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Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage The Mass of the Ages returns to the interior of British Columbia Reviews, reports and much more GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2019 – Edition No. 8 Gregorius Magnus: biannual magazine of the Una Voce Federation The FIUV’s periodical is dedicated to St Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I), who died in 604 AD.

Pope Gregory the Great is the last of the four great ‘Latin After this edition, Gregorius Magnus will be published twice Doctors of the Church’ (the others being St Augustine, St a year: in March and in October. Ambrose, and St Jerome, whose lives all overlapped.) He The Editor, Joseph Shaw, FIUV Secretary, wants to hear from was a monk and the earliest biographer of St Benedict. His you! While we cannot pay for contributions, we would like to association with both Gregorian Chant (which takes its name spread the news, good or bad, about the movement for the from him), and what is sometimes called the Gregorian restoration of the Church’s liturgical traditions, from all over Rite of Mass (the Traditional Latin Mass, Vetus Ordo, the world. Extraordinary Form) makes him an appropriate patron. His Sunday sermons, many of which have been preserved, So please get your material to the Secretary of the FIUV address the Gospel stories still read on the same Sundays in ([email protected]) by 15 February, for the March the Extraordinary Form today. issue, and by 15th September, for the October issue. Gregorius Magnus magazine aims to be a showcase for the world-wide ‘Traditional Catholic’ movement: the movement for the restoration to the Church’s altars of the Mass in its the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, and we wish to traditional forms: Roman, Dominican, Ambrosian, and so on. recordThe production our thanks of tothe them. 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 Catholic Church, founded in Rome in 1965 8 13 36 43 and erected formally in Zürich in January 1967. The principal aims of the FIUV are to ensure that the Missale Romanum Contents promulgated by Blessed Pope

Welcome to Gregorius Magnus!...... 4 John XXIII in 1962 is maintained News from the General Assembly...... 5 freedomin the Church of use as for one all of other the forms Romanof liturgical liturgical celebration, books enshrining to obtain In pictures...... 8 “previous liturgical and disciplinary Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2019: forms of the Latin tradition” and to safeguard and promote the use of Looking forwards and back...... 8 Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage: polyphony. ‘To give witness to the truth’ Latin, Gregorian chant and sacred Homily of Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus-Toulon ...... 12 At the General Assembly held in Rome on Saturday 26th October, Photographic Reports...... 15 the following were confirmed as the Officers and Council of the Introducing Una Voce Federation: The magazine of Una Voce France...... 30 : Gaudete 3rd Sunday of Advent...... 31 (Una Voce México) President: Felipe Alanís Suárez Introducing Mass of Ages INTROIT: • Jacques Dhaussy The magazine of the Latin Mass Society President d’Honneur: (Una Voce France) of England and Wales...... : 33

...... 34 • Patrick Banken (Una Voce France) Vice Presidents: The Traditional Rite saved my spiritual life...... Review: Crucial to survival 36 The Netherlands) • Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The role of the Laity in the Extraordinary Form...... 37 Position Paper 29: Secretary: The Mass of the Ages returns to the interior of British England and Wales) ...... 40 Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, Monika Rheinschmitt Columbia, Canada Treasurer: ...... 42 Pontifical High Mass said by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke ...... (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany) in Glasgow – 2019 43 Councillors: ...... 43 • Oleg-Michael Martynov Cardinal Burke comes to London • David Reid (Una Voce Canada) ...... 44 (Una Voce Russia) Linguistic diversity in the liturgy: the case of Luxembourg Quattuor abhinc Annos...... Two events for Children and Families: England and Spain 46 (Una Voce Polonia) • Jarosław Syrkiewicz FIUV Member Associations...... Remembering the 1984 Indult: 48

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This is the 8th edition of the From now on, the magazine will be I would also like Gregorius Magnus to magazine of Una Voce International, professionally designed. The cost be a showcase for the very professional the Foederatio Internationalis Una of this is being met by one of the magazines produced by some of our Voce. It follows the Federation’s Federation’s ‘Extraordinary Members’, members. In this edition readers biennial General Assembly in Rome, the Latin Mass Society of England which took place on 25th October in and Wales. Extraordinary Memmbers Society’s magazine Mass of Ages, and Rome. of the Federation are those who Unawill Voce find articlesFrance’s fromUna Voce. the Latin Mass have committed to make a larger Reports on different aspects of the I would like to hear from all member contribution to than other, smaller and General Assembly and associated associations, however, and from any less-well resourced members are able activities are to be found in the readers who have something to report: to make. following pages; it seems appropriate with photographs if possible! to say something here about decisions I have been re-appointed as Secretary So please get your material to the which have been made which effect of the Federation, and Editor of Secretary of the FIUV (secretary@ Gregorius Magnus. Gregorius Magnus fiuv.org) by 15th February, for the The Council, meeting in Rome The use of a professional designer March issue, and by 15th September, immediately after the ‘Closed Session’ means, among other things, that for the October issue. of the General Assembly, agreed that we will have to be much stricter I hope that Gregorius Magnus continues Gregorius Magnus will now appear about deadlines for submissions and to be informative, edifying, and twice a year: once in preparation for the publication. We welcome contributions entertaining, for our members, friends, General Assembly, in early October, and from all over the world: Gregorius and supporters, all around the world. six months after that, in early March. Magnus should be a showcase for the This new pattern will commence after movement for the preservation of the With best wishes to all our readers for this edition. Traditional Mass. Advent!

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Elections and Council They have also recently been able to assist at a Dominican Rite Mass, thanks to a visiting priest. At the General Assembly held in Rome on Saturday 26th October, the following were confirmed as the Officers and Shinsuke Yoshikawa, Una Voce Japan: due to the death Council of the Federation: of a long-standing celebrant of the Traditional Mass, UV Japan no longer has a regular Mass. We hopeto encourage President: Japanese priests to learn the EF. In the meantime, with the Felipe Alanís Suárez (Una Voce México) assistance of some priests of the FSSP, Fr Benjamin Durham and Fr Xavier Proust, a Solemn Mass was celebrated for the President d’Honneur: first time since 1969 in Nagasaki. Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce France) Andris Amolins, Una Voce Latvia: UV Latvia is a small Vice Presidents: association, which has developed from one weekday Mass Patrick Banken (Una Voce France), Jack Oostveen at the time of the last General Assembly to one Sunday a (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands) month now, celebrated by a diocesan priest. The SSPX also has a chapel in Latvia. Neither celebration has a large Secretary: congregation. Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England and Wales) Kevin Jones, Latin Mass Society (England and Wales): the Treasurer: LMS continues to flourish and the FSSP and ICKSP continue Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany) to grow, especially in the North West. Since the last GA the ICKSP now celebrate daily in the Cathedral of Shrewsbury, Councillors: a unique arrangement for a Cathedral. In the meantime the David Reid (Una Voce Canada) number of secular clergy continues to decline leading to a shortage of priests and parish closures. There has been no Oleg-Michael Martynov (Una Voce Russia) vocations in Mr Jones’ home diocese of Wrexham (Wales) since 2008. Jaime Alcalde (Una Voce Chile) Jarosław Syrkiewicz (Una Voce Polonia) Jaques Oostveen, Ecclesia Dei Delft (The Netherlands): Eduardo Colon (Una Voce Puerto Rico) Daily and Sunday Traditional Mass are celebrated in Amsterdam, a priest in the north of the Netherlands also Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italia) says a daily Mass, and another Sunday Mass in the middle João Silveira (UV Portugal) of the country is celebrated. The Fraternity of St Peter has no presence in the country, but two seminarians from Prof. Riccardo Turrini Vita (Una Voce Italia) the Netherlands are currently at Wigratzbad, and a Dutch secular priest is trying his vocation with the FSSP. Frederick Stone, Una Voce Scotland: Progress continues, Reports from National Associations with daily celebrations of the Traditional Mass in Glasgow, The following are edited versions of the reports were made thanks to a parish priest very keen on the Extraordinary orally by delegates to the General Assembly. Form. UV Scotland has been visited by Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider in the last two years. Daily Mass is James Bogle, Una Voce Australia: the Traditional Mass celebrated in Edinburgh by a priests of the FSSP. A very continues to make progress in Australia. The Christus Rex active EF-saying priest in Dundee is well supported by his Pilgrimage from Ballarat to Bendigo is taking place over bishop. Aberdeen is served by Sons of the Holy Redeemer. the weekend of the General Assembly, dominated by young people. Daniel Zouhar, Una Voce Czech Republic: UV Czech Republic is not currently a member of the Federation but is Donal Hanley, Una Voce Taiwan: UV Taiwan is a small taking part in the General Assembly as an observer. It hopes group with just one monthly Mass on the island, located 2½ for a closer connection with the Federation. The Czech hours travel from the capital, Taipei, in Our Lady of Mount association founded in 1997. There are three other groups Carmel, Hsinchou in north west Taiwan, with great support in the country which are only informally established. One of from the Bishop of Hsinchou, John Baptist Lee Keh-mien. them operates in Prague; another publishes books related There in addition hopes for progress in Taipei. to the EF. UV Taiwan are currently hosting a visit from the Prior of David Reid, Canada: The association was formed in 1989 Norcia, who over this very weekend is celebrating the and joined Federation in 1995. News is mixed. In Western Traditional Masses in the Nunciature. Canada, thee is personal parish in Vancouver which has just

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increased number of Masses from two to three. Elsewhere Patrick Banken, Una Voce France: France is the second in British Columbia, in the Diocese of Nelson, a bishop has biggest country in the world for the EF, after the USA, signed a memorandum of understanding with local UV and it is the ‘origin’ of the Traditional Movement, with all the Traditional priestly Institutes coming from France. are less good, and demand for the EF is not being met. It The number of people interested in the Traditional Mass ischapter, available which in isMontreal a first. Inand the Toronto. French partDiocesan of Canada priests things are continues to grow. There are hundreds and hundreds of sometimes concerned that a new centre for the EF would Masses. draw people away from their dwindling congregations. Tommaso Raccuglia, Una Voce Italy: There is a personal Jarostaw Syrkiewice, Una Voce Poland: Since the last GA parish in Rome with the FSSP; the ICKSP also has a presence number of locations for the EF has grown from 116 to 120, in Rome. Another personal parish was established recently but a number of the locations of two years ago have stopped, in Sardinia. ICKSP has become established in a number of so the situation is dynamic. Many more priests celebrate EF locations. There are regular Masses in a number of cities, without advertising it openly: they are sometimes told to do with the Ambrosian Rite celebrated in Milan. this by their bishops, in order to avoid creating new groups Juan Manuel Rodríguez González-Cordero, Una Voce wanting the EF. Seville: UV Seville is hoping to get a dedicated church The decline of vocations is serious: in Mr Syrkiewice’ own dedicated for the 100-150 people who attend the Traditional diocese, in recent years the number of seminarians has fallen Mass on a Sunday in Seville. Since the last GA they have from 300 to 60. But there have been ten vocations this year to focused on Andalucía (of which Seville is the capital), with the Traditional Institutes. The Institute of the Good Shepherd the result that there are now Masses in every diocese in that has four priests in Poland, and the FSSP has three. There is region except one, and the different congregations come great potential for growth where priests are available. In Mr together for an annual pilgrimage in the region. The Bishop Syrkiewice’s own town he asked for provision for the EF and of Cordova celebrated the EF in his own Cathedral on one the bishop has allowed one Mass every two months. occasion.

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There are different UV groups in the rest of Spain. There is a personal parish in Toledo. UV Seville is hoping to apply The Case for Liturgical federation. Restoration their Andalusian strategy to the rest of Spain under a unified Monika Rheinschmitt, Pro Missa Tridentina (Germany): Una Voce Studies on the The association Pro Missa Tridentina has members and Traditional Latin Mass contacts in Austria and Switzerland as well as in Germany. Edited by Joseph Shaw There has never been a member association in Switzerland. There are 250 locations for the EF in Germany, varying in size The Case for Liturgical Restoration, of congregation from 300 to 20 or 30. The EF Mass in Stuttgart which gathers the complete and is the best attended of any Mass in the city, which does not “position papers” of the International endear it to priests in other parishes. The FSSP and SSPX have Federationdefinitive texts Una of Voce, the tackleswidelyadmired the seminaries in Germany, which absorb a lot of money from the questions: What is the point of the Traditional Catholic faithful. Extraordinary Form? What is its The development of the EF in Germany has stalled: while the rationale? What can it contribute to number of Mass locations continues to increase, it has become the life of the Church here and now? This book stands to benefit everyone. Catholics already attached to the bishop of a German diocese has celebrated the EF. usus antiquior will arrive at a deeper understanding of its merits and a difficult to find new locations under Pope Francis. Not a single better ability to articulate them. Catholics puzzled by tradition-loving Mr Felipe Alanís Suárez, Una Voce Mexico: The number of coreligionists and their own predecessors in the Faith will acquire fresh perspective. All will grow in appreciation for the Church’s rich liturgical heritage. This book also makes an ideal present for the uncommitted. Mexican-bornFSSP priests in priest Mexico of hasthe increasedFSSP to return from threeto Mexico. to five, There and arethere also are diocesan another threepriests on around the way. the This country year will celebrating see the first the ORDER ONLINE AT WWW.LMS.ORG.UK Traditional Mass. In 2007 there was not a single authorised OR TELEPHONE 020 7404 7284 Mass, but now there are 12 locations around the country where it is celebrated regularly. Latin Mass Society, 11-13 Macklin Street, London WC2B 5NH Mitre and Crook (Catholic Traditionalist Classics) BRYAN HOUGHTON 222 pages Paper (ISBN 978-1-62138-495-3): $17.95 / £15.50 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-62138-496-0): $26.00 / £21.00 Bishop Edmund Forester, looking out over his little diocese of Stamford, was distressed at what he saw. The renewal promised from the Second Vatican Council had produced… disaster. Father Sludge was putting on “Eucharists” with nuns in slacks reading porn from Beardsley and revolution from Marx. Pastors were gutting their sanctuaries and selling off church heirlooms. A cabal of modernist priests was purging diocesan schools of traditional Catholics. It was time, decided the bishop, for his Bomb: a letter to the clergy of the diocese, in which he authorizes the Old Mass to be celebrated regularly, corrects the worst abuses of the New Mass, mandates kneeling for the reception of Communion, and bans Communion in the hand. The Bomb sets off blast and counterblast—all the way to Rome. Opposing forces maneuver for the confrontation. How the issue gets resolved provides the theme of a novel unique in the annals of Catholic literature. It takes the form of letters

fromextraordinary the bishop man himself: we are a toughtreated infighter—and to what may be a saint; the most a man incisive of humility analyses and of charity—with the crisis in the a nose Catholic for humbug Church and ever an to eye see for print. the absurd.What duller What writers emerges take from chapters these remarkableand books to letters say, Bishop is a bishop Forester for the declaims ages—not in a thefew sort pages. we Andmeet unforgettably. these days. But along with this

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Sta Maria ad Martyres (the Pantheon)

Mass in the Pantheon Benediction in San Lorenzo in Damaso Procession

Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus-Toulon, France, led the procession Mass in St Peter’s (Chapel of the Throne) celebrated by Bishop Rey

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Under the Throne Consecration Communion

Postcommunion

Procession

Bishop Rey celebrates Mass in Sta Trinita dei Pellegrini, the church of the Fraternity of St Peter Consecration

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The Populus Summorum Pontificum On the evening of the same day, after Liturgique and the Populus Summorum organised their usual annual Pontificum to coordinate our events and pilgrimage, as usual, for the weekend took place in Sancta Maria ad Martyres: draw even more people to the events of of the feast of Christ the King (in the the ancientfirst Mass Pantheon), of the Pilgrimage the FIUV (whichhosted the Pilgrimage. older calendar), which falls on the a book launch for The Case for Liturgical For Catholics, there is no place like last Sunday in October. Restoration, the collected ‘Position Rome! It is the visible centre of the The Federation has arranged its last Papers’ which the Federation has been Church’s unity, the hub of her human three General Assemblies to coincide publishing on different aspects of the administration, and one of the holiest with this pilgrimage. In addition, ancient liturgy. places of our religion. It has been Paix Liturgique, which like the FIUV In this way, the FIUV, like Paix enriched like no other city with the contributes to the group organising the Liturgique, contributes to the events most exquisite products of Catholic pilgrimage, now arranges a ‘Congress’, of the weekend and helps to make culture, in art, architecture, and music. or one-day conference, on the Friday the pilgrimage a success. We hope to It has been the home of many of the before the Pilgrimage begins. continue to work closely with Paix Church’s greatest saints, including

Cardinal Walter Brandmuller celebrates Vespers in the Chapel of the Choir, St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, in 2011.

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her holy Popes, and was visited with Choir. Perhaps it is no coincidence that reverence by many more of them. It both of these chapels, of the Blessed is no small thing for the international Sacrament and of the Choir, though of movement for the restoration of the course beautiful, are separated from ancient Mass to bring that Mass back to the nave of the basilica by enormous, some of Rome’s breath-taking basilicas, thick curtains: nevertheless, this Photos: Mass in 2009 in the Chapel of the which were built for that Mass, and to represented great progress. Since then, Presentation of Our Lady, celebrated by Mgr make Rome’s streets ring with the Te Pablo Collino. Deum, as we walk in procession to St has been able to arrange Masses, Peter’s. celebratedthe Summorum by bishops, Pontificum in the Pilgrimage Chapel of in other places, bishops are not only The more, indeed, that we do this, the the Throne, directly behind the High celebrating the Extraordinary Form more our presence becomes normal in Altar, and although somewhat cordoned in their own cathedrals, but ordaining off from the tourists, everyone can see priests using the older ritual, priests Assembly of the FIUV which I attended, and hear them, and anyone can ask to who will go on to celebrate this Mass inRome. 2009, I well when remember the Federation the first asked General the join them. venerable musician, Mgr Pablo Collino, The positive evolution of attitudes injustices remain, progress continues, in their dioceses. While difficulties and to celebrate Mass for us in St Peter’s. in St Peter’s itself parallels similar and indeed looks increasingly Up until then, I was told, we had only developments all over the world. The inevitable. been allowed to have the Traditional General Assembly of the FIUV is a Readers should consider coming to Mass in the Crypt, but following the moment to be reminded that some promulgation of Summorum Pontificum bishops in some places have still not Pilgrimage in future years. The dates in 2007 we were promised the Chapel caught up with Summorum Pontificum; forRome 2020 for will the be 23rd Summorum to 25th October. Pontificum of St Joseph, a large chapel often used by pilgrims for Masses with their own priests, in the west (left) transept of the basilica. In the event, we and our celebrant encountered a series of the Mass was celebrated in the Chapel ofmysterious the Presentation difficulties, of Our and Lady, eventually whose altar contains the body of Pope St Pius X, towards the back of St Peter’s, and there it intrigued the stream of tourists who made their way past us. The joy of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

Jerusalem, which is depicted above the altaraged of five, this at chapel, entering was the ours Temple also ofat being allowed into St Peter’s. Two years later, in 2009, Cardinal

Low Mass for the Federation’s General AssemblyCastrillon Hoyosin the celebratedChapel of the a Pontifical Blessed Sacrament, and in 2011 we had both Mass and Vespers in the Chapel of the Cardinal Castrillon celebrates Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, in 2009.

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Homily of Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus-Toulon at the conclusion of the Pilgrimage 2019.

‘I came into the world to give senses, all of our faculties, the whole of we be in line with the forms and the witness to the truth.’ These wordsSummorum of our intelligence are Pontificum mobilised to enter expressions, the gestures and the words, Jesus, related in the Gospel of saint in the world of God, to penetrate the of Her adoration, of Her supplication, of John at the time of the Passion and divine mystery and adhere. Her availability to the work of the Holy Ghost in Her. “The active, fruitful and found in today’s gospel, are ever so This liturgical teaching unites lex fully conscious participation’ (words meaningful in the present time. orandi and lex credendi, to the point that offending one is to disqualify the used in Sacrosanctum Concilium) must subjectivism, denying all dogmatic, other. Thus, we could notice after the start with a mystagogic catechesis in ethicIn a contextand anthropologic filled with relativismcertitude and Council, because of the inadequate order to accede to an understanding of liturgical life, to rediscover the sense of where the opinion produced by the interpretation that was made of it, the divine Mystery as well the ability to that the rupture with our spiritual express it in songs, physical postures, serving its own interests or fantasies... and doctrinal heritage sometimes etc... themedia word is ‘truth’ guided is byradically fleeting discredited. opinions translated itself into a deterioration, a devaluation of the liturgical life, In a sphere of post-Christianity, where is the Truth. He embodies it. He reveals in particular of the eucharistic access to the cultural knowledge of the it.Christ He proclaims defines himself it. A truth as ‘the which Truth.’ comes He celebration, “source and summit of the Christian rites is no longer to be taken from his consubstantial union to His life of the Church,” according to the well for granted, this teaching aspect of the Father and from which He wants to known expression of Vatican II. liturgy becomes urgent so that new generations may, through the liturgy, radiate over the world, over each The liturgy was then lived according slip into the prayer of the Church, and human person so that everyone could, to a more phenomenological than relate our prayer to Hers. in turn, ‘be in truth’ under the eye of theological approach. It was perceived God. regarding its external acts of worship as By prolongating in the history the During the Passion, we see that this the envelop of the sacraments without person and the work of Jesus Christ, Truth that Christ is has no other always being able to understand the the Church renders God a perfect act defence than Itself. And, as the face constitutive unity between rite and of worship through the liturgy. This of Jesus is going to be more and more sacrament. Hence it happened that is the ascending dimension of liturgy. the desacralisation of the liturgical But, also. in and through the liturgy, scourged, striped of everything... the symbolism began to happen, and the Christ continues to exercise his priestly moredisfigured, this truth his of body his being, battered which and is fabrication of rites which seemed divine Love, is going to appear, just like more suited and comprehensible to descending dimension of liturgy. The office and sanctifies men This is the a worn piece of fabric can let the light the audience, and the promotion of a mystery we celebrate in the liturgy is comes through more easily. new aesthetic based the idea of a more not only a truth that we proclaim or a active participation of the faithful, past tact that we evoke, but an event The vocation of the liturgy is to manifest of salvation which takes place among and to share this truth of Christ. This by the assembly, or a almost theatrical us and which meets us in the present takes place through a teaching of the performancewhich finally ledseeming to an auto-celebration to aim at affairs of our earthly life to sanctify it faith which conjugates the calling and entertainment... and transform it. the gathering of the community around the paschal mystery, the prayer of the The Christian liturgy is a salutary ‘I came into this world to give witness whole Church, the proclamation of act of Christ exercised in his name, to the Truth.’ The liturgy echoes these the Scriptures, the teaching through words of Jesus by underlining three predication of the content of the faith, guaranties. The liturgy is the prayer certitudes fundamental to the content the sacramental grace she proposes to ofin theChrist Church, and of and the whose Church. efficacy We do it of our faith. the faithful, the beauty of the chants, the not arrange it as we please. We do not First, the liturgy attests to the fact that sacrality of the churches, the richness construct it according to our taste or God is among us. When so many men of the symbols, the depth of the silence in our modern world have pushed of adoration. The whole body, all the away the idea of God or think he has our opinion. It is the first obedience our fidelity to the Church requires: that Page 12 www.fiuv.org/ FEATURE GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2019 – Edition No. 8

gone from the life of the world, or that the spiritual food that assimilates us, he is unintelligible, each eucharistic communion to Christ, we are brought in such a way that we take the form of together,identified we to are Christ made andbrothers. through To Christ, that we become ‘one’ in Him, as substantial and continuous of Christ be in communion with Christ is to St Paul reminds us. The Word of God and incelebration the middle affirms of his the people. real presence, While communicate with one another. We the eucharist operate a transformation contemplating the host, the Parish are no longer juxtaposed, side by that, by the consecratory words, the Priest of Ars would exclaim: ‘He is here, side, each of us living for himself. No bread becomes the Body of Christ, the God is here.’ social project, no act of solidarity can wine becomes the Blood of Christ. Then, the liturgy is the place and the attain such degree of communion. This Pacing all the fatalism, skepticism, and principle of ecclesial communion. It incorporation to Christ comes about resignation, which express doubts the points out that God unites us. God capacity of the world to change, facing between us. In particular, all the works By giving up his Body, by shedding his all those who reduce faith to a morale and apostolates, all the services of by begetting. It is the fruit of sacrifice. of improvement, of voluntary efforts charity and fraternity unfold by ways of in one body, his Church, a separated and goodwill, the Church proclaims, concentric circles originating from the humanity,blood, Christ fragmented, identifies dispersed. and gathers in the name of the Eucharist, that eucharist and its ability to affect us. The our life, that our world, is called to a Last, the third testimony the liturgy ecclesial communion is eucharistic and transformation, a transubstantiation, each mass is an incorporation to Christ. as per the words of St Thomas that that God lives not only among us, By eating the same bread, transformed the Tradition of the Church has betweenallows us us, to butoffer that the He world is in is us. to affirm into the body of Christ, we are adopted as its own. The Fathers of the extracted from our closed individuality, Saint Augustine expresses the sense Church used the word of ‘conversion’. from our solitary existence, from the of this internalisation by speaking of This conversion is only credible privatisation, from the atomisation the eucharist. He says that it is not us because Jesus already operates this of our individual existence. We are who assimilate this spiritual food, but transformation in every eucharist.

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Yes, through the liturgy our life is transformed. The grace of God in us adopts the contours of our existence and takes hold of our weaknesses making us giving rise to a new existence. This appropriation both personal and as a community of the work of salvation accomplished by Christ who takes us in his momentum of Easter, gives to our existence a ‘eucharistic form’, as Pope Benedict XVI expressed it. The truth of God inscribes itself in us and to others and to ourselves. transfigures us in our relation to God, This ‘truth which makes us free,’ as Jesus said, we welcome it, we share it, we live it by means of the liturgy. The liturgy is ‘the main road of our growth’, as Pope Francis recently said, a road where to meet our Lord in the celebration of the mysteries and to wait for his glorious coming. Given on 27th October 2019, in the Church of Sta Trinita dei Pellegrini, Rome. Ellipses in the original.

“Peter Kwasniewski offers a theologically sure and faith- filled view of the nature of the sacred liturgy and its practice while unmasking many deceitful novelties of the liturgical and pastoral life of the Church from the past fifty years. His work is a sign of hope.” — Bishop ATHANASIUS SCHNEIDER Tradition & Sanity “This collection comes at a most opportune moment in the life of the Church, because the author, in his usual Conversations & Dialogues clear and accessible English, goes beyond the field of of a Postconciliar Exile liturgy into questions such as the limitations of papal power. Rarely has an academic contribution been so peter a. kwasniewski relevant to the ordinary Catholic.” radition and Sanity brings together —FR. JOHN HUNWICKE a round-table discussion, interviews, “In this brilliant constellation of interviews, essays, and and imaginary dialogues exploring the dialogues, Dr. Kwasniewski graces us with his wit and Tdepths and shallows of Catholic liturgy, the lyr- breathtaking style. The sustained reading of this collec- icism of sacred music (or the lack thereof), the tion will bear fruits of encouragement and, above all, state of the Church as it suffers attack from with- of renewed commitment to discovering and recovering out and dementia from within, and the revival the healing balms of our precious traditions.” of traditional beliefs and practices in younger —MICHAEL SIRILLA generations turned off by the anti-dogmatic “In these limpid and lively dialogues, Peter Kwasniewski dogmatism of their elders. builds a strong case in favor of returning to the old lit- 232 pages • 978-1-62138-417-5 (paper): $17.95 • 978-1-62138-418-2 (cloth): $26.00 urgy. Yes, his reflections provide a sober glimpse into the crisis in which the Catholic Church is now submerged; but then he rings the bells of a strong faith and a hope Order online from amazon.com or your local bookstore. in restoration that can be brought forth by even a very small number of true and faithful believers.” angelicopress.com • [email protected] —CLAUDIO PIERANTONI

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With a few exceptions, these photographs were supplied by Una Voce member associations for presentation to Mgr Patrick Descourtieux, the Section Chief of the Fourth Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which exercises the functions of the former Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED), in the spring of 2019. They represent the life of member associations all over the world: not just the liturgy, but the ordinary members on the ground in each of our countries.

Društvo za promicanje tradicionalne Mise “Benedictus”: Croatia

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Una Voce Italia

Una Voce America

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Una Voce Casa Blanca, Chile Asociación Litúrgoca Magníficat, Chile

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Una Voce Russia

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The Latin Mass Society (England and Wales)

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Una Voce México

Society of St Agnues (People’s Republic of China)

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Una Voce Puerto Rico

Una Voce France

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Traditional Latin Mass Society of Malaysia

Una Voce Sevilla, Spain

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Una Voce Sevilla, Spain

Pro Tridentina, Malta

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Una Voce Latvija (Latvia)

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Ecclesia Dei Society of New Zealand

Una Voce Canada

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Una Voce Scotland

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www.fiuv.org/ Page 29 FEATURE GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2019 – Edition No. 8 Introducing Una Voce: the magazine of Una Voce France

Not all member associations of the FIUV have the resources to produce a regular, professional-looking magazine, but one of those which does is Una Voce France. Their magazine, Una Voce, published five times a year, is essential reading for all French-speaking Traditional Catholics, and we are privileged to publish below an article from a recent edition, in English translation. Past issues are available as pdfs on www.unavoce.fr For Francophones: from Patrick Banken, President of Una Voce France: Notre revue est un bimestriel (sauf pendant les vacantes d’été) de 40 pages en couleur, que vous recevrez sur abonnement. Vous y trouverez des articles très variés sur le chant grégorien, la polyphonie, l’orgue, les compositeurs, la culture et l’Art sacré de l’Église, des interviews de personnalités, les CD, DVD et livres qui nous ont plu.

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1. The 3rd Sunday in Advent is called after Gaudete’s 2. The text consists of four small sentences made successively of Sunday incipit day’s mass. It has a different character from the other possible intonation) and three sections for the last one. Three Sundays before, the Christmas. very first Rose-colored word of the introitvestments of this two sections for the first three ( without taking into account a are used; we again hear the organ. It’s a counterpart of same roots in the English language i.e. modestia (modesty), Laetare, the 4th Sunday of Lent. soUicitilatin words (solicitous) are quite and easy petitiones to understand (petition). since we find the

3. The Epistle to the Phillipians, Saint Paul’s favorites, is 4. to imitate Jesus: “May every tongue proclaim of Jesus filled with tenderness and serenity. It is an invitation Testaments, proclaims: “Come Lord Jesus”. She knows that the Christ that he is Lord”. The Church filled with the aspirations of the Old and New the grace in our soul and that He will come in the Parousia to lastLord time. comes according to the flesh at Chrismas, according to

5. Each section is constructed with a subtle rhetorical art. The upward movement (protasis) highlights a stylistic

that with notes and their rythmic values increase the 6. intensityfigure called of the “climax” section consisting toward the of topa sequence (apex). Theof words a movement emphasized by the repetition of the verb Gaudete. important words are semper (always), vestra (your The topfirst of section the wave evokes is the a waveword thatsemper, goes up and down gently, modesty). nihil (nothing) and oratione (prayer). assurance. indicating firm

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7. The melody continue to the low notes on the word modestia 8. With the words Domine prope est comes a new wave of marking an intimate joy without exuberance. It evokes the hope. The melody rises to invite us to Christian trust disarming kindness of the faithfull Christians the sweetness of similar to that of a child who knows he is loved. Nihil the Virgin Mary, model of Christian joy. is the apex of the sentence. There is nothing, absolutly nothing to worry about. We have reached the DO (C) the melodic summit.

9. The melody calms down, soft and quiet with a narrow range. 10. beginning which gradually rises from the tonic D (Re) We are invited to submit our requests to God. This is indeed a first mode, if we consider the The music guides us towards confident prayer. We relax. to the dominant A (La) and the final cadence.

11. “ ... but the whole is more like a 6th mode, with many

limited melodic development without the great impulse cadences on the F, the constant B flat and a rather

usual in the first mode.” (YGire-L’anneegregorienne-2000)

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Mass of Ages is the quarterly magazine of the Latin Mass Society. It contains reports on the Latin Mass Society’s many activities across the country, national and international news of Traditional Catholic events, feature articles on different aspects of traditional Faith and culture, opinions and views on developments in the Catholic Church, regular columns, and book reviews, over 48 pages. The central pages list Traditional Mass to be celebrated in the quarter all over England and Wales, and reports from the Society’s Local Representatives. It is sent to all the Latin Mass Society’s 1,800 members, and is available free to non-members in many churches and cathedrals around the country. edition of 2019 was the 200th edition. Established as the Latin Mass Society’s ‘Newsletter’, the first It can also be read online: see the Latin Mass Society’s website.

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tightly-knit community. A great many of In the middle of this process came the Joseph Shaw Second Vatican Council. The timing more years ago were members of such makes the separation of different reviews two books communities:our Catholic predecessorsthey read Catholic of fifty papers, and factors more difficult, but it is not their friends tended to be Catholic, they coincidental. Progressives, at the on Catholic Faith met fellow parishioners in the street Council and after it, consciously and where they spent their leisure wanted to ally themselves with the and Catholic time; they married other Catholics and forces undermining the depth and sent their children to Catholic schools. strength of Catholic communities. This community had a ‘wall’ around They felt that they were on the winning identity it, so to speak, as Catholics actively side: they stood with open-minded sought out the company of their fellows, modernity, against the grumbles of the had much in common with them, and older generation. It was an illusion, Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in could recognize them in all sorts of however. At bottom, it wasn’t so much Britain and America Since Vatican II ways. There were ‘markers’ of Catholic the young chafing against artificial by Stephen Bullivant. Oxford, 2019; identity, such as the keeping of feast restrictions: it was, rather, that the 302pp; £25 old, social, restrictions were simply Why Catholics Leave, What They and the like, and Catholic worship and disappearing. The question the Church Miss, and How They Might Return by devotionsand fast days,were very eating distinct fish onfrom Fridays, those faced at that fateful moment was Bullivant, Knowles, Vaughan-Spruce, of other denominations (High Anglican whether to find ways to counteract the and Catherine Knowles. Paulist Press, imitations notwithstanding). dissolution of the Faith community, 2019; 148pp; £15.99 In the context of such communities, before the mutual example and another sociological phenomenon can support which is so necessary to it was fatally weakened, or whether to Expression of Belief’, or ‘CRED’. When accelerate and exaggerate the process What can sociology tell us about why people,flourish: Catholic the ‘Credulity or not, read Reinforcing about by demolishing even those aspects the Catholic Church has declined, members of the Guild of Our Lady of of Catholic identity which would in numerical terms, since Vatican Ransom walking for nine days from otherwise have survived the social II, and the place of the Traditional London to Walsingham, when they saw changes. The Church’s hierarchy and Mass in responding to the crisis? in their parish church that a local family intellectual elite chose the latter. Professor Stephen Bullivant, a Part of the reason for this decision Catholic theologian and sociologist of when the paterfamilias took a slot in was given by Annibale Bugnini, when religion, and occasional Traditional thehad donatedsmall hours a fine tostained-glass watch before window, the he wrote (L’Ossovatore Romano Mass attender, does an excellent job Blessed Sacrament during a Forty-Hours 19/03/65): of telling us in these two books. devotion, or when they witnessed a whole And yet it is the love of souls and the The second, and shorter, of the two books parish turning out to dig the foundations desire to help in any way the road to is the analysis of an unusual survey of a new church (as they did), they can union of the separated brethren, by undertaken in 2015 for the Diocese of see that these people really believe. This removing every stone that could even kind of thing has great power to reinforce remotely constitute an obstacle or lapsed Catholics (ie baptized but non- the Faith, and to draw people into it. difficulty, that has driven the Church practicing)Portsmouth, why which they asked left. self-identified The Second World War, however, and to make even these painful sacrifices. the social changes which came after it, He was talking about the Intercessions loosened the bonds of family and place. Portsmouth data, and other sources, for on Good Friday, but his words have The war itself threw together people aThe comprehensive first, and longer, sociological book usesanalysis the a wider application. The cult of Our from quite different backgrounds, and of what has gone wrong in Britain and Lady and of the English Martyrs; the post-war rehousing, rising numbers America. use of Latin in the Mass; Catholic going to university, television, and the customs like Friday abstinence: all The central thesis relates to the changing expanded possibilities of travel, meant such markers of identity, these ‘walls’ nature of the Catholic community that members of such formerly tightly- around the community, must be in both countries. According to the knit communities increasingly had razed to let people in. It should have sociological theory of ‘social network relationships and ideas with and from a been obvious that this would also let effects’, a religion (or any other world wider range of sources than before, and people out, and undermine the very view) is less likely to lose its adherents correspondingly less contact and sense community which outsiders might insofar as those holding it are part of a of solidarity with fellow Catholics. notice from outside and want to join.

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The removal of devotional images from West is a deepening of Catholic identity. institutions, and they undermine churches, the smashing of altars and the The restoration of Friday abstinence, and efforts to form one around the Church destruction of stained-glass windows, of the traditional dates for some of our as a whole. were also motivated more directly by a Holy Days of Obligation, by the Bishops Clearly, the Traditional Mass and rejection of what these things expressed of England and Wales, can be seen as the Traditional Catholic movement and stood for. In Britain and America, tentative moves to addressing this, as can can make a contribution here. Traditional where they had often been installed only the revival of Corpus Christi processions spirituality makes possible many markers a generation earlier by struggling local and Benediction, and the restoration of Catholic identity (the Brown Scapular communities, the effects can easily be of some churches to look recognizably is a popular example); the formation of imagined. Surveys of lapsed Catholics Catholic. children in Catholic spirituality and world from long after the reform still identify To make a measurable difference, view is regarded as paramount; and respondents complaining about the however, things will have to change the Traditional Mass itself sets us apart loss of Catholic identity. Some 10% of at a deep level. As some of the from others. Our national events and the Portsmouth survey’s respondents Portsmouth respondents noted, even pilgrimages also make possible ‘Credulity lamented the unavailability of the Latin parish catechists can be ignorant, or Reinforcing Expressions of Belief’. Mass. contemptuous, of the Faith, and the This is what the Church of the future Professor Bullivant’s books will reinforce same is true of teachers in Catholic will look like: if it is still visible at all. the growing sense among conservative schools. It is quite impossible to Catholics that crucial to the survival, let form a community with a deep sense Mass of alone the revival, of the Church in the of Catholic identity around such Ages winter edition 2019 This article first appeared in www.fiuv.org/ Page 35 COMMENT GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2019 – Edition No. 8 The Traditional Rite saved my spiritual life by Adam Harrison

say that it is much better to understand soul of the ‘New Evangelisation’ much the Mass in the vernacular, but through spokenasking myself of in church where circles was the today? fire Itin was my my own experience I would beg to not in the Masses that I was attending. differ. I have been able to connect with In a state of melancholy, I started to Jesus in a more meaningful way during give up. I honestly felt as if the Lord had the Old Latin Rite that was not possible given up on me and that I was no longer before – it put me in a true state of welcome in his house. Where could I go? focus, allowing me to meditate on being I had already left the Anglican Church, with Christ without having to interrupt and the Masses in my new spiritual my prayer by having continually to do something distracting. In some way touching my deeper needs. home seemed somehow superficial, not I cannot overemphasise how low I felt at the transparency of the vernacular in that I cannot quite put my finger on, this moment, when something happened the Novus Ordo somehow seemed to that proved to be a life-changer. I was obscure the great mystery of the Mass, walking out of church after a Novus with the result that it became virtually Ordo Mass, when I bumped into people meaningless and, quite frankly, boring. coming in. I asked some of them what was The hitherto incomprehensible Latin going on and was told that a Traditional of the Traditional Rite, however, along Rite Mass was to start in a short time. with the celebration’s deeply spiritual Intrigued, I decided to stick around for and reverent dignity had the opposite Like so many Englishmen before me, effect. The great incomprehensible my conversion to Catholicism was The Holy Mass began and from the very mystery being made present on the from the Anglican Church. After many startthe first I was fifteen mesmerised. minutes out Although of curiosity. I did altar at the hands of the priest became years’ attending Anglican services, not understand any of it my soul did. It very real to me at the deepest level of and of studying church history, I was like nothing I had ever experienced my being. discovered I was not where I ought to before, and, as the Kyrie began, I almost be. This revelation played on my mind wept with a deep sense of spiritual joy, seeing a lighthouse in a storm giving until – while doing my basic military a joy that stayed with me long after the meAttending a glimmer my first of hope.Latin MassI was was lost like at training - I finally ‘crossed the Tiber’ sea preparing to give up without even at the age of 22, being Confirmed by I began to attend the usus antiquior realising it. Whereas attending the the Roman Catholic Padre. Mass had finished. every week, learning more about the Novus Ordo was nothing more than a Upon leaving the military I worked Faith as I did so. I discovered that the chore to be dreaded, to be got through abroad for a while and spiritually lost more I learnt about the Mass, the more at any cost, I now look forward to my way. I came back to the UK and had my love of Jesus increased. Many people going along and praying the Old Rite another revelation – I had somehow every week, receiving many graces and slipped into becoming a lapsed Catholic. blessings from God. Becoming a regular Much soul-searching ensued, which congregant at the Latin Mass has led me led me to realise that something had 'Although I did to take spiritual retreats, singing Lauds to change if my spiritual life was to be and Compline at home, praying the retrieved and revitalised. I started to not understand rosary daily, doing charitable work and attend Holy Mass in various churches in much more. All this started with just the area, but what I found was not very any of it my soul one usus antiquior, when the Lord kept inspiring. me in church after a Novus Ordo for just I went to a series of really lax and quite did. It was like a few minutes out of curiosity, throwing frankly more Protestant style services me a lifeline at a crucial moment. The than the Anglican ones that I has nothing I had Traditional Rite Latin Mass saved my attended in my youth. Each Novus Ordo spiritual life. Mass that I attended left me uninspired ever experienced to the extent that I was brought low. I felt Mass of thoroughly lost among the thorn bushes, before...' Ages winter edition 2019 This article first appeared in

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Editor’s note: In this ‘Position Paper’ of the FIUV, first published in June 2016 and now included in The Case for Liturgical Restoration: Una Voce Studies on the Traditional Latin Mass, ed Joseph Shaw, the question of the laity and ‘clericalism’ is addressed. It is frequently claimed by opponents of the Church’s liturgical traditions that they place the priest on a pedestal and reduce the status of the laity, but as Joseph Ratzinger (as he then was) wrote in The Spirit of the Liturgy, the reality is quite different. In the ancient Mass, the priest is rendered anonymous: he is absorbed completely by his liturgical role, which is fixed for him by the Church. In the reformed Mass, he is obliged to use his creativity and personal qualities to sustain an informal liturgy, drawing attention to him as a person.

Lay involvement in formal The question of the liturgical ‘Clericalization’ is a term popularized liturgical roles, such as go participation of the faithful in the by Pope John Paul II. As he explained, beyond simply being a member congregation has already been it ‘becomes a form of clericalism when of the congregation, is much less addressed in this volume, and the sacramental or liturgical roles that prominent in the Extraordinary suggestions have been made for ways belong to the priest are assumed by Form than in the Ordinary Form. of deepening the liturgical experience the lay faithful, or when the latter set In the Extraordinary Form it will of the laity. out to accomplish tasks of pastoral usually be lay persons who serve the governing that properly belong to the Clericalism, clericalization, 1 altar, form the Choir, and on Sundays priest.’ Again: ‘The commitment of take the offertory collection. In the and caesaropapism lay persons is politicized when the Ordinary Form other lay roles are Clerics, those in clerical orders, and laity is absorbed by the exercise of usually added to these, such as lay non-clerics, both lay and religious, “power” within the Church.’2 Pope lectors (on Sundays, of two non- have different roles in the Church and Francis has underlined this analysis: Gospel readings), leaders of the in salvation history. “Clericalism” may “Women in the Church must be valued, responsorial psalm and bidding not ‘clericalized.’ Whoever thinks of prayers, those taking part in the the importance and dignity of the laity, women as [putative] cardinals suffers a 3 offertory procession, extraordinary andbe defined to suppress as a their tendency proper to autonomy minimize bit from clericalism.” ministers of Holy Communion, in their own sphere, vis-a-vis the Instead of denying the very premise of and in some cases the leaders of clergy. Its opposite is “caesaropapism,” simultaneous paraliturgical services according to which lay authorities in the Church belong dignity and such as a “children’s liturgy.” It is arrogate the authority proper to clerics. clericalism—that to the clergy alone sometimes said that the practice of Both phenomena have appeared in the redress the balance between clergy and the usus antiquior unnecessarily history of the Church; neither, however, laityauthority—clericalization in favor of the latter attemptsby allowing to excludes the laity from a closer has established a lasting dominance participation in the liturgy in this in Catholic thinking. While the dignity and authority, under clerical respect, and even that this exclusion collaboration between the two spheres direction.the laity a Since share only of specifically a few laity clerical can be is indicative of clericalism. Here we may be close, and the same individuals privileged in this way, as Pope Francis shall respond to this argument, in may have both lay and clerical roles, has observed, a new, clericalized elite is the context of the wider issue of the the distinction between the secular and created: ‘Without realizing it, we have role of the laity in the Church. spiritual spheres remains real. generated a lay elite, believing that

1 Address to the Bishops of the Antilles, 7th May 2002 2 Ibid. 3 Interview in La Stampa with Andrea Tornielli, published 14th December 2013

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only they are committed laymen who Jungmann notes for example that the the same Congregation explained: work in the things “of the priests.”’4 The Gloria was from an early stage sung by ‘It must also be clearly understood type of clericalism criticized by Pope “the clergy gathered in the sanctuary.” that the liturgical services mentioned Francis is a modern phenomenon that In a more general sense, the leaders of above are carried out by lay people ex he ‘consider[s] the fruit of a bad living paraliturgical “children’s liturgy,” if not temporanea deputatione, according to of the ecclesiology posed by Vatican II.’ clerics, are taking on a clerical role in the judgment of the bishop, without lay leading a service. All these and similar The correct response to clericalism is people, be they men or women, having roles take the laity out of the lay sphere 7 to accord the appropriate dignity and any right to exercise them.’ autonomy to the roles of both clergy Lay liturgical roles, which can of course into a sphere in which they are under and laity. Thus, the Second Vatican be perfectly legitimate and of genuine theas defined direction by and Vatican authority II, and of putclerics. them Council’s decree on the apostolate of service to the Church, are not intended the laity, Apostolicam Actuositatem, The idea that active participation for the deeper participation of those teaches: ‘The laity must take up the requires a formal role in the liturgy performing these roles, or to give the restoration of the temporal order [ordo has, in fact, consistently been opposed laity some dignity or authority they temporalis] as their own special task. by the magisterium. As Pope John Paul would not otherwise have: rather, they Led by the light of the Gospel and the II pointed out: facilitate the worthy celebration of the mind of the Church and motivated by active participation does not liturgy. The laity involved may feel a Christian charity, they must act directly preclude the active passivity of particularly close engagement in the silence, stillness and listening: liturgy; it is often observed that the sphere.’5 As the decree goes on to indeed, it demands it. Worshippers service of the altar, in particular, can anddetail, in this a definite can be waydone in in the the temporal context are not passive, for instance, when foster vocations. On the other hand, of family, professional, and political life. listening to the readings or the the technical demands on singers and homily, or following the prayers servers (for example) can also impede of the celebrant, and the chants them in abandoning themselves to Lay liturgical roles and music of the liturgy. These are a prayerful contemplation of the With the assistance of these distinctions, experiences of silence and stillness, liturgical action. In any case, such the weakness of the claim that the but they are in their own way liturgical roles are neither a necessary 6 usus antiquior profoundly active. part of, nor a model for, lay participation attitude because it excludes the laity Before and after his election, Pope exemplifies a clericalist from certain liturgical roles that are, Benedict XVI emphasized the special proper role of the laity in the Church as in nature or origin, clerical, or at least profundity of silent participation and ain whole. the liturgy, nor do they reflect the offer some special collaboration with communication. the clergy, is evident. This argument On the subject of extraordinary derives precisely from the mindset of Lay institutions in the Church ministers of Holy Communion, the clericalization just described. Congregation for Divine Worship The reality of the secular sphere, not To specify, most obviously the role found it necessary to point out that as something opposed to spiritual of extraordinary minister of Holy the role is not connected with the realities but as a part of the Church Communion replaces the “ordinary” notion of participation: “Only out of complementing the clerical sphere, clerical minister of Holy Communion, true necessity is there to be recourse has been obscured by the decline of lay the priest or deacon. The roles of lector to the assistance of extraordinary Catholic institutions, so important in and acolyte are historically minor ministers in the celebration of the the lives of Catholics up to the middle of clerical orders, and the latter role in liturgy. Such recourse is not intended the twentieth century. Catholic States, both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary for the sake of a fuller participation of lay Catholic institutions involved in Forms is generally performed in a the laity but rather, by its very nature, education or medicine, guilds and is supplementary and provisional.” sodalities, and even commercial remotely, a lay choir sings what was Similarly, of the liturgical roles enterprises with a strong Catholic formerlymodified formperformed of clerical by dress.a clerical More available to the laity under canon 230, character, were once able to manifest schola, as well as the “people’s parts”: Cardinal Javierre Ortas as Prefect of the faith in innumerable ways.

4 5 Apostolicam actuositatem 7 6 LetterAd Limina to the Address President to the of theBishops Pontifical of the Commission Church in Washington, for Latin America, Oregon, Marc, Montana, Cardinal Idaho Ouellet, and Alaska 19th March(USA), 2016: 1998 7 Letter of Cardinal Javierre Ortas, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship to Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences, 15 March 1994.

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To illustrate, they can take note of Today, the family is the preeminent go for certain goods and services. The the liturgical calendar and religious context in which a lay Catholic Church on earth is the whole of the obligations; they can use or make community can be maintained, one in faithful, and the family represents the available blessings and other which the lay role is not delegated from basic unit of that society considered sacramentals; and they can engage in the clergy but given to them directly in its temporal aspect. In the temporal common prayer, such as the Angelus. from God. As Pope Pius XI emphasized: sphere, the laity have prerogatives and authority that are inalienable. At a more general level, they can The family therefore holds directly An instinctive understanding of this maintain an atmosphere and shared from the Creator the mission allows Catholics to free themselves attitude, simply by the members being and hence the right to educate from clericalism, and so, to be free Catholic, and manifesting their Faith the offspring, a right inalienable of the desire to invade the clerical in their words and actions without because it is inseparably joined to a realm. fear or embarrassment. Since these strict obligation, a right anterior to institutions both provided a spiritually any right whatever of civil society The clear distinction between clergy supportive environment for Catholics, and of the State, and therefore and laity in the classical Roman rite and at the same time were inevitably in inviolable on the part of any power facilitates this understanding of their contact with non-Catholic institutions on earth.9 separate roles. At the same time, and individuals, their evangelical such features of the ancient liturgy as The family is concerned with the impact was considerable. the separate Confiteor of priest and spiritual as well as the physical Although sometimes abused, temporal servers, and the common direction well-being of its members. The of worship, emphasize that both are authority granted to important clerics, Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic and clerical privileges accorded engaged, in the liturgy, in a common Constitution on the Church, Lumen act of worship. to important laity, did in previous Gentium (11), described it in this way: centuries serve to manifest a mutual It is interesting to note that in a recognition and respect between The family is, so to speak, the book dedicated to the subject of the two spheres, their harmony and domestic church (Ecclesia clericalism, which evinces a negative interpenetration in the advancement of domestica). In it parents should, evaluation of the former liturgical the Christian society, and the fact that by their word and example, be the tradition, Russell Shaw remarks: neither was ultimately subordinate One of the most severe to the other in its own sphere. Today children; they should encourage themfirst preachers in the vocationof the faith which to their is disappointments of postconciliar vestiges of this system survive, which Catholic life up to now lies in the retain their value. These include the proper to each of them, fostering with special care vocations to a fact that lay “participation” in so privileges of certain Abbesses, and many parishes seems mainly to sacred state. the role of clergy in some countries in mean keeping the congregation opening sessions of secular legislative The spirituality characteristic of occupied and agitated, with little bodies. In the usus antiquior there is Catholics attached to the usus antiquior or no sense of being a community provision for the Pax to be given to ‘lay places great emphasis on the family, of persons engaged in a communal persons of high rank.’8 preserving many positive features of act of worship.10 the Catholic home, such as the display The intimacy of the support given even Pope Benedict XVI pointed to the of devotional images and prayer to the liturgical work of the Church by positive relationship between a in common, that have disappeared the laity in times past is illustrated by sacralized liturgy and a consciousness from too many nominally Catholic the role of guilds and sodalities, which in of the distinct vocation of the laity, households. They maintain in this way the Middle Ages took upon themselves noting: “A weakened sense of the a community with a very rich sense of meaning and importance of Christian and tasks; similar support continues Catholic identity, where that identity is worship can only lead to a weakened tothe besupport the taskof specific of the liturgical Church’s needs lay visible. sense of the specific and essential benefactors, and, in a different way, The witness of Catholic families vocation of the laity to imbue the that of the Foederatio Internationalis reminds us that the Church is not a temporal order with the spirit of the Una Voce and its member associations. clerical institution to which the laity Gospel.”

8 J.B. O’Connell The Celebration of Mass: a study of the Rubrics of the Roman Missal, 4th Ed p430 9. Divini illius Magistri (1929) 32 10. Russel Shaw To Hunt, To Shoot, To Entertain: Clericalism and the Catholic Laity p197

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June 4, 2019 – After the Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by newly ordained Fr. Ralph Oballo, FSSP

On July 7, 2019, the Traditional Latin Mass returned to diocese had witnessed such a Mass of Thanksgiving was in the Diocese of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia, 2003, celebrated by Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP. Worshippers were Canada, an vast area of over 124,000 square kilometres. With the support and blessing of His Excellency Gregory J. Bittman, the Usus Antiquior is now celebrated by generouslyfilled with emotion, organized and by tearsthe local of joy Catholic and profound Women’s gratitude League. diocesan priest Fr. Edwin Neufeld at Immaculate Inflowed a special freely. area A receptionat the centre in the of theparish hall, hall Fr. Oballoafter Mass gave was his Conception Church in the city of Kelowna at 1:00 p.m. First Blessings to the faithful. Newcomers to the Traditional every Sunday. Arrangements for the use of the church Latin Mass visited the LMSK’s tables, asking questions, were formalized in a memorandum of understanding gathering resource materials, looking though books and signed by Fr. Neufeld; Fr. Cerlouie Jimenez, pastor of missals, and offering their support. Boys signed up to become Immaculate Conception Parish; Fr. Peter Tompkins, altar servers. Chancellor of the Diocese of Nelson; and Emanuela Daus, Those who love to sing joined the choir, and later participated president of the Latin Mass Society of Kelowna (LMSK), in a three-day Gregorian chant workshop organized by the representing the faithful of the diocese who are attached LMSK and taught by Mark Emerson Donnelly on July 18- to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Una Voce 20. Mr. Donnelly – teacher, composer, and the choir and Canada is proud to count the LMSK as one of its chapters. schola director at Holy Family Parish in Vancouver, British The previous month, on the beautiful spring morning Columbia – provided an introduction to Gregorian chant, of Tuesday, June 4, over a hundred people gathered with an emphasis on singing and rehearsal technique, using at Immaculate Conception Church for a Missa Cantata his “Five Steps to Gregorian Chant Performance.” The choir celebrated by Fr. Ralph Oballo, FSSP, who was ordained in learned Mass XI (the Mass Ordinary most often used for Lincoln, Nebraska, just a week and a half earlier. Fr. Jimenez, the time after Pentecost) and the Ave Maria and Ave Verum Fr. Neufeld, seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of St. chants. Mr. Donnelly also taught the fledgling schola the Peter, freshly trained altar servers, and worshippers young proper chants for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and old joined Fr. Oballo for this Mass of Thanksgiving in Mary in preparation for the Missa Cantata planned for the the Extraordinary Form in all its glory. The last time the feast day itself.

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July 18-20, 2019 – Gregorian chant workshop taught by Mark Emerson Donnelly

The Mass on August 15 was especially memorable for In fact, there were enough people present who were familiar Immaculate Conception Parish. Celebrated by Fr. Jimenez in with the Traditional liturgy to have a second High Mass on the the presence of Bishop Bittman (whose was also celebrating following Sunday on very short notice. the twenty-third anniversary of his priestly ordination), it was Congratulations to the Latin Mass Society of Kelowna for its a great deal of work and prayer into making such an event success thus far in bringing back the Traditional Latin Mass possible.the much-awaited People from fulfillment all over theof the Okanagan dreams Valley of many and who beyond put to the interior of British Columbia, and thanks be to God for came together – from Penticton, Cache Creek, Abbotsford, and providing shepherds like Bishop Bittman, Fr. Neufeld, and Fr. Vancouver, to name just a few places, some driving for hours.

Jimenez to nurture His flock with the Mass of the Ages!

August 15, 2019 – After the Missa Cantata for the Feast of the Assumption celebrated by Fr. Cerlouie Jimenez in the presence of Bishop Gregory Bittman (centre); with Fr. Edwin Neufeld (left)

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Members of Una Voce Scotland can, once again, be extremely proud of their level of success in the realm of promoting the traditional liturgy. On Saturday, the 14th of September we were successful in arranging a second Pontifical High Mass celebrated by His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke in the parish of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Glasgow. The reason for arranging the Mass on that date was that it was the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the twelfth anniversary of the coming into law of Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum which released the Traditional Rite from all the restrictions to which it had so unjustly been subjected. No doubt Pope Benedict XVI chose the date extensively reported in The Scottish Catholic Observer. Many deliberately: the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was members of the clergy participated in the Mass. They included instituted as a result of the rediscovery of the True Cross by St clergy from the Archdioceses of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Helena. This treasure, once lost, was returned to the Church, Dioceses of Motherwell and Dunkeld, and even from Australia. much like the Latin Mass. We are only too happy to acknowledge Others attended in choro, including clergy and seminarians for and support this connection in our choice of date. Scottish dioceses and priests from the North of England. Good We must be extremely grateful to Fr. Mark Morris for his permission to use Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and to his Noticeable in all the coverage is the presence of large numbers news travels fast—and FAR! parishioners who so readily welcomed us to the parish as they of the faithful and the presence among them of large numbers of always do. We must also extend our gratitude to Archbishop young people, giving the lie to the claims that there is no demand Tartaglia for his hospitality to the Cardinal and for once again for the Traditional Rite and that it is an exercise in nostalgia. loaning us the crozier of Archbishop Eyre for use on the occasion. Our thanks are due to Fr. de Malleray and the community at The Mass itself represented the triumph of the manifestation of Warrington who loaned us the canopy for the throne for the

between Una Voce Scotland and the Warrington community and fourthe beauty hundred of the members traditional of the liturgy faithful in its present. most magnificent This was indeed form, throughCardinal. that This to the confirms wider Fraternity the close of links St. Peter already apostolate. established We athe very Pontifical edifying High sight. Mass. The The music church was conductedwas full to bycapacity, Una Voce’s with are also glad to record that the weekend of the Cardinal’s Mass Director of Music, Fraser Pearce, and consisted of the Church’s was arranged in conjunction with our sister organisation, The ancient chants and polyphony of the highest quality. The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, who arranged for the serving was ably organised by both John Inglis of Edinburgh Cardinal to celebrate Mass on London on Monday, the 16th of and Thomas Thomson of Glasgow. The Cardinal’s words were September.

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by Joseph Shaw, Chairman

Thanks to the energy and organization of Una Voce Scotland in inviting His Eminence, Cardinal Burke to our islands, we were privileged to see His Emience again in London, on his return

London church, Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, which was packed tojourney. the doors There for he the celebrated occasion. ItPontifical was accompanied Low Mass by in some a historic very lovely music by a local choral group, Cantus Magnus, under Matthew Schellhorn, the Latin Mass Society’s Director of Music.

© Joseph Shaw On the following day, Cardinal Burke addressed the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy. We would like to thank Cardinal Vincent Nichols for welcoming his brother Cardinal to his diocese, and Fr Alan Richardson for welcoming His Eminence in his recently restored church. © Joseph Shaw Linguistic diversity in the liturgy: the case of Luxembourg by Henry von Blumenthal

The population of Luxembourg is about 600,000, of which are unlikely to meet anyone whose native language is not that of only half hold Luxembourgeois passports. A great many the Mass you are attending. residents came originally from Portugal, Italy and other It is surprising, in view of the Church’s concern with breaking places and many have never really integrated. As anyone down barriers, that the Cardinal-Archbishop has not encouraged who lives here will testify, Luxembourg is not a cultural a Latin Novus Ordo Mass. However he has acted benignly melting pot like London but, rather, a ghettoised society, in towards the Traditional Latin Mass, and there is also a TLM said which each linguistic group sticks to its own. by the Society of St Pius X. vernacular Mass. The Luxembourgish Mass, the Italian Mass, the backgrounds. There, you can meet people of Luxembourgeois, PortugueseA very significant Mass, the contributor English language to this Mass, phenomenon the French isMass, the Hungarian,It is at the British, TLM that French, you willPolish, find Japanese, a real mixture Belgian, of Italian, ethnic the Polish Mass, and so on, are all focuses of attendance by the Nigerian, Austrian, Dutch and Spanish nationality, united by the various expatriate communities. If you attend any of these you common language of the Church: Latin.

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The Traditional Catholic movement is characterised by young families, often large families. It is no surprise, then, to find events catering them, particularly in the Summer. Many are run by the Priestly Institutes; here we present two organised by laity. The St Catherine’s Trust Summer School in England, which took place in the seaside town of Ramsgate, and a Traditional Liturgical Congress in Spain called Vayamos Jubilosos. Both in July this year. The St Catherine’s Trust has been organising Summer Schools since 2005, and has used venues in different parts of England over the years. In 2019 it was in a Retreat Centre in Ramsgate, the part of England closest to France, where it Enrolling young people in the Brown Scapular in the Relic Chapel, Aylesford Priory, England. was able to use the Shrine Church of St Augustine. This is a church dedicated to the celebration of the Traditional Pugin purchased in the Netherlands, and Mass, which was the pride and joy of broughtis a genuine back to medieval Ramsgate crucifix, in the sailing which its architect, Augustus Welby Pugin, yacht which was his hobby. who is buried there. Pugin, a convert to The St Catherine’s Trust Summer School Catholicism, was at the forefront of the is a week-long residential school for revival of Gothic architecture in the 19th children from 11 to 17; in 2019 there century, which accompanied the ‘Catholic will take place in another retreat centre, John Henry Newman. His church boasts a runwere by more the de than la Salle fifty brothers, children. St In Cassian’s 2020 it RoodRevival’ Screen, associated something with figuresonly occasionally such as St near Newbury: full details can be found on built in modern times, but a feature of the St Catherine’s Trust website; or you all medieval churches. Above the screen can email [email protected]. Children take part in Stations of the Cross.

A staged reading of the radio play, The Man Born to be King, by Dorothy Sayers Sewing, an activity during the Summer School.

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The 2019 Vayamos Jubilosos was spectacular. On the Saturday Solemn For more information, including the second event of its kind. There Vespers was celebrated. about the next planned event, please email [email protected] were more than 90 participants, of The conference was attended by whom more than 25 were children. priests of the Fraternity of St Peter and The event consisted of several low diocesan clergy from several different Masses each day, a daily Solemn Spanish dioceses, some deacons of the High Mass, daily sung Office of Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP), Prime, daily Sung Vespers, daily and some Carmelite and Franciscan conferences for adults and children, and activities for children, Rosary, friars, religious sisters, and several Gregorian Chant workshops, Altar diocesan seminarians. These provided server workshops, etc.. The kick-off conferences, activities, and the liturgy. Solemn High Mass at the Carmelite Participants came from almost every Convent of the Incarnation (where St. region in Spain, and even attendees Teresa entered the religious life) was from Portugal and France.

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Editor’s note: Despite the urgency of Rome’s coming to some kind of accommodation with the Traditional Mass, particularly in light of the crisis created by the defiance of Roman authority by Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society of Pius X, opposition to making concessions to the older Missal remained entrenched in Rome in the early 1980s. The Australian Cardinal James Knox, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, was asked to gather information about the level of demand for the Traditional Mass around the world, and he sent out a survey to the world’s bishops, which included a note that the people were not to be ‘disturbed’ by questions: in other words, bishops were not engage in any consultation before replying to the survey. Predictably, the survey’s conclusion, that there was very little demand for the ancient Mass, was not based on any real evidence. In the meantime, the FIUV and its members associations and friends went to work to show that demand was real, with professional surveys, petitions, and letter-writing campaigns in different parts of the world. Dr Eric de Savanthem, President of the FIUV, was able to leave an entire suitcase of evidence at the Congregation for Divine Worship. The credibility of the ‘Knox Report’ had been effectively destroyed. It was against this background, set out over many pages of Una Voce: a History, that the Indult of 1984, with the title Abhinc Tres Annos, finally appeared. It was a compromise document, and while representing an important step forward for the movement for the restoration of the Traditional Mass, was not what had been hoped for. The following extract is from pages 201-3.

General Remarks detriment. The English Indult imposed nothing in common with those who a double limitation: only ‘for particular called into question the legitimacy and On first examination this two- groups’ and only ‘on special occasions’. the doctrinal rectitude of the reformed headed decree was noticeable by This latter restriction did not appear in Missal. It was not necessary that these the extremely clever redaction of the the latest Indult. On the other hand: the restrictive conditions. These offered English Indult excluded only ‘all regular virtually unlimited possibilities for two criteria be denied—mere calling (i.e. parish) and other community In order to make sure of this aspect the local bureaucracies to nullify, into question sufficed. Masses’, whereas the new instruction the latest Indult required that in each in practice, the Sovereign Pontiff’s excluded all parish churches save in request, the priest and the faithful in conciliatory purpose. the case of exceptional permission whose favour the permission was being Far from re-establishing the Old Rite ‘on by the Ordinary. Again, the English a basis of equality of right and honour’ stipulation unknown to the English with the reformed rite, the decree Indult.asked for should be clearly defined—a MassIndult the required—but changes introduced this was in never1965 did no more than authorise the local Under the English Indult, a separate andenforced—that 1967 should in be celebrating observed. The the new Old bishops to allow its return under what permission had to be obtained for Indult made the use of the Missal of could be termed as ‘house arrest’. In each Mass according to the Old Rite. 1962 unchanged as obligatory. general terms, the Indult did little else In practice, several English bishops than apply to all the Ordinaries of the As regards motivation, the English had gone further, allowing a series of Latin Rite, the English Indult granted Indult was content to stipulate that celebrations, e.g. once a month, in the in 1971 by Pope Paul VI solely to the the old Mass be requested for reasons same church and by the same priest Bishops of England and Wales. There of genuine devotion. Quattuor Abhinc and for the same group. The latest Annos Indult, on the other hand, envisaged both in favour of the FIUV and to its that the bishop could grant to a were, however, some differences— demanded that the participants— priests and faithful—should have Page 46 www.fiuv.org/ FEATURE GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2019 – Edition No. 8

be made to bring all bishops in any 2. Ipse Summus Pontifex: the word ipse

approach. exercising his supreme and sovereign given country in line behind a unified signified that it was the Pope Himself, Lastly, the latest Indult demanded apostolic authority, who wished to make that bishops inform the Congregation this gesture of reconciliation, in the of permissions granted and that after teeth of the liturgical establishment’s one year they send in a report on the tenacious opposition. results. These requirements did not 3. Coetibus ístis obsecundare desiderans (Desiring to come to the assistance of served to indicate that in the view of these groups): the papal decision was curialfigure hardliners in the English the Indult Indult. was merely They motivated by ‘the desire to come to the a provisional measure and that the whole question would be re-examined, assistance of these groups’. Any attempt after one year, in the light of the reports to turn the Holy Father’s desire into an from the bishops. instrument of harassment, of chicanery, or ideological blackmail would thus be Two ‘readings’ of Quattuor totally contrary to the Pope’s primary abhinc Annos motivation. Commentators pointed out that in 4. Sollicitudinís sígnum qua Pater studying the Indult they were struck communis omnes suos prosequitur filios by the scarcely veiled tension between, (A sign of the solicitude with which the on the one hand, the conciliatory and common Father (the Pope) supports peace-making will of the Pope and, on group the right to celebrate regularly the other hand, the divisive obstinacy Quattuor abhinc Annos were thereby according to the old Missal without of the liturgical lobby of which the fullyall his reintegrated, children): the on beneficiaries a footing of any limitation in time or in frequency Congregation for Divine Worship had, for many years, been nothing but the equality, in the solicitous concern of the Pope as the common father of all restrictions were observed. Among Roman bridgehead. Catholics. these,of Masses—provided it was noted that that authorised all other Indeed, the new Insult could be read in Masses had to be celebrated solely for two very different ways; if the accent Dr de Saventhem added two further those who asked for them (thus: behind were to be placed on the explicit and observations: closed doors?), and solely in churches implicit restrictíons, one arrived at 5. The Indult contained not a single or oratories designated for this purpose a discriminatory reading; but if one word of reprobation in respect of those by the bishop who could still impose were guided by the Pope’s own option who, despite all (implicit) Roman and limits as to the days on which they may for peace, the result would be a very (explicit) diocesan prohibitions, had different and conciliatory reading. remained faithful in their liturgical At four places in the Indult the Pope’s take place and in addition fix other— practice to the ancient rite. clause opened the door to all manner of personal option became apparent: harassmentnon-specified— which conditions. still exists today This even last 6. When Cardinal Ratzinger, in his 1. Cum autem problema idem perduret in the post Summorum Pontificum era. letter to Monseigneur Lefebvre of 22 (However, since the same problem The English Indult strongly urged the December 1982, related the Pope’s decision to restore the old Mass bishops of England and Wales to agree so-called results of the Knox survey on a common policy of application persists): with these five words, the ‘independently of your own case’, but this was never adopted. Quattuor had discarded them in any case since that promise was subject to only one abhinc Annos contained no such earlywere officially1981 when disowned. a report The on Popethe essential condition: the celebration of the Mass according to the old Missal their liturgical commissions had no Saventhem’s request in Germany by ‘must take place without any disdain sayappeal—the in the matter. episcopal That conferences was, however, and thescientific highly survey respected carried Demoskopisches out at Dr de (sine ullo contemptu) of the reformed merely an aspiration. It was feared that, Institut Allensbach in October 1980 was Missal promulgated by His Holiness in practice, determined attempts would placed in his hands. Pope Paul VI’.

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