A Brief Review and an Appeal for Donations

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny I would like to extend our gratitude to you, our supporters. Your contributions have made it possible for our Society to achieve so much in 2017.

What has the Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny been doing in the midst of all the turmoil of the present–day Church?

We continue to exercise two basic roles:

First, we run a website that keeps track of the burgeoning Traditional scene in the New York area.

Second, we sponsor and organize Traditional masses and presentations by noted speakers on issues directly relevant to the traditional cause. Almost all the budget of the Society goes to this aspect of our operations.

This year has been one of the most active in our history.

We are sponsoring the following:

• In June: a conference featuring noted liturgical scholars Peter Kwasniewski and John Lamont, in Norwalk
• In September: Solemn High Mass in Little Italy for the feast of San Gennaro, at the church of the Most Precious Blood featuring a Mozart mass.    It was heartening to see so many in the congregation who had come for the festival and had stayed for this mass!
• This week: Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Fr. Innocent Smith, OP in a conference in Norwalk on Thursday, October 19, The conference will be followed by a Solemn Pontifical Mass.
• In November, a Solemn Requiem Mass in New York featuring Mozart’s Requiem, an annual event that we co-sponsor with the Catholic Artists Society and the New York Purgatorial Society, at St. Vincent Ferrer Church.
• In December, we will be sponsoring for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Solemn Mass at Immaculate Conception parish in New York featuring, among other music, an orchestral mass of 18^th century Mexico.
• And more yet to be confirmed! (All these events are or will be covered in detail on the website of the Society)

In each case, given our limited resources, we try to bring the Traditional liturgy to new churches and to the wider public.

The music performed at these liturgies has also been unique. It has been gratifying to us to see the public response to all these events.

These kinds of things do, however, involve the expenditure of money. We spend it overwhelmingly on the music involved in the liturgies and for travel expenses of the speakers.

We depend on the services of many people who receive no monetary compensation for the great work they do. And we always partner with another group or parish to share the costs.

You can readily see looking at our Archive how, compared to earlier years, the pace of Traditionalist activity has picked up. 

We would like to continue this development and do much more next year!

This is the tenth anniversary of Summorum Pontificum and of this Society. We already have several very interesting events in planning. But we need your help!

Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to the Society of St Hugh of Cluny today!

Checks made out to the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny may be sent to the following address:

Mr. Stuart Chessman
2 Tamarack Place
Greenwich CT 06831

Donations can also be made by Paypal. Go to the Paypal icon on our website www.sthughofcluny.org.

Thank you for your generosity and may God bless you,

Stuart Chessman
President