We are happy to announce that the Society of St Hugh of Cluny and St. Mary’s parish, Norwalk, Connecticut are sponsoring a conference and mass on Thursday, October 19 at St Mary’s Church. The conference and mass commemorate the tenth anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. The proceedings will be as follows:

5:30 PM. Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Fr. Innocent Smith OP will give presentations in the parish hall of St. Mary’s.

7:30 PM. Pontifical Solemn Mass celebrated by Bishop Schneider.

9:00 PM. Reception in the parish hall.

We are proud once again to welcome Bishop Schneider back to Connecticut. I hope that many of you will be able to participate in this special evening!

No registration necessary.  Free-will donation suggested.

The 22nd annual Pilgrimage for Restoration from the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament (Lake George, NY) to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY, will take place this coming weekend, from Friday September 29th to Sunday, October 1st. This traditional walking pilgrimage will include daily Traditional Mass, culminating in a Solemn Traditional Mass at 3:15 this year in the Coliseum Church in Auriesville, the place where Saints Isaac Jogues, René Goupîl, and John de LaLande were martyred 373 years ago.

This yearly pilgrimage is organized by the National Coalition of Clergy and Laity. For registration and more information, go to the website for the pilgrimage.

The Institute of Christ the King will be administering the church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Bridgeport, CT beginning on October 8. We will be posting information on the new Mass schedule when it is available.

Prof. Eamon Duffy, from a 2015 review in the Guardian of The Nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf:

But, mysteriously, he ( Joseph Kleutgen S.J. – SC)was soon back in favour. In 1870 Pius IX lifted all the ecclesiastical censures against him, and he was appointed a theological adviser at the first Vatican council. According to Wolf, the key to this remarkable turnaround lay in Kleutgen’s fashionably rightwing theological views. In the early 1850s he had pioneered the novel claim that not only were solemn decrees of popes and councils infallible, but the “ordinary magisterium”, or routine teaching of the pope and Curia, was itself binding on Catholic consciences and above scrutiny by theologians. This teaching rapidly became an official orthodoxy, music to the ears of Pius IX and his entourage, and Kleutgen was able to surf the rising tide of papalism back to respectability and influence.

SOURCE

How is Duffy adapting his “classic” Catholic progressive analysis to the current party line emanating from the Bishop of Rome and his courtiers ascribing quasi-infallibility to the “ordinary magisterium” of Bergoglio, to the Conciliar liturgical changes, etc.?

A day-long retreat is being organized at the Convent of St. Birgitta in Darien, CT  on Saturday October 14 from 9 am to 3 pm, led by Fr. Anthony Mastroeni.  Father will give  talks on Our Lady of Fatima and on the Blessed Sacrament.  Mass will be celebrated in the Extraordinary Form, with music led by David Hughes.  There will be opportunity for confession.

The cost is $50 and includes a light breakfast and lunch.  This retreat is organized by St. Mary Church, Norwalk.  You must reserve your spot ahead of time to attend by calling Erlinda at the St. Mary rectory:  (203) 866-5546 x 101 or cell (203) 919-5976.

The address of St. Birgitta: 4 Runkenhage Road, Darien, CT.

Friday September 29, the Feast of St. Michael
1)Shrine of the Most Precious Blood, 113 Baxter St., New York, NY, Solemn Mass, 7:15 pm. Sponsored by the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George.

2) St. Francis Xavier Church, 1703 Lurting Avenue, the Bronx, Solemn Mass, 7 pm. information. From the pastor: “This is the first Traditional Mass at Saint Francis since the council. Any publicity that can be given for this event would be very helpful. I have hopes that this will become a regular part of our parish life.”

3) St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT. Traditional Vespers at 7:30 pm followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.  Guest preacher:  Fr. Perricone.

Also coming up:

Two Solemn Pontifical Masses in October
1)  Saturday, October 14, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Paterson, NJ., 9:30 am.   Celebrant, Most Reverend Arthur Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson. information

2)  Thursday, October 19, St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT.  Conference at 5:30 pm, Solemn Pontifical Mass with Bishop Athanasius Schneider at 7:30 pm.  information

We at the St Hugh of Cluny Society sponsored a Solemn Mass yesterday at the historic church of the Most Precious Blood in New York, for the start of the festival of San Gennaro. Fr Richard Gennaro Cipolla was the celebrant; Fr. Chris Salvatori served as deacon; Will Haffey as subdeacon. Bill Riccio was master of ceremonies snd David Hughes conducted the splendid music. The Sacred Constantinian Military Order of Saint George was present, maintaining their commitment to Italian culture and to the Traditional liturgy. We thank Msgr. Donald Sakano, pastor of Old St. Patrick’s,  for his invitation to the shrine church of the Most Precious Blood.

We greeted many old friends of the Society.  And as the mass progressed the congregation grew – many who had wandered in from the festival stayed for the mass. By communion it was a full church! It demonstrates what can be done to return a Catholic religious presence to what has become an almost exclusively secular event. (We also note that, further to the north on Mulberry Street, the Russian Catholic chapel of St. Michael also had its doors open to visitors. They too realized the potential for evangelization in this apparently unreligious festival.)

Adult Education Series for Fall
Saint Mary Church – Greenwich

Presented by Father John Perricone, Iona University
Tuesdays, September 19, 26 and October 3
at 7:30pm in the Hitchcock Room

Sacred Architecture: The Creed in Stone, Light and Color
Man not only possesses a soul, but a body. Recognizing this, the Church understands that Christ’s truth must attract not only the mind, but also the senses. She does this by surrounding the faithful with beauty, for beauty ravishes the senses and leads to wonder. Sacred beauty leads to wonder at the Supernatural. So, it is that Church constructs beautiful Churches, that their beauty might reflect the beauty of the Son of God. This series will explore the reason why some buildings are called sacred. It will then look at the two thousand years of the Church’s life and observe how the churches she built trumpet the Glorious Majesty of Christ.