connect-flash not working on redirects

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Ok for some reason the session flash works when I res.render(), but when I try to set the session flash and then redirect, it doesn't display. The problem is below in the contact method in the elseclause)...

I have a sessionFlash() method for my middleware that should output it on every request, and it looks like it gets logged to the console. Here is what happens when it hits that middleware (specifically console.log(res.locals.messages)).

{} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} { info: [ 'Thanks we will return your message soon' ] } {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {}

As you can see, the message is definitely in there, but it looks like it's getting replaced with an empty object. 

app.js

var flash = require('connect-flash');

// Grab sessions
var sessionFlash = function(req, res, next) {
  res.locals.messages = req.flash();
  console.log(res.locals.messages);
  next();
}

app.configure(function() {
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(viewHelpers());
  app.use(express.bodyParser({ uploadDir : './' }));

  app.use(expressValidator);
  app.use(express.methodOverride());

  app.use(express.cookieParser('keyboard cat'));
  app.use(express.session({
    secret: config.secret,
    cookie: {
      maxAge: 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
    },
    store: new MongoStore(config.db)
  }));

  app.use(flash());
  app.use(sessionFlash);

  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
  app.use(app.router);
});

views/layout.jade

- if (typeof message !== 'undefined')
  =message

controllers/index.js

function controllers(params) {

  controllers.contact = function(req, res) {
    if (errors) {
      // This works as intended
      req.flash('info', 'Please fix the errors below.');

      res.render('contact', {
        title : 'Contact -',
        message: req.flash('info'),
        errors: errors,
        params: params
      });
      return;
    } else {
      // This doesn't work
      req.flash('info', 'Thanks we will return your message soon');
      res.redirect('/');
    }
   };
   return controllers
  }

  module.exports = controllers;