A Vigil of Scripture readings, reflections, and song will mark the close of the Pauline Year at St. Mary's Parish in New Haven, CT on Monday, June 29th at 7:30 p.m. with confessions from 6:30-7:15.

 The choir of Communion and Liberation will lead the song.

The Vigil is sponsored by the lay movement Communion and Liberation and the Knights of Columbus with the support of the Dominican Friars of St. Mary's Priory and the Parish.

This event will close a year of engaging and fruitful activities surrounding the commemoration of St. Paul and his witness to Christ. St. Mary's was honored to be designated by Archbishop Henry Mansell of Hartford as a pilgrimage site where a plenary indulgence was available throughout this special year. Fr. Joseph Allen, O.P., the pastor, had an icon of St. Paul installed in the Church and prayer cards were available along with instructions on how to obtain the special indulgence.

Special events throughout the year included a special homily on the feast of St. Dominic on St. Paul and St. Dominic. In October, Communion and Liberation sponsored a talk by artist Henry Artis entitled, The Listening Eye:Seeing St. Paul, the lecture focused on Paul's conversion while considering a series of slide images from the treasury of Christian art by several artists including El Greco, Carravaggio, and Juan de Juanes. The Vigil of All Saints celebration on October 31st had a Pauline emphasis and included the reading of a beautiful homliy of St. Fulgentius of Ruspe from the Office of Readings for the Feast of St. Stephen. Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. presented a lecture entitled, How St. Paul Prayed the Our Father. On the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Blackfriars Theater presented the two-man play In Charge of the Fire by Holy Cross Father Harry Cornelius Cronin in St. Mary's Church. The performance then played with sucess on three dates at The Little Theater in New Haven. This beautiful play presented the life, encounter with Christ, conversion, and thought of Paul in his own words as retold to the runaway slave Onesimus. Throughout the year, Friars sought to be attentive to the words and experience of St. Paul in their preaching.