FIUV Ordo 2026 available now!

The Federation's own Ordo, giving the Mass to be said every day of the year according to the Universal Calendar (1962), is now available as a pdf download here.

Hard copies are now available to buy, from the LMS online shop.

The FIUV took up the publication of this Ordo when the PCED, which used to do it, ceased to exist. It is modelled on the old PCED Ordos.

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General Assembly 2025 and a new Council

The Federation's General Assembly takes place every two years and (re)elects the President and Council, following which the Council chooses the Secretary and Treasurer and can co-opt three additional Councilors.

We had a well-attended General Assembly this year, and are delighted to announce the following, to hold office from now until the General Assembly of 2027.

President: Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England and Wales)

President d’Honneur: Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce France)

Patrick Banken (Una Voce France)

Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands)

Vice President and Treasurer: Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany)

Secretary: Andris Amolins (Una Voce Latvia)

Councillors:

Jaime Alcalde (Magnificat, UV Chile)

David Reid (Una Voce Canada)

Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italy)

Uchenna Okezie (Una Voce Nigeria)

Donal Hanley (Una Voce Taiwan)

Rubén Peretó Rivas (Una Voce Argentina)

The following were invited to join Council meetings as non-voting consultants:

Consultants:

Pepijn Deutekom (Una Voce Netherlands)

Felipe Suarez Alanis (UV Mexico)

Catherine Jeulin (Una Voce France)

Membership of past Councils is recorded here.

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Rodolfo Vargas Rubio: Requiescat in pace

As Secretary in the FIUV General Assembly 2009

From Accion Liturgica blog (machine translation):

We have the sad news of the death of the historian Rodolfo Vargas Rubio. Many today will not know him but he was a great defender of the traditional Liturgy when in Spain it was a wasteland, with hardly any other place of celebration than the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, on Laforja Street, in Barcelona. Where many of us were able to attend our first Tridentine Masses.

Rodolfo Vargas was a promoter of the Roma Aeterna Association, a pioneer in the defense of the Traditional Roman Rite, and a member of the Una Voce Association [editor's note: including as Secretary]. A great Latinist and connoisseur of the liturgy, he was also highly appreciated for his sympathy and generosity.

May Our Lady and Venerable Pope Pius XII, for whom Vargas felt great devotion, intercede before God Our Lord for his eternal rest.

Requiescat in Pace

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Cardinal Burke to celebrate the TLM in St Peter's: Press Release

Press Release

The organisers of the annual Ad Petri Sedem ‘Summorum Pontificum’ Pilgrimage to Rome have announced that Raymond, Cardinal Burke, will celebrate the keynote Traditional Latin Mass of their pilgrimage at the Altar of the Throne in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, at 3pm on Saturday 25th October.

Joseph Shaw, President of the FIUV, welcomed the news. “We are grateful to Pope Leo for his pastoral response to the request for a Traditional Mass in St Peter’s. This celebration symbolises the unity with the Holy Father so desired by Catholics attached to the ancient rite of Mass.”

Background

This is the first concrete indication of the attitude of Pope Leo XIV to the Traditional Mass, the Vetus Ordo or 1962 Missal. In the latter years of Pope Francis, the official view was that this form of the Mass, while not completely prohibited, should not be ‘promoted’ or given prominence, with high-profile celebrants in important churches.

It represents a major breakthrough for the pilgrimage, which for the last two years has been denied permission to have a Mass in St Peter’s, following Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Mass in his Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes in 2021.

Up to 2022 (including the pilgrimage immediately after the publication of Traditionis Custodes) Mass in the traditional form had been celebrated for a growing  number of pilgrims by many distinguished celebrants, including Cardinal Burke himself in 2014. In 2023 and 2024, the pilgrimage visited St Peter’s for other prayers and devotions, but not Mass.

The Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage has in recent years has grown to more than 1,000 pilgrims, drawn from all over the world.

End

The FIUV (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, or Una Voce International) is the federation of lay-led Una Voce or Latin Mass around the world, and is a member of the Coetus Summorum Pontificum which organises the Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage.

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Gregorius Magnus 19, Summer 2025

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In this issue we celebrate

60 years of the FIUV;

we consider the attitude to the

TLM of the Franciscan Pontificate;

plus news, comment, and features from around the world.

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Statement on the election of Pope Leo XIV

Press Release of Una Voce International (FIUV) on the election of Pope Leo XIV

Una Voce International (Foederation Internationalis Una Voce) would like to welcome Pope Leo XIV and assure him of the prayer of our member associations, who represent Catholics attached to the Traditional Mass all over the world.

Pope Leo has the chance to make a new start with many matters in the Church, and if the Traditional Mass does not appear to him the most pressing one, we commend to him a policy of peaceful co-existence, in which our supporters in every continent may be encouraged to make the greatest possible contribution to the life of the Church, united to the Holy Father in charity and obedience.

We urge all our supporters and friends to pray for Pope Leo. The following prayer, from the ancient Roman Missal, is the Collect from the Votive Mass ‘On the day of the Coronation of a Pope’, and is suitable for a newly elected Pope.

Deus, ómnium fidélium pastor et rector, fámulum tuum Leonem, quem pastórem Ecclésiæ tuæ præésse voluísti, propítius réspice: da ei, quǽsumus, verbo et exémplo, quibus præest, profícere; ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi crédito, pervéniat sempitérnam. Per Dominum nostrum.

O God the Pastor and Ruler of all the faithful, look favourably on Thy servant Leo whom Thou hast been pleased to appoint as shepherd of Thy Church: grant to him, we beseech Thee, that by word and example he may edify those over whom he is placed, so that, with the flock entrusted to him, he may attain unto life everlasting.

Contact: 

Joseph Shaw president@fiuv.org

Andris Amolins secretary@fiuv.org

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