Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

Many thanks to all who turned out last Sunday! Over a hundred of us suffered through the heat, but the Mass was very moving and well worth the “struggle”. And of course the champagne reception afterward was a most fitting conclusion not only to the celebration itself, but to this long “first chapter” in the life of our Society.

As hard as it is to imagine, when the motu proprio goes into effect in September a new phase in our apostolate will begin. Please remember our common work in your prayers in the weeks and months ahead, that God will inspire and guide all of our efforts, both individual and collective, to share the riches of the traditional liturgy with the countless number of our fellow Catholics who are still unfamiliar with or even completely unaware of them. This will be the work of a generation and more, and everyone will have a part to play. As Fr. Cipolla suggested in last Sunday’s sermon, the reward for our labors will be another “Second Spring”. This great image of restoration was invoked by John Henry Newman with tremendous power and conviction in a famous sermon delivered 155 years ago to the first Provincial Synod of the recently created Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster: “The English Church was, and the English Church was not, and the English Church is once again. This is the portent, worthy of a cry. It is the coming in of a Second Spring.”

Our schedule for the next two Sundays is as follows:

* Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, July 22nd. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by Fr. Greg Markey (St. Mary’s, Norwalk).
The summer Schola will sing Mass XI (”Orbis factor”), plainsong hymns, and all the proper Gregorian chants. The second offering will be for he benefit of the Saint Gregory Society.

* Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, July 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/