FIUV International Federation Una Voce

Monday, 30 March 2020

Guides to the Sacraments under lockdown

St Charles Borromeo ministering to victims of the plague in Milan

The Latin Mass Society has published these short but comprehensive guides to the Sacraments of Holy Communion, Penance, and Baptism, while getting access to priests is restricted or impossible, in light of the Extraordinary Form and the Traditional Practice and Discipline of the Church.

Baptism
Penance
Holy Communion

What is a perfect act of contrition? What value has watching a live-streamed Mass? When would it be justified to baptise infants in the absence of a priest? Is it possible to gain indulgences if one can't go to Communion? What is the ceremony of 'supplying the ceremonies' after an emergency bapism?

Your questions are answered.

Friday, 27 March 2020

New Prefaces and new Saints for the EF: Press Release

PDF version here.

Press Release:

CDF Decrees on new Prefaces and Saints for the Extraordinary Form

From the President and Officers of the FIUV

26^th March 2020

Yesterday the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), now exercising the functions of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, has issued two decrees, one on Prefaces to be added to the 1962 Missal (Quo Magis), and the other on the possibility of saints, canonised since 1962 to have Masses celebrated in their honour (Cum Sanctissima). (English summary here.)

The Federation was consulted on both issues, and we would like to thank the CDF for taking the views of our members into account in developing these decrees.

The Federation welcomes in particular the possibility of making a liturgical commemoration of saints canonised since 1962, without excessive disruption to the Sanctoral Calendar as it has come down to us. We wish, however, to issue some notes of caution.

Gregorius Magnus 9 published

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Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Gregorius Magnus 8 published

The new edition of the Federation's magazine Gregorius Magnus is now available: number 8.

It can be downloaded here.

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With best wishes for Advent and Christmas!

Saturday, 9 November 2019

Photos of the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome, 25-27th October

Above: Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus Toulon celebrating Mass in Sta Trinita on Sunday 27.

Mass in the Pantheon on Friday 25

New Council and Officers elected At 2019 General Assembly

At the General Assembly held in Rome on Saturday 26th October,

the following were confirmed as the Officers and Council of the Federation:

President: Felipe Alanís Suárez (Una Voce México)

President d'Honneur:

Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce France)

Vice Presidents:

Patrick Banken (Una Voce France)

Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands)

Secretary: Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England and Wales)

Treasurer: Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany)

Councillors:

David Reid (Una Voce Canada)

Oleg-Michael Martynov (Una Voce Russia)

Jarosław Syrkiewicz (Una Voce Polonia)

Jaime Alcalde (Una Voce Chile)

Eduardo Colon (Una Voce Puerto Rico)

Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italia)

João Silveira (UV Portugal)

Prof. Riccardo Turrini Vita (Una Voce Italia)

Delegates at the General Assembly, held at the Rezidenza Madri Pie, Rome

Our abiding mission...

“It is vitally important that these new priests and religious, these new young people with ardent hearts, should find -- if only in a corner of the rambling mansion of the Church -- the treasure of a truly sacred liturgy still glowing softly in the night. And it is our task – since we have been given the grace to appreciate the value of this heritage -- to preserve it from spoliation, from becoming buried out of sight, despised and therefore lost forever. It is our duty to keep it alive: by our own loving attachment, by our support for the priests who make it shine in our churches, by our apostolate at all levels of persuasion...”

--- Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem, founding President of the International Una Voce Federation, New York 1970

Prophetic words of the Founder...

“A renaissance will come: asceticism and adoration as the mainspring of direct total dedication to Christ will return. Confraternities of priests, vowed to celibacy and to an intense life of prayer and meditation will be formed. Religious will regroup themselves into houses of 'strict observance'. A new form of 'Liturgical Movement' will come into being, led by young priests and attracting mainly young people, in protest against the flat, prosaic, philistine or delirious liturgies which will soon overgrow and finally smother even the recently revised rites..."

--- Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem, founding President of the International Una Voce Federation, New York 1970

An Appeal - Please Help the Work of Una Voce.

Dear Friends,

Since Pope Benedict XVI promulgated his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum in 2007 the work of the International Federation Una Voce has increased dramatically. At our biennial General Assembly in Rome in November 2009 we enrolled six new member associations and are currently dealing with a large number of applications and enquiries.
Like all our individual member associations worldwide, the International Federation headquarters has no funds other than the annual subscriptions from its members and occasional donations from benefactors. We have no paid employees and all our funds
are spent in furthering the cause of tradition. Read more...

Dr Borghild Krane, co-founder of the International Una Voce Federation

In 1964, Dr Borghild Krane, an eminent psychologist in Norway, sent out an appeal to concerned Catholics to group together in defence of the Church's liturgical heritage. As a result of that appeal a number of national associations came into being in 1964-65. The first interim President of the nascent and inchoate Federation was His Serene Highness Duke Filippo Caffarelli. Delegates from six European associations met in Rome early in 1965 and the International Federation was formally erected in Zurich on 8 January 1967. Delegates from 20 associations approved the draft statutes and elected the first Council and a new President, Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem.