Because of the intense efforts to petition the Archdiocese to allow an additional
Tridentine Mass, there have been very few Events this year.
Last March, Father Kenneth Baker S.J. came to give a talk on The Cultural War & Its
Effect on the Church in the U.S. at Café La Grande in Frazer. It is true, as he says, that a
Roman Catholic Jesuit is not an oxymoron!
The second Talk for this year is Dr. Thomas Droleskey’s talk on This Moment in
Pro-Life Electoral History at the No. 10 Downing Street restaurant in Downingtown, PA
on Sept. 24.
A bus trip to the Fraternity of St. Peter is just beginning to enter the planning stages.
That will likely be the next Trip the St. Anthony of Padua Chapter will be sponsoring in
the near future, but there is no planned date yet. Watch for it!
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The St. Anthony of Padua Chapter I.E.D.A.
Becomes an Affiliate of Una Voce
In June of this year, the St. Anthony of Padua Chapter of International Ecclesia Dei
Association voted unanimously to become an affiliate of UNA VOCE.
From Una Voce America News:
Una Voce Latin for with one voice, from the Preface of the Mass is an
international lay movement that began in 1964. Its principal aim is to ensure
that the Roman liturgy, as codified by Pope St. Pius V, is maintained as one
of the forms of Eucharistic celebration which are recognized and honored in
universal liturgical life. It promotes the study and use of Latin, the official
language of the Church, and of Gregorian chant, the official music of the Church.
from the UNA VOCE AMERICAN FEDERATION STATUTES
Article 1
Objects of the Federation
The UNA VOCE AMERICAN FEDERATION (UVAF) has the following objects:
to offer structural unity to various associations in the United States which pursue aims
identical with or similar to those of the UNA VOCE movement as defined below:
to represent their common interests with the International Federation Una Voce, and through
the FIUV, with the central authorities of the Church
to serve as a means of communication, exchange and information between the members of
the Federation and to assist in their development
to provide evaluations and reports on new liturgical legislation and developments
to promote the formation of associations having the same aims in any city, state or region
where such associations do not yet exist.
Article 2
Aims of the UNA VOCE movement
to work as a lay movement within the Church for an organic restoration of the liturgy in
conformity with its nature and with the Latin tradition
to ensure that the traditional Roman Mass as codified in the Missale Romanum edited by
Pope John XXIII is maintained
both in practice and in law as one of the forms of eucharistic celebration which are
recognized and honored in universal liturgical life
to obtain freedom of use for all other Roman liturgical books enshrining previous liturgical
and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition (cf. Ecclesia Dei, n.5)
to safeguard and promote the use of Latin, Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony in the
liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church
actively to encourage the establishment of non-territorial parishes and/or chaplaincies in
which only the liturgical books used in 1962 are employed
to serve the Church by helping the members of the movement and, through their apostolate,
all the Christifideles better to understand, and more fruitfully to participate in, the
Catholic liturgy as a sacred action.
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