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FEATURE Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11

The voice of the Foederatio Internationalis

Una Voce in Scotland, Ireland, India and Wales FSSP to the Subdiaconate Plus Responses to the French Earthquake in ; Obituary from Poland; Missa Solemnis in Canada 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 ( 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 (the Extraordinary Form). Gregorius Magnus magazine aims to be a showcase for the world-wide ‘Traditional ’ movement: the movement for the restoration to the Church’s 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 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

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Gregorius Magnus is published by the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce. The FIUV is a lay movement within the , founded in 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 . 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 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 ) 30

Solemn High Mass at Holy Cathedral 31 • Patrick Banken (Una Voce France) By Igor Jurić • Jack Oostveen ( 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, ) 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 ) 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, , 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 celebrating Chapel’ in the Crypt. Since then we have our spiritual lives. In this edition the Form into taking part in a seen it celebrated all over the basilica, we celebrate some events which , rather than saying their did manage to take place, in Rome own Masses . Unless these Pilgrimage, in the Chapel of the Throne last October for example, but we are to be in Latin, it is inincluding, the Upper in theBasilica. 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 Extraordinary how this is going Form, to the EF is actually faring better than the Congregation for the 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 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 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 of St the Federation’s Position Paper on was told in all seriousness that it would Peter. Under this , 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 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.

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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 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 , 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 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. accompanying )

Oceania: Australia and New had tried to place restrictions not celebrations of the EF. His predecessor Zealand justified by the documents. We are was very friendly to the EF.’ still restricted with diocesan policy, ‘The Ordinary and his predecessor Australia for example, where visiting Priests have made us feel like a part of the Summorum Pontificum has been may stay, where Holy Mass can be .’ implemented to some extent in many, held and we cannot advertise through though by no means all, the dioceses the diocese.’ ‘The Ordinary actively New Zealand of Australia, and the survey results prevented a retired from In New Zealand the implementation show some sharp contrasts. There are visiting to confer the of of Summorum Pontificum remains many cases of flourishing EF , Confirmation.’ very limited. One point of is the some served by the FSSP and some by ‘Interest in the EF among apostolate of the Sons of the Holy diocesan clergy, where the Faithful seminarians is seen as a major Redeemer in Christ Church: this is a express complete contentment about formation issue and has a number of community, which also has a house in the provision made for them. In other a remote part of Scotland, which was places stable groups attached to the EF .’ formerly aligned with the SSPX, but was times resulted in (at least) delay of who are given little if any consideration, ‘While the Ordinary discourages reconciled to the following and the EF continues to be a source of diocesan clergy from celebrating the Summorum Pontificum. They are able conflict and division. Traditional Mass, there are none who to offer the full range of One surprising finding is that would be able to or want to. If a group and devotions to the Faithful in a several suggest that the present wants the Traditional Mass, they call church of their own. This is unique in Ordinary is less friendly to the EF in a priest from another Diocese who the country. (See also the Obituary than his predecessor. Nevertheless, can do it, but this is irregular. Most of of Bishop Meeking in this edition of the parishes where it is established the time they just go to the SSPX which Gregorius Magnus.) continue to grow, and younger Catholics has a very prominent presence here.’ ‘By authorising only retired and and younger priests continue to be ‘The TLM is now listed on the particularly attracted to it. Archdiocesan website, which was ‘I know a few priests, not in this not previously the case. There has elderly EF Celebrant-Priests (who get diocese though, who were afraid of been no overt hostility. The Ordinary Cardinalsick or die Williams in office—and and evenCardinal these Dewonly backlash from other priests if they has not visited EF celebrations apart demonstrateby EDSNZ inquiry that they and are advocacy), not prepared both chose to learn how to say the EF so from Confirmations. Somewhat to positively encourage EF. They do not they never learned it. I also know of a discouraging. No obvious restrictions see the TLM as the real bulwark against few who had to learn it in .’ but no encouragement. Present Secularisation, and an active force for ‘Any conversation regarding the incumbent has tolerated the presence the “New Evangelisation”.’ Summorum Pontificum has been of the FSSP, and allowed a move to a ‘Many priests and Faithful are initiated by the community or Priestly more congenial .’ ignorant of the fact that all priests ‘The Bishop is not very friendly to everywhere are able to offer the Holy The Bishop does not seem fully briefed the EF. He has discouraged diocesan Mass in the Extraordinary Form if they onrepresentative its contents (andor instructions lawyer). and clergy from establishing regular wish.’

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‘It a bit like “us” and “them” at the group or celebrating in a ‘The priest who is currently offering moment, we are very open to them but the Mass in EF twice a month is new they are very suspicious of us.’ to the tradition and has many other ‘Those wishing the EF Mass feel parish‘ church of ofthe the churches couple (the in parishwhich duties, but he meets the requests of ignored and fobbed off with the EFpriest is hascelebrated rejected are the happy,request).’ because the Faithful gladly when asked.’ Ordinary saying he has a shortage attendees of EF Masses give them the ‘The Ordinary celebrated once of priests but managing to provide biggest collections.’ Traditional , when he was priests for the celebration of Mass in ‘In this diocese everything looks young . He gave the EF five other languages other than Latin rather positive.’ Mass a time slot on Sundays. And there for new arrivals.’ ‘Monthly celebrations of the was not more decisions, or care. There Traditional Latin Mass never meet the is no hostility on EF from the Ordinary. Central and Eastern Europe expectations of Catholics, who wish If there would be more people who The countries of the former to attend the Mass. Each stable group attend EF Masses, the Bishop would Communist bloc are united in their should be granted with at least weekly establish personal Parish, or invite experience of persecution, but there is Mass.’ traditional Institutes and etc..’ a strong contrast between those, like ‘Positively, priests less friendly ‘The Ordinary has discouraged to the EF can’t say “the bishop must Poland, which are overwhelmingly diocesan clergy from establishing prohibit ”, because he Catholic, and others, where Catholics regular celebrations of the EF. To is friendly.’ are a small minority (Romania, Russia), provide more detail, only one priest ‘The needs and expectations of the or even an essentially new phenomenon, has attempted to celebrate EF on his Faithful attached to the EF are much deriving from recent immigration and own initiative. He also celebrated at a bigger than what is provided. As the conversions (Estonia). place of pilgrimage in another diocese, EF is widely recognized and desired, After a slow start, the Traditional but has been prevented from doing it each should have at least one Movement in Poland is now considerable in the diocese where he resides. Some Mass centre for its stable group.’ and the Traditional Mass widespread. others have occasionally assisted at ‘Catholics attached to the EF The decline of vocations is serious, and traditional Divine Office.’ have asked the PCED/CDF in writing in the medium term this will increasingly to intervene as provided for in effect the parish system. However, North America: Canada and Summorum Pontificum.’ ‘The bishops there were ten vocations in 2019 to have slowed down the development of The USA the Traditional Institutes, despite their the SP in the diocese.’ limited presence in the country. The Canada Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP) has Romania We received detailed reports for four priests in Poland, and the Fraternity ‘The existence and continuing twenty sees in Canada, thanks to of St Peter has three. Una Voce Poland validity of Summorum Pontificum the good offices of Una Voce Canada, supplied the FIUV with reports from 20 needs to be reiterated.’ based in Vancouver. Some came from out of 44 dioceses. flourishing and long-established The Federation also received reports The Former Soviet Union: Russia, EF communities, and others from from Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and dioceses where the Ordinary Lithuania, the Ukraine, and Russia. As Lithuania remains closed to the idea of regular there are so few Catholic dioceses in ‘The Ordinary is not really interested celebrations. Eastern, French- the countries once part of the Soviet in promoting the EF, but neither in speaking Canada has proved to be Union—Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, suppressing it. He treats us kindly and particularly challenging territory for Estonia, and Lithuania—these are fairly, unless we create any problems Summorum Pontificum. grouped together. for him. On one occasion he conferred ‘In spite of the Ordinary’s lack of outright welcome to the EF Mass, our Poland the EF to two children. He has attended community is beginning to flourish ‘The former Ordinary was in Holythe Sacrament Mass according of Confirmation to the EF usingin a after 30 years of hard work, and the strong opposition to the Catholic church where it is regularly celebrated dedication of our FSSP !’ Traditionalism. However in 2019 he during a pastoral visit. The policy ‘many of the Seminarians celebrated an EF Mass at the invitation seems to be that there should only be regularly attend our Sunday Mass of the IBP priest.’ one EF venue in the city and one priest EF, and sit in a pew all together’ ‘There were some problems responsible for all that.’ What has been the effect of Summorum ‘First there were occasional private Summorum Pontificum? ‘There Pontificum celebrations by a diocesan priest and is a polarization between those everythingthirteen years is going ago rather (when well.’ visiting priests, at the initiative of a lay who support the EF and the older ‘The Ordinary was published), rejects any but request now group. The regular public celebrations leadership in the diocese. It has concerning EF no matter if it concerns started with the arrival of the new reduced the division between the regular Mass celebrations for a stable priest.’ younger priests and the young laity.’

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‘Most of the people in the Diocese ‘The Bishop is not supportive but as an easy solution, and have invited don’t know the presence of the FSSP in tolerates us.’ them in generously, even while (as the Diocese or the existence of the EF.’ ‘We’ve seen a steady increase of noted above) continuing to discourage ‘While the Archdiocese has stated young, growing families. Families diocesan clergy from celebrating the EF. its support for the existence of EF with 3, 4, 5, even 8 children, several Others have adopted the opposite policy, Masses and communities, actual of whom drive 45 minutes to an hour and encouraged diocesan clergy to add movement toward weekly or daily or more to attend the EF. We’ve also the EF to parish schedules alongside celebration of the EF has been slow had some families on occasion when the OF, while refusing to countenance and unsteady. It has so far proved possible drive 3 or more hours to an apostolate of one of the Institutes. In impossible to establish a stable time, attend the EF, sharing with us their still others, priests of the Institutes and place, schedule of masses, suitable desire to either have the EF available of the diocese work together to provide financial arrangement, and available in their community or be able to live a network of Masses and the other priest for permanent regular public closer as to be able to attend weekly.’ sacraments in the older form. celebration of the EF. In particular, ‘Just in the last couple of weeks I ‘Priests have observed that many transfers of the Priests who volunteer received an email from a couple that of our new vocations come from the informed me they, along with their Latin Mass.’ 5 children are moving to our city, ‘The Bishop is supportive of his noto EF say Mass the for EF long Mass periods (to of farawaytime.’ priests offering the EF Mass if they locations)‘We have have a fewrepeatedly older people, left us withlots choose but is more cautious/ lukewarm of young people, but most of our their(about home 4 hours listed away for fromsale whereand a offerthey to the laity’s request for more EF tocurrently buy a home reside) here and in thatour theycity. They have Masses than are currently provided stated, “One of the main reasons we and has been opposed to a personal childrengroup consists and many of young babies! (usually We have home 18 chose this location is the presence of EF parish. He prefers to have a Latin youngschooling) men families.and boys Wefor have servers, lots of the TLM, and we want to support this Mass in each parish to help improve and we have a well trained in in any way we can. Looking forward to the Novus Ordo. Yet this goal is not Gregorian chant, polyphonic hymns connecting with this community!”’ attainable when only 25% of priests and other church music.’ ‘Our group ‘Although our current situation offer the TLM. This arrangement, while is mostly young families, but we have could be considered a throwback to an more generous than other dioceses, had 5 , and 8 young men older situation, His Grace has actually prevents full parochial life in and women have discerned or are very generously and enthusiastically the EF from developing.’ ‘More priests discerning religious vocations.’ endorsed his younger clergy receiving are offering, and more people have ‘The initiative for the EF came training in the traditional form. So, been exposed to, the EF Mass. The from a group of lay Catholics who the restriction to one parish appears downside is most of the priests due approached the Bishop in 1990 and to be more of a practical and financial to their seminary formation, are not asked for an Indult to have the Latin matter than an ideological opposition familiar with the traditions, theology, to Summorum Pontificum. The and customs of the EF Mass. Essentially he granted. He assigned a diocesan Ordinary’s generosity has increased Summorum Pontificum just addressed priestMass (EF) to celebratedsay Mass infor the us, city, and which we due to the advocacy of new clergy who problems with the 1984 indult, but did have had a diocesan priest serve our have celebrated the EF and gotten to not provide a framework for obtaining community ever since.’ know our community.’ full EF parish life, as would be provided ‘Families with young children by a personal parish.’ are very well represented in the United States of America ‘The current Ordinary’s congregations of both the churches In almost all of the US Dioceses predecessor permitted it during the where the EF is celebrated on Sundays. surveyed, there is more than one stable time of Benedict XVI, but rapidly At one, there are also many young group desiring the Extraordinary Form changed his openness under the adults and seniors; those attending in the Diocese. The EF is celebrated on present pontificate. The current also come from many national/ethnic Sundays in the great majority of Dioceses Ordinary has permitted his Vicar backgrounds, e.g., Canadian, American, surveyed, and , Nuptial General to force young clergy attracted Masses, and other Sacraments in the to the Extraordinary Form out of Filipino, Indonesian, Vietnamese, EF are also available. But while this is the diocese or remove them from Indian,British, Polish, Chinese German, (China, South Hong African, Kong), true of dioceses as a whole, many major appointments as pastors. The Bishop Australian, Korean, Trinidadian, cities are still not provided for, let alone has not permitted a regular Sunday Brazilian, Salvadorian, Mexican, large towns. Stable groups desiring EF Mass in the Extraordinary Form in the and practices city under any circumstances.’ ‘There vocations to the priesthood and at often complained of limitations and a is at least one priest in the area who leastIvorian one (Ivory to the Coast),female etc.’religious ‘Several life lack of Diocesan sympathy. would offer the Extraordinary Form, came out of the Latin Mass community In response to well-organised and but who is afraid of removal should even before the establishment of an EF articulate requests for the EF, some he commence such a Mass where he is personal parish in 2008…’ bishops see the Traditional Institutes .’

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‘The FSSP offered to send two actively against the Stable Group and their priests to establish a parish in this interest in the EF, but he proceeded aims, but also has not actively supported Diocese, but the Diocesan authorities to identify accept thatpriests there willing was to significantdo it and them. He also does not acknowledge or refused.’ allowed them to do it in their “spare respond to correspondence, despite the ‘18 of the diocese’s 70 parishes time.” As assignments changed over positive and respectful tone of these offer a Holy Mass in the Extraordinary the years, priests have been able to communications.’ ‘Overall however, Form at least once per month.’ devote more time to the EF and we have the pastoral effect has been good, as ‘At the FSSP apostolate on the Feast obtained better Mass times and more the Stable Group seems to have more of the 2020, a Solemn latitude and do not require permissions High Mass was celebrated at which this has been the community and priests for every Mass.’ five diocesan priests were participants communicatingfrequent opportunities needs to to the attend bishop.’ Mass— ‘The ICKSP parish is in the centre of and diocesan seminarians comprised ‘One anecdote: I took my family to the Diocese. Stable groups exist in other all of the altar servers.’ the TLM at the longest-established EF parts of the Diocese. One of these groups ‘We have had three bishops since has a monthly Mass, and funerals are the publication of SP. Each and every on the 1st Sunday of in 2000. The available. Some groups have no access time a new bishop is installed, we must twoparish in Providence at the Sung for Mass the were first timehigh to the EF except to travel to the central educate him as to our rights. Each school students, in due course we had parish or an occasional weekday Mass.’ and every time, the of the pleasure to attend their ordinations. ‘In 2018 the Ordinary forbade newly the diocese has smeared the two TLM I believe the parish has produced more ordained priests from saying the EF for groups with the desired effect. The vocations than any other in the diocese bishop comes in and soon wants to since 2000… Certainly more per capita.’ shut down the TLM. Fortunately, our ‘I would note that in the parishes where thatfive yearswere afterbeing ordination offered (evenby certain if the priest is also a canon lawyer and has both rites are celebrated SP provided the priests.priest is The a pastor). pastoral He effect forbade is that EF masses people instructed them that it cannot be legally traditionalists with a sort of “stamp of are increasingly interested in the EF, and done. We have had confrontations approval” which was helpful in enabling would prefer to attend a diocesan EF, about the administration of sacraments their deeper integration into the life of but out of frustration, some are going to the parish.’ the SSPX which is 40-50 miles away.’ ultimately been allowed to have them. ‘The Ordinary has suggested that ‘We would urge the CDF to actually The(particularly result of this Confirmation), is that there butis Catholics attending TLMs at diocesan successfully meet the goal of Summorum some suspicion among the laity that parishes go to the Institute’s . Pontificum and assist those requesting something about us is not “quite right”’. This is not reasonable as the diocese is the EF to actually receive satisfaction.’ ‘The needs of the groups attached large and those parishes are not close to ‘At our parish, our priest has told us to the EF have been provided for, and each other or the oratory. the Bishop told him NOT to offer the EF. priests and Faithful attached to the ‘It seems to be the policy of the And when our priest told him that Pope Extraordinary Form feel included and ordinary to allow only one EF Mass Benedict has said it is OK that he offer like valued members of the Christian per deanery. Further expansion seems EF, the bishop then told him “Benedict is community.’ ‘19 sites offer the EF now, unwanted and denied.’ retired. We’re under new management with several more churches planning ‘The Ordinary remains indifferent to now”. Now, sadly, the bishop is forcing on adding it. It is abundantly available.’ the Latin Mass in his diocese. He seems ‘Of the around 140 diocesan to go out of his way to ignore those who future of EF at our parish is uncertain. priests, fourteen are able to celebrate desire the Latin Mass.’ Ihim am toguessing, retire (he’sif the turningEF becomes 75), extinct so the the EF. Of these fourteen, three do so ‘The Bishop has designated three at our parish, all of the parishioners will on a weekly basis, and ten do so at regular Traditional Mass sites for migrate to the other parish that offers Sunday Mass. He has created an Ecclesia EF every Sunday.’ are pastors, including the pastor of an Dei commission with a priest liaison ‘Even where their needs are met, EFleast chaplaincy. four times In a ten year years, (three we of should these to coordinate the providing of the traditional Catholics are segregated: have several more EF-celebrating traditional Mass.’ the desire of the diocese seems to pastors. In at least one rural part of ‘Most priestly vocations in the them to be one of segregation and the diocese, the interests of priests diocese have had a link or attachment containment. There is no apparent in celebrating the EF has already to the traditional Mass and the local EF desire to see other communities who outstripped the interest of Faithful in community has inspired several vocations, desire the EF arise and flourish, as attending the EF. No priestly Institutes far more than any other parish.’ at least two and up to four certainly ‘This is one of the best dioceses in the could in the diocese.’ are present in the Diocese.’ world as far as episcopal support for the ‘Under the previous Ordinary it was committed to the EF (FSSP, ICKSP, etc.) EF. It has encouraged non-FSSP parishes necessary to write to the PCED for the his opposition to inviting an outside [in addition to the FSSP presence] and Sacrament of Confirmation in the EF. It order‘The to Bishop do the has EF specifically or dedicating declared any even the Cathedral to provide the EF on was eventually granted by him after a parish or to the EF.’ ‘It took some a weekly or even daily basis.’ response from PCED and subsequently time to convince the previous Ordinary ‘The Ordinary has done nothing took place.’

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St. Peter’s Basilica at night/Creative Commons

left to right Christian Marchant; Jean de Tauriers; Fr Nuno Castello Branco Bastos; Joseph Shaw; Cardinal Burke by Joseph Shaw

Just after the previous Gregorius Cardinal Burke, Christian Marchant Normally this conference takes Magnus went to press the ‘Summorum of Paix Liturgique, Jean de Tauriers, place in the Augustinianum, but Pontificum Pilgrimage’ in Rome thanks to Covid it was moved to the should have taken place. Due to the Santissima Bambini Institute next door, Coronavirus epidemic this became President of Notre Dame de Chrétienté to the north of the colonnade around impossible, sadly. However, thank to Secretary(the organisation of the FIUVbehind and the Chairman Chartres St Peter’s Square. The auditorium was Paix Liturgique, some events did still ofPilgrimage), the Latin Mass and Society, Joseph spoke Shaw, as considerably smaller than that of the happen that weekend, on 23rd planned. Augustinianum and some people had October and Saturday 24th. Monika Rheinschmitt, Treasurer to be moved to a separate hall with a of the FIUV and head of the German video link. on the Friday had been long planned association Pro Missa Tridentina, was Despite everything the conference by ThePaix ConferenceLiturgique. (orSpeakers ‘Encounter’) from also present. was well attended and the atmosphere Nigeria and Argentina were unable to The talks were simultaneously was very positive; many good attend, and Fr Claude Barthe, also due translated into English, French, Italian conversations happened at the to speak, had a broken wrist: his talk and, thanks to sponsorship from Pro splendid lunch which was provided and was presented by Fr Nuno Castello Missa Tridentina of Germany, into before and after the talks, and the talks Branco Bastos, a Portuguese priest. German. themselves were very interesting.

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Cardinal Burke chats with Monika Rheinschmitt Cardinal Burke with participants After the conference, Vespers took bishopplace at and the PantheonItalian Franciscan, (Sta Maria Mgr ad GianfrancoMartyres), ledGirotti, by a as retired had Curialbeen planned for the SP Pilgrimage. This was accompanied by a really excellent group of singers led by Vincenzo De Betta, who is based at the Roman church, Sta Maria in Campitella. The 10-strong choir alternated polyphony and chant for the psalmody of Vespers.

Mgr Gianfranco Girotti celebrates Vespers in the Pantheon

Conductor: Vincenzo De Betta

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Vespers in the Pantheon On Saturday Cardinal Burke celebrated Mass in the FSSP church, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. In the original plans he was to have celebrated in Sta Trinità on the Sunday, but as it was this Mass served as a substitute for the planned Saturday Mass in St Peter’s which was to have been celebrated by Robert, Cardinal Sarah. The usual Exposition and before the Saturday Mass did not take place, but it was well attended and accompanied, again, by the excellent Vincenzo De Betta.

We were fortunate that something could be saved from the usual series of events. At each venue the capacity was reduced due to ‘social distancing’, and Rome-based supporters were discourage from attending the events to make it possible for visitors to attend. I stayed a couple of extra days in Rome and heard anti-lockdown protests from my hotel. On my final evening restaurants were closed. Let us hope that the events will be able to take place with a greater degree of normality this year. The SP Pilgrimage takes place on the weekend of the , and the Paix Liturgique Encounter on the Friday before that: events will therefore be happening 29th-31st Cardinal Burke celebrates Mass in Sta Trinita October this year.

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However, the FIUV has already decided that its biannual General Assembly will have to take place online, and not on that weekend in Rome, since it seems very likely that travel restrictions from many countries will still be in place. One cause of optimism was that this very weekend the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priests was able for the first time to celebrate a Sunday Mass in a new venue: the Minor Basilica of Celso and Giuliano, in the Vicolo del Curato, a short distance Cardinal Burke in Sta Trinita from the Ponte Sant’Angelo in the very centre of Rome, and not far from the Vatican. Readers who have taken part in the procession to St Peter’s associated with the SP Pilgrimage will have passed this church, on their right, before crossing the bridge. It is not an enormous church but I was able to attend the Institute’s High Mass with and that Sunday at 10am. This represents an important step forward for their Roman apostolate.

Photographs © Paix Liturgique

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In April 2021 Paix Liturgique, a French a whole, though possibly correct in a few The most valuable aspect of this Traditional Catholic organisation, dioceses. document, perhaps, is the light it published a document of the French Again, one wonders how the bishops sheds on the kinds of arguments being La used against the Traditional Mass in Conférence des évêques de France 25Bishops’ page Conferencedocument summarised (the CEF: the whothe Traditional complain Mass, (as notedcame to more hold thanthis the terms in which they are made. responses of the French bishops ).to Thisthe once)opinion. of Howthe poor many quality EF celebrations of preaching have at officialThis should ecclesial inform circles the in France,way that and questions put to them by the Congregation they attended, to listen to the sermon? organisations like the FIUV try to correct for the Doctrine of the Faith the previous Or if this idea been passed on to them by misunderstandings and errors of fact. year, on the subject of the implementation others, by whom? From the list of ‘negative aspects’ below, of the Apostolic Letter Summorum As a representative sample of this it is clear, for example, that we should Pontificum liberating the Traditional Mass. document, we present below, in English keep emphasising the ‘missionary It does not seem that the document was translation, the response to just one of the aspect’ of the ancient liturgical tradition, intended for publication, but if, as seems CDF’s questions, number three: ‘In your its ability to draw people in from the likely, it was circulated to all the Bishops opinion, are there positive or negative ‘margins’, which is very real and quite aspects to the use of the extraordinary easy to illustrate with examples. the public domain. form?’ This gave the bishops an Perhaps more surprisingly, it of France,Bishops it wasaround bound theto find world its way were into opportunity to set out all their thoughts, would seem that the French bishops individually addressed by the CDF. It is well-informed or not, both pro and con. need reassurance on the theological impossible to tell from this document The secretariat at the Bishops’ Conference formation of the priests of the whether it was intended to replace the summarises the responses by creating Traditional Institutes, the place of the individual bishops’ reports sent directly two long laundry lists of observations, one Holy Spirit in the ancient liturgy, and to Rome, or to supplement them. The of positive aspects, one of negative. the comprehensive understanding of document does note that one bishop It is clear that individual items in each the Ordinary Form and its milieu by did not send his report to the CEF, but to may have been articulated by just one most of the Catholics who attend the EF, Rome: did the other bishops send them to bishop, or by many; equally, in some cases and indeed most of the priests. The last both the CEF and to Rome, or just to the the same idea is found repeated, in slightly point, indeed, should be obvious: most CEF? If the latter, did the CEF pass on the different terms, which may represent the individual reports as well as this summary, phrases used by different bishops, or or just the summary? The bishops’ views perhaps the prolix meanderings of just ofbefore these discovering individuals the (such EF. as the present included in the CEF document include one. Again, one bishop may have made lots writer)If attendedthere is the OF‘incomprehension’ for many years those very friendly to the Traditional of comments, and others only a few. All this between those attending the two forms, Mass, as well as those less well disposed: means that the actual statistical balance indeed, it must be predominantly on the these friendly bishops, at least, considered of opinion among the French bishops, other side. Perhaps the French bishops it reasonable to cooperate with the CEF’s in favour of a more positive or negative should encourage Ordinary Form collection of the reports. assessment of the EF, is impossible to Catholics to attend the Extraordinary The document does not give statistics, discern by looking at the lengths of the two Form, to learn more about it. but summarises under various headings Una Voce France and, following different kinds of remarks made in is a lot longer than the positive one! them, the Federation, issued statements response to each question. It is impossible lists—thoughOverall the undeniably tone of the the document negative list is in response to the CEF document, which to tell whether the report is an accurate are reprinted here, after the extract. should be ‘caution’ about ‘extending’ the ..... it does include a wide range of views, negative.celebration Its offinal the conclusion EF: a caution is that which, there French Bishops’ Conference reflection of the views of he bishops, but presumably, the bishops who contributed summary of results of the Consultation knowledge or ignorance of the bishops to the report have the power to exercise on the application of the Motu bothon various good aspects and bad, of the and situation. reflects For the themselves, when they decide whether to proprio Summorum Pontificum by the example, some bishops admit that they make priests and churches available for Congregation for the Doctrine of the do not know precisely what version of the celebrations. It is important to note, as Fr Faith in April 2020: Extract texts are used in celebrations of the EF in their dioceses: clearly they did not think Question 3 In your opinion, what are the matter important enough to ask the Claudethey might Barthe be the does French (as quoted bishops in theare the positive aspects, and what are celebrants. Many French bishops seem FIUV’snot calling response), for Summorum that however Pontificum hostile the negative aspects, of the use of the to be under the impression that there are to be suspended. They have recognised Extraordinary Form? very few celebrations of the sacraments that it is un fait acquis: a fact of life. The aspects listed here make use of and Matrimony in the EF, with There will be no return of the ancient of the Bishop’s own expressions. 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Positive aspects on the margins of the diocese.’ • Appeasement; fewer claims of Experience of a separation within grievance; allows to keep the faithful the heart of diocesan unity. virtues into practice (‘the Rite comes content; beforethe Roman charity’) Rite. • Respects a liturgical sensibility, and a different . Issue of • DifficultyLeads people of manifesting to believe the that unity the of ‘sense of the sacred’, silence. Fosters • Difficultyharmonising of the a sanctoral different calendar: calendar liturgy is a matter of personal taste. interiority and contemplation. • The authority of the bishop over . Enhances Eucharistic before the Council, why should it be these communities is rendered faith in the real presence. ‘Theso after?’ calendar wasn’t fixed in stone almost non-existent. • Allo ws for preservation of a spiritual • Limited access to the Word of God. • It [the EF] is seen as a right, to be • F osters a kind of incomprehension claimed. and blurring between the lived • Aandvoids liturgical some departures heritage to (especially the FSSPX experiences of either form. Summary • Balmchant) for those wounded following • These worshipers deprive While two bishops do not see any the themselves of the liturgical richness positive aspects at all, practically all • Unity of the Church is built around which is part of the reform. of them agree on the calming result of the . Openness to ecclesial • Ther e is no alternating between the the application of the .  two forms of the one Rite, as one One could ask if this ‘calm’ is nothing might expect. but good news; one might have wished Mass is more explicit • W eakening of the communitarian that a dialogue would open on basic • The[It’s sacrificithe] Formal dimension that could ofplay the a role dimension of the liturgy. acceptance of the Conciliar teaching. in ecumenical dialogue with Oriental • Little mention of the Holy Spirit. ‘While the motu proprio has undeniably Christians [the Orthodox] • Unfortunate introduction of favoured appeasement/calming, it • Possible future ‘mutual enrichment’ ceremonies from one Form into the has not done much to strengthen • Celebrating can be an other. communion,’ notes one bishop. The calm antidote to the risk of clericalism seems to have had a freezing effect on • Better friendships between the • Tensions across provision of priests of the diocese and those of • ‘Mutual enrichment’ is difficult. Some bishops wonder whether it can institutes celebrating according to relations,be said that and these the dialogue faithful reflectsreally are this. in the EF sacramental preparation; difficulties communion with the Catholic Church. It • Some priests say that the EF helps • withFavours the liturgical catechism tourism. (differing seems as if a division which existed has them pay more attention to mysteries • programmes).R eading your bilingual is not being celebrated conducive to achieving a union of hearts. simplybishops been are: confirmed.diocesan communion, the Negative aspects • It’s a liturgical form which has useThe of different main difficulties liturgical encountered calendars and by • H arms the unity of the Church. become arcane. , and the refusal to concelebrate. Vatican II contested, ‘an attitude of • The faithful who attend the EF are ..... resistance’; some communities very marked out by having a peculiar Una Voce France Statement: critical of the ‘conciliar Church.’ ‘Two vision of the world and by political Summary of the results of the Churches.’ Liturgical sensibilities Consultation on the application taking precedence over ecclesial of the Motu proprio Summorum communion. The Eucharist, which affiliationgroup, sociologically, (strong influenceand often of Pontificum by the CEF ought to unite, in fact causes monarchism).intransigent. They are a noticeable (Conference of Bishops of France) separation. Creates a parallel Church. • The poor quality of preaching. The Conference of Bishops of France Creates two worlds who struggle to published a ‘Summary of the results of comprehend each other. The Motu priests elsewhere once they have the Consultation on the application of Proprio has brought about a de facto • Thebecome difficulty ‘specialists’ of of commissioning the EF. the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum’ state of bi-ritualism. • C ommunities exert pressure to get requested by the Congregation for the • Mak es a group into an enclave, what they want. Doctrine of the Faith in April 2020. The closed, isolated, turned-in on itself. A • Ther e is a risk of the EF mass being subject concerns us and is even close to community apart, among themselves. our hearts. We would like to give you Subjectivism and individualism. • A weak missionary dimension. our opinion... • FSSP priests refusing to concelebrate, • identifiedMan y priests as the who only celebrate ‘true’ mass. mass The ‘experts’ and ‘secretaries’ of in the EF exclusively view the the of France against the letter of Pope Benedict celebration of mass in the OF as evenXVI: at‘Needless the Chrism to Masssay, in(which order goes to illegitimate. friend with a good knowledge of Latin experience , the priests • Some priests of EF institutes feel (C.E.F.)and Greek never put disappoint!it, when they As translate a good of the communities adhering to the that they are under orders from the the , they are the only ones former usage cannot, as a matter in the world to sabotage the work, of principle, exclude celebrating translating as ‘All saved’, and according to the new books. The total • Impossiblefaithful, who t o are organise watching moments them (a unable to print correctly the two Greek exclusion of the new rite would not in Protestant way of behaving). words of Paul quoted by Fratelli fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness. • Liturof prayergical formation together among (Vespers these or • No participation in the life of the communitiesadoration) is ritual and not Tutti:When chrêstotês asked to and make agathôsunê the ‘Synthesis’ (both ’) theological. designateof the episcopal goodness). answers to the nine in diocesan celebrations. ‘Catholics • A lack of putting the theological questions of the Congregation for the diocese. Difficulty in including them

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Doctrine of the Faith on the Foederatio Internationalis Una We should like to observe that the application of the Motu Proprio Voce: Statement on the Report of the authority of the bishops of France, like French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) on bishops all over the world, remains lay ten pages stuffed with spelling and the Implementation of Summorum unimpaired by Summorum Pontificum, Summorum Pontificum of 2007, they Pontificum 9th February 2021 as Pope Benedict XVI emphasised in the jargon… that is to say...double-dutch or The FIUV has become aware of a Letter to Bishops which accompanied the syntax errors. (Not to mention the document, in the public domain, containing Apostolic Letter: But we would gladly forgive them a summary of the responses made by Nothing is taken away, then, from the gibberish.)for their clumsiness if there was the French bishops to the questionnaire authority of the Bishop, whose role slightest trace of empathy, cordiality, sent to them by the Congregation of the remains that of being watchful that all is done in peace and serenity. or ‘heart’ in them as they say in one Doctrine of the Faith, on the subject of the implementation of the Apostolic Letter Indeed, while this document of the Summorum Pontificum. Although this CEF makes harsh criticisms of those indifference, towards those narrow- priests who celebrate the EF, it was the place.minded Instead, beings, we findwithout contempt, theology, at best document does not appear to have been intended for publication, its authenticity bishops themselves, or their immediate without charity, that are the faithful to predecessors, who in nearly all cases the ancient Latin Mass. A Mass that so has not been denied, and a reaction to it seems necessary. invited them into their dioceses, and many generations followed, and from presumably did so for good reasons. which they nourished their faith ... In a different way, the document which is ours today. adopts a consistently hostile tone towards the ancient Latin liturgical laments the small number of diocesan A peak is reached with the synthesis We note first that the document clergy who celebrate the EF, in relation to tradition, to the priests who celebrate of the responses to Question 3. Our the number of priests of the Traditional it, and to the faithful who attend it. This experts identify 12 positive aspects of Institutes, while it is entirely in the has understandably caused considerable power of the bishops to ensure that Motu Proprio, then, in all equanimity,… hurt among French Catholics attached to this tradition. The document does not and to encourage them to learn how to speak, on behalf of the bishops of France, celebrate the EF. 32enrichment’ (thirty-two) or ‘reading negative of the bilingual aspects, about these sons and daughters of the their seminarians are proficient in Latin, whichmissal’ combineto… ‘limited ‘the access difficult to ofthe mutual Word Taking the document as a whole, despite Church with the words of a shepherd and its many harsh, and sometimes inaccurate of God’ and… to the Holy Spirit. ‘Little father. In the words of Una Voce France, is mentioned of the Holy Spirit’! It is, that the ancient Mass is now an indisputably however, in six verses of the Nicene … the slightest trace of empathy, andpermanent unjust, feature statements, of the itFrench reflects Church. the fact To Creed that are not always read during we cordiality,do not find or ‘heart’ in them as they quote Fr Barth again: high masses of the Ordinary Form, it is clear that the public existence of where this is often replaced by a contempt, at best indifference, towards the traditional Mass is now a given [un sung adaptation. saythose in narrow-minded one place. Instead, beings, wewithout find fait acquis] in France. It is a given that Then we discover nonetheless in theology, without charity, that are the response to Question 4 that ‘most faithful to the ancient Latin Mass. A Mass reduce, but that they no longer dispute. standards are respected’, to Question 5 that so many generations followed, and manyThe FIUV bishops would would like like to to appealconfine orto from which they nourished their faith ... the bishops of France, and to those note a positive consequence of the Motu which is ours today.1 functionaries of the CEF responsible thatProprio: ‘a dozen ‘a rigour bishops’ and (honour increased to them!) care’ Nevertheless, the impression of for this document, to consider the of celebrants of the Ordinary Form. hostility made by this document masks consequences of even the appearance Among these ten bishops are the only many positive features of the reception of an unwelcoming attitude towards of Summorum Pontificum in France. Catholics who feel the attraction of the The document acknowledges these ancient liturgical tradition. As we have respect Roman instructions by ensuring already quoted Pope Benedict, it is the threethat their(Bayonne, seminarians Toulon, Versailles) have contact who phenomena with a singular lack of grace, or without noting even that they are good munus of the bishops to ensure that with liturgical Latin; for others, there is the Apostolic Letter is implemented apparently no duty to remember when it things. It refers, for example, to ‘large with ‘peace and serenity’. Peace and comes to the past of the Church of Rome families’ requesting the EF; to ‘weak’ serenity are maximised by an open and and of the Fathers who transmitted the young people seeking out celebrations welcoming attitude, and this is also faith to us. what is necessary to building up the The main concern of the CEF, if one environment; of seminarians learning trust and mutual understanding which to celebrate the EF in their own time, believed its ‘experts’ and ‘secretaries’ and finding in them a supportive spiritual this document claims are currently without the assistance of their formators; in their conclusions, should be to lacking. If traditional Catholic are feeling and to this younger, more traditionally- marginalised, it is in large part because ‘ensure obedience’ and ‘to be vigilant inclined generation of priests, celebrating not to extend the Extraordinary Form’, of the contrary attitude, displayed by this the Ordinary Form with greater reverence document, which appears to see them especially that it appeals to young, who as a nuisance rather than as sons and In this context the words of Fr Claude daughters of their bishops. so fragile as that, since this Synthesis andBarthe, fidelity. of the Summorum To quote again Pope Benedict’s Letter arerecognizes therefore that qualified most as ‘fragile’.often Notthe Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome, are to Bishops: ‘Let us generously open our application of the Motu Proprio has been apposite: hearts and make room for everything One is left speechless by the that the faith itself allows.’ conclusion that the EF is not ‘promoted’families’. Everything not by priests therefore (‘a few’ suggests out of 1  Stat ement of Una Voce France https://www. missionary when we know that unavoce.fr/ hundreds of cases), but ‘by young large the parish Masses are always more 2  Interview in Le Rouge et Noir https:// Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio is not over. deserted, while traditional Masses www.lerougeetlenoir.org/opinions/les- inquisitoriales/abbe-claude-barthe-le- thatThis is the why fight we are for calling the application on you, more of are full of young people and a not redacteur-a-realise-une-synthese-globalement- than ever, to join Una Voce! 2 hostile-a-la-liturgie-traditionnelle

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In this issue of Gregorius Magnus we print a an article from the current edition, by the well-known Canadian-American writer Charles Coulombe. Mass of Ages can be accessed online through the ISSUU website and ‘app’ by searching for ‘Mass of Ages’ or through www.lms.org.uk

Good works Charles A. Coulombe remembers John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

The Catholic Church in the British his mother’s surname by deed poll of his trustees, he was received after Isles was in large part preserved – ever since, the family have been his 21st birthday on 8 December 1868. through the Penal Times by nobility Crichton-Stuart. A wealthy landowner Disraeli’s novel Lothair was inspired and gentry; its astonishing revival in already, the 2nd Marquess amassed by the resulting uproar. Then began a the 19th century was spearheaded by ever more money through mining and period of study, discovery, and travel many zealous converts. The Marquess other pursuits. His only son was born – including attendance at some of the of Bute was both, and he laid a large sixth months before he died. sessions of Vatican I. and valuable mark on the Church in The 3rd Marquess being an infant This time culminated with his the Three Kingdoms that continues to when he came into his title in 1848, marriage in 1872 to Gwendolen the present. found himself master of four great Fitzalan-Howard, the granddaughter The Crichton-Stuarts are houses – Mount Stuart and Dumfries of the 13th Duke of Norfolk. In so doing descendants of John Stewart, in Scotland, Cardiff Castle in Wales, he married into the most prestigious illegitimate son of Scotland’s first and London’s Bute House. His father’s Catholic family in England, since the Stuart King, Robert II. Holding the industry made the babe the richest Howards have for the most part kept hereditary office of Steward of Bute man in the world at the time; he would the Catholic Faith since the Protestant since 1157, the family have numbered spend a fortune on good works over revolt. The Duke of Norfolk is the among other worthies John Stuart, the a lifetime. When he was 12, young premiere non-Royal peer in Great 3rd Earl of Bute, who was III’s John’s mother died; he was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. Minister. His son, likewise named Once there, the young Marquess supervisesBritain, and muchas Earl of Marshal the ceremonial (an office John,mentor was and (untilpromoted a falling to out)Marquess. quickly fell in with the Anglo-Catholic lifeattached of Great to Britain the title), – as especially then as nowthat Predeceased by his own son, he was movement. But he soon decided the revolving around the Monarchy. succeeded in the Marquessate by his only logical move was to convert to the Both the Marquess’ wealth and grandson, yet another John, who took Catholic Church; despite the annoyance his position in society placed many

Page 18 www.fiuv.org/ FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 obligations upon him. He was active in attempting to apply to his miners and workers and was Hereditary Keeper for the Crown of both Rothesay Castle and Falkland Palace. He not only restored both these extensively out of his own pocket, but was responsible for the resumption of Catholic Mass at the latter continues to-day, being one of the two Chapelsestablishment’s Royal in Chapelthe Commonwealth Royal (this used for Catholic worship: the other is Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal of the Mohawks in Tyendinaga, Ontario, used own residences of Dumfries House by an Ordinariate community). His

(now under the care of the Prince incrediblyof Wales) beautiful. and Mount Stuart House (stillIndeed, the seat much of hisof the descendants) amount of new are building and restoration work the Marquess was responsible for was due either to his secular responsibilities or Catholic ideals – Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch, Caerphilly Castle, Pluscarden Abbey, the Bute Medical Buildings of St

HallsAndrew’s at theUniversity University (of which of Glasgow, he was andLord on ), and on. the He Butedid a and great Randolph deal to raise the public face of the Church in British life. Architecture was a great interest of his until the end of his life, and he took an active role in all his building schemes – among other great architects, William Burges was one of his favourites. But the Marquess also had a great interest in church furnishings and : when the Scottish Hierarchy was restored in 1878, he donated new to the bishops of each of the revived dioceses - Galloway, Edinburgh, Dunkeld, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Argyll. He was of course in favour of removing the remaining Catholic political disabilities, and not too surprisingly, given his Scots and Welsh interests, he encouraged and supported the use of Scots Gaelic and Welsh – so noted was the Marquess for the latter that he chaired the National Bute: ‘Familiar with many Eisteddfod one year. Politically, while languages and a fine Latinist, he was definitely a Tory on the one he wrote several comparative hand, on the other he supported Home liturgical studies’ Rule for Scotland, Wales, and Ireland,

www.fiuv.org/ Page 19 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 which countries would nevertheless studies – most notable a volume on addition to the successive Marquesses be equal partners with England, the Blessing of the Waters for the of Bute since then, he has had a Canada, Australia, New Zealand, in the Latin, Byzantine, number of remarkable descendants, and South Africa in an Imperial and other rites. But his biggest including Servant of God Fra Andrew Parliament. achievement in this field, perhaps With all these many practical was his translation of the the Order of Malta, and Fra Fredrik interests, the Marquess combined into English. Predating St Pius X’s Bertie (1929-2008), of a large number of scholarly ones radical changes in the Divine Office, of the Order of Malta in England, as well. Again unsurprisingly, he the Marquess’ work opened up Crichton-Stuart (1940-2011), Grand amassed a great many papers and the treasures of the Church’s daily President of Una Voce International materials regarding the Jacobite prayer to the English-speaking laity head of Una Voce (Scotland), and movement, and wrote many essays in an unheard-of manner. Faithful to November, the souls of the Marquess on various foreign and domestic the letter of the Latin original and and(2005–2006). his descendants It is fitting have that a every 2 historical subjects – especially in the yet in beautiful English, it remains Mass offered for their repose at Celtic and Medieval eras. Somewhat a monument of what Liturgical the chapel of Cardiff Castle by the more unusual was his interest in translation should be, but so very reigning . When the Butes such matters as astrology and psychic rarely is. Moreover, its availability acquired their Cardiff properties, the phenomena – he rose to be Vice online allows the average town was a backwater; by the time President of the Society for Psychical access to it not seen in decades. the Third Marquess’ son eliminated Research and co-wrote an account of A Knight of the Thistle, a Knight the family’s Welsh holdings, it had a supposed haunting he had looked Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulchre, become the Welsh metropolis. into. But his investigations in these and a Knight of the Order of St Gregory In a corrupt age where wealth arcane areas were always conducted the Great, he was highly regard both and power are rarely employed for with ecclesiastical approval. by Pius IX and Leo XIII, and by the Good, it is inspiring to Most notable for our purposes Queen Victoria. What makes the level remember a man who summed up was his interest in all aspects of the of his achievement even more amazing in himself all that was admirable in Liturgy – East and West. Familiar with is that he lived a mere 53 years, dying his place and time. Let us hope to many languages and a fine Latinist, he in 1900. His heart was buried on the see such leaders again – whether in wrote several comparative liturgical Mount of Olives in the Holy Land. In Church or in State.

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perennis gave us of course in perennial a very important reworking of liturgies English,A little which etymology took as first meaning of all. ‘something The word andmajor liturgical religious music centres was (Rouen, taking Lyon...), place. that lasts a long, long time’. To be get to Everything must now be done ‘Roman the sense we want, let us use a word that .’ dictionaries describe as archaic or literary, Saint Gregory has been dead for ‘perennial’, which means, in speaking of a century and a half, but his prestige was still immense. What happened in Gide spoke of ‘divine and perennial forms these centres became the model of the thatGod waitor some only phenomenon, for repose to reappear.’ ‘eternal’. André Romanization of liturgical uses, which This subject is immensely broad and was then considered an act of Catholic I can, unfortunately, only touch on it obedience. Gregorian Chant is therefore an to show you that Gregorian Chant is immense repertoire of monodic music eternal,superficially, that it but is indeed I will try a musica in a few perennis. words Its birth is generally located in the without a doubt the richest religious repertoire(having a in single history. harmonic line). It is Its unparalleled aesthetic level comes from its spiritual inspiration and its formearly ofMiddle song. AgesThis (betweenis not wrong, the but6th let’sand highly contemplative character. We are try10th to centuries). go back Thisfurther makes and it adetermine medieval here, indeed, at the sources of the history where it comes from, what are its of music in the West. It is a success, no antecedents? In 752, Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz, Far upstream, the legacy of the went to Rome to take charge of Pope synagogue, synagogal chant. The Stephen II’s trip to Gaul. The context doubt unique, of the always difficult was the threat presented to Rome by borrowings from Hebrew, which are left the territorial expansion of the Lombard untranslated:connection isHosanna, reflected Amen, in . direct kingdom. Stephen II arrived at the palace Next is the Byzantine heritage that

Theof Ponthion, Pontiff proceeded in Champagne, to the where abbey Pépin of St sourcecould be of calledChant, ‘basilical’ the perfect (from example St Basil of Denis,the Short where (‘le Bref’)he would resided crown in earlyPepin. 754. He thisthe being Great). St Finally,Gregory there the Great, is the who ‘papal’ was stayed there for more than a year and blessed the foundations of the Abbey. The musical highlight of this At the precise time of this trip, we earlypope fromEuropean 590 to 604).Middle Ages is the Romanization of the liturgy. and also in a number of the kingdom’s find in Metz, Chrodegang’s own diocese, www.fiuv.org/ Page 21 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11

said, by adapting them to the words of • The primacy of inner life; the Sacred Scriptures, the Christian soul • A spirit of prayer, peace and praise centred entirely on God; transformed them. • Desire and the search for andThis sensibility spirituality gradually of Gregorian purified Chant and is perfection; its essence: I hope this aspect is clear to • Perfect docility to the Holy Church; readers. • Self-forgetfulness. Mozart’s Requiem is beautiful Conversely, what kills Gregorian religious music. But a great chant such as Chants or spoils it are the attacks of the universal terra, the Offertory from the Second Sunday after Epiphany, esteem, the spirit of sentimentality a sublime piece that Una Voce France spirit of the world (the spirit of self- has chosen for the credits of our videos an external music, Gregorian Chant is on our website, is not simply religious anand inner the spiritlight, aof commentary ease...). Before of sacred being music. It is sung prayer. words, which must lead souls into Gregorian Chant is a musica perennis contemplation of what words have because it is holy and sanctifying by its been insufficient to express. function, because it is a part of the divine For this reason, Gregorian Chant union of word and melody. ofliturgy, active and and much external more, participation because it is in(with the necessaryis something to ensure delicate that (whichits execution does Gregorian Chant has universal the service of the altar) the main means doesnot mean:not contradict ‘very difficult’!) its own spirit and itand is elements at its centre. Everyone This song perfectly expresses the sterilize its work of sanctification. could feel this in their listening, and qualitiesHoly Sacrifice that ofdivine the Mass. grace produces in Watching and praying is the law of this curiously, this impression is shared by the Christian soul: chant, as it is the law of Christian life. people of very different musical and religious cultures. Does that explain this universality? Perhaps it is related to the fact that Gregorian Chant is close to the deepest roots of Western music, where the mysterious contact of East and West lies, just before their divergence, which is so clearly manifested with the , in the West, of harmony and polyphony. Gregorian Chant, this musica perennis, also has a human and popular aspect. As we have seen, was not created all at once: it is not an abstract construction that emerges one day, like Esperanto, from an intellectual brain. It is the song of humanity slowly transformed, shaped and reshaped by a race of men that gave it their own mark. This race of men is the Christians. When these men received the revelation that they were redeemed, and thus reintroduced into the family of God, these men, for whom heaven became the true homeland, had something new to express in their song, something that the old humanity had no doubt dreamed of in its mythologies, but which it dared not take seriously. It was then that the ancient religious psalmody of the liturgy of the synagogue, theforms modes of music of Greek were music, transfigured. the old Celtic The and Gallic songs, have returned to the sanctuary. But by making them say things that these old songs had never

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Mary as a guide to Christ Lecture by Prof. Peter Stephan at the PMT Annual General Meeting 2019 in Boppard (18th May 2019). A longer version of this article appeared in Dominus vobiscum, the magazine of Pro Missa Tridentina,

spire, which immediately triggered In addition, the sacral building associations with the burning twin embodies the Church as the mystical body towers in New York, touches on the photo that shows the high altar with speaks of the faithful as the ‘living building the Pieta created in 1723 by Nicolas blocks;’of Christ. of The the firstChurch and toof PeterChrist (2:4-9) as the Coustou, and the charred wooden ‘cornerstone’. The Fathers of the Church, beams and boulders of the collapsed on the other hand, referred to the Apostles vault in front of it. Mary, it seems, as the pillars of the Church. In this sense, mourns not only her dead son, but also the keystones of a Gothic vault represent her destroyed church at the beginning Christ. This is particularly beautiful to of . see in the late Gothic choir of St. James in Introduction At the beginning of the Passion, Liège. The ribs surrounding suggest the The images of the burning Notre-Dame de proclaimed that if he were to rays emanating star-shaped from Christ Cathedral have acted like prophecy demolish the Jerusalem Temple, he as the light of the world. These meet the will be exposed by an ever-increasing apostles. pointswould out, rebuild Christ it inmeant three his days body (Mt as secularism.of coming afflictions to which the Church pillarsLast studdedbut not least, with the the Gothic figures cathedral of the the26,61, true Mk house 14,58). of As God, the whoGospel would of John be I would like to counter this threatening was the new Solomonic temple and thus image with another: that of Mary as the an image of that house that divine wisdom Therefore, the Middle Ages equated the had built itself through the Incarnation lamp and the consolation that leads us crucified and resurrected (Jn 2:19-22). Christians through dark times to Christ. The cruciform building corresponds to as an architect is particularly clear in The focus should be on three qualities of thesacral outstretched building with arms the Crucified and the Christ.choir, in Jesus Christ (Spr 9:1). The idea of God Our Lady, to whit Mary sometimes slanted, to the head tilted to the side in death. which was created around 1220, in which • as a mother of pain, an example of thean illuminationworld builder of heaven the ‘Bible and earth Moralisée’, with a perseverance; pair of compasses. • as a seat of wisdom, an example of The , the Corpus humble obedience; Catholicorum and the building of the • a guide to Christ in order to resist all Church thus form a conceptual like unity. weaknesses and temptations on our pilgrimage. once again with the destruction of Notre Dame,And so andwe can that say the that Church, Christ as was his crucifiedmystical Mary as a mother of pain body, was once again haunted. History teaches how much the fate of the Cathedral of Our Lady, weeping, trussEven of Notre-Dame more than and the the many collapsing filmed Ceiling of the choir in St James’ in Liège film sequences of the blazing roof reflects the suffering of Christ on the cross www.fiuv.org/ Page 23 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 and the sufferings of his Church. In 1793, thus declared that all the power came the press said. The numerous donations Jacobean revolutionaries, all baptized from Christ, the King of Kings, and that for reconstruction were immoral because Catholics, destroyed large parts of the the crown of thorns kept in Notre Dame they came from the rich and the money interior. On the western facade, they tore was the only true crown. Napoleon, on the actually was due to the poor, France’s down the statues of the Old Testament other hand, reached for the crown himself kings and beheaded them in the mistaken as usurper, and then replaced it with a of liberation that Paris can use to get rid assumption that they were the kings of pagan laurel wreath. ofCommunists the legacy of claimed. dull religiosity, The fire a isHarvard an act France. professor said. Like the old Pompeii, the They also removed almost all the bells church should be preserved as a ruin, from the western towers – apparently to an art historian said. The reconstruction silence the church symbolically. offers the opportunity to set a sign of On 7th November, the intruded the distancing of outdated worldviews Archbishop Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel of through a modernist redesign, announced Paris resigned. Wearing not the but a several star architects. Phrygian cap, the symbol of the revolution, In the face of this, it was only logical he solemnly introduced the national that no one felt it necessary to express cult of freedom and equality. Three days Archbishop Darboy of Paris executed, with six later, with Gobel’s participation, the priests, by Communards in 1871. Dame has long since become the bone of Paris Cathedral, like many other French contentionsympathy specificallyin a secular to cultural Catholics. struggle Notre churches, was declared the ‘temple de la In the July Revolution of 1830, Notre that ultimately targets Christ. raison’. Dame was again looted. Forty years later, But it is precisely this connection that In an almost carnivalesque procession, on May 24, 1871, supporters of the radical opens up a bleak prospect. When we see the mob carried a ‘soubrette’, an actress in the pain of Mary not only the grief of typecast as a saucy wench, disguised a mother for her dead son, but also the as the goddess of reason on a kind of socialist community even set fire to the outcry of the pure soul in the face of the Sedia Gestatoria into the interior of the Onchurch. the same Brave day, firefighters the then Archbishop succeeded— of cosmic order disturbed by man, and the sanctuary and placed it on the high altar. Paris,against Georges orders!—to Darboy, extinguish was shot, the along fire. vineyard of the Lord destroyed by man, with six priests. and if we also see in the Mater Dolorosa the in the altar room, on which an allegorical The next blow to the church came in original image of our pain and desolation, A little later, an artificial hill was piled up 1905, when France received a strictly Mary is also the example of how we can Within two years, terror claimed the secular constitution. Like all places of withstand and overcome these pains: livesfigure of of reasonmore than was placed.600,000 people. In worship in the country, Notre Dame was How we can stand with Him, even if all nationalized and categorised as a national external circumstances make us believe himself fell victim. As the revolution monument, though Catholics could make devoured1794, Gobel its and children, finally the even cult Robespierre of reason use of it. God, and help restore the Lord’s vineyard. was abandoned. On 12th February 2013, the cathedral that God is dead. How we can always find was desecrated by half-naked feminists suffering Church, the ecclesia patiens, during the of a bell. The whoseMary ‘patience’ is the means prefiguration not only a passive of the corresponding legal proceedings for suffering, but also an active enduring and disturbing public order ended with thus a heroic perseverance. The suffering acquittal, while the church, whose staff but also the warring Church, the ecclesia had forced the activists out of the church, militans, is also a victorious Church, as ecclesia triumphans. And then there is the gloomy vision of the With Mary we live through and Russianhad to pay writer a fine Yelena for alleged Chudinova bodily ‘Mosque harm. experience the victory of faith over The self-coronation of Napoleon Bonapart Notre Dame 2048’, according to which despair and the victory of life over French Catholicism will only exist in the death. The history of Notre Dame is also Now Notre Dame was needed as a form of an underground church after a exemplary. In 1831 Victor Hugo wrote his wine warehouse. It was only after the Muslim takeover. famous Hunchback of Notre Dame. This work opened the eyes of contemporaries Bonaparte, had concluded a to the mystical grandeur of the Gothic withfirst consulthe Holy of theSee Republic,in 1802, Napoleonthat the andAfter disenfranchisement the recent fire disaster,have found these cathedral. Subsequently, the architect cathedral could be used again as a areal continuation and fictitious in actswhat of expropriationthe Dresden Viollet-le-Duc was commissioned bishop’s church. But a little later Our Lady publicist Thomas Rietzschel has described to restore the church to its original beauty, was humiliated again. Immediately before as a ‘rhetorical church robbery’. Most of including the reconstruction of the Royal the high altar, Napoleon crowned himself the journalists and politicians who were Gallery and the Spire. emperor in 1804, in the presence of Pope affected spoke exclusively of the loss of Another triumph of faith was Pius VII, who had been demoted to the a European cultural asset. And the few demonstrated in the confessional courage role of a mere extra. who actually saw Notre-Dame as a sacred of the already mentioned Archbishop In the statues of Louis XIII and Louis building did so consistently with an anti- Georges Darboy. Immediately after the Christian undertone: the cathedral was end of the , Darboy France symbolically offered their crowns built in times of the dark Middle Ages, had returned from Rome to Paris, toXIV, Our flanked Lady and by theher Pieta,dead son, the kingsand had of which drove the peasants into poverty, although it was the Franco-Prussian war,

Page 24 www.fiuv.org/ FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 and Paris was under siege. Even after the to deal with the threats that come from stylistically into the overall space with its uprising of the Commune, he refused to within the Church. For there, too, the leave, and was assassinated in April 1871. body of Christ is robbed and desecrated: Three weeks later he received a solemn by schismatic laymen who divide the Aachenmagnificent Madonna, mosaics like and all baroquemarble than images an state funeral, which was held with great mystical body of Christ; by heretical ofunadorned grace, is woodendesigned figure. to be Abovecompleted all, theby sympathy of the people. On theologians who distort the word of God, Day 1886, the anti-clerical freethinker which became man in Mary; by unfaithful Mary and Jesus, and these would not make Paul Claudel felt so moved by the message priests; irresponsible bishops who allow sensecrowns without and sceptres stately robes. for the With figures this in of the desecration of the sacramental corpus mind the naked body of Jesus is executed Dame that he converted to the faith Christi. very simply, and the robe of Mary is close- andof the became Magnificat one duringof the Vespersmost important in Notre Catholic writers of the 20th century: Mary as the Seat of Wisdom At the back of the head, which usually lies The cause of the misconduct just underfitting a and , completelythe hairstyle undifferentiated. is missing. believed. I believed with such a described is, in addition to opportunism, Even more worrying than ignoring powerful‘In a flash, inner my consent, heart was my taken, whole I cowardice and open betrayal, folly, which, iconography is the abandonment of being was almost violently torn up, I sometimes disguised as good intentions, spiritual meaning. Do you value votive believed with such a strong conviction, decomposes faith from within. We can gifts that people have made over the …that no place even for the slightest counteract this folly by resorting to Mary as the sedes sapientiae, the seat of wisdom in order to pay homage to God and His had the piercing feeling of innocence, – and remembering two other virtues that Mothercenturies so withlittle that great one financial wants to sacrifices dispose ofdoubt God’s remained eternal open childhood, (...). I suddenly of an are the outpourings of wisdom: humility of them in the museum basement – even unspeakable revelation.’ and fear of God. if one destroys the much-vaunted ‘lived And when the church burned At present, however, humility and faith’ with it? Do the theologians and fear of God seem to be less and less a art historians of the Aachen diocese collapsed building to recover important even know about the Mariological and artthis treasures, year, firefighters especially rushed Fr Jean-Marc into the the Church, as recent events in Aachen Fournier, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, prerequisite for admission to office within to whom we owe the of the Here, the gorgeous historic robes of withecclesiological crown and significance sceptre simply of a picture because of crown of thorns. At the same time, young the(Aix-la-Chapelle) ancient statue show. of the , known as hergrace? simplicity Mary appears is different in a magnificent from the garbone Frenchmen knelt all over Paris and gave the ‘Empress’, have been replaced by the that the social-romantic trivial theology of the world an impressive testimony of Cathedral authorities by a white scarf, to today projects on her. In the proclamation, their faith through their prayers. This faith be placed over the arms of Mary and Jesus. Mary praises God for having, as the one- tells us that Christ has risen from death. The original wooden niche with a radiant The Phoenix was already a symbol of the Resurrection in early , The organisers of this, Dr Birgitta Insize-fits-all the original translation Greek text, says, there ‘looking is talk of at being reborn from the ashes. In a Falk,wreath Head was of replaced the Cathedral by a flat Treasury, yellow slab. and the lowlinesshumilitas ofancillae His handmaid’ found in (Lkthe 1:48).Latin sense, therefore, the building of Notre Provost Manfred von Holtum, attested . However, this is not about what to the entire process as a great creative Dr Falk called a ‘modest woman of the resurrected six days later in the glow of power of persuasion – and a high degree people’ who was ‘never rich.’ Dame, destroyed by earthly flames, was Within pagan culture, humilitas the baptized, have risen in Christ. As As Ms. Falk pointed out, the aim of the indeed denotes a low social position, livingthe building fire blocks, in Christ. together Likewise, with we,the competitionof theological wasand art-historicalto show ‘Mary reflection. as a including that of the slave. To this purely Apostles, we join the spiritual Church, mediator between God and men, ‘in material conception of lowness, Judaism which is indestructible as the mystical modern everyday garb, a young housewife and Christianity developed the contrast body of Christ. with a child.’ As such, however, the image between the sinful and mortal man to This indestructible metaphysical should now be ‘taken back to the people’. a perfect and almighty God. Even the substantia is owned by every church In return, however, to present Mary rich and powerful are low before God. building, regardless of its material as a housewife of today – is this the high Those who ignore this in their pride are appearance and size, from the cathedral spiritual claim that the humbled by God. On the other hand, the to the village chapel. And even if the and museum management claimed for God-fearing man who bows before the themselves? It is conceivable, admittedly, rebuilt, new churches would be built that this humanization is a backlash humilitas thus elsewheremagnificent – Parisbe it cathedral a Chinese were living not against certain varieties of Marian Lorddenotes and humility, obeys Histhe willingness will is exalted to serve (Spr room repurposed as a house church, a worship, which in the 19th century had 29:23).and honour In the God. biblical texts, consecrated garage in the favelas, the lost sight of the connection to Christology. It is precisely this notion of humble barracks of a North Korean concentration But to fall to the other extreme is even fear of God that forms the fulcrum of the camp, or perhaps a secret altar niche in more absurd – and it decouples, as will be entire history of salvation. By submitting the catacombs of Paris. shown, the devotion to Mary entirely from to the will of God and making herself Notre-Dame is a symbol of how Christology. unreservedly available to His work of the Church can defend itself with the Let’s start with the art-historical perseverance and unwavering faith of aspects. First of all, it is undeniable the Lord, do to me according to your word’ Our Lady’s external enemies. At the that the image of grace with its richly salvation (‘Behold, I am the handmaid of same time, however, it is also important old servants of God, above all Abraham. Lk 1:38), it is part of the tradition of the embroidered garments fits far better www.fiuv.org/ Page 25 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11

And so God can do ‘great things’ on and with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with This image was the focus of a mass through her and on all Israel. Through his protest against the Nazi dictatorship election to the Bride and the Mother of in 1937, something which would have His Son, He redeems humanity from true honey,fine linen, and oil, and and embroidered wast made work,exceeding and been impossible if the image of grace had slavery, namely the bondage of sin, and beautiful:many colours: and thou wast didst advanced eat fine hour,to be and a suffered the loss of meaning which has leads it to that freedom of the children of queen. And thy renown went forth among God, which cancels out all inner-worldly the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast In this context, Ms Falk’s statement lowliness and social impunity. To a far perfect through my beauty, which I had put thatnow Marybeen inflictedmust be onbrought it. ‘to the people’ greater extent than in the time of the upon thee, saith the Lord God. proves to be almost self-debunking. Once Old Covenant, He raises up the humble In addition, the bride’s ‘jewellery’ again, the entire Christian doctrine of in Mary. Far more than through any symbolizes the universal order restored salvation is turned upside down with social reform and political legislation, he by the Incarnation. The garments with just one sentence. Instead of the people frees the poor and the oppressed. And which Our Lady – and the Church coming to Mary and letting her lead them far more than through any revolution, to God, God and the saints must be shaped He overthrows the mighty from their peoples are gifts of grace and instruments in the image of man. God no longer works thrones through the birth of His Son, the ofprefigured divine salvation by her – in are the awarded world. before all for salvation by becoming man, but man King of Christ. Her literal coronation is These observations now allow us to creates his own redemption by humanizing the exaltation of Mary in the to analyse the current crisis of faith. Within a God – and thereby ultimately making the Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the materialistic worldview, the art historian himself God. What the atheist dictatorships Angels. Not as a ‘simple woman of the no longer interprets iconographic of the 20th century failed to achieve is the people’, but only as the bride and mother attributes on the allegorical level as aim of the tyranny of secularism. of Christ, Mary is praised as a mediator symbolism, but only on the purely literal The fact that the uncovering of the between God and men and therefore level of meaning as everyday objects. ‘Emperor of Aachen’ was ultimately The theologian no longer sees in directed against God is shown by the fact In order to make this election valuable array the appearance of heavenly that Christ was even more affected by meaningful,‘blessed by all Mary generations’ has been (Lk depicted 1:48). in glory, but only the manifestation of earthly her than His mother. For He is the actual pomp. main character of the image of grace. Mary for example in the Triumphal Arch From such a perspective, the ‘Emperor presents him to humanity as the Redeemer. Mosaicmagnificent in St robesMary Major since latein Rome. antiquity, Five of Aachen’ no longer designates crown And so He sits on the arm of His mother as biblical motifs have been incorporated and sceptre of heavenly sovereignty, but if on a throne, ‘in which lie all the treasures earthly power; the silk bridal garment description of the heavenly Jerusalem as no longer guarantees the redemption of Mary was the House of Wisdom during her into this pictorial tradition: firstly, the mankind, but is interpreted as the dusty pregnancy,of wisdom after and Jesus’ knowledge’ birth she (Col became 2:3). its If costume of a long-overcome popular seat, the sedes sapientiae, as it is called in ofa preciouslythe covenant decorated tent, in bridewhich (RevGod 19:8;lived belief. the of Loreto. among21:2); secondly,men as he the walked magnificent through fabrics the One speaks of Mary’s simplicity, but statue thus refers primarily to Christ. God thirdly, the curtain before the blessed fear of God, but merely her social position has Theadorned magnificent His throne furnishing with the of the robes entire of sacramentwilderness of (Ex the 25:8f Temple and of 35:4–36:38); Jerusalem, does not mean her salvific humility and His Bride. Through their garments He is behind which God remained hidden until humilitas of the pagan slaveholder society. One– and speaks has thusof the finally ‘woman returned of the people to the the garments and insignia of mother and robes of salvation, with whom Jerusalem ‘, but no longer has in mind the people of songlorified. indicate In their that uniformity God redeemed and uniformity, the world wasHis Incarnationallowed to adorn (Ex 26:33); itself after fourthly, the end the God redeemed in Christ, but instead the through the election of Mary: because He of Babylonian captivity as a sign of His population as a social community. Himself is the Lord of the world. As in no Likewise, in the supposed interest of other type of image, becomes the people, one destroys forms of genuine Christology in the image of grace. bridaldeliverance garment, from the bondagedecorated of sinwith (Isa popular piety, without which the Church Even those who do not know ornaments,61:10); fifth, which the preciously God made embroidered to Jerusalem cannot exist. A clerical establishment, about these complex art-historical and when He made an eternal covenant with which is otherwise so media-conscious, theological references must feel a great His people. This is how Yahweh speaks at turns out to be an opponent of populism, discomfort at the sight of an unclothed ignoring the metaphysical message of image of grace. In its wooden nakedness, ‘I swore to thee, and I entered into a popular, devotional . covenantEzekiel (Ez with 16:8-14): thee, saith the Lord God: A museum director whose task would Aachen Madonna seems like a desecrated and thou becamest mine. … I clothed be to open up sacred art to people in its icon:disfigured one even by more boreholes effectively and deprived chips, the of thee with embroidery, and shod thee spiritual depth acts like a gallery owner with violet coloured shoes : and I girded for contemporary design, or like the it were simply destroyed. It is reminiscent, owner of a fashion boutique. indeed,salvific meaningof the image than of would Christ, be undressed the case inif A cathedral chapter whose primary the court of Pilate and mocked as king. alsothee with about ornaments, with fine linen,and put and bracelets clothed duty would be to convey the mystery of the Even beyond that, we are reminded of onthee thy with hands, fine and garments. a chain about I decked thy neck. thee incarnation trivialises the mighty Queen the Lord’s faithless bride, who lays down And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and of Heaven from the tribe of David, who the ornaments given to her by the Lord in earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown triumphs over all the rulers of this world, order to prostitute herself to the mighty of upon thy head. And thou wast adorned to the harmless housewife next door.

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It is obvious that there was a zeal for destruction at work in Aachen, which planning also humiliated the haughty ultimately aimed less at the image of andremoved the andraised valleys the tohumble. be filled Under up. Urban the grace itself than at the appearance of the auspices of the Tridentine Reform, the church. In the spirit of modern marketing, Roman urban space was subjected to a they wanted to gain a new ‘image’ – comprehensive iustificatio – in the sense similar to what some people have in of a topographical straightening, as well mind with a modernist reconstruction of as a moral correction. Notre-Dame. ’s plan for Roman streets It is no coincidence that Sixtus had chosen two mottos for its renewal Mary as a guide to Christ radiating out of St Mary Major. measures: per aspera ad astra It is in the nature of the matter that Mary is not only the mother of all evil directs its manifold attacks precisely Scouts, so to speak, but also the great Et (‘throughexaltavit on Mary – be it as in Paris through open road builder of God. This conviction was humilesdifficulties to the stars’), and (already attacks, or as in Aachen through covert probably made by Pope Sixtus V when Thequoted streets from thethus Magnificat), became ways of the deception, or, in other cases, through he redesigned Rome in anticipation of dominion (‘And of God,he hath in whichexulted the the peopleslowly’). blasphemy. For it is Mary who, through the Holy Year 1600, in which the Church of the world come to Mary and Christ her humility, her obedience, her fear of was to celebrate once again its mystical through the roughness of this world. God, her wisdom and her faith, shows marriage to Christ. His plan was to make When the Pope and the faithful move, men the way to God and thus to Paradise. the Basilica of Mary Major, consecrated in a Corpus Christi procession from the Even the early Church saw a signpost to Mary in her special capacity as the Lateran Basilica, up the Via Merulana to in the Mother of Jesus. After the Council of , the destination and starting St Mary Major, they stop in front of the Ephesus had declared her the Theotokos, facade, which looks like a large street the bearer of God, in 431AD, the image were to lead to other sacred places, altar. The great arc of the Blessing Loggia, type of the so-called ‘Hodegetria’ includingpoint of a Sta total Croce of five and road the axes, Lateran which crowned by a statue of the Immaculata, emerged. This term is composed of the Basilica. symbolizes Mary as the porta caeli hodos The of the Manger in St Mary hegeisthai Major and the Tabernacle with the into the world, and through which (Gate we ‘.Greek On these words icons, ὁδός Mary ( points) ‘Way’ with andher Eucharist form the very centre of Sistine alsoof Heaven), enter paradise. through which Christ came rightἡγεῖσθαι hand ( to her )Son ‘lead, to move recommend forward urban planning. In this sense, the Sistine This symbolism is continued by the him to us as the way, the truth and life. street star denotes the star of Bethlehem. furnishing of the interior. In the late In this sense, Mary also shows us the way Like the three wise men then, today he antique mosaic and the baroque frescoes to Christ by having already walked with leads the peoples of the world to Mary above them, the history of Israel and him herself. Following it, we meet the as the sedes sapientiae, which shows us the life of Jesus and Mary are related to King of Eternity, who is waiting for us at on her lap the divine wisdom that has each other typologically. In the Arc de the end of time and space. And because become man. He also alludes to Our Triomphe mosaic, Mary appears at the Mary preceded us into heavenly glory, we Lady as the stella maris, the star of the Annunciation as a richly decorated bride also honour her in the glory of a queen of sea, which leads the ship of the Church and then again at her coronation as the heaven, and recognize in the cathedrals into the safe harbour to Christ. But then Queen of Heaven in the apse. dedicated to her images of the heavenly the star also means Christ himself, that This iconography was almost Jerusalem, which, adorned like a bride, ‘shining morning star’ who announces completed when Paul V had a Marian descends to the earth. in the Book of Revelation the dawn of column placed in the square in front of Essentially, the have the new dominion of God. Last but not the basilica in 1614. In one of the four been following this path to heavenly least, it symbolizes ‘the radiating light pedestal inscriptions, Mary is compared Jerusalem since the exodus from Egypt from above ‘, which, as the Canticle of and their return from Babylonian Zachary says, shines to all who ‘sit in of God through the desert into the darkness’ in order to ‘direct their steps promisedto the pillar land. of fire that led the people Him, and here too Mary is an example to The journey that the people of God took us,captivity. presupposes To find humility Him and and to obedience. remain in this sense, Christ, who is designated as to the promised land at that time lasted The pilgrims ask for these qualities when thetowards lux mundi the path in the of peace’medieval (Lk mosaic 1:78). Inof 40 years, and it was stony and rough. they pray with the Psalmist: ‘Lord, show St Mary Major, on the top of the highest Not everyone was willing to leave Egypt. me your ways, and teach me your paths’ Roman hill, the Esquiline, sheds his light on the Eternal City and illuminates the preferred to dance before a golden calf. At By humbly and obediently walking whole world, through the roads that lead timesSome there longed were for only the very ‘flesh-pots’, few who others stood in(Ps God’s 25 [24]:4). paths, man also smooths out from every part of the world to Rome. The by Moses. Still, his path was the right one. the path of the kingdom of God on earth, symbolism of the Gothic rib vault was Today Mary shows us this way. So let us just as John the Baptist and the prophet thus transferred to the city architecture, not be fooled along the way by the folly of Isaiah describe it: ‘Prepare ye the way of as well as the idea of a monstrance with others – nor let us be intimidated by the the Lord, make straight his paths. Every its rays. reprisals of today’s pharaohs. Let us not In addition, Sixtus had the new roads be irritated by the golden calves of the and hill shall be brought low; and the not only straightened, but also evenly zeitgeist. Let us entrust ourselves to Mary. crookedvalley shall shall be befilled; made and straight; every mountain and the built, and, as his engineer Domenico May she teach us to walk in humility, and Fontana reports, he even had hills lead us on a safe path to her divine Son. rough ways plain. (Lk 3:4-6; cf. Isa 3:4). www.fiuv.org/ Page 27 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 Introducing the Newsletter of Una Voce Scotland

Una Voce Scotland was founded, as the ‘Una Voce Scottish Branch’, in 1965, and was a founder member of the FIUV. The possibility of having a single association covering England and Wales and Scotland was considered, but this was rejected: a wise decision, as the Scottish Bishops have their own Episcopal Conference, and their attitude toward the Traditional Mass was rather different from those of their English and Welsh counterparts, creating a very different environment

which is part of the same Kingdom as England, Wales, and Scotland, is governed ecclesiallyin which UV by Scotland the Irish had Bishops’ to work. Conference, (Just to confuse which matters, ignores Northernthe international Ireland,

Scotland has only eight dioceses, and its small size, combined with the border which came into existence a century ago.) of member associations to be able to give responses to the FIUV survey on every singleefficiency diocese of the in association,its territory. allowed Others included Una Voce the Scotland Latin Mass to join Society the select of England group and Wales, Una Voce Delft in the Netherlands, Pro Missa Tridentina in Germany,

UVS has a sparkling new website at https://unavocescotland.org/, where its simplyand the but Latin smartly Mass (Ecclesiaproduced Dei) quarterly Society ‘Newsletter’ of New Zealand. can be downloaded. This is an article from the March 2020 edition. Memories of the Latin Mass in 1960s Lanarkshire

It is the crunch of ice and frost underfoot My dad at this time was a seven- and tongue’. Over 50 years on, I cannot days-per-week steel erector. A gaffer. hear the words of this blessed hymn my desire to be part of something; Money was good, but shifts were long, without a rush of emotion, as I am that I first recall. I fondly remember dangerous and arduous, in any location almost overwhelmed by a tearful, sense attendance each day at Mass during within travel by a sleek, dusty Bedford of a culture, all but lost. Lent.something Chilly defiant,Lent mornings, expressed in cold, in works van. Few fellow workers could Sacred Heart Church [1951, architect austere, predominantly Presbyterian match his aggressive workrate, and the Tom Considine] has some architectural 1960s Bellshill. Bellshill, located you pursuit of bonus payments. So, when he might say, if not at the heart, then had no takers in his squad for a Saturday was the absolutely splendid Pugin, Holy certainly the liver, of what was once or Sunday shift, it fell to me, his eldest Family,merit, butMossend. my first From parish, my family’s to age usual four, industrial, industrious Lanarkshire. son, the role of tea maker and errand pew, I looked upon the most ornate I was perhaps seven at the time, and runner. I was heading for manhood I of altars, as the statue of St Therese my mother, my dear, dear wonderful lovingly gazed down with protective notions of sleep deprivation. countenance. sensed;The thisprelude easily to overcame our Sunday any fleeting shifts, It was truly worth rising and leaving mother, had five children at that point, at exotic sounding jobs in Longannet, our wee prefab house for early morning Maybeand she she briefly sensed pondered I had caught my plea. it. I Sheam Cockenzie or Coulport [submarine Mass during Lent. Some people remark had a fierce, but undemonstrative faith. base] was 6.00am Mass at Sacred that these [temporary!] dwelling places how much my presence would be Heart Church, Bellshill. As we entered were cold. I considered it a home my missedsure she in smiled the morning as she protested, rush to feed briefly, and the pre-dawn, warmth and haze of the father, as a World War Two Royal Navy dress my siblings. She admonished me, church, my father informed me that this volunteer, had deservedly earned. For yes to go, but go carefully. Then she was service had been requested by Polish, me, I had a strong sense that every Mass or was it Lithuanian parishioners. ‘….. was a special event; being enacted for requiring nappies. the Sacred Heart of Jesus, by every heart each and every one of us brave souls lost again in cornflakes, vests and wash-

Page 28 www.fiuv.org/ FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 in the congregation. Even as a boy, a ‘prefab sprout’, I was conscious, this was something set apart from humdrum society, something unique, magical words and gestures, nothing at all run- of-the-mill. I was rich, not in monetary terms, but in liturgical drama. Then the changes came. It took me nearly thirty years to regain that sense of participating in something wondrous. My family and I had moved to live in Oban. I will thank God every day I exist for the opportunity to attend Mass, early in the day, in the small Carmelite Convent on Oban Hill, with the saintly sisters, superb priests, and a coterie of peculiar characters in St Mary’s, Cleland, in pre-conciliar times. the pews [me included]. As a primary school pupil back in contributing marvelously to Scottish who resolutely continued to respond Lanarkshire I had picked up a smattering sporting life, the remarkable Boys’ loudly in Latin, even as the ‘new Mass’ of Latin. Some had in fact entered the Guild football leagues. I do believe continued in English. Ian’s memories are . The study of Latin became that we Catholics of the 1960s had the of a time when the Catholic community compulsory for me at secondary school. most vibrant, thriving and buoyant did not readily challenge perceived Like you, I have since heard the critics ‘community within a community’, which authority. He believes his and other crowing ‘no-one knew what was going provided a supportive infrastructure families were assured the Mass was ‘not that must make today’s secular intrinsically changing’. In conclusion he I knew, my prayers. I knew and deeply politicians jealously despair. states ‘people seemed to be more vexed lovedon’. I did. the I hymnsknew, of [Faber Our Lord’s et al]. sacrifice. I knew The bulk of these occurrences took when St Christopher was removed from about tradition. I knew my people had place some 55 years ago! To prepare the universal liturgical calendar’! struggled and saved, and done without this article I sought the memories of Having returned to live in for decades, to build these worthy, two good friends. Chris, though even Lanarkshire, there were rare glimpses decorous homes for Holy Mass and other younger than me at the time, believes to be relished of what once was. God devotions. But when the changes came, there was a short period where the Mass rest and God bless Canon Glackin, of St were discarded and birettas seemed ‘half English, half Latin’. Where Columba’s, Viewpark. Twenty years ago binned. We now had a replacement many responses and prayers remained I heard tell of his midweek, morning litany from the sceptic; carping about in Latin. At a time when a parish might Mass in Latin. He was wonderfully and old ladies and supplicant easily have three or four priests, he most ably accompanied by sacred music, prayed at the Latin Mass. The churches recalls certain priests appearing less emanating from a 1970s cassette player. then were indeed full of elderly ladies, enthusiastic about the changes, even to and also abounding with men, and well- the extent of retaining Latin for weekday sent into heavenly overdrive, when, on stocked with teenagers and children. masses with English on a Sunday. aSome weekend five break, years agoI attended my senses Sung Latin were Are these the very sceptics who relished Ian recalls a period of intense Mass in the Extraordinary Form, at St the discarding of marble altar rails; who practice in his primary school [led by Wilfrid’s, York, amid a mist of dispensed with vestments of exquisite ], in the new form of the Mass. and a crescendo of glorious hymns. I beauty and hurriedly cast aside the Pupils were taken through the changing sensed I had to ‘come out’. When my timeless liturgy, crafted over countless Mass in stages, with a Mass sheet, one wife and I returned home I chose to centuries. side English, one side Latin. Pupils ‘come out’ as a Traditional Catholic. Mine’s was the era of Catholic Boy were regularly informed the new Mass I am indebted to Fr Morris, Fred Scouts, Catholic Girl Guides, numerous would be ‘easier to understand’. Ian’s Stone, Una Voce and all at Immaculate mens’ and womens’ societies and, perspective was that the older form Heart of Mary Church, Balornock, for was ‘more mysterious’, but the gift of a so many memorable occasions. Not missalette, at his First Holy Communion least was when my wife Barbara and I helped bring clarity to what was being received a personal blessing from Bishop , and My son the changes Ian was part of a school partyfulfilled which upon visited the altar. . Shortly When after piped Cardinal Burke to the church from they attended Mass in Austria then theRoraigh chapel filled house. my heartAnd now; with now joy when Fr Liam he he really understood what it meant to O’Connor has reinstated the Mass of Ages not understand anything of what was in my beloved Lanarkshire. St Mary’s, taking place! One memory Ian has is of Cleland is the place to be on Thursdays at a certain man in his parish congregation 7.00pm and Sunday at 8.00am

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Igor Jurić, President of the Benedictus Society (Una Voce Croatia) In the ancient , during the Vigil among the disaster. For our home on the TLM has been celebrated on the of Epiphany, just before the Blessing of the this earth is a temporary one, even if we side altars of this basilica. The church of Epiphany water, The lose it, our permanent home is in heaven St Francis was also badly damaged. Fr is sung. One could easily notice that the with Our Lord. And those words of the invocation, A peste, fame et bello, libera resonated even stronger: Concede, nos, Domine, very appropriate for these quæsumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui ex releaseSumich of (FSSP) the motu celebrated proprio there Summorum one of troubled times, so it is just natural to pray merito nostræ actionis affligimur, tuæ Pontificum.the first Latin Masses in after the it twice during the Litany. But in those gratiæ consolatione respiremus. There is As for the Zagreb Traditional Latin rare churches in Croatia that had this no comfort like God’s comfort. Mass community, in a blink of an eye it traditional petition, another invocation During this earthquake, many was repeated: A flagello terræmotus, libera churches and other sacred buildings such baroque St Catherine’s and Christ the nos, Domine. The reason is that in 2020 as monasteries were badly damaged. lost both its churches, the magnificent mainland Croatia has been struck many complex, which was also badly times with devastating earthquakes. They King (itself a part of the beautiful Mirogoj were not uncommon in the long history suddenlyThe spiritual became (and veryunavailable importantly, for thean months before, in St Catherine’s Church, of Zagreb, Capitol of Croatia, but the last confessional) centers for Zagreb Catholics damaged). To think that just a couple of really strong one shook the city 140 years Zagreb cathedral sustained heavy High Mass in Zagreb after more than 50 ago. Among other damage, the 1880 damage.indefinite It period lost the of topstime. of both its spires. years!we celebrated the first diocesan Solemn quake caused the collapse of the ancient The top of the right spire collapsed, and In the months following the gothic/renaissance cathedral of Zagreb, the debris fell very close to the bedroom so a new, neo-gothic one was built in its provisional shelter in a very small chapel place couple of years later. Archbishop of Zagreb. The other spire earthquake TLM community would find It was a Sunday morning on 22nd topof thewas later Josip, removed Cardinal with Bozanić, the help the of March 2020. Somewhere around 6:20am, demolition experts. The inside of the of St George, which could hardly fit 50 while the majority of citizens were still in cathedral took damage as well. But the thisfaithful coupled (whereas with usually the ‘pandemic 100-150 faithful safety their beds, an earthquake of magnitude measures’would attend which the restricted TLM on Sundays),the number all 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Zagreb, Stepinac which is behind the main altar of faithful able to attend Mass to the bare and it caused serious damage to the city, wastomb miraculouslyof the Bl. Alojzije left (Aloysius) undamaged. Cardinal So minimum. especially to its historical city center. Lot strong is the bond between the Bl Alojzije When the daily struggles with the of people were injured, and a 12-year-old Stepinac, the cathedral, and the Zagreb COVID-19 pandemic slowly took its toll residents ,that they often call it the on the lives of , and the dangers of argue that it was only the Hand of God that ‘Stepinac’s Cathedral’. earthquakes somehow seemed to pass, preventedgirl tragically heavier lost hercasualties. life. It isHundreds difficult toof Also, the splendid cathedral treasury the year was about to end with an even residents lost their homes in less than a containing numerous and sacred greater disaster. On 29th December, about minute. artifacts was fortunately not damaged: 12:20pm, an earthquake of magnitude That Sunday was to be a joyous one, the Diocese of Zagreb was founded in 6.4 Mw hit the Sisak-Moslavina County after all, it was the ‘’, but 1094. All the churches in the city center amidst all the panic, chaos and despair were seriously damaged, especially the Glina.and its The towns, earthquake especially was Petrinja followed (located by youit was could hard see to finda strong joy in sight those of hours. hope andYet, numeroussome 35 milesstrong southaftershocks. of Zagreb) These andleft comfort. Just two and a half hours after the town devastated, with around 90% the earthquake a brave Franciscan priest ChurchSacred Heartand monastery. Basilica (the After biggest the ceiling Jesuit of buildings heavily damaged and the decided to celebrate the Laetare Sunday inchurch the Sacred in Croatia), Heart and Basilica the old collapsed, Franciscan the historical town center almost obliterated. Mass which was then broadcasted via the tomb of Bl Ivan Merz was miraculously Tragically, this county suffered parish YouTube Channel. Out of safety left untouched by the tons of fallen rock heavy damage and human casualties reasons the Mass was celebrated in the boulders and bricks. Bl. Dr Merz was a lay during the Homeland War in Croatia monastery courtyard. It is hard to forget teacher who lived an ascetic life and was less than 30 years ago, when almost the sight of this Mass, the slight tremor in profoundly in love with the beauty of the every Catholic church in the county was his voice, but still resonating with hope ancient liturgy. On a couple of occasions, either bombarded or burnt to the ground

Page 30 www.fiuv.org/ FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 as well as desecrated by the occupying Serbian forces spearheaded by the Solemn High Mass at Holy Rosary Cathedral, Yugoslavian Army. This earthquake undid Vancouver: September 14, 2020 almost all the renovations in the area. On the surface, Petrinja now resembles by Una Voce Canada Hiroshima in 1945. Nearby diocesan city of Sisak suffered extensive damage as well. Sisak cathedral Parish in Chilliwack, BC, celebrant; Fr. Ralph Oballo, FSSP, assistant parish priest at Parish in Vancouver, Additionallywas ruined (its six tower parish was churches demolished in Sisak to deacon; and Fr. Pablo Santa Maria, JCL, dioceseprevent were further completely damage todestroyed, the church). and assistant priest at Holy Rosary Cathedral another 20 were heavily damaged. In and vice-chancellor of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, subdeacon. Fr. Stanley Galvon, when the church tower collapsed while rector at Holy Rosary Cathedral, preached someŽažina faithful church, were an inside. organist was killed the sermon. Sitting with Fr. Galvon in choir This earthquake was felt all over was Fr. Arsene Dutunge, JCL, currently in residence at the cathedral. The ministers were assisted by master the country and more widely (as far as of ceremonies Matthew Palmer, thurifer alreadyItaly and damaged Austria), church and it of did St. Catherine, additional Michael Do, acolytes Stephen Ivanyi and oncedamage home to Zagrebof the Latin (for instance,Mass, it caused in the For those who love the Traditional Kevin Lam, and Javier Cabrera. Latin Mass, September 14, the Feast The Propers and Ordinary of the Mass However, in midst of these sad events, of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, has were chanted by a schola directed by the ceilingZagreb toTLM collapse community completely). was blessed Christopher Suen and composed Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter Summorumspecial significance. Pontificum On, thatcame day into in effect,2007, Ma, and Michael Molnar. The cathedral’s veryto find kind a new to hopeus, as and we aare new now home. able And to freeing the Traditional Mass from the of Ed Devita (cantor), Daniel Chan, Daniel celebratenot just any Mass home. in Cardinalthe splendid Bozanić Church was restrictions that had been imposed upon David Poon. of St Blaise, one of the rare undamaged it for almost forty years. magnificent pipe organ was played by churches near the city center. This is so far the biggest church we have had the Traditional Mass to a place at the heart of opportunity to use. This place offers a the SummorumCatholic Church’s Pontificum liturgical restored life. It gave the chance not just for stability, but for a new priests the right to celebrate, without the growth, which is imminent, concerning need to obtain special permission, the that the majority of the faithful attending Latin Mass are young people and young in 1570 and last revised by Pope St. John XXIIIMass thatin 1962. was codifiedIt also asked by Pope pastors St. Pius and V Since the Archdiocese of Zagreb bishops to provide for the celebration of is(numerous) the only families. one in Croatia to offer this Mass wherever a “stable group” of regular public celebrations, we are also lay faithful desired it. And it envisioned saddened because of all the faithful in the co-existence of both the Traditional other Croatian cities that are deprived of a chance to experience the reverence and beauty of the authentic Latin Rite. andMass the (which newer PopeOrdinary Benedict Form in called the same the But there is some other great news as parishes,Extraordinary as well Form as ofthe the establishment Roman Rite) well. Recently, we were fortunate enough of personal parishes dedicated to the Adoration and veneration of the cathedral’s relic of the Holy Cross followed Croatian priest. Also, after more than six is Holy Family Parish in the Archdiocese the Mass, with the schola singing Vexilla monthsto assist ofat harda first work, Latin weMass were of aable young to ofExtraordinary Vancouver, establishedForm (an example by Archbishop of which Regis and Crux fidelis/Pange lingua … publish a completely new edition of the lauream certaminis, from the Veneration Latin-Croatian missal for the faithful. of the Cross on . Benediction Until the date of this writing, over 1,000 theRaymond limitations Roussin due in July to 2008).the COVID-19 completed this beautiful and moving copies of this medium sized booklet have pandemic,It was thereforea Solemn fitting High that, Mass despite was ceremony. been distributed throughout Croatia and celebrated at Holy Rosary Cathedral in worldwide. A couple of new titles are downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Video: https://youtu.be/UJdrZZZcV4c almost ready for publishing. at 6:30 p.m. on September 14, 2020. The Article: https://unavocecanada. All these events made us even more Mass was livestreamed on the cathedral’s org/2020/09/21/solemn-high-mass- grateful to Our Lord. He is our protector, YouTube channel. at-holy-rosary-cathedral-vancouver- and our refuge: our God, in him will we The sacred ministers were Fr. Juan september-14-2020/ Lucca, assistant parish priest at St. Mary’s Photos courtesy of Claire Phillips trust (Ps 90:2). www.fiuv.org/ Page 31 FROM THE MAGAZINES GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 The return to the Lost Paradise: Dante’s answer by Robert Lazu Kmita

all the creatures in it were enslaved by feverishness of exploration and travel death. In this way, the world has changed hasOver grown the exponentially. last five centuries, Adventurers the its manner of being from the reality and scientists, journalists and the simply full of grace of Paradise to the desert curious, have reached all the corners of existence of the mortals. Being in this the earth. Even if there still are some fallen state any of us can say, with King remotely and hard-to-reach accessible David in , ‘my life hath drawn nigh places, such as the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, or certain hidden areas the things that we can perceive through of Papua New Guinea, we can be sure ourto hell’ senses, (Psalm can 87:4). escape Nothing, the tyranny from allof that no spot on the face of the earth has dissolution. If we meditate carefully we remained entirely unexplored. Even realize that even the most solid piece of the depths of the oceans have been granite is getting older and, one day, it the target of divers and submarines, will become dust. The Sahara dunes are who have descended into the abyss of the living testimony of this destructive process. Much more acutely, however, Consequently, despite the fact that Saints our own bodies are the living evidence likeMarianas Augustine, Trench Basil (~ the 11,000 Great, meters). Isidore of the ephemerality of both the fallen of Seville and Thomas Aquinas strongly world and man. The older we get, the emphasize the real, historical existence more we become aware of the inevitable of Paradise, today we can be sure that decomposition process, which already the Admiral Cristopher Columbus never transformation that, without changing affects us through weaknesses, diseases crossed the region in the vicinity of the the nature to creatures, has led terrestrial Paradise. If so, did Paradise qualities or vicissitudes of our existence are the or infirmities of all kinds. All these not really exist here, on earth? Based the glory of this nature: from spiritual, result of the absence of the on our faith, on many ancient religious celestial,to the modification incorruptible of theand immortal, which enlightened Paradise. traditions and many mystical witnesses, both man and creation as a whole have The Saxon master Hugo of Saint the answer is, undoubtedly, positive. But become material, earthly, corruptible how can we explain its absence from our and mortal. In his perennial teachings had not fallen the whole would have St Paul emphasises that ‘there are beenVictor entirely (1096 – Paradise. 1141) says Viewed that if from man geographically speaking, Paradise? bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: this perspective, therefore, the Garden physicalIn order world? to give Where a clear is—or answer, was— we but, one is the glory of the celestial, of Eden does not represent a part of have to emphasize the unimaginable power of divine grace, and all the negative physically inaccessible, by its location on consequence of its disappearance from gloryand another that covered of the all terrestrial.’ the creatures (I Cor.has thethis top world—a of a mountain part which or by has a supposed become our world: the metaphor of a world been15:40). changed After Original into a passing Sin, the and heavenly earthly without sun is just a pale metaphor for the negative consequences of such this destined to die. whole.wall of Enlightenedfire that would by impededivine grace, access the to epic event, the fall of Adam and Eve. Even glory,The specific‘mutation’ to of all the those physical creatures world entireit—but world rather would symbolises become the aworld Paradise as a though it is not powerful enough, the full of that unspeakable joy which was image of a world without light reminds that terrible divine punishment: ‘cursed lived before the Fall by Adam and Eve. us that the whole living world will die and of all the creatures—as a result of After the , the entire world without it. Similarly, Paradise has become is depicted in Genesis 3:16-18. Saint has become a sort of theatre of shadows inaccessible and our world, devoid of the Paulis the summarizesearth in thy work’ this (Genesisglobal event 3:17)— in similar to that depicted in ’s myth of everlasting light of sanctifying grace, is Republic plunged into the dark ocean of death and he shows that ‘the creature was made become inaccessible though a ‘mutation’ nothingness. The consequences of this subjecthis Letter to tovanity, the Romans not willingly, (8:20), but where by ofcave the ( physical 514a–520a). world’s qualities. Paradise This has mutation is depicted by Saint Luke who reason of him [i.e. the man] that made it process is the consequence of the speaks about ‘those that sit in darkness, subject’. From these biblical texts we can corruption of the human nature which understand, together with St Augustine has been initiated by the Original Sin. As Saints Gregory of Nyssa and and Theodoret of Cyrus, that after the Man has lost access to the ‘tree of Athanasiusand in the shadow the Great of death” show (Lukeus, both 1:79). the fall of Adam and Eve not just the human life’ - which is nothing else but the grace world and man have suffered a major beings, but the whole created world and Proverbs

of Divine Wisdom ( 3:18),

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But heavenly paradise, which is visible, this contemplation made possible the that heavenly knowledge of Adam and butbe able is spiritual, to enter theDante first had heaven to ‘trans- of the immortality of the inhabitants of Eden Eve still had a dose of imperfection: it humanize’ himself: transumanare Wisdom could be entrapped into the material became impossible due to a serious in order to express, by analogy with (in alteration( 6, of 13-20). the human The access act of toknowledge Paradise maintained at the level of contemplating aItalian) transformation is a notion of invented man into by Dantea god which, instead of seeking in all creatures thedimension deep, divine of the reasons, world—if of itall wascreated not narrated by Ovid in Metamorphoses, their divine reasons, became a kind of how he also changed, at the entrance passionate embrace of earthly things for of Adam’s intellectual-contemplative to the heavenly paradise, the ‘formal’ purely ‘consumeristic’ purposes. Such spiritualbeings. The capacity serpent to testedremain the perpetually firmness data of his human nature. The second an attitude of the intellect is the direct attached, with humility, to the single transformation takes place at the consequence of pride manifested through and absolute point of reference of any physical entrance to the Empyrean the mephistophelistic claim to be like God act of knowledge: God. The ‘forbidden Heaven. In order to physically enter the Empyrean Heaven, in the great peccato originali known without God, as St Maximum the invisible sky of the visible heavenly better(Genesis summarized 3, 5). As a result by usingof this therebellious Greek fruit’—the world and all the creatures paradise, Dante also had to change notionact— of hybris —which can be because of that great lie by which the the ‘matter’ of his human condition: intellect was instantly ‘blinded’ by losing devilConfessor made teachesEve believe us—was that she accepted may and this is done through an operation the light of divine (Gr.grace ὕβρις), that gave the to human Adam be like God. The mere consent to such that is a sort of an analogous notion a suggestion led to the immediate to the Christian trans-substantiation of the Eucharist. withoutand Eve death: the preternaturalimpassibility (i.e. beyond These two stages of Dante’s journey ordinary nature) qualities inherentintegrity to a lifeof ofwithdrawal—from divine grace. Both the heartman ofand man world and through Paradise indicate a double passions (no diseases, plungedfrom the into depths darkness. of the whole creation— ‘metamorphosis’ of those who seek to injuries, infirmities), theagility Exclusion from Paradise occurred in reach the ‘Heavenly Jerusalem’. This (a complete submission of the the blink of an eye. Adam and Eve were double metamorphosis--or, in Dante’s passions to the reason), subtlety (through instantly assaulted by the shameful which ais body ‘spiritual’, that can and move—so ‘celestial’ toas say—Saint at the speed of thought), (a body rebellion against reason. Our forefathers visionwords, of ‘trans-humanization’—ofthe Living God adored by Dante fallen and brightness foundpassions themselves of the flesh inbuzzing, their unstoppable like the andhuman all Catholics. nature will Such lead a tohigh the status beatific of Paul teaches in I Corinthians 15: 40-49) people awakened from a marvellous the soul will be accessible just after the Man was sent (a stateout from full ofParadise light of dream, whose content became an universal judgment and resurrection of grace). increasingly distant and fading content. his capacity for contemplation which In a word, their souls died. This new accessible here and now to all Catholics, makes(Genesis Eden 3:23-24) visible because to thosehe perverted whose and tragic status became manifest canthe bodies.restore Butin us the partially first metamorphosis, those qualities intellects are illuminated by eternal through the complete loss of access to possessed by Adam and Eve before the Wisdom. Here, then, is how Paradise the contemplation of Divine Wisdom that fall. This fact is proven by the amazingly became inaccessible to mortals: made them immortal. The Tree of Life had uncorrupted bodies of Saints like Vincent subjectively, by losing the light of the become completely inaccessible to them. de Paul, Bernadette Soubirous, Catherine Divine Wisdom, which alone makes Their souls were reduced to the stage of us able to see it; objectively, by the a vegetative, animal life, becoming the Porras Ayllón. transformation of the created world slaves of their earthly, mortal bodies. Labouré,The returnLouise deto Marillacthe Lost and Paradise Rafaela which, without grace, becomes opaque, Faced with such a miserable situation, begins in this life, through our re- evanescent, materialistic. the sages of all times have faced and are planting, performed by the Holy Baptism, Consequently, the difference between faced with one essential and unavoidable in the heavenly soil of eternal Jerusalem. our current fallen nature and the nature of question: how can immortality and life in Saints like of Carthage and Adam and Eve before their transgression Paradise be restored? postulate that all is really enormous. In their state of Similar to many other Catholic baptized Christians are, through divine Innocence they were immersed in the thinkers, the famous Florentine poet, grace, ‘plants rooted in the spiritual supernatural light of divine grace which heaven’. Based on this, the double gave them immortality. The world, too, throughout his entire life on the ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘trans-humanization’ was free of those vicissitudes inherent possibilityDante Alighieri of returning (1265 - to1321), Paradise. reflected One take root in this life with the help of in degradation, corruption, and death. of the most brilliant Romanian thinkers those means well known to Dante: the The inner being of man was enlightened of the moment, Horia-Roman Patapievici, in a passage from his book Two Essays Baptism, Confession, and Holy about Paradise Sacraments of the Church (especially interiorizedby all those qualitiesby an act specific of contemplation to the ‘tree contemplative life is another spiritual of life’—Divine Wisdom—which were clarity Dante’s ideas (Humanitas expressed Publishing by the requirementEucharist). The that context we are of anot prayerful allowed and to is, to us, the sight of a wonderful sunset. ItalianHouse, author2018) describes in describing with hisremarkable journey Eventhat was though as natural they had to not the yet first come people to the as to Paradise in the Divine Comedy: First, Dante ‘re-formed’ himself, then highestforget. Asgift aboutof the Holy Divine Spirit Wisdom—the given to us and Eve could know Him the way we Tree of Life—let us remember: it is the so called ‘beatific vision’ of God, Adam ‘transubstantiated’ his nature. (…) To through the Sacrament of Confirmation. www.fiuv.org/ Page 33 NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11 Ordinations to the Sub-Diaconate at the Seminary of the Fraternity of St Peter, Wigratzbad, Germany While many events were cancelled this last year due to the Coronavirus, others took place with reduced numbers, or in private. Here are some photographs of the Fraternity of St Peter’s ordination of nine seminarians to the Sub-Diaconate, the first of the ‘’; in the next article we look as the activities of Paix Liturgique in Rome on the weekend of what would normally be the annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage.

On 13 February, H.E. Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz, consecrated nine seminarians of the Seminary of St. Peter in Wigratzbad as . The FSSP website comments: ‘In the context of the Year of St Joseph, proclaimed by , the newly consecrated subdeacons placed themselves under the special protection of the mighty of the Church and recalled Bishop Haas’s opening words: “We must place ourselves under the will of God, as Mary has done in an exemplary fashion for all people in the depths of her heart. And also like the chaste bridegroom, , to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary was entrusted. Let’s take a role model from you.”’ ‘The subdeacon assists at the altar in a so-called Levitical Office. He prays with celebrant and deacon the Ordinary of the Mass, sings the epistle, and cleanses the sacred vessels. The liturgical robes of the subdeacon are , , and . The sub-diaconate is not found in the reformed liturgy of Pope Paul VI, but persists in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and is given to seminarians who are about to graduate and receive ordination as .’

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by Joseph Shaw

Under its Statutes, the Foederatio informed of this only in 2015, Internationalis Una Voce has and received the money in 2016. among its supporters not Although not an enormous sum of only organisations but individuals: money, it has made a considerable ‘Friends’. difference to our ability to act Friends are all those who feel quickly when money is an issue, as moved to support the FIUV with a when we took on a freelancer to help small : we suggest €50. with the survey we conducted for In return, they are included in our the Congregation for the Doctrine mailing list for Gregorius Magnus, but of the Faith last year, which you can more importantly we arrange Masses read about elsewhere in this edition to be said for them. Specifically, two of Gregorius Magnus. are celebrated each month: one for living and one for deceased Friends To those reading this edition of if you are not already of the FIUV. Gregorius Magnus, a Friend of the Federation please The priest who celebrates these Fr Dirk-Joseph Schneider is the second of the consider becoming one, or adding Masses for us is Fr Dirk-Joseph three priests in this photograph the Federation to the legatees in your Schneider, a young German priest, will. Many of our member associations who is stipended by the Federation available from the Secretary or are poor, and we receive more in for this purposes. donations from our Friends than from You can become a Friend by You can also mention us in your a great many of them. The work of the e-mailing your details, like your Will.Treasurer). On 9th July 2001, a certain Federation is done on a shoestring, as name, e-mail address and Country Mark O. Murphy died in the county we have no employees or premises, but of residence to [email protected], of Niagara, New York, in the USA, we do need some money, and regular or and making an annual donation leaving the Federation a bequest: occasional donations from individuals using the Paypal donate-button at the only, to my knowledge, in our are a huge help to us. the left below the site menu, or by history. For reasons which are not immediately apparent we were God bless our Friends! bank transfer as preferred (details Latin Mass Society: Summer Events We regularly welcome visitors from around the world at our events, and hope to see many friends from overseas as travel restrictions are eased, as we hope, in the summer. Guild of St Clare Sewing Retreats at Douai Abbey: 12-14 November, with Fr Tim Finigan; 4-6 February 2022 with Fr Stephen Morrison OPraem. St Catherine’s Trust Summer School for children: Sunday 1 to Saturday 7 August, at St Cassian’s Centre, Wallingtons Road, Kintbury, Berkshire RG17 9SP. Book through www.stcatherinestrust.org LMS Latin & New Testament Greek Residential Course:

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Jarosław Syrkiewicz Someone asked me what is the main his clinging to the Cross of Jesus Christ. reason for the fast increase of new places He had a great sense of humor too. In with TLM in Poland. Evidently social and the short time before his death he said to historical conditions are very important his saddened mother: “Mother, I’m only Gregorius dying”. Magnus). But his real works started after (as InI wrote my opinionin the last there issue is,of however, his death. We hear of the results of his another important factor: the intercession intercession, in the form of assistance in of the saints and all those who have died small or big issues, and even miracles, in odium sanctorum. Since many of the coming to his friends from all parts of great proponent of it. He tried to propagate faithful attached to Traditional Mass Poland. Certainly his fervent advocacy itthe everywhere, first time, and supported thereafter many he became priests a pray for help for the restoration of the and servers as a tutor, teaching them for the Traditional Latin Mass helps the Latin Mass to the saints and to their dead God’s Service, and after his ordination Polish traditional Catholics as well. Try friends and members of their families, he helped every group which asked him to imagine – the number of Tridentine we can see in Poland a really big increase by celebrating Ritus Antiquior. Of course, Masses in Poland from the day of his in the number of celebrations. One such such a stance created many problems for death until now raised has increased person we venerate in this way is a young him, and even personal attacks, especially during his days in seminary. 29 new venues for the ancient Mass in He was a very happy person and good from 120 to 149 a year (there have been 30thpriest October from the2019. diocese He lived of on Płock earth -as fra chap for parties. His singing ability, and Ending this short note about him I Sławomir Grzela who died of cancer on stronglyonly 10 months). recommend you to use father made him a natural leader in social life. Grzela’s ‘intercession services’. Maybe in priest for only 3 years (he was ordinated Hisguitar profound performing spiritual (outside life and Holy great Mass!) love your communities also there have been July,in 2016). 1990. During his holisays, before for was the core of his life people who may not be canonized saints, beginningFr. Sławomir his study Grzela in diocesan was born seminary on 7th as a Catholic priest. His suffering for the but on whom we can count in your private last year of his life gave us testimony of prayers for heavenly intercession. in Płock, he encountered the Old Mass for Latin Mass Society: Lockdown and Post-Lockdown Activities by Joseph Shaw

Like many countries, England and Matthew Spencer, and our ‘Iota Unum’ Mass of Ages, electronically, to avoid the Wales have experienced over the last series of talks in London, by a series extra postage costs. Our shift to on-line twelve months periods in which church presentation of activities in 2020 will attendance has been impossible, and have a permanent effect on our work, also periods in which while we could go of podcastsIt will be (search a relief Spotify to get andback other our to Mass, many other events have had to ordinary,platforms foroff-line, ‘Latin Massevents. Society’.) Readers away, and we hope readers will join us, be cancelled. Among these were many visiting out website https://lms.org.uk/ into person the benefit or online, of those for the who events live further of the training events and devotional events can now book for the Latin Course and future. organised by the Latin Mass Society. Walsingham Pilgrimage in August, and We responded by moving some our Sewing Retreat events online. Our annual Walking with spiritual conferences and the Pilgrimage to Walsingham, for (mending vestments example, was replaced by individual or that the St Catherine’s Trust Summer small groups walking in different places, School,Traditional also Mass)in August, in November. will go ahead, We hope and supplemented by pre-recorded talks and a Priest Training Conference: at the time devotions by priests. The latter were released on YouTube, and the former We welcome participants in all our of writing, details to be confirmed. coordinated by the exercise app Strava. events from outside England and Wales, Our annual Pilgrimage to the image of More simply, our annual Residential and people based overseas can now sign Our Lady of Guadalupe in Bedford took Latin Course was replace by online Latin up for a special category of membership, place on 14th November 2020 with almost seminars led by an experienced teacher, enabling them to receive our magazine, no congregation, but was live-streamed.

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This extract gives a sense of the status quaestione on the Traditional Mass in 1990. Two years earlier, following the crisis of the failure of talks between the Holy See and the SSPX, the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei Adflicta had attempted to open up the celebration of the older Missal, and perhaps even more significantly, had given canonical status to the Fraternity of St Peter, the first of the ‘Traditional Institutes’, and to the French traditional Benedictine community of Le Barroux. As time was to demonstrate, this half-way house situation, of a form of the Mass which was officially permitted but still required the express permission of local bishops for its public celebration, and yet was the proper rite of religious institutes and communities, was to remain in place until Summorum Pontificum in 2007. During this time of stasis, discussion frequently turned to how to resolve the issue more satisfactorily. One idea frequently canvassed then, and still discussed today, is the idea of creating a structure for the Traditional Mass, with its own bishop or bishops. One model for this is the enjoyed by since 1982; another, the Ordinariate established in 2007 for clergy and people received into the Church from . In the end, Summorum Pontificum did not take this approach, but made the Extraordinary Form the common heritage of the entire . Another point of interest is the brief address Pope John Paul II made to Calvet and members of his community of Le Barroux mentioned here, which we append to this extract in full. In 1997 a major petition on the Traditional Mass organised in part by Federation members noted that this address had been the only occasion on which this Pope officially mentioned the ancient Mass after Ecclesia Dei Adflicta. Positive though this reference had been, it introduced a long period of Papal silence on the subject.

During the meeting of the FIUV Council This was confirmed indirectly with Cardinal Ratzinger [ of in detail the case for a Traditional three days later: received in a special the Congregation for the Doctrine OrdinariateFrom here, spanningthe FIUV firstthe developed North audience with ten of his from of the Faith] on 24 March 1990, His American subcontinent. It then went Eminence asked for a summary of the on to deal with the global dimension of Federation’s position. Preparation the problem and proposed a universal toLe the Barroux, Apostolic Dom Vicariate Gérard concept (or, more in traditional apostolate placed under hisproperly, formal Abbot address Calvet) to the twice Holy alludedFather. the direct authority of the Pope. Using Since he would not have done so expected.of the Brief—which The final version in the endwas ranready to canonical concepts the Federation without the approval of the Ecclesia onlytwenty-three on 24 July pages—took when it was longer sent than to suggested the erection of an Apostolic Dei Commission, it could be assumed the Cardinal at his holiday address in Vicariate as a trans-national and trans- that the Commission gladly used this . The keynote of the Brief was diocesan ecclesiastical circumscription, opportunity for placing the idea on given in its opening passage: and dealt with certain major aspects of the Pope’s agenda without formally Shortly before his death, Pope its structure and operation. committing itself to it. Paul VI confided to his friend Jean After the Cardinal’s return to At Cardinal Ratzinger’s request, a Guitton: ‘what strikes me in the Rome, an appointment was made copy of the Brief was left for Cardinal Catholic world today is the fact for the de Saventhems to see him Mayer [President of the Pontifical that at times within Catholicism on 25 September. At this audience, Commission Ecclesia Dei] who, on itself there seems to dominate a His Eminence told them that he had 27 October, responded with a long letter to Dr de Saventhem. In it, he mentality which is not Catholic. It received and read the Brief, but had not did not directly refer to the Apostolic is quite possible that this mentality replied because he knew they would Vicariate but mentioned proposals for may prevail in the end. Yet, it be coming to Rome. He then informed the establishment of a ‘traditional’ or will never be representative of them that in Rome, too, the erection of ‘Tridentine’ Diocese, Ordinariate, or the Church. Of necessity, a small an was being seen flock must remain, however as the approach presenting fewest 1  Jean Guitton, Paul VI Secret infinitesimal.’1 Brouwer, 1975, p. 166. , Paris, Desclée de difficulties. www.fiuv.org/ Page 41 BOOKS SECTION GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Spring 2021 – Edition No. 11

Personal Prelature, and stated that of the pre-conciliar liturgical books in that the granting of specific faculties the Pontifical Commission continued all liturgical functions, Pope John Paul was justified, not merely as pastoral to have reservations about the II expressly linked these faculties to concessions but as affirmations of a opportuneness of the creation of such the principle of ‘unity in diversity’ principle inherent in the Council’s a canonical entity for a number of propounded in Art. 37–40 of Vatican Constitution on the Liturgy, marked weighty reasons. II’s Constitution on the Liturgy the end of the liturgical reformers’ Dr de Saventhem sent the []. Quoting hitherto unchallenged monopoly Cardinal’s letter to all the members of from Art. 37, the Pope stressed that of interpreting and applying that the Federation’s Council together with in matters which do not involve conciliar text. some general comments from himself the Faith or the good of the whole Corroborating evidence of this which included this paragraph: community, the Church has no new attitude was to be found in Overall, the Commission’s reply wish to impose a rigid uniformity, the news that Germany’s principal seems to indicate unwillingness to act not even in her liturgy. Rather as prime promoter of a Traditional does she husband the spiritual Ordinariate or Apostolic Vicariate. treasures and gifts of the various re-issueCatholic of publishers—the the pre-conciliar famous Daily It expresses reservations about the peoples and fosters them. Missalhouse offor Herder—hadthe Use of the produced Faithful a opportuneness of such entities. As In this context, the Holy Father in Latin and German, based on the Perl had earlier explained twice referred to those Catholic 1962 typical edition of the Missale to us: what is considered inopportune faithful ‘who remain attached to Romanum. What made this significant today, may be viewed as desirable or certain preceding liturgical forms was that it happened in Germany, even necessary tomorrow. There is where the bishops had been totally nothing in the letter which indicates reaffirming the motu proprio. It is to unresponsive to the Pope’s appeal objections on principle. Nor are we facilitateof the their Latin ecclesial tradition’—thereby communion for a wide and generous application enjoined to cease promoting such that faculties like the one given to of the 1984 Indult. For the 25 million the monks of Le Barroux are being German Catholics their Excellencies ago. In the last sentence of his letter, granted, without prejudice to the had provided barely a dozen places of theideas—as Cardinal was assures still the uscase that six ‘wemonths are application of the post-conciliar worship where the Old Mass was being pleased to collaborate with Una Voce reform. These words indicated a major celebrated regularly. So, it appeared in terms of its promotion of the great shift in Rome’s attitude to liturgical on the surface that there was no Latin liturgical tradition of the Roman pluralism. In , of 24 visible market for a new edition of Church, and readily acknowledge the February 1980, legitimate pluralism the bilingual Missal of 1962 for the commitment of this organisation to was confined within ‘the norms Faithful. If publishers like Herder this precious spiritual patrimony’. prescribed by the recent liturgical were prepared to invest good money With this welcome encouragement we reform’. In other words: unity was to in such a costly re-issue, they must are also warned that we may forfeit be safeguarded by the exclusive use of have counted on an as yet invisible the Commission’s collaboration if we the new liturgical books in which such market soon to be opened up. Since stray outside this limited parameter. diversity as was deemed pastorally Herder had excellent connections into One must, moreover, bear in mind expedient would be catered for. the higher echelons of the hierarchy, that Cardinal Mayer will almost This mechanistic concept of unity both in Germany and in Rome, their certainly be relieved of this post in had now been enlarged by a historical initiative, therefore, was seen as a the near future, i.e. on or before his dimension, i.e. by reference to ‘the signal that a Papal Decree granting 80th birthday which falls on 23 May Latin liturgical tradition’. Whilst the equal right and honour to the pre- 1991. The letter clearly intends to new books remained normative for conciliar liturgy was once again under avoid any commitment by the present the entire Latin rite, this was no longer serious consideration. seen as excluding a right to the use of Similar news had come leave this issue open either way for his preceding forms of the Latin liturgical from France: with the official President—rather does he want to tradition. Legitimate diversity was encouragement of Cardinal Ratzinger, thereby extended to embrace the pre- the monks of Le Barroux had likewise wassuccessor in fact (if, indeed,succeeded the byCommission Cardinal conciliar rites in which the spiritual re-issued a Latin-French Missal for Innocentias such continues). in 1991.] [Cardinal Mayer treasures of the Faithful, in the old 1962 edition. are handed down to the faithful. With more than 2,000 pages of A new Roman attitude to liturgical Also, if, as prescribed in Art. 37 wafer-thin bible paper, that was pluralism of the Constitution on the Liturgy, also a daring venture particularly At the special audience for Abbot the Church wished to foster these for a young Abbey still struggling Calvet and his monks, the Holy Father treasures, then the general granting with huge expenses for completing read a short formal reply to the Abbot’s of equal right and honour to the the monastery buildings. Here, too, address. After recalling that the classic liturgy of the Latin rite became they seemed to be looking to future of Le Barroux had been a logical prerequisite. Meanwhile, the demand, soon to be unleashed by granted faculties for the exclusive use mere fact appropriate legislation from Rome.

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Address of Pope John Paul II to the which enhances contemplation and the Ecclesia Dei Commission which Benedictine monks of the abbey of the zealous search for God above was established to facilitate their Sainte-Madeleine from Le Barroux, all things, so that your young and reincorporation into full Church fervent community will be able to bear communion. Sainte-Madeleine Abbey With joy I meet you today, sons of witness to invisible realities in the should be an encouragement for them SaintFrance Benedict (28th September from Saint 1990) Madeleine contemporary world. Thus, with the to rediscover the productive unity Abbey in Le Barroux who desired to other Benedictine monasteries, you of the Church gathered around the show your fidelity to the Lord and will continue to be places of retreat for Bishop of Rome. I entrust the great your attachment to His Church by our the spiritual renewal where, with the intention of the reconciliation of all common pilgrimage. first place rightly reserved for God, ‘the the Church’s sons and daughters in I give thanks with you to divine human is directed and subordinated to one communion to your prayers. Providence which has helped you, the divine, the visible likewise to the To help you in your monastic life in since the tragic events of June 1988, invisible, action to contemplation, and the heart of the Church, our Mother, I to return to communion with the this present world to that city yet to gladly bless you. . Since that time your come.’4 2  Ecclesia Dei Adflicta attachment to Peter’s successor has I take the occasion of this meeting Catholic faithful who feel attached to some been constantly strengthened, and I previous liturgical and (1988) disciplinary 6c.: ‘To allforms those to address all those who are still part of the Latin tradition, I wish to manifest my am happy to know that your relations of the . I urgently will to facilitate their ecclesial communion with the diocesan Church are becoming by means of the necessary measures invite them to place themselves to guarantee respect for their rightful more loyal and fraternal every day. again under the direction of Peter’s aspirations.’ 3  Sacrosantum Concilium 37 You have also been a great successor and to make contact with 4  Sacrosantum Concilium 2; cf. Heb 13:14 encouragement and constant support for the Benedictine nuns of the Annunciation, who are in the process Colin Mawby KSG, of building their monastery not far from yours, and you have contributed 9 May 1936 – 24 November 2019 in a fortuitous and effective way towards strengthening their bonds with the diocese. The Holy See has granted your monastery the of utilizing liturgical books in use in 1962 in order to respond to the aspirations of those ‘who feel attached to some previous liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition,’2 I thus confirming the dispositions of the conciliar Constitution on the Sacred liturgy which recalls that ‘even in the liturgy, the Church has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity in matters which do not implicate the faith or the good of the whole community; rather does she respect and foster the genius and talents of the various races and peoples.’3 It is quite evident that, far from trying to put the brakes on the application of the reform undertaken after the Council, this concession is meant to facilitate the ecclesial union of the persons who feel attached to these liturgical forms. I express my wish that the ‘work of God’ [Opus Dei: i.e. the Office] and particularly the Eucharist celebrated The Latin Mass Society was greatly saddened by the death of Colin Mawby on in this way in your monastery 24 November 2019. Mawby had been Master of Music at Cathedral will effectively contribute to the from 1961 to 1976, and was an acclaimed composer and choral director, and fulfillment of the monastic ideal which a Knight of St Gregory. He was a lifelong supporter of Gregorian Chant, and a will surely be nourished by silence Patron of the Latin Mass Society from 2012 until his death.

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This, the Sixth Position Paper of the Federation, was first published in May 2012, and is a chapter in The Case for Liturgical Restoration (ed. Joseph Shaw). It illustrates one of the issues raised by the extract from Leo Darroch’s Una Voce: The History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, published in this edition, namely the value of liturgical diversity. The argument is still sometimes heard today that the Church cannot tolerate a multiplicity of liturgical forms, and that therefore the Traditional Mass is by its very existence an affront to the unity of the Church. As well as ignoring the Eastern Churches, this argument displays a woeful ignorance of the history of the liturgy in the Latin Church, which has never been characterised by a single Missal. Before the Second Vatican Council Dominican, Premonstratensian, and Carmelite communities served the faithful with their own liturgical books, and local rites survived in France and Germany into the 19th century. Even after the Council, while the Dominicans and others adopted the reformed Roman Rite, the continued to use a reformed version of their own rite, and the in Italy and the in Spain also continued to be celebrated in reformed versions. Smaller differences of texts and calendars are also found between different dioceses and religious orders. Indeed, Liturgical diversity has been consistently cultivated and encouraged from the highest levels of the Church: the exceptions to this, such as the ‘Latinisation’ of the Eastern Churches, are now regarded as lamentable mistakes. If it is claimed that the ancient Latin liturgical tradition manifests a theology incompatible with that of the ‘post-Conciliar Church’, this seems a very dangerous claim to make. If it were true, then it would not be the Traditional Mass which was at fault, as it was regarded not only as acceptable, but as authoritative, by Popes, Saints, and Doctors over more than a millennium and a half. Moreover, many of the ways in which it differs from the reformed Mass, it shares with the liturgy of the Eastern Churches.

Pluralism in Liturgy and Harmony However, in principle a multiplicity of This principle has been manifested in Faith liturgical forms in the Church is in itself historically in the Latin Church with a Without entering into the question of neither abnormal nor regrettable. In Quo rich variety of rites and usages, both the future development of the Ordinary primum Form, the question to be addressed in presumption in favour of the preservation (1570), made a strong geographically defined (notably the this chapter is whether the existence in of venerable rites, allowing a diocese or Ambrosian and Mozarabic rites) and the Latin rite of an extra, “extraordinary,” religious community to adopt the Roman in the Middle Ages and the early modern rite in preference to their own ancient “form” of the Roman rite is problematic, periodthose specificthe to religious used orders. the Missale Just as usage only with the unanimous approval and therefore something to be overcome Romano-Seraphicum of the Chapter and the agreement of the if possible, in the short or long term, bishop or .2 In its Constitution on perhaps by the creation of a single, (closely related to the the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, the amalgamated form of the Roman rite. DominicanRoman rite) and in Premonstratensian areas with local usages, parishes so The coming into existence of maintainedin more recent their times proper (before liturgical the traditions Council) In faithful obedience to tradition, in areas accustomed to the Roman rite. two “forms” of the Roman rite can Secondthe sacredVatican Council Council declaresaffirms: that holy Today the Eastern Churches are to be be described as accidental, as Pope Mother Church holds all lawfully found throughout lands ‘prevalently of Benedict noted: acknowledged rites to be of equal Latin tradition’;6 far from this creating a At the time of the introduction of right and dignity; that she wishes to problem, Pope John Paul II saw in this an the new missal, it did not seem preserve them in the future and to opportunity for Latin Catholics to learn foster them in every way.3 the possible use of the earlier missal. Again: ‘Even in the liturgy, the Church about the Eastern rites: Probablynecessary it to was issue thought specific that norms it would for has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity 1  Benedict XVI, Letter to Bishops be a matter of a few individual cases in matters that do not implicate the faith 2  Pius V, which would be resolved, case by or the good of the whole community.’4 (2007). 3  Sacrosanctum Concilium 4 case, on the local level. Afterwards, Speaking of the multiplicity of rites, the 4  (14Ibid Jul37y 1570). however, it soon became apparent 5  2 Council’s decree Orientalium Ecclesiarum 6  Congregation for the Eastern Churches, that a good number of people Instruction for the Application of the remained strongly attached to this in no way harms its unity; rather it Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Il Padre usage of the Roman rite. . . .1 manifestsaffirms that it.’ ‘the5 variety within the Church incomprensibile

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I believe that one important way to Secondly, Unitatis Redintegratio array of uses and customs in the Latin grow in mutual understanding and reminds us that different theological Church is more complete or better unity consists precisely in improving traditions, which have their own suited to showing the fullness of correct our knowledge of one another. The liturgical expressions, give rise to doctrine.’21 children of the Catholic Church complementary theological insights: The Instruction Il Padre echoes already know the ways indicated In the study of revelation East Orientalium Ecclesiarum22 in making by the Holy See for achieving this: and West have followed different ecumenism an important consideration to know the liturgy of the Eastern methods, and have developed in the development of the Eastern rites: Churches.7 differently their understanding and ‘In every effort of liturgical renewal, Most recently, Pope Benedict XVI set confession of God’s truth. It is hardly therefore, the practice of the Orthodox in motion the creation of a new Use for surprising, then, if from time to time brethren should be taken into account, members of the one tradition has come nearer to a knowing it, respecting it and distancing who have been received into full full appreciation of some aspects from it as little as possible so as not communion with the Holy See. The of a mystery of revelation than the to increase the existing separation.’23 purpose is ‘to maintain the liturgical, other, or has expressed it to better Again, there is an analogy here with spiritual and pastoral traditions of the advantage. In such cases, these the usus antiquior. Pope Benedict XVI Anglican Communion within the Catholic various theological expressions are speaks urgently of the importance of Church, as a precious gift nourishing the to be considered often as mutually respecting the Church’s ‘ancient Latin faith of the members of the Ordinariate complementary rather than liturgical tradition’ to overcome, if and as a treasure to be shared.”8 The 16 possible, divisions in the Church.24 These liturgical books that have resulted from Joseph Ratzinger has written of the divisions relate not only to groups, but this process, such as Divine Worship: conflicting. countless individual Catholics who The Missal and Customary of Our Lady of particular truths: ‘The possibility of found themselves alienated from the of Walsingham, are now being used in so1962 celebrating missal as [using a valuable the 1962 affirmation missal] Church following the liturgical reform. communities throughout the world. As Pope Benedict XVI has written: ‘I As Pope John Paul II wrote, referring have seen how arbitrary deformations to the Second Vatican Council’s decree ofconstitutes the opinion the of strongest, those who and believe thus that(for of the liturgy caused deep pain to 9 on ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio: thethem) faith the in most the intolerableEucharist formulated contradiction by individuals totally rooted in the faith of 17 Trent has lost its value.” the Church.’25 intensify the quest for harmony in that Certain valuable features of the ‘we find the strength and enthusiasm to genuine plurality of forms which remains classical Roman rite are shared with 7  John Paul II Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen the Church’s ideal.’10 the ,18 and some with the The harmony of faith that underlies Eastern rites. The Eastern rites’ appeal 8  Benedict XVI Apostolic Constitution 19 Anglicanorum(1995), n. 24: Coetibus the plurality of liturgical forms is to the ‘whole human person’ in his 9  Unitatis Redintegratio 4 emphasized by Pope Benedict XVI in totality has already been discussed in 10  Orientale Lumen 2 (2009), III. 11  Letter to Bishops relation to the two forms of the Roman Position Paper 1, Liturgical Piety and 12 11  Ibid. rite. Participation; 13  Orientalium Ecclesiarum 2 the value, as well as the orthodoxy, of the to tradition. In the words of Orientale 14  Instruction Varietates Legitimae 15 usus antiquior: He immediately goes on to affirm Lumen: another feature is fidelity  Il Padre incomprensibile 15 16  Unit atis Redintegratio, n. 17. Cf. Orientale(1994) 4 What earlier generations held as Today we often feel ourselves Lumen, n. 5 sacred, remains sacred and great for prisoners of the present. It is as 17  Joseph Ratzinger, “The Theology of the us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden though man had lost his perception Liturgy,” in Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy with Cardinal Ratzinger: entirely forbidden or even considered of belonging to a history which Proceedings of the July 2001 Fontgombault harmful. It behoves all of us to reserve precedes and follows him. This Liturgical Conference, ed. Alcuin Reid the riches which have developed in effort to situate oneself between the the Church’s faith and prayer, and to past and the future, with a grateful 18  Notabl(Farnborough: y, in the calendar,St Michael’s the Abbey season Press, of give them their proper place.12 ,2003), 18–33, atthe 20. Ember and Rogation for those expected, is offered by the Days, and the of ; in the The value of pluralism rite of Mass, the preparatory prayers, the Easternheart for Churches the benefits in particular, received with and Last , and the formula used at the Pluralism is the “ideal” for two a clear-cut sense of continuity which distribution of Holy Communion. 19 notable reasons. First, as the Instruction takes the name of Tradition and of  Orientale Lumen 11: “tota sua cum persona.” 20  Ibid. 8 20 Il Padre incomprensibile expresses it, eschatological expectation. 21  Ibid. 20 echoing Orientalium Ecclesiarum13 and 22  Orient alium Ecclesiarum, n. 24: Eastern the Instruction Varietates Legitimae Pluralism and Church unity Catholics are to promote unity with other Eastern Christians by, among other things, 14 different rites incarnate the A different kind of value is faith for differing conditions: ‘This represented by the ecumenical traditions.’ 23 multiformity(1994), of the Eastern liturgies importance of the Eastern Churches’  Il‘religious Padre incomprensibile fidelity to the ancient 21. Eastern 24  Letter to Bishops: “This glance at the past does not harm the unity of the Church at liturgical traditions and the Anglican imposes an obligation on us today: to make all, but rather reinforces it, allowing it to Use. With this in mind, Pope John Paul II every effort to enable for all those who truly sink its roots in the concrete reality of a demanded ‘total respect for the other’s desire unity to remain in that unity or to attain it anew.” determined time and space.’15 dignity without claiming that the whole 25  Ibid.

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Latin liturgies was perceived toward For historical and cultural reasons, of the Roman rite for ecumenism in the Latin-rite liturgy which was they have maintained a more relationThe significance to the Orthodox of the usus antiquiorchurches considered ‘ritus praestantior.’ This direct continuity with the spiritual should also be mentioned. The late attitude may have led to interventions atmosphere of Christian origins, Alexy II of Moscow remarked, in the Eastern liturgical texts which a prerogative that is ever more referring to Summorum Pontificum, ‘The today, in light of theological studies frequently considered even by the recovery and valuing of the ancient and progress, have need of revision, Occident not as a sign of stagnancy liturgical tradition is a fact that we greet in the sense of a return to ancestral and backwardness but of precious 26 28 positively.’ traditions.27 The words of Il Padre, applied to the Conclusion 26  fidelityAs reported to the by the sources Zenit news of salvation. agency on 29 Eastern Churches but equally applicable August 2007. Liturgical pluralism in itself is to the traditional Latin liturgy, are 27  Il Padre incomprensibile 24. Cf. Orientalium not, and never has been, a source of Ecclesiarum 6 relevant: 28  Il Padre incomprensibile 9 embarrassment for the Church, but is on the contrary a source of vitality. It demonstrates the response of faith to different conditions, and it represents Defending the Faith a treasury of theological and spiritual insights that complement each other. Against Present Heresies: The plurality of rites and usages has Letters and statements addressed to Pope Francis, the Cardinals, and the the Holy See right up to the present day. Bishops with a collection of related beenIn affirmedaddition and to the further Eastern developed rites, the by Church has always fostered rites and articles and interviews usages of venerable origin within the Edited by John Lamont and Claudio Pierantoni Latin Church, and made special efforts Foreword by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to preserve them, when they seemed likely to disappear, or to be unduly This volume represents an important record of the Pontificate of Pope Francis, in gathering the usages of religious orders, already together the documents produced by various mentioned,influenced by the the MozarabicRoman rite. rite As wellis anas groups of scholars and pastors seeking example of a rite whose historical and clarification of the Church’s teaching: the ‘Dubia’ theological value is such that, however of the Four Cardinals, the’ Theological ’ limited the use of its liturgical books of Amoris Laetitia, the ‘Filial Correction’, the may have become, the very fact that it ‘Open Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic continues to be celebrated in particular Church’, the ‘Appeal to the Cardinals’, and the ‘Protest against Pope Francis’s places is something to be treasured Sacrilegious Acts’. The six documents are accompanied by a selection of and preserved. However limited or important articles and interviews prompted by them, which criticize, defend, or however wide the usage of the classical develop their evaluation of Pope Francis. Roman rite may become in time, it too will have a value for the whole Church Publisher’s Note: The writings contained in this book should be taken singulatim as the expression by representing, as a living tradition, a of the opinions of their immediate authors or groups of signatories, and should not be construed rich source of spiritual and theological as necessarily the opinions of other authors or signatories included in the book, or of Arouca Press. insights, and a deep connection to the ...... liturgical patrimony of the Latin Church. Praise for the book: The value of the usus antiquior is ‘With admirable lucidity and a wealth of evidence and argument, this the Eastern rites, it will maintain and timely book the main published documents making the case that developaffirmed this by value Pope for Benedict the whole XVI. Church Like heresies designedly put about by Pope Francis are today a primary cause and only if it remains true to itself, its spirit manifestation of Christianity’s worst crisis ever.’— John Finnis, Biolchini Family and its traditions. This integrity is also Emeritus Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Permanent Senior necessary for its value in the cause of Distinguished Research Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Church unity. There is a lesson to be learned ‘What if it seems, to some knowledgeable and conscientious Catholics, that from the fate of the Eastern rites in their efforts and their loyalty are contradicted, not assisted, by the Holy Father? former centuries, in which the Holy See What if, in such baffling circumstances, some of these brothers and sisters of approved changes. As Il Padre notes: ours, being scholars—other alternatives apparently fruitless—draw up a formal These interventions felt the effects and public expression of their concerns? These deserve our respectful attention, I of the mentality and convictions believe, and in charity should not be dismissed.’— Michael Pakaluk, Professor of the times, according to which a of Ethics and Social Philosophy, The Catholic University of America. certain subordination of the non-

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