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| James Bogle, with FIUV Treasurer Joseph Shaw, who was also on the pilgrimage. |
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
FIUV President on the Chartres Pilgrimage
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Ars Celebrandi 2015 - TLM Workshops in Poland
About Ars Celebrandi 2014
The workshops took place in the largest Marian
shrine in Poland, in Licheń. Within the framework of these workshops, we
offered courses in traditional celebration for priests, courses for altar boys
on various levels and musical workshops embracing the Gregorian Chant and the
polyphonic music. It appeared quickly that the demand for such events is very
large and the number of applicants went far beyond our expectations. The
national workshops became international; there were 150 participants from
Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and France. One of the churches on
the premises of the shrine was made available to us. In this church, the
celebrations in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, Holy Masses in the
Dominican Rite, canonical hours and a
number of services and processions were taking place all week. Patronage was
granted by the local bishop and a number of Catholic media. The collaboration
with professional musicians specialising in the traditional Church music also
proved to be very successful. 10 out of 30 priests who took part in the
workshops celebrated their first Mass in the old rite. We can proudly say that
Ars Celebrandi has become the largest event of this sort in Central Eastern
Europe and the range and the results of our work contribute in a visible way to
promoting the traditional liturgy and spirituality in our region.
Video with movies from Ars Celebrandi 2014
Support for Ars Celebrandi 2015
Should you wish to offer us your financial support for
the purpose of organising the workshops in 2015, you can transfer your donations
to the following bank account of Una Voce Polonia:
SWIFT/BIC: INGBPLPW
PL 81 2130 0004 2001 0597 9745 0002
or via PayPal: uvp@unavocepolonia.pl
The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń [ˈlixɛɲ] is a Roman Catholic church located in the village of Licheń Starynear Konin in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland. It was built between 1994 and 2004. The construction was funded by pilgrims' donations.[1] With a tower measuring 141.5 meters in height, it is one of the tallest and largest churches in the world. The history of the foundation of the church dates back to 1813, when Tomasz Kłossowski a Polish soldier fighting under Napoleon near Leipzig was seriously wounded. He invoked Our Lady, begging her not to let him die in a foreign land. According to legend, she appeared to him wearing a golden crown, a dark red gown, with a golden mantle, and holding a white eagle in her right hand. She comforted the soldier and promised he would recover and return to Poland.[2] Tomasz was instructed to have an image of her made, and to place the image in a public place so that My people will pray before this image and shall draw many graces at My hands in the hardest times of trial.[3]
With the nave 120 meters long and 77 meters wide, with a central dome 98 meters high, and with a tower 141.5 metres tall, it is Poland's largest church and one of the largest churches in the world. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland whose icon, perhaps dating back to the 18th century, is displayed in the basilica's main altar. It is one of Poland's principal pilgrimage sites.
(source: wikipedia)Photo: wikipedia / Krzysztof Mizera
Saturday, 18 April 2015
FIUV PP 25
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| Participants in an FSSP pilgrimage in Nigeria, 2011. See more at www.fsspnigeria.org. |
The 25th in the FIUV Position Papers series, called “The Extraordinary Form and Sub-Saharan Africa” is now available in the FIUV Positio section.
Monday, 13 April 2015
Happy Eastertide on Low Sunday - Quasimodo geniti infantes...
Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce
Non
cessant clamare quotidie UNA VOCE dicentes: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Quae
patronum invocat sanctum Gregorium Magnum Papam
2015 - 50th Anniversary Year of the Federation
founded in 1965
12
April 2015
Quasimodo
or Low Sunday (Close Pasch)
A very Happy Easter to all
members of the Federation
from the President and
Officers
Surrexit Christus! Alleluia!
Dear friends and fellow members of
the Federation,
May I wish you all a very Happy
Easter 2015, every blessing for the Paschal season and Gaudium Paschali to
you all!
On this day, which is often called Quasimodo Sunday, being the 8th day after the Resurrection, are sung the
words of 1 Peter 2:2 as the introit of the Sunday:
Quasimodo geniti infantes, alleluia, rationabile
sine dolo lac concupiscite.
("As newborn babes, alleluia, desire the rational milk
without guile.")
We recall the appearance of the Lord
for a second time to the Disciples, the first being on Easter Day when, after
appearing to St Peter and Cleophas on the road to Emmaus, he appeared
miraculously amongst the Disciples at table.
We recall that, on this second
occasion, our Lord showed his wounds to St Thomas Didymus "the
Doubter", who saw and so believed.
The Lord said to him (John
20:27-29):
Deinde dicit Thomae: Infer
digitum tuum huc, et vide manus meas, et affer manum tuam, et mitte in latus
meum: et noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis. Respondit Thomas, et dixit ei:
Dominus meus et Deus meus. Dixit ei Jesus: Quia vidisti me, Thoma, credidisti:
beati qui non viderunt, et crediderunt.
("Then he saith to Thomas: put in thy finger hither,
and see my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be
not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my
God. Jesus saith to him: because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.")
Let us rejoice, then, in being those
who have not seen but yet have believed.
Let us also recall, and await, the third appearance of
the Lord to the Disciples, by the sea of Tiberias, when, after the
miraculous draught of fishes, He heard the confession of St Peter,
our first Holy Father, Pope and Bishop of the Holy See of Rome, who humbly
obeyed the Divine Command.
May I ask that those members who are able to do
so, share with us any pictorial or photographic record of
their participation in the services of prayer over Palm Sunday and
especially the Sacred Triduum of Holy Week. I shall then arrange for
them to be posted to the website.
It has been especially joyful to see more and more young
people participating in the sacred Triduum services according to the
traditional rites, including the beautiful services of Tenebrae that
so profoundly capture the spirit of that most holy week of the liturgical year.
Whilst there are many matters of concern to us all, as
members of Una Voce, in these troubling times, nevertheless we may
still experience the joy of seeing the ancient ceremonies and rites of Holy
Church being embraced by more and more of the Faithful who are daily re-discovering
the liturgical treasures that the Holy Spirit has provided for us, through the
Church, over the centuries, and which more and more people are feeling
themselves drawn to.
Despite the best efforts of the Enemy to deprive the
Faithful of these treasures, nevertheless they remain to us and - increasingly
- to more and more, in a manner that often seems highly providential given the
unbelieving tenor of our times.
May I fittingly end this letter by warmly thanking all of
you who, as members of the International Una Voce Federation,
have worked so tirelessly, and so courageously, and for so many years, to
preserve, protect and defend these most beautiful liturgical rites, so lovingly
tended by our spiritual ancestors and which have, for so many centuries,
nurtured amongst us so many saints from so many nations, races and peoples.
As we prepare for the many feasts that adorn the Roman
liturgical calendar during this season, I look forward to seeing some of you on
the weekend of the great Feast of Pentecost when so many traditional
Catholic pilgrims undertake the arduous pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres,
organised by the Association Notre Dame de Chretienté, in witness to our Faith and to our sacred Catholic
traditions.
May God bless us all during this festive and holy season of
Eastertide!
With every good wish and blessing,
yours sincerely in Christo rege,
Colonel James Bogle
President
International Una Voce Federation
International Una Voce Federation
Monday, 6 April 2015
EASTER DAY - Quia vidi Dominum...
Happy Easter to all!
Christus surrexit,
sicut dixit,
alleluia!
Christ is risen
as he said!
Alleluia!
Christus surrexit,
sicut dixit,
alleluia!
Christ is risen
as he said!
Alleluia!
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| Correggio. Noli me tangere. 1525 |
[Taverner, Dum transisset sabbatum from Mark 16, sung at the Easter Vigil mass of Holy Saturday night]
"The Angels said to her 'Woman, why are you weeping?'. She said to them 'Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid Him'. Saying this she turned round and saw Jesus standing but she did not know that it was Jesus. Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him 'Sir, if you have carried Him away tell me where you have laid Him and I will take Him away'. And Jesus said to her 'Mary'. She turned and said to Him in Hebrew 'Rabboni!'".
[John 20]
John Taverner (1490-1545). Dum Transisset Sabbatum. Sung by the Tallis Scholars.
Dum transisset Sabbatum,
Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi et Salome
emerunt aromata ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
Alleluia.
Et valde mane una sabbatorum veniunt ad monumentum orto iam sole ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
Alleluia.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
Alleluia.
And when the Sabbath was past,
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome
had brought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Alleluia.
And very early in the morning, the first day of the week,
they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun that they might come and anoint him.
Alleluia.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Alleluia.
[Dum Transisset Sabbatum - taken from the Gospel of St Mark, Ch16]
Carl Heinrich Bloch. The Resurrection. 1881.Victimae paschali laudes
immolent Christiani
Agnus redemit oves:
Christus innocens Patri
Reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando,
Dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via?
Sepulcrum Christi viventis,
Et gloriam vidi resurgentis:
Angelicos testes, sudarium et vestes.
Surrexit Christus spes mea:
Praecedet vos in Galilaeam.
Credendum est magis soli
Mariae veraci
Quam Judaeorum
Turbae fallaci.
Scimus Christum surrexisse
a mortuis vere:
Tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere.
Amen. Alleluia.
[Wipo of Burgundy, Victimi Paschali Laudes. 1040. Sung on Easter Sunday]
Surrexit Christus hodie! Alleluia!
Christ is risen today! Alleluia!
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[with acknowledgments and thanks to the Roman Christendom Blog]
HOLY SATURDAY - Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum...
When the Lord was buried...
"Remember, Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned unto aliens, our houses to strangers. We are become orphans without a father, our mothers are as widows...our fathers have sinned and are no more and we have borne their iniquities.
[Tenebrae (Matins) of Holy Saturday, prayer of the prophet Jeremiah]
"I am counted among them that go down to the pit. I am become like a man without help free among the dead."
[Responsory, Tenebrae (Matins) of Holy Saturday]
"For when every commandment of the Law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of goats and calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people saying, this is the blood of the Testament which God hath enjoined upon you. The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner he sprinkled with blood. And almost all things according to the Law are cleansed with blood and without shedding of blood there is no remission."
[Heb. ix.]
"When the Lord was buried they sealed the sepulchre rolling a stone before the mouth of the sepulchre and placed soldiers to guard Him."
[Responsory, Tenebrae (Matins) of Holy Saturday]
"O death I will be thy death! O hell, I will be thy bite!"
[Antiphon of the Miserere, Tenebrae (Lauds) of Holy Saturday]
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, be converted unto the Lord thy God!
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[with acknowledgments and thanks to the Roman Christendom Blog]
GOOD FRIDAY - Regnavit a ligno Deus...
Good Friday
Quid ultra debui facere tibi, et non feci? Ego quidem plantavi te vineam meam speciosissimam: et tu facta es mihi nimis amara: aceto namque sitim meam potasti: et lancea perforasti latus Salvatori tuo.
Ego dedi tibi sceptrum regale: et tu dedisti capiti meo spineam coronam.
Popule meus, quid feci tibi? Aut in quo contristavi te? Responde mihi!
"What more ought I to have done for thee, that I have not done? I planted thee, indeed, My most beautiful vineyard and thou hast become exceeding bitter to Me, for in My thirst thou gavest Me vinegar to drink and with a lance thou pierced the side of thy Saviour!
I gave thee a royal sceptre and thou didst give My head a crown of thorns…
O my people! What have I done to thee? Wherein have I offended thee? Answer me!"
Titian. Christ Crowned with Thorns. 1540."For he hath taken us and he will heal us: he will strike and he will cure us. He will revive after two days: on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight. We shall know and we shall follow on, that we know the Lord...for I desired mercy and not animal sacrifice and the knowledge of God more than holocausts."
[Hosea 6, First lesson sung at the Good Friday Service of the Mass of the Pre-sanctified]
"He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the whole chastisement that made us whole and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that is dumb before its shearers, he opened not his mouth."
[Isaiah 53, Epistle for Wednesday in Holy Week]
Titian. Ecce Homo. 1560."Jesus answered: ‘My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence’. Pilate therefore said to Him ‘Art Thou a King then?’ Jesus answered ‘Thou sayest that I am a King. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, that I should give testimony of the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth My voice…
…Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him and the soldiers plaiting a Crown of Thorns, put it upon His head and they put upon Him a purple mantle and they came to Him and said ‘Hail King of the Jews!’ and they gave Him blows."
[John 18]
Regnavit a ligno Deus.
"God hath reigned from a tree."
[From Vexilla Regis, St Venantius Fortunatus, sung during the Good Friday Service of the Passion]
"What more ought I to have done for thee, that I have not done? I planted thee, indeed, My most beautiful vineyard and thou hast become exceeding bitter to Me, for in My thirst thou gavest Me vinegar to drink and with a lance thou pierced the side of thy Saviour!
… For thy sake I scourged Egypt with its first-born and thou didst deliver Me up to be scourged…
… I gave thee a royal sceptre and thou didst give My head a crown of thorns…
… I exalted thee with great strength and thou didst hang Me on the gibbet of the Cross…
O my people! What have I done to thee? Wherein have I offended thee? Answer me!"
[Improperia or Reproaches of Christ to His people and to us all, from the Good Friday Service of the Passion]
O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.
"O all ye that pass by the way, attend and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow."
[Lamentations of Jeremiah, sung at Tenebrae (Matins and Lauds) on Maundy Thursday]
Diego Velázquez. Christ Crucified. c. 1632.
"And they took Jesus and led Him forth. And bearing His cross, He went forth to that place that is called Calvary but in Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified Him and with Him two others, one on each side and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title also and he put it upon the Cross and the writing was ‘Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews’… and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin."
[John 18]
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[with acknowledgments and thanks to the Roman Christendom Blog]
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