Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

This is the second of two reports on the efforts of the priests who
serve the Society to implement Pope Benedict’s Motu proprio “Summorum
Pontificum” in their own parishes. The last report highlighted the
activities of Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick and Fr. John Ringley, and may be
found here. This report concerns the developments down at St. Mary’s in Norwalk with Fr. Greg Markey and Fr. Richard Cipolla.

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St. Mary Church, Norwalk is pleased to announce that it will be
starting a weekly Missa cantata in the extraordinary form of the Roman
Rite. Beginning on the First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2nd, the
traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated every Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in
St. Patrick Chapel. St. Mary’s is very glad to support the Holy
Father’s great leadership and courage in opening more widely to the
Church the treasure of the classical Roman liturgy.

As you probably know, Fr. Greg Markey, the pastor of St. Mary’s, has
offered the traditional Latin Mass for the St. Gregory Society on a
regular basis these past four years. In bringing the Latin Mass to
Norwalk, Fr. Markey is responding to the requests of a number of
parishioners in the months following the publication of Summorum
Pontificum. Throughout October he led a series of well-attended
classes at St. Mary’s on the motu proprio and the traditional Latin
Mass. This month Fr. Markey has also offered a series of motu proprio
classes in Spanish, and these have been enthusiastically received.

In conjunction with the advent of the traditional Roman Rite, St.
Mary’s is also excited to announce two recent clergy assignments. Fr.
Richard Cipolla, well-known to the Saint Gregory Society as a frequent
celebrant at Sacred Heart, New Haven, has just been assigned to St.
Mary’s, Norwalk, as parochial vicar. Fr. Cipolla, who until now has
been parochial vicar at St. Mary’s, Stamford, brings with him a wealth
of experience in the traditional liturgy, and St. Mary’s is fortunate
to receive him.

In addition, Fr. Paul Check will be in residence at St. Mary’s as he
begins a new assignment as national director of the Courage
apostolate. His arrival at St. Mary’s will be something of a
homecoming; St. Mary’s was his parish before he entered the seminary,
and it was where he offered his first Mass. Both Fr. Cipolla and Fr.
Check will arrive the weekend of the First Sunday of Advent, and will
be instrumental in the celebration of the extraordinary form of the
Mass at St. Mary’s.

Members of the Saint Gregory Society have offered assistance to St.
Mary’s in a number of ways over the past several months as the parish
has been preparing for the first Mass on Dec. 2nd. Bill Riccio,
master of ceremonies at Sacred Heart, has been training twelve altar
boys at St. Mary’s in serving the Mass. These boys traveled to New
Haven several weeks ago to assist at the Society’s Mass for the Feast
of Christ the King. Evangeline Bourgeois, another SGS board member,
came to St. Mary’s this past week and gave a well-received talk to the
Hispanic community on the Latin Mass.

A professional choir under the direction of David Hughes, St. Mary’s
organist & choirmaster, will sing chant and polyphony every week for
the 9:00 Mass in the extraordinary form. (St. Mary’s choir of
dedicated volunteers will continue to sing for the 11:00 Mass in Latin
in the ordinary form.) The traditional Latin Mass will begin in the
newly renovated St. Patrick Chapel under the main church. If it is
evident that there is a “stable group of the faithful” (per the motu
proprio) who attend regularly, the Mass will then move to the upstairs
church. The Masses on Dec. 2nd and Dec. 16th will be followed by a
reception and a short talk by one of the priests, to which everyone is
warmly invited. All are welcome to join the many faithful from
Fairfield and Westchester counties and beyond who will be coming to
Norwalk for the traditional Latin Mass!

For more information about St. Mary’s, please see the parish website:
www.stmarynorwalk.net.

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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/