Some pictures that kindly have been sent to us of the Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary last week at the Church of the Holy Innocents celebrated by Joseph N. Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The presentations by Martin Mosebach and Fr. Uwe Lang (2) given at the recent liturgical conference in Sri Lanka are now available on the website of the Archdiocese of Colombo. (The link we had provided previously to the conference proceedings on the same webiste apparently cannot access these papers.).

The Society is happy to announce that Mr Mosebach will be revisiting the New York area after more than 3 years at the end of January 2011. We hope to be able to give you further details shortly!

You have undoubtedly noticed that we have a new face and a new address: https://sthughofcluny.org. The Society owes many thanks to Mr. David Hughes who designed the new website. We are also on Facebook now.

There will be a Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, on Friday, Octoiber 15 at 5:30 pm for the repose of the soul of Msgr. John Vincent Horgan-Kung, on the one-year anniversary of his death. He was the translator and confessor for Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei and was adopted into the Kung family. At the time of his death he was the oldest priest in the Diocese of Bridgeport.

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This news from the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius (link):

With the help of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell, CT, now offers the Extraordinary Form on a regular basis.
On October 2, 2010, the Feast of the Guardian Angels, a Missa Cantata was offered according to the 1962 Missale Romanum at the newly consecrated chapel of Holy Apostles Seminary. Fr. Dennis Kolinski, S.J.C., a priest of the Canons Regular, now is serving Holy Apostles by offering the Extraordinary Form Mass on campus three times weekly for the faculty and students.
Additionally, Fr. Kolinski is instructing the Deacons at Holy Apostles in the rubrics and ceremonies of celebrating the usus antiquior. The seminarians of the Canons Regular also assist by serving these Masses, singing in the schola cantorum and by teaching other seminarians how to serve at the altar and sing the Gregorian chant. In past years Holy Apostles Seminary was able to provide the Latin Mass (1962 Missal) with the help of priests such as Fr. John Mary Gilbert, I.S.J. and Fr. Gregoire Fluet, Ph.D., Vice-President on the Seminary’s Board of Directors.

Photo courtesy of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius

There will be a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary this Thursday, October 7th at the Church of the Holy Innocents at 6 pm. His Excellency, Joseph N. Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago will celebrate the Mass. The choir will sing Palestrina’s Missa Ave Maria.

Starting in November, there will be a Traditional Mass every Sunday at 7:30 am at St. Peter’s Church in Hartford, CT. A Traditional Mass will also be offered on holy days of obligation and every first Friday of the month at 6:30 pm.

We know what occasioned the institution of this feast….

The battle depicted on the wall of a church in Seville – with the intercession of Our Lady.

On Sunday, October 3 at 2 PM, the St Gregory Society will sponsor the celebration of a Solemn Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. It will take place at St.Stanislaus Church, State and Eld Streets, New Haven CT. Music for the liturgy will include Palestrina’s Missa Ave Regina Caelorum.

For directions call 203-562-2828 or consult the St. Gregory Society’s website (in our links).

Confession along the way of the pilgrimage.

Last Saturday, under nearly perfect weather conditions, the annual Pilgrimage for the Restoration concluded with a march of some 7 miles from the Shrine of Bl. Catherine Tekakwitha in Fonda, NY to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville NY. Certainly great enthusiasm was shown by the, on the average, very youthful pilgrims. The pilgrimage concluded with a Solemn Mass in the Coliseum church of the Shrine. For those who returned on Sunday, there was a moving Low Mass in the old chapel of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs that revealed how magnificent this form of the Traditional liturgy can be.

My other remarks would be similar to those of last year. (The Fourteenth Pilgrimage) It seemed that the number of pilgrims was even fewer this time (300-400 at most). This Pilgrimage lacks the deep historical tradition that underlies its model of Chartres. Yet it seems clear that North American Traditionalists need a major demonstration of numbers of their own. Or do they think that with Summorum Pontificum:

“the strife is o’er, the battle won”?

If so, they are very mistaken.

I would suggest that the organizers make efforts to develop further the concluding liturgy by exploring the celebration of a Pontifical Mass. Certain groups that originally participated are no longer present for whatever reason; other major Traditionalist organizations seem totally unaware of this event. The organizers of the Pilgrimage need to get in direct contact early with representatives of these organizations and parishes to recruit more participants for next year and to find out what is going on. There are some more technical points as well: for the first time this year I noticed that the sermon and some of the singing (the gradual, for example) were inaudible from certain spots in the church.

For some very promising competition north of the border see HERE. The website of the Pilgrimage is HERE.

The chapter or “brigade” of Una Voce Westchester.

Some familiar faces from St. Mary’s, Norwalk.

The goal: the entrance to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs.

The distance to be covered on this day may not be all that great, but the effort is certainly increased if one has to push or carry small children.

The schola.

The clergy are members of the Institute of Christ the King, which seems to be specializing in providing liturgical direction at major Traditionalist “events.” (The Institute was also the most prominent participant among the clergy in this year’s Chartres pilgrimage.)

There will be a Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel at 6 PM on Wednesday, September 29th, at the Church of the Holy Innocents
in Manhattan (37th St. between Broadway and 7th Ave.). Canon Wiener of the Institute of Christ the King will be the celebrant.