The FIUV in Rome, Part 4

On Sunday, Pontifical Mass in Sta Trinita dei Pellegrini - the church of the Fraternity of St Peter in Rome - was a joint affair between the FIUV and the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage, in the sense that it was accompanied by the choir from England which had come with us, Cantus Magnus, led by Matthew Schellhorn, who is the FIUV's Master of Music.

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.

The FIUV in Rome: Part 2

The weekend of the General Assembly coincided with the climax of the Pilgrimage to Rome organised by Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum (CISP), and those coming to the General Assembly had the chance to attend their events.

The FIUV in Rome: Part 1

For this General Assembly, the FIUV used the Domus Australia for the first time.

Congratulations to the new President of the Federation, Sr. Felipe Alanís Suárez from Monterrey, México!

Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce

Non cessant clamare quotidie UNA VOCE dicentes: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus

Quae patronum invocat sanctum Gregorium Magnum Papam

2015 - 50^th Anniversary Year of the Federation founded in 1965

IN FESTO DOMINI NOSTRI IESV CHRISTI REGIS

Dear Members of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce,

It is with great expectations that I write this letter to all of you, in my new capacity of President of our beloved International Federation.

As you might have been noticed previously, this weekend, thanks to the hard work of our former President, Col. James Bogle (to whom I’m deeply grateful), the biennial Statutory General Assembly has taken place in Rome, with its last event being the Monday’s morning Mass. In this special occasion and according to our statutes, last Saturday the delegates of the FIUV associations proceeded to the election of the new Council, for which we had the largest number of candidates in the history of our organization, coming from all around the world. This single fact demonstrates the wonderful health and relevance that the Una Voce movement has reached, and if you allow me to say, was the greatest way to start the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of its creation.

Five decades ago, in 1965, the first Una Voce meeting took place in Rome with delegates from six European countries in order to gather in defence of the Church's liturgical heritage. Two years later, in 1967, the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce was formally erected when 20 associations approved its statutes, elected a council and a founding President: my predecessor Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem.

Currently, in 2015, we have 45 member associations from every continent and the legacy from our former Presidents: the above mentioned Dr. de Saventhem, Mr. Michael Davis, Mr. Ralf Siebenburger, Fra' Fredrik Crichton-Stuart, Mr. Jack Oostveen, Mr. Leo Darroch and Col. James Bogle. This legacy is so important and fruitful that, as the first non-European FIUV President, I neither represent a choice for a change of spirit nor pretend to be a renewed beginning: on the contrary, it is a natural development of a steady and organic growth of the institution worldwide, in the more Catholic sense of the Church, which can be enriched with the different gifts that God gives to his children.

And if someone could dare to affirm that nowadays the Traditional Mass only fits well within a very specific cultural background, our new Council proves it to be very wrong, as could be seen in the list of our new elected councillors and officers whose names I have the great honour to communicate you:


President: Felipe Alanís Suárez (myself) – Una Voce México
Vice-President: Patrick Banken – Una Voce France
Secretary: Juan Manuel Rodríguez González-Cordero – Una Voce Sevilla (Spain)
Treasurer: Monika Rheinschmitt – Pro Missa Tridentina Germany

Councillors:
Alain Cassagnau – Una Voce France
Albert Edward Doskey – Una Voce Cuba
Eduardo Colón – Una Voce Puerto Rico
Fabio Marino – Una Voce Italia
Hajime Kato – Una Voce Japan
Johann von Behr – Una Voce Germany
Joseph Shaw – Latin Mass Society of England and Wales
Marcin Gola – Una Voce Poland
Oleg-Michael Martynov – Una Voce Russia
Othon de Medeiros Alves – Una Voce Natal, Brazil
Rodolfo Vargas Rubio – Roma Æterna, Barcelona (Spain)

All of us, blessed by the physical or moral presence of our Presidents d’honneur:

Professor Count Neri Capponi; M. Jacques Dhaussy; His Excellency Dr. Helmut Ruckriegel.


With special joy, I can announce that the Council has decided to create the honorary office of Past President Consultor, with the informal role of closely and personally advising the President in the main questions raised about the governance of the Federation. This is to recognize and take benefit of the experience of former FIUV Presidents. So, each of them is allowed and respectfully asked to bear this new position personally and exclusively attached to the President in charge, who assumes, of course, the whole responsibility of the decisions he makes. I take the occasion to express my sincere and deep gratitude to my predecessors. As we could verify in our very first Council meeting, to leave our humble skills in the hands of the our Lady who, under the mystery of her Immaculate Conception, will allow us to work in a beautiful concord and unity ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam animarumque salutem.

I would like to assure the member associations of the best of my efforts in this period as President of the Federation and also encourage them not to be afraid to go out and keep fighting together –always with Charity, Joy, Respect and Humbleness– the spiritual combat for the sake of the souls, that in the present and in the future, will be saved by the Holy sacrifice of Christ in the Altar of the Mass.

¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Felipe Alanís Suárez
President of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce

In Rome, 25 October 2015

50th anniversary General Assembly of the Federation in Rome at Domus Australia - full public programme

Mass in the Chapel of the Choir for the last FIUV General Assembly, Nov 2013

Here is the full musical programme for the FIUV and Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage (CISP) - those parts highlighted feature Cantus Magnus and FIUV arrangements.

Friday, October 23 – Feast of St Anthony Mary Claret

8.45am – Chiesa Nuova (S. Maria in Valicella):

Rosary with meditation and prayer at St. Philip Neri’s tomb

Music: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate.

 

3:30pm – Palatine Hill, Rome:

Way of the Cross with the Family of the Immaculate, Mediatrix of all graces, and of Saint Francis

 

6pm – Santa Maria in Campitelli:

Rosary, confession, and Pontifical Mass at 6:30pm

Celebrant: Most Rev Msgr Guido Pozzo, titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio and Secretary of the Pontifical Ecclesia Dei Commission (PCED)

Music: The Schola Sainte-Cécile will sing Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Mass for Four Choirs H4

 

Saturday, October 24 – Feast of St Raphael

9:30am – San Lorenzo in Damaso:

Eucharistic adoration presided over by Rev Don Marino Neri, secretary of Amicizia sacerdotale Summorum Pontificum

Music: Cantus Magnus

Adoro te devote Plainsong

Salve Regina Plainsong

Ave Maria Parsons

Tantum ergo Plainsong

Jesu dulcis memoria Victoria

Ave verum Corpus Byrd

Vexilla Regis Palestrina alternatim plainsong

 

10.30am – San Lorenzo in Damaso:

Solemn procession to St. Peter’s Basilica, led by Rt Rev Dom Jean Pateau OSB, Abbot of Fontgombault

Music: the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate

 

12 Noon – St. Peter’s Basilica:

Pontifical Mass at the Altar of the Chair

Celebrant: Rt Rev Msgr Laise, Bishop emeritus of San Luís, Argentina

Homily: Most Rev Msgr Luigi Negri, Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio

Music: Schola Sainte Cécile

 

7:15pm - Chapel of St Peter Chanel, Domus Australia:

Vespers and Benediction, in the presence of HE George, Cardinal Pell and HRE Walter, Cardinal Brandmuller in choir

Presiding: HE George, Cardinal Pell, Prefect of the Economic Secretariat of the Holy See

Music: Cantus Magnus

Te saeculorum principem Plainsong
Magnificat primi toni Viadana
Ave verum Corpus Mozart
Organ: Sonata no.3 in C minor (Prelude: Allegro maestoso e con fuoco) Guilmant

 

Sunday, October 25 – Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King

 

11am - Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini:

Pontifical Mass for the Feast of Christ the King

Celebrant: by Rt Rev Dom Jean Pateau OSB, Abbot of Fontgombault

Music: Cantus Magnus

Mass For Five Voices William Byrd

Benedicimus Deum caeli MacMillan
Ave verum Corpus Elgar
Salve Regina Lotti
Asperges, Credo III
Organ: Suite médiévale (Acclamations: Christus vincit) Langlais

 

7.15pm - Chapel of St Peter Chanel, Domus Australia:

Vespers and Benediction, in the presence of HE Dario, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos in choir

Presiding: Most Rev Msgr Guido Pozzo, titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio, Secretary PCED

Music: Cantus Magnus

Te saeculorum principem Plainsong
Magnificat septimi toni Viadana
Tantum ergo Neal (World Premiere)
Ave verum corpus Byrd
Organ: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (Magnificat peregrini toni) Pachelbel

 

Monday, October 26 - Feria

11:00 Chapel of St Peter Chanel, Domus Australia:

Sung Mass

Celebrant: Rev Michael Brown, chaplain Latin Mass Society of England and Wales

Music: Cantus Magnus

Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales (K, G, S, A) Josquin
Hoc Corpus Robledo
Panis Angelicus Franck
Salve Regina

James Bogle, President FIUV

Joseph Shaw, Treasurer/Acting Secretary FIUV

Matthew Schellhorn, Director of Music FIUV & Cantus Magnus

  

President's lecture tour of Ireland

And in August 2015...

 

The President toured Ireland as a guest of Irish traditional Catholics visiting Cork, Limerick, Galway, Knock, Drogheda, Silverstream Abbey and Dublin.

 

There are strong signs of growth in the use of the traditional Roman rite in Ireland with the FSSP in Cork City and the Institute of Christ the King in Limerick and many other centres of tradition in other parts of Ireland.

 

The President, James Bogle of Gilmorehill,
with Rev Anthony Buckley and Very Rev Canon le Bocq, superior of the Institute of Christ the King
in Limerick outside their church which, although splendid, needs donations for some serious restoration.

The Institute has taken on the old Jesuit church in Limerick which is a beautiful church but in need of much restoration.

Inside the church - very beautiful but in need of care and attention and your assistance with donations!

Your donations to this important work will be greatly appreciated.

The Institute has a very young team working there and taking on a big challenge and deserve all the support they can get.

At the shrine of our Lady of Knock with Bishop Philip Boyce of Raphoe. The Bishop has been generous in his application of the decree Summorum Pontificum

Visiting the shrine of our Lady of Knock was another opportunity to meet local Catholics attached to the traditional Roman rite of the mass.

There is a regular traditional mass at the shrine with the approval of the parish priest.

The President with the Parish Priest of Knock, Rev Richard Gibbons.
Fr Gibbons was hosting his Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan that same day.

The Blessed Virgin appeared at Knock in the 19th century and the little town became one of the most famous shrines in Ireland the world. On the evening of Thursday 21 August 1879 15 people witnessed an apparition of our Lady, St Joseph and St John the Evangelist at the small parish church of St John the Baptist.

The President with a grand-daughter and great-granddaughter of one of the Knock visionaries.
The family still lives in Knock modestly and piously, despite the international fame of the shrine. 

The President attended the simple profession of two young monks at the newly founded traditional Benedictine priory of Silverstream, near Dublin.

Silverstream Priory in Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland, in the Diocese of Meath, is a community of monks living under the Rule of Saint Benedict.

Simple profession of 2 young monks at Silverstream Priory
to which the President was invited by the Prior, Rt Rev Dom Mark Kirby OSB

Under the patronage of our Lady of the Cenacle, the monks of Silverstream Priory devote themselves to the worthy celebration of the Sacred Liturgy (which St Benedict called the Opus Dei, or "Work of God"), in its age-old classical form - the traditional Roman rite - and to perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharistic Face of Christ, in a spirit of reparation.

Their life of praise and adoration is marked by a heartfelt solicitude for the sanctification of priests The President was invited by the Prior of Silverstream, Rt Rev Dom Mark Kirby OSB, to be present at the Simple Profession of 2 young monks. It is always a moving occasion to see young persons dedicating their lives to fully to God and this was no exception.

The 2 young monks having made their Simple Profession thank and praise God together with their brethren

Silverstream Priory is a new foundation and, again, in need of donations and assistance and your generosity is warmly invited to assist this very important foundation, one of the most significant in Europe.

The President with the Prior of Silverstream Priory, the Rt Rev Dom Mark Kirby OSB,
and another monk of the Priory

The Priory is located outside Dublin in the former home of an Irish nobleman given to the foundation. Although a fine building, there is much work to be done by the small community of monks who wish to build a monastery in the tradition of St Benedict. They already provide generous hospitality to pilgrims who visit.

St Benedict, pray for us!

 

 

 

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