FIUV International Federation Una Voce: The FIUV in Rome, Part 3

Wednesday 4 November 2015

The FIUV in Rome, Part 3

The 'Closed Session' of the General Assembly took place in the 'Knox Conference Centre' of the Domus Australia; the President, Treasurer, and Acting Secretary made reports, as did the Chairmen of the Committees set up by the FIUV Council for particular tasks: Membership, Communications, Music, and Liturgy and Spirituality (which publishes the Position Papers). The results of the elections to Council and to the Presidency have already been announced, on this blog, here.

Dinner in the Knox Conference Centre at the Domus Australia, for FIUV delegates and friends,
attended by Cardinal Pell and Cardinal Brandmuller.

At the end of the Closed Session Vespers was celebrated in the church of St Peter Chanel at the Domus Australia, with Cardinal Pell presiding, assisted by Fr Thomas Crean, with Cardinal Brandmuller in choir.

Cardinal Pell address the dinner guests.

This was followed by dinner, at which the newly elected President, Felipe Alanis Suarez, was introduced to Cardinal Pell by the outgoing President, James Bogle. Cardinal Pell spontaneously decided to give the assembled FIUV delegates and friends a little briefing on the Synod on the Family, which was just concluding.

Cardinal Pell bestows a blessing before his departure.

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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

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

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.