FIUV International Federation Una Voce: December 2021

Friday, 24 December 2021

FIUV announces a new Ordo for 2022

It seems clear that there will be no Ordo for the Traditional Mass from Rome this year: it had been published for a number of years by the PCED and then the CDF.

Accordingly, the Federation has asked Peter Day-Milne to format an Ordo in the same style. It shows the Universal Calendar, with no local feasts. We hope it will be a useful resource.

It can be downloaded as a pdf here.

We plan to print some physical copies as well, but this will have to wait for the New Year.

Comments and corrections please to secretary@fiuv.org

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Thursday, 23 December 2021

Canonical Guidance on the Responsa ad dubia

The Federation draws attention to the Canonical Guidance published by the Latin Mass Society (England and Wales) on the Responsa ad dubia published by the Congregation for Divine Worship on Saturday 18th December.

The Responsa can be seen here.

The Canonical Guidance can be seen here.

We will be adding links to translations of the Guidance as they become available.

There is a Polish version here.

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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.

Our abiding mission...