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Purgatorial Society Mass

In the month of the Holy Souls, remember our votive Mass for the Dead, which will be offered on Tuesday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m. at Saint Stanislaus Church, for those enrolled in the SGS Purgatorial Society.

Please (re)enroll your loved ones in the SGS Purgatorial Society. An enrollment for one name is $35.00 and for each additional name $10.00, for one year.

For this Mass, previously enrolled Purgatorial Society members need to be enrolled again.

The enrollment form is accessible here:
http://saint-gregory.org/purgatorial-society/

Angels give praise

Earlier this month the Church liturgical recalled the Guardian Angels and in late September we did the same for the Archangels. Thinking of the presence of the angels of late, here is a line from St. John Chrysostom who tells us of our angelic calling:
 
“On high the armies of the angels are giving praise. Here below in the Church the human choir takes up after them the same doxology. Above us, angels of fire make the thrice Holy hymn resound magnificently. Here below is raised the echo of their hymn. The festival of heaven’s citizens is united with the inhabitants of earth in a single thanksgiving, a single upsurge of happiness, a single chorus of joy.”
 
On Ozias, Homily 4,1(PG 56,120)
 
Olivier Clement, trans. Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with Commentary, second edition. (New York: New City Press, 2013), 118.

Christ the King on October 29

High Mass will be offered for the Solemnity of Christ the King at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 29.

For Sale

  • The 2018 Liturgical Calendars will be available following Mass for $12.00.
  • The 2017 Christmas card will be available. The text this year comes from the Communion Antiphon from Epiphany. The English translation is “We have seen his star in the East, and are come with gifts to adore the Lord”.