FEATURE Winter 2020 – Edition No. 10 The voice of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce Una Voce in Scotland, Ireland, India and Wales FIUV World-Wide Report for the CDF Reception of Communion in the Epidemic News from around the world GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2020 – Edition No. 10 Gregorius Magnus: biannual magazine of the Una Voce Federation “ He who would climb The FIUV’s periodical is dedicated to St Gregory the Great to a lofty height must (Pope Gregory I), who died in 604 AD, a Pope forever go by steps, not leaps.” associated with Gregorian Chant, and the Gregorian rite of St Gregory the Great Mass (the Extraordinary Form). Gregorius Magnus magazine aims to be a showcase for the world-wide ‘Traditional Catholic’ movement: the movement for the restoration to the Church’s altars of the Mass in its traditional forms: Roman, Dominican, Ambrosian, and so on. Please send contributions Gregorius Magnus is published twice a year: in March and in to Joseph Shaw, the October. Secretary of the FIUV The Editor, Joseph Shaw, FIUV Secretary, wants to hear from ([email protected]), for you! While we cannot pay for contributions, we would like to our two annual deadlines: spread the news, good or bad, about the movement for the restoration of the Church’s liturgical traditions, from all over 15th February, the world. for the March issue, 15th September, the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, and we wish to for the October issue. recordThe our production thanks to of them. the magazine is supported financially by Page 2 www.fiuv.org/ GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2020 – Edition No. 10 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 6 20 27 38 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 FIUV World Survey John XXIII in 1962 is maintained The CDF Survey, and the Federation’s Response 5 in the Church as one of the forms The FIUV Report: its creation 7 of liturgical celebration, to obtain ‘In their own words’ freedom of use for all other Roman 10 liturgical books enshrining ‘previous ‘Conclusion and Recommendations’ 16 liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition’ and to From the Magazines safeguard and promote the use of Dominus Vobiscum: St Michael, Defender of the Church Militant, Latin, Gregorian chant and sacred by Prof Michael Fiedrowicz 20 polyphony. Una Voce: After Notre Dame de Paris The Council of the International by Jaques Dhaussy 25 Federation Una Voce Mass of Ages: A Shrine of the Virgin Mother of God President: by Dr Caroline Farey 27 Felipe Alanís Suárez An evening companion, (Una Voce México) by Sebastian Morello 29 Honorary Presidents: The Latin Mass Magazine: Repetition is for Poets, Lovers, Children, • Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce Madmen--and Worshippers, France) Vice Presidents: by Dr Peter Kwasnieski 30 • Patrick Banken (Una Voce France) News from Around the World • Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands) Communion on the Tongue and Epidemic, Secretary: by Joseph Shaw 37 Estonia: Evangelisation through beauty, Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England by Maria Madise 38 and Wales) Rest and Joy for Wise Souls, Treasurer: by Robert Knita 39 Monika Rheinschmitt Bishop John Basil Meeking, Requiesquat in Pace, (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany) by LMS(ED)NZ 40 Council Members: • David Reid (Una Voce Canada) Books Section • Oleg-Michael Martynov Episcopal Opposition to the Ecclesia Dei Commission: (Una Voce Russia) from Leo Darroch’s Una Voce 41 Holy Days of Obligation: Position Paper 13 (Una Voce Polonia) 44 • Jarosław Syrkiewicz • Jaime Alcalde (Una Voce Chile) • Eduardo Colon Editor: Joseph Shaw (Una Voce Puerto Rico) • Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italia) • João Silveira (UV Portugal) Website: http://www.fiuv.org/ Designed by GADS Limited • Prof. Riccardo Turrini Vita For further queries, please email to [email protected] (Una Voce Italia) Cover image: Low Mass in SS Gregory & Augustine’s, Oxford, England www.fiuv.org/ Page 3 FROM THE SECRETARY GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2020 – Edition No. 10 Message from the Secretary by Joseph Shaw, Secretary Welcome to the 10th edition of to learn to celebrate the Traditional conclusions, some reflections on Gregorius Magnus, the biannual Mass, and that numbers attending its creation, and some select, and magazine of the Foederatio Extraordinary Form Masses have held anonymised, quotations from the Internationalis Una Voce. up, or increased, even while number scores of people who contributed to The last issue was published on 8th attending the Ordinary Form have it, from a personal knowledge of the March, which seems like an eternity been under pressure. situation ‘on the ground’. ago. The subsequent six months have The Federation’s time has been Things can look very different from imposed on most of us an experience fully occupied during this period, the perspective of Rome, or of a bishop, unlike anything in living memory, even while hundreds of important than they do from the perspective of the lay people who desire to worship placing enormous strain on the world’s devotional events have been cancelled, God as their predecessors in the Faith economy, on the life of the Church, and by something else, equally unforeseen: did, using the ancient formulas, and on human nature itself. a request by the Congregation for the participating in the same spiritual These new and, I hope, temporary Doctrine of the Faith, to the bishops of ethos. The perspective of the hierarchy conditions have created problems and, the whole world, for information about is certainly a valid one, indeed an perhaps surprisingly, opportunities, the implementation of the Apostolic indispensable one, but the perspective which no one could have foreseen. Letter Summorum Pontificum, of the laity is no less real. Thanks to There has been a fierce attack on the thirteen years after its publication. the work—and it was a lot of work!— ancient practice of receiving Holy Our response to this has been to of the Federation, the lay perspective Communion on the Tongue, although, gather information of our own, from is now available, in some measure, as noted in the Federation’s June our member associations and other to those reflecting on the future of Press Release on the subject, which is contacts, and the result has been a Summorum Pontificum in the Holy See. reproduced below, there seems to be research project such as we have never Spare a prayer for them, and above no scientific justification for the claim before undertaken. When I mailed the all for the Holy Father, Pope Francis: in that it is less hygienic than reception completed report to the Congregation, the words of the traditional prayer for in the hand. On the other hand, there it was 577 pages long, and covered 52 the Pope, ‘that he may desire by Thy have been anecdotal reports, too countries. grace those things which are pleasing many to dismiss, that some priests In this issue of Gregorius Magnus to Thee, and perform them with all his have been making use of periods of I am able to share with readers some strength.’ enforced inactivity during ‘lockdown’ of the fruits of this report: some By Dr Joseph Shaw £3.50 Available to pre-order Experiencing the Extraordinary Form can raise a lot of questions. Why does the priest have his back to the congregation? Why is everything in Latin? How am I meant to take part? This booklet answers these ques-tions so as to help Catholics get a better understanding of the Extraordinary Form and to engage with it in a fruitful way. Catholic Truth Society CTS: The Catholic Publishing Charity God’s truth, beautifully told. 42-46 Harleyford Road, London SE11 5AY. Tel: 020 7640 0042; website: www.ctsbooks.org Email: [email protected] Page 4 www.fiuv.org/ SURVEY GREGORIUS MAGNUS – Winter 2020 – Edition No. 10 The CDF Survey, and the Federation’s Response Joseph Shaw In April this year it was reported that It is worth recalling that in the But if this is the issue, why not the Congregation for the Doctrine of Letter from Pope Benedict XVI which express it positively? Why not ask, for the Faith, exercising the functions of accompanied Summorum Pontificum example, ‘Has the example of the EF the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia in 2007, the Holy Father invited stimulated a greater reverence in the Dei which has been merged with it, bishops’to send to the Holy See an celebration of the OF?’ had circulated a letter to all Latin account of your experiences, three The ‘adoption of elements’ could Rite bishops of the world, through years after this Motu Proprio has however also suggest something less their episcopal conferences, asking taken effect.’ This year’s request positive. As we well know, there are them about the implementation corresponds, therefore, to a ten-year bishops in all parts of the world who of the Apostolic Letter Summorum repeat of that exercise. attempt to forbit their priests from Pontificum. With a deadline of July The CDF’s questions appear, adopting the more traditional options 31st, the letter asked the bishops however, a little unsatisfactory, even within the Ordinary Form. They nine questions, as follows. a little strange. The concerns ask regard the use of Latin, celebration ad 1) What is the situation in your diocese certain tick-box questions: are norms orientem, and the reception of Holy with respect to the extraordinary respected? is the Office celebrated? Communion kneeling and on the form of the Roman rite? etc., without asking any quantitative tongue, all things explicitly allowed 2) If the extraordinary form is questions: How many? How much? Is by the liturgical law of the OF, as practiced there, does it respond to a it growing? Above all, the questions do unacceptable.