What is your awareness of the Five Wounds of Jesus Christ viz. the sacred Liturgy? Fr. Donald Kloster writes an informative blog post, “On the Five Wounds of Christ” for the “Liturgy Guy.”
Annual Purgatorial Society Mass
We have all suffered the loss of loved ones. The profound separation that we undergo in the body, the Church teaches us that we remain united to those who have died by faith and prayer. The dead are aware of our prayers for them, and the saints and souls in Purgatory pray for us, awaiting reunion with us as we do with them.
The Purgatorial Society as part of the Church Militant during the month of November will offer a High Mass and special prayers, and a monthly Low Mass, for the deceased whose names are given to us. Mass and prayer assist the deceased in their process of being purified of any impurities that remained at their deaths. These Masses and prayers are efficacious as the saints have taught.
The 2022 Purgatorial Solemn High Mass for those enrolled in the Society will be offered on Thursday, November 10th at 7:30 p.m.
For more information: https://saint-gregory.org/purgatorial-society/
Please send the names of your beloved deceased (the form can be found on SGS website at the link above) and donation to:
The Saint Gregory Society
P.O. Box 891
New Haven, CT 06504
PAX!
TLM High Mass for the feast of St Luke
The TLM High Mass will be offered on the feast of St Luke, Tuesday, October 18, at 6pm, St Augustine Church, 31 Caputo Road, North Branford.
Fr Turner will be the celebrant and homilist.
Altar Servers needed
The Saint Gregory Society seeks to increase the roster of men and boys who serve at the altar for the traditional Latin Masses celebrated at St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven. Those interested should contact the Society’s Master of Ceremonies, Mr. William Riccio Jr., at wmvrjr@yahoo.com. Mr. Riccio can arrange for training of those who have not served before at the traditional Mass.
High Mass for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost will be observed celebration of Solemn High Mass at St. Stanislaus Church, State Street at Eld Street in New Haven, on Sunday, 16 October, at 2:00 pm. The Reverend Robert L. Turner, Pastor of St. Ambrose Parish, North Branford, will be the celebrant and the Reverend Peter Lenox, Episcopal Vicar for Liturgy and Worship, the Diocese of Bridgeport, will be the deacon. The Schola Cantorum of the St. Gregory Society will sing the Gregorian chant and polyphony for the service.
The Gospel for this Sunday features the Parable of the Wedding Feast, in which a king invites his friends, presumably the high-ranking men and women of his kingdom. When they do not come, the king orders them killed and then invites anyone who will come. Among them is a man who is not wearing a wedding garment, whom the king has thrown out into “outer darkness.”
All of us are called by God into his Church and are received indiscriminately. But at the last hour those who have not put on the garments of faith and charity will be cast out, for “Many are called, but few are chosen.”
Music for the liturgy will include Gregorian Mass XI (Orbis factor), motets by Claudio Monteverdi (Domine Pater et Deus) and Orlando di Lasso (Adoramus te Christe), the Gregorian chant proper of the feast (Salus populi), and organ music by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Girolamo Cavazzoni.