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FEATURE Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 The voice of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce Una Voce in Scotland, Ireland, India and Wales FSSP Ordinations to the Subdiaconate Plus Responses to the French Bishops Earthquake in Croatia; Obituary from Poland; Missa Solemnis in Canada Gregorian Chant as the musica perennis; Our Lady as guide to Christ Introducing the UV Scotland Newsletter GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 Gregorius Magnus: biannual magazine of the Una Voce Federation “ He who would climb The FIUV’s periodical is dedicated to St Gregory the Great to a lofty height must (Pope Gregory I), who died in 604 AD, a Pope forever go by steps, not leaps.” associated with Gregorian Chant, and the Gregorian rite of St Gregory the Great Mass (the Extraordinary Form). Gregorius Magnus magazine aims to be a showcase for the world-wide ‘Traditional Catholic’ movement: the movement for the restoration to the Church’s altars of the Mass in its traditional forms: Roman, Dominican, Ambrosian, and so on. Please send contributions Gregorius Magnus is published twice a year: in March and in to Joseph Shaw, the October. Secretary of the FIUV The Editor, Joseph Shaw, FIUV Secretary, wants to hear from ([email protected]), for you! While we cannot pay for contributions, we would like to our two annual deadlines: spread the news, good or bad, about the movement for the restoration of the Church’s liturgical traditions, from all over 15th February, the world. for the March issue, 15th September, the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, and we wish to for the October issue. recordThe our production thanks to of them. the magazine is supported financially by Page 2 www.fiuv.org/ GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 Gregorius Magnus is published by the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce. The FIUV is a lay movement within the Catholic Church, founded in Rome in 1965 10 23 32 38 and erected formally in Zürich in January 1967. The principal aims of the FIUV are Contents to ensure that the Missale Romanum promulgated by Blessed Pope From the FIUV John XXIII in 1962 is maintained Welcome to Gregorius Magnus 11! 4 in the Church as one of the forms In their own words Part 2 5 of liturgical celebration, to obtain freedom of use for all other Roman Events in Rome, October 2020 10 liturgical books enshrining ‘previous The French Bishops and the CDF Survey 15 liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition’ and to safeguard and promote the use of From the Magazines Latin, Gregorian chant and sacred Good works: Charles A. Coulombe remembers polyphony. John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute 18 The Council of the International Gregorian Chant: musica perennis By Patrick Banken 21 Federation Una Voce President: Mary as a guide to Christ Lecture by Prof. Peter Stephan 23 Felipe Alanís Suárez Introducing the Newsletter of Una Voce Scotland Memories of the Latin Mass in 1960s Lanarkshire 28 Honorary Presidents: (Una Voce México) News from Around the World • Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce Vice Presidents: Earthquake in Croatia: A Flagello Terræmotus, Libera Nos, Domine France) 30 Solemn High Mass at Holy Rosary Cathedral 31 • Patrick Banken (Una Voce France) By Igor Jurić • Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The return to the Lost Paradise: Dante’s answer Secretary: The Netherlands) By Robert Lazu Kmita 32 Joseph Shaw Ordinations to the Sub-Diaconate 34 The FIUV and Friends 38 (Latin Mass Society, England Treasurer: and Wales) 39 Monika Rheinschmitt Latin Mass Society: Lockdown and Post-Lockdown Activities 39 Father Sławomir Grzela (1990 - 2019) – in memoriam Council Members: (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany) Books Section • Oleg-Michael Martynov ‘Indications of Changing Roman Attitudes’ 41 • David Reid (Una Voce Canada) Liturgical Pluralism and the Extraordinary Form 44 (Una Voce Russia) • Jarosław Syrkiewicz FIUV Member Associations 48 (Una Voce Polonia) • Eduardo Colon • Jaime Alcalde (Una Voce Chile) Editor: Joseph Shaw (Una Voce Puerto Rico) Website: http://www.fiuv.org/ • Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italia) Designed by GADS Limited • Prof. Riccardo Turrini Vita For further queries, please email to [email protected] • João Silveira (UV Portugal) Ordinations to the Sub-Diaconate at the Seminary of the Fraternity of St Peter, Wigratzbad, Germany (Una Voce Italia) www.fiuv.org/ Page 3 EDITOR’S MESSAGE GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 Welcome to Gregorius Magnus 11! by Joseph Shaw, Secretary The last twelve months have been While we have yet to see whether became for a time the only chapel where lacking in many of things which this ban will really be maintained, it is the EF would be allowed, the ‘Hungarian normally sustain our social and also an attempt to coerce priests celebrating Chapel’ in the Crypt. Since then we have our spiritual lives. In this edition the Ordinary Form into taking part in a seen it celebrated all over the basilica, we celebrate some events which concelebration, rather than saying their did manage to take place, in Rome own Masses sine populo. Unless these Pilgrimage, in the Chapel of the Throne last October for example, but we concelebrations are to be in Latin, it is inincluding, the Upper in theBasilica. Summorum Pontificum also need to respond to events of a We should perhaps take comfort different kind. The consequences work with visiting priests from all over from two thoughts. One is that this time of the survey carried out by the thedifficult world. to knowThe Extraordinaryhow this is going Form, to the EF is actually faring better than the Congregation for the Doctrine of the on the other hand, has the privilege of Ordinary Form, in which no ‘individual Faith continue make themselves felt, four slots each morning for individual celebrations’ are to be allowed at all. particularly in the form of the rather celebrations, in the ‘Clementine Chapel’ The other is that the Clementine negative conclusions of a document of the crypt. Chapel is not only more aesthetically of the French Bishops’ Conference, Clearly an attempt is being made to pleasing than the Hungarian Chapel, but which we quote in this edition. In control the liturgy in St Peter’s in a new addition to statements from the and alarming way. In the past we heard Possibly it was chosen because of its Federation and Una Voce France in stories of the hostility of sacristans to tinyhas thesize, utmost but it symbolicis located significance.behind the response to this, I have included the EF, and in the 1990s the Federation Confessio, right next to the Tomb of St the Federation’s Position Paper on was told in all seriousness that it would Peter. Under this decree, this chapel will Liturgical Diversity: a plea for our be inappropriate for the ancient Mass be exclusively Old Rite, with four back- continued toleration, which seems to be celebrated in the Pope’s own to-back Masses there each morning, particularly apt in a week which has church. Then, on 11th October 2003 it and presumably no other celebrations seen the promulgation of a ban on was a great step forward when Fr Josef allowed. With unintentional irony, the the ‘individual celebration’ of Masses Bisig FSSP celebrated a Mass for the liturgical control-freaks have made a in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Federation’s General Assembly in what gift to us of St Peter himself. By Dr Joseph Shaw £3.50 Experiencing the Extraordinary Form can raise a lot of questions. Why does the priest have his back to the congregation? Why is everything in Latin? How am I meant to take part? This booklet answers these ques-tions so as to help Catholics get a better understanding of the Extraordinary Form and to engage with it in a fruitful way. Catholic Truth Society CTS: The Catholic Publishing Charity God’s truth, beautifully told. 42-46 Harleyford Road, London SE11 5AY. Tel: 020 7640 0042; website: www.ctsbooks.org Email: [email protected] Page 4 www.fiuv.org/ FROM THE FIUV GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 In their own words Part 2 Continuing from the Autumn 2020 edition of Gregorius Magus, we have collected and anonymised comments from respondents to the FIUV’s survey on the implementation of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum. To recap, this survey was undertaken to give the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith the perspective of the laity when evaluating the responses of bishops to their own survey on this subject, which they sent to bishops around the world in April 2020, with a deadline of 31st July. We were able to send our own report to the CDF with information from 364 dioceses, from 56 countries in six continents. The often heart-felt comments added to the online survey are among the most useful features of the report, alongside its record of various crucial facts about what is going on, concretely, in different dioceses. As readers will see, the comments represent the authentic voice of people on the ground, who have in many cases clearly been struggling with the practical difficulties of facilitating the Extraordinary Form for many years. They are not reluctant to praise their bishops, as well as many dedicated priests, when appropriate, but in many cases bishops and some senior clergy have not been implementing Summorum Pontificum with the spirit which was requested by Pope Benedict XVI: ‘Let us generously open our hearts and Summorum Pontificum. We did not have room in the Gregorius Magnus 10 for comments from all the countries surveyed, so here are the remainingmake room ones, for everything including countriesthat the faith in Oceania, itself allows.’ Europe, (Letter and North to Bishops America.