Sunday after Easter
Sunday, May 6th. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Greg Markey (St. Mary’s, Norwalk). The musical program will
be what was intended for last week, when we were forced into a
change of plans: Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices, an Easter motet
by Dufay, the “Regina caeli” in the solemn tone, and all the
proper Gregorian chants.

ALL MASSES TAKE PLACE IN SACRED HEART CHURCH,
NEW HAVEN (COLUMBUS AVENUE AT LIBERTY STREET,
NEAR UNION STATION).

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The Saint Gregory Society
P. O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
Telephone: (203) 624-2751
On the web: http://www.saint-gregory.org/

Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

Our calendar for the next two weeks is as follows:

* Good Shepherd Sunday
Sunday, April 22nd. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Richard Cipolla (St. Mary’s, Stamford). The men’s Schola
will sing Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices, an Easter motet by
Dufay, the “Regina caeli” in the solemn tone, and all the proper
Gregorian chants.

* Third Sunday after Easter
Sunday, April 29th. Low Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick (Holy Cross, Fairfield).

ALL MASSES TAKE PLACE IN SACRED HEART CHURCH,
NEW HAVEN (COLUMBUS AVENUE AT LIBERTY STREET,
NEAR UNION STATION).

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The Saint Gregory Society
P. O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
Telephone: (203) 624-2751
On the web: http://www.saint-gregory.org/

Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia! Best wishes for a joyful Easter!

Our calendar for the next two weeks is as follows:

* Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday)
Sunday, April 15th. Low Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick (Holy Cross, Fairfield).

* Good Shepherd Sunday
Sunday, April 22nd. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Richard Cipolla (St. Mary’s, Stamford). The men’s Schola
will sing Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices, an Easter motet by
Dufay, the “Regina caeli” in the solemn tone, and all the proper
Gregorian chants.

ALL MASSES TAKE PLACE IN SACRED HEART CHURCH,
NEW HAVEN (COLUMBUS AVENUE AT LIBERTY STREET,
NEAR UNION STATION).

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The Saint Gregory Society
P. O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
Telephone: (203) 624-2751
On the web: http://www.saint-gregory.org/

Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

The Society is very pleased, after several months of work, to announce
the debut of its new website just in time for Holy Week:

http://www.saint-gregory.org

Please note that our web address remains the same. The home page of
the site features the latest announcements from the Society regarding
upcoming Masses and special events (i.e. the very same “SGS News”
bulletins which you already receive per email). The full schedule of
Masses, directions to Sacred Heart Church, and information about the
Society’s work are all easily accessible from the links at the top and
side of each page.

Perhaps the most significant new feature of the new website is the
online store, allowing one easily to purchase the Society’s recordings
and publications with a credit card or a PayPal account. It should be
noted that both types of transaction, credit card and PayPal, are
completed using PayPal’s own secure website, which, as you probably
know, is the premier internet standard for the security of financial
data. The Society’s recordings and publications can be found here:

http://www.saint-gregory.org/recordings-publications/

Each CD in the Society’s collection is given its own page, with
critical reviews, track lists, and audio samples of three or four
complete tracks per disc. Members new and old will be pleased to know
that they can also renew their annual memberships online, again with
credit card or PayPal.

Please tell your friends about our new site, and encourage them to
visit us on the web (and, of course, on Sundays at 2pm at Sacred Heart
Church!).

If you should have any comments or suggestions regarding the website,
please do not hesitate to e-mail the webmaster at
davidjhughes@gmail.com.

Again, we look forward to seeing you this Friday at 11am for the Good
Friday Liturgy, and on Sunday at 2pm for the Mass of Easter Day.

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The Saint Gregory Society
P. O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
Telephone: (203) 624-2751
On the web: http://www.saint-gregory.org/

Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

As is in years past, both Good Friday and Easter Sunday will be
observed in the traditional Roman rite this Holy Week in Sacred Heart
Church, New Haven.

The Good Friday Liturgy will take place at 11am (not at 12pm, as in
some previous years). The Liturgy will be celebrated by Fr. Richard
Cipolla, of St. Mary’s Church in Stamford. The men’s Schola will sing
all the proper Gregorian chants, as well as Victoria’s Reproaches and
motets by Palestrina and Compere.

Mass on Easter Sunday will be at our usual 2pm time. The celebrant
will be the pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Fr. Jim Richardson. The
full mixed Schola Cantorum will sing Palestrina’s Missa Regina caeli,
motets by Verdelot and Gascogne, and all the proper Gregorian chants.
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will follow.

I am attaching a poster with details of these liturgies. If you can
pass it on to a friend or post it in a public place (e.g. your local
parish church!) you will be doing us a great favor. Finally, I would
ask each of you to remember the Society and our work in your prayers
at this special time of grace. Unless you are abstaining from the
media for Lent, you must know by now that the Motu Proprio of the Holy
Father is on the way. From this perspective, the date is not really
that important — after all, many of us have been waiting for forty
years already! What is important is that we do what we can to seize
the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which this will present. With God’s
assistance, each one of us and the Society as a whole can hope to be
instruments of good in the times ahead.

Many thanks to those of you who were in attendance on Palm Sunday, and
best wishes to all for a blessed Holy Week and a joyful Easter.

Richard Dobbins

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The Saint Gregory Society
P. O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
Telephone: (203) 624-2751
On the web: http://www.saint-gregory.org/