Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

I hope you were able to be with us for the presentations of
Fr. Uwe Lang and Martin Mosebach at St. Mary’s Church last
Friday. The event was a great success, with about 120 people
in attendance (we ran out of chairs!), showing that there is real
and growing interest in the traditional Latin liturgy of the Church.
The Dominicans at St. Mary’s were impressed with the turn out.
If you visit their church, please be sure to thank them for
hosting this special event.

Speaking of special events, there is something else we wish to
bring to your attention: the “Symposium on the Motu Proprio”
taking place tomorrow and Saturday at St. John’s Church in
Stamford. Apologies for the late notice — we have been so busy
planning for the visit of Fr. Lang and Mr. Mosebach that this
conference slipped off the radar screen. You can read more about
it here:

http://www.stamfordschola.org/2007/08/15/our-next-event/

Of the speakers, David Hughes is on the SGS Executive
Committee, Fr. Richard Cipolla is a regular celebrant at Sacred
Heart, and Fr. John Ringley is the newest addition to our rota of
priests. The organizer, Scott Turkington, is a recognized authority
in the performance of Gregorian chant. Despite what their website
says, I am told that they are anticipating late registrations on the
day.

Speaking of days, tomorrow is an historic one: the provisions of
the Motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum” will be the official law
of the Church by the time we all wake up Friday morning! Times
like this call for prayer, and what better prayer is there than the
traditional prayer of the Church, the Divine Office (or Breviary)?
Someone somewhere has done us all the service of preparing a
parallel Latin-English version of second Vespers of tomorrow’s
feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, according to the
old Roman Office. We have posted this text — a mere five pages
– on our website, in the hope that you might be inspired to offer
this prayer for the work of the Society and the cause of the
traditional liturgy:

http://www.saint-gregory.org/docs/ExaltationHolyCross_Vespers.pdf

Apologies for the “extraordinary” length of this email bulletin!

Our schedule in the weeks ahead is as follows:

* Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, September 16th. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated
by Fr. Richard Cipolla (St. Mary’s, Stamford). The Schola will
sing Mass XI (”Orbis factor”), plainsong hymns, and all the
proper Gregorian chants. The second offering will be for the
benefit of the Saint Gregory Society.

* Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, September 9th. Low Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated by
Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick (Holy Cross, Fairfield).

* SPECIAL MASS: Feast of St. Michael the Archangel
Sunday, September 30th. High Mass at 2pm, to be celebrated
by Fr. Greg Markey (St. Mary’s, Norwalk). In joyful response to
the coming into effect of the legal provisions of Pope Benedict’s
Motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, the Society is pleased
to announce that its full Schola Cantorum will perform
Palestrina’s Missa Sacerdos et pontifex, motets, and all the
proper Gregorian chants for “Michaelmas”. More information
about this special Mass will be forthcoming over the next few
weeks!

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/