Mass of thanksgiving for Humanae Vitae in Oxford, Wed 25th July

On Wednesday 25th July, 

at 6pm, 

there will be a 

Sung Mass of St James the Apostle, 

offered in thanksgiving 

for the Encyclical Humane Vitae 

in 

SS Gregory & Augustine's, 

322 Woodstock Rd, 

Oxford 

OX2 7NS

Gregorius Magnus Issue 5 now available

The fifth edition of the online magazine of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV: Una Voce International) is available for free download as a pdf here.

Traditional Family Retreat in Spain

Cross-posted from Rorate Caeli. Events such as this have been uncommon in Spain and we are delighted to report on this initiative.

From Thursday the 28th of June through Sunday the 1^st of July took place the 1^st edition of the Family Retreat ‘Vayamos Jubilosos’ for people attached to the Traditional Liturgy of the Roman Rite in Spain. This is the first time ever that such an initiative to deepen the knowledge of the Mass of Ages and the values and principles of Christendom occurs in Spain.

Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, RIP

Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos died yesterday. He deserves our prayers.

He was President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei over the period of the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum, obviously a very important time for those attached to the Traditional Mass.

In the photograph above, he is blessing delegates at the Foederatio Universalis Una Voce during the General Assembly of 2013; below, he is celebrating Mass (Pontifical Low) for them in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of St Peter's in Rome in 2011. That was the first time a Cardinal has celebrated the ancient Mass in St Peters since the liturgical reform.

There is an obituary of him on Rorate Caeli.

FIUV PP 33

Artist: Giovanni del Biondo, fl. 1356-1399

Pope Benedict XVI foresaw the inclusion of new saints in the calendar of the Extraordinary Form. This does not imply that this Form will cease to have a distinct calendar; calendrical differences have always been a feature of the Church’s liturgy. The EF Sanctoral Cycle is distinctive in having a greater number of feasts than that of the Ordinary Form; of including a large number of very ancient saints; and of commemorating the miraculous. In these ways it reflects the spirit of the Form as a whole, manifested both in its proper and its ordinary texts. Here we find a concern with the intercession, rather than of the example, of the saints, and for continuity, which the ancient saints in particular exemplify. When looking to create room for more recent saints to be included, it can be asked if the more modern saints of the 1960 calendar could more appropriately be included in local calendars, than in the Universal calendar. . . . . . . . .

The 33rd in the FIUV Position Papers series, called “The Sanctoral Cycle of the Extraordinary Form” is now available in the FIUV Positio section.

Gregorius Magnus, issue 4

The FIUV is now reviving the publication of its magazine, Gregorius Magnus, which can be downloaded here. (See also the webpage maintained by Una Voce Russia for the past issues).

The 4th issue of Gregorius Magnus (February 2018) is 24 pages about:

• Position Paper 32: The Extraordinary Form and Islam
• UV General Assembly in Rome, Nov 2017
• Book Review: History of the FIUV
• Irish Abortion Referendum
• Una Voce in England, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Nigeria