The Connecticut Right to Life Conference will take place on Sunday Sept. 29 at St. Patrick’s Oratory in Waterbury, following the 10:30 am Sung Traditional Mass.

Here is the schedule for September 2024 TLMs at the Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Flyers below.

• SAT 9/7 – 9am – First Saturday
• MON 9/9 – 7pm – Pontifical Requiem, Purgatorial Society
• WED 9/11 – 7pm – Blessed Maria de Micheli
• SAT 9/14 – 9am – Exaltation of the Holy Cross
• THU 9/19 – 7pm – Feast of San Gennaro w/Procession
• TUE 9/24 – Our Lady of La Salette (Votive) 

Additionally, a Sung TLM is celebrated every Sunday at 10:30am.Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament50 W. Somerset Street, Raritan, NJ More info: BlessedSacramentShrine.com

Here is a note from, Fr. Sean Connolly, the new pastor of St. Margaret of Cortona, Bronx:

The Low Latin Mass at St. Margaret’s on the first Sunday of each month at 3:00 p.m. is discontinued. We will be offering instead, a Sung Latin Mass at 12 noon in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary every First Saturday of the month. I hope many of you join us each month for this Mass, which is meant to help as many souls as possible fulfill the request of the Mother of God given at Fatima:

In reparation for the blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart, we are to do the following on the First Saturday of 5 consecutive months:

-Go to Confession
-Receive Holy Communion
-Recite 5 decades of the Rosary
-Meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary

The first, First Saturday Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart is this Saturday 7th September. Recitation of the Rosary at 11:30 a.m. The Sung Mass follows at 12 noon.

Pontifical Solemn High Requiem Mass for the souls of the enrollees of the Purgatorial Society of St Andrew Avellino. Enroll your deceased loved ones at purgatorialsociety.org before the mass to receive the benefits of this and 4 Latin Requiem Masses per year. Unlimited number of souls can be enrolled.

I found I had overlooked one sad item of recent news, of special significance to those familiar with Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Visitation Monastery and its all-girls academy have closed after 169 years. The convent and school were established in Brooklyn in the 1855; at least initially the nuns taught both Catholic and Protestant girls. The monastery moved to its location in Bay Ridge after 1900. The site has over seven acres, a lake – but only two remaining nuns. For those of us with no family connections to anyone studying or teaching there, the walled Visitation compound was a mysterious presence in Bay Ridge.

The closure of Visitation Academy was announced earlier this year.

“The Diocese of Brooklyn is truly saddened by the impending loss of the presence of the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Brooklyn.”

Parents and alumnae organized against it, but, as usual in such cases, the opposition seems to have been unsuccessful. The neighborhood feels understandably threatened by the sale of such a valuable property. Fears for the continued existence of other Catholic schools are also rising. For Visitation Academy is just one more example of the ongoing decline of Catholic education in both the Brooklyn Diocese and the Archdiocese of New York.

For more details see:

Camille, Jada, “Nun you can do about it! Visitation Academy to shut down at end of school year,” Brooklynpaper.com (2/7/2024

Youtube, “Historic all-girls Catholic school closing Brooklyn campus after 170 years,” CBS NEWS NY

For complete details and information: National Latin Mass Pilgrimage (TLMPILGRIMAGE.COM)