FIUV PP 25

Participants in an FSSP pilgrimage
in Nigeria, 2011. See more at
www.fsspnigeria.org. 

The Church in Africa faces challenges from the influence of a secularised Western culture, from the difficulties of authentic inculturation, and from the tensions and conflicts of societies divided along tribal and linguistic lines. In all these challenges, the Extraordinary Form can prove helpful, encapsulating as it does many of the principles of concern for tradition, reverence, and a sense of sin and of the sacred, that characterise African spirituality; providing a stable bulwark against syncretism which allows a more open attitude to African cultural practices; and avoiding the problems of preferring one language, often a former colonial one, over others. While the availability of the Extraordinary Form remains very limited in Africa, it is growing, and Africa’s bishops and religious orders should seize the opportunities which it represents. . . . . . .

The 25th in the FIUV Position Papers series, called “The Extraordinary Form and Sub-Saharan Africa” is now available in the FIUV Positio section.

Mass for Ebola victims in London

A recent Sung Mass in the historic church of Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, London, UK, where Sung Mass in the traditional Roman rite is celebrated every Monday evening and on feast days

The Feoderatio Internationalis Una Voce (International Una Voce Federation, FIUV) has had an appeal from Una Voce South Africa, on behalf of all our African friends, that where possible Processions, Litanies, and Votive Masses be said for the victims of the Ebola epidemic which is ravaging many parts of Africa.

In response, the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, in conjunction with the International Una Voce Federation, is arranging Litanies of the Saints and a Sung Votive Mass 'in Time of Pestilence' at 6.30pm on Monday 16th February 2015 (feria before Shrove Tuesday) at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, London (click for a map) to be celebrated by Rev Fr Patrick Hayward OSA.

The FIUV calls on all its members and supporters to take up this example, at this time of suffering.