Dear Friend of the Saint Gregory Society,

We have received official notice from our friends at St. Mary’s in
Norwalk of a very important development for the traditional Mass in
this area: their regular Sunday morning Mass, which was consigned to
the basement chapel for the first nine months of its existence, is at
last moving upstairs to the main church. Their email is excerpted
below, so read on for more information. Needless to say, many of the
clergy and staff at St. Mary’s first encountered and learned the Latin
Mass through the work of the Society, which from its inception has had
as an integral part of its mission the training of clergy, servers,
and musicians in the traditional liturgy. Fr. Greg Markey, Fr. Richard
Cipolla, and Fr. Robert Boyd, all of whom are stationed now at St.
Mary’s, regularly say Mass for the Society. In addition, several of
the musicians in the St. Mary’s Schola learned to perform the music
for the Latin Mass while singing with the Society’s Schola Cantorum.
And the servers at St. Mary’s were trained by the Society’s MC, Bill
Riccio, both in Norwalk and at Sacred Heart Church in New Haven.

The Saint Gregory Society rejoices with the clergy and faithful of St.
Mary’s on this great occasion: ad multos annos!

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“St. Mary Church in Norwalk, Connecticut is pleased to announce
that the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite will henceforth be
celebrated in the upper church at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays. Since last
December, the traditional Latin Mass has been offered every Sunday and
holy day in the lower chapel. Low Mass will continue to be offered in
the chapel every Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. Beginning this month,
there will also be a monthly Extraordinary Form Latin Mass at 8:00
p.m. on First Fridays. Every Sunday up to now has taken the form of
sung Mass (Missa cantata); the norm will now be Solemn High Mass.

“To mark this great occasion and the change in the Mass time,
there will be a particularly festive celebration of the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass this coming Sunday, Sept. 7th. Fr. Greg Markey, pastor of
St. Mary’s, will offer the Mass, with Deacon Stephan Genovese and Fr.
Richard Cipolla as deacon and subdeacon, respectively. The St. Mary’s
Schola Cantorum will sing Thomas Tallis’ beautiful Mass for Four
Voices, with motets by Lasso and Viadana. As always, the Mass will be
followed by a reception.

“For more information about St. Mary’s and the Latin Mass, please
visit 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/