FIUV International Federation Una Voce: November 2025

Saturday, 22 November 2025

Gregorius Magnus 20, Winter 2026, now available

The new edition of Gregorius Magnus, the magazine of the FIUV, is now available to view online, on the ISSUU platform (optimised for mobile devices) or as a downloadable pdf.

In this issue we welcome Pope Leo, explore the Romanitas of English Catholicism, join Una Voce France in celebrating the 350th anniversary of the revelations of the Sacred Heart, explore the school in Nigeria run by the apostolate of the Fraternity of St Peter, review Jonathan Haight's The Anxious Generation, and lots more.

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Friday, 21 November 2025

FIUV Ordo 2026 available now!

The Federation's own Ordo, giving the Mass to be said every day of the year according to the Universal Calendar (1962), is now available as a pdf download here.

Hard copies are now available to buy, from the LMS online shop.

The FIUV took up the publication of this Ordo when the PCED, which used to do it, ceased to exist. It is modelled on the old PCED Ordos.

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General Assembly 2025 and a new Council

The Federation's General Assembly takes place every two years and (re)elects the President and Council, following which the Council chooses the Secretary and Treasurer and can co-opt three additional Councilors.

We had a well-attended General Assembly this year, and are delighted to announce the following, to hold office from now until the General Assembly of 2027.

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

President d’Honneur: Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce France)

Patrick Banken (Una Voce France)

Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands)

Vice President and Treasurer: Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany)

Secretary: Andris Amolins (Una Voce Latvia)

Councillors:

Jaime Alcalde (Magnificat, UV Chile)

David Reid (Una Voce Canada)

Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italy)

Uchenna Okezie (Una Voce Nigeria)

Donal Hanley (Una Voce Taiwan)

Rubén Peretó Rivas (Una Voce Argentina)

The following were invited to join Council meetings as non-voting consultants:

Consultants:

Pepijn Deutekom (Una Voce Netherlands)

Felipe Suarez Alanis (UV Mexico)

Catherine Jeulin (Una Voce France)

Membership of past Councils is recorded 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.