Exciting News for the Lepanto Conference

Dear Friends and Supporters,

We have some exciting news to communicate to you for the coming year.

We have just finalized our plans for our Third Annual Lepanto conference, which will take place on February 15.

We are very honored to announce that Cardinal Joseph Zen, the courageous retired bishop of Hong Kong, has accepted our invitation.  We will also welcome Professor Michael Foley and Fr. George Rutler.  Given the tense and tragic situation in Hong Kong, we cannot be certain that the Cardinal will be able to make this long trip. But we hope and pray that we will be able to greet him in New York!

Like last year’s Lepanto Conference, we plan a Solemn Pontifical Mass with a beautiful choral setting.

Our full schedule will be forthcoming shortly, but please mark the date, February 15.  You will not want to miss this event.

 There are many costs to putting on a conference of this scale, including airfares, lodging, transportation,  facility fees.  We must engage fine singers and musicians for the pontifical liturgy.

 Can we count on your help to bring about this important event to New York? 

Our Lepanto Conferences have been a huge success.  Many people in attendance have experienced the beauty of the Traditional Mass for the  first time.

We know of a priest who went back to his parish in New Jersey to start his own weekly traditional Mass after witnessing it for the first time at our conference.

Most of you are following our documentation–in word and picture–of the many Catholic Traditionalist events in the greater New York area.   In addition to our blog at sthughofcluny.org, we have a popular Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter (yes, we have one!). The traffic on our sites seems to be ever increasing–demonstrating the growing interest in the Traditional Mass it is our mission to promote.

We sponsored a busy schedule of events this past year. Complete ceremonial, appropriate vestments and beautiful music were integral parts of every liturgy celebrated.

1. Our successful annual Lepanto Conference at St. Vincent Ferrer Church. Over 700 attended the pontifical liturgy, over 300 attended the conference that followed.
2. An address by Prof. Peter  Kwasniewski at St. Mary’s, Norwalk;
3. A Sung Requiem Mass at Most Holy Family Church in New York for the repose of the soul of Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro. The pastor, Fr. Gerald Murray, gave the homily.
4. In July, a Solemn High Mass for the feast of St. Ann at Immaculate Conception Church in New York.
5. In September, a Solemn Mass at Most Precious Blood Church in Little Italy for the Feast of San Gennaro
6. In October a Solemn High Mass at St. Catherine of Siena Church in New York  on the occasion of the canonization of Cardinal Newman.
7. On December 5th, a Solemn Mass for the Feast of St Nicholas at Most Holy Redeemer parish—the first traditional Mass in that parish since Vatican II.

In addition to these events that we ourselves organized, we co-sponsored the annual Requiem Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer parish in November.

We will sponsor the music for Christmas Midnight Mass in the Dominican Rite at St. Vincent Ferrer.  And we will return to Most Holy Redeemer church on January 6 to co-sponsor a Solemn Mass! The schedule is indeed growing full.

We thank you for your support of all of these events.  We turn to you once more to help us in this coming year to keep the traditional Catholic cause alive. 

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

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 Wishing you a Blessed Christmas,

Stuart Chessman

The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny