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The Saint Gregory Society Needs Your Support!

We remind our members and friends that the St. Gregory Society’s mission of preserving and promoting the traditional liturgy in our community and throughout the world is supported largely by their generosity.

We are deeply grateful to St. Stanislaus Parish for their hospitality in providing a splendid setting for the Latin Mass offered in New Haven. Nevertheless, the manifold expenses in support of these celebrations in the traditional liturgy—clergy travel expenses, choristers’ stipends, printing of service leaflets, etc., all depend upon the funds raised by the St. Gregory Society through memberships, sales of publications, and contributions to the second offering at our Masses.

We therefore encourage all who are devoted to the traditional liturgy to become new members or join those who have renewed their annual memberships for 2023. After the many expenses of Holy Week, your contribution will be a welcome assurance that we may afford the remaining High Masses on the Spring Schedule.

Please click on the “Membership” link at the left to make an online contribution via PayPal or a contribution by mailing a check or money order.

The New Year for our Society at St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven

The Octave Day of Christmas and Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord will be observed on in a celebration low Mass in the traditional Latin form on Sunday, January 1 at 2:00 pm, at St. Stanislaus Church, State Street at Eld Street, New Haven. The Reverend Matthew Mauriello will be the celebrant.

The Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph will be observed at St. Stanislaus Church in a celebration of High Mass in the traditional Latin form on Sunday, January 8, at 2:00 pm.

We encourage our members and friends to partake of the graces that flow from the immemorial liturgy during this blessed season.

Annual St. Gregory Purgatorial Society High Mass of Requiem

The annual St. Gregory Purgatorial Society High Mass of Requiem will be offered this Thursday evening, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stanislaus Church for members and friends of the Society as well as those enrolled in the Saint Gregory Purgatorial Society .  The Reverend Robert  L. Turner, Pastor of St. Ambrose Parish, North Branford, will be the celebrant.  This beautiful Mass of the Dead offered in the traditional rite is one of the most edifying experiences to be had by a faithful Christian. We urge our members and friends to attend and to enroll departed family members and friends in the Purgatorial Society for 2022-23. Please click the ”Purgatorial Society” button to the left for further information and access to the enrollment form.

Mass for the Feast of All Saints

The Feast All Saints will be observed in a celebration of Low Mass at St. Stanislaus Church, State Street at Eld Street in New Haven, on Tuesday, 1 November, at 5:30 pm. The Reverend Peter Lenox, Episcopal Vicar for Liturgy and Worship, Diocese of Bridgeport, will be the celebrant.

Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Christ the King

The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King will be observed in a celebration of Solemn High Mass and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Stanislaus Church, State Street at Eld Street in New Haven, on Sunday, 31 October, at 2:00 pm. The Reverend Canon Joel Estrada, ICKSP, Pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish and Oratory, Waterbury will be the celebrant, and The Reverend Robert L. Turner, Pastor of St. Ambrose Parish, North Branford, will be the deacon.

Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in his Encyclical Letter Quas primas of 1925. This letter explained how laïcism and secularism by organizing society without any reference to God, lead to the apostasy of the masses and the ruin of society because of their complete denial of Christ’s Kingship, which is one of the greatest heresies of our time. The Pope proposed this feast as an annual liturgical assertion of Christ’s divine right of Kingship as an effective means of combating this pernicious heresy.

By its position on the last Sunday in October, towards the end of the Liturgical Year and just before the All Saints’ Day, the feast of Christ the King comes at the climax of the celebration of all Christ’s mysteries and a kind of earthly anticipation of his everlasting reign over the elect in the glory of heaven.

Music for the liturgy sung by the Schola Cantorum of the St. Gregory Society will include the Gregorian Mass Ordinary IV, the motets “Gloria tibi” by Wm. Byrd,  and “O Sacrum Convivium” by Ludovico Viadana, the Gregorian chant proper of the feast (“Dignus est agnus”), and organ music by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons.