International Ecclesia Dei Association
St. Anthony of Padua Chapter
Fall, 1996

PETITION/MASS NEWS
We got it!

As of July 7, we got our additional Tridentine Mass in the Archdiocese, 2 months after the Mass at St. Louis was ended.

Unlike at St. Louis, this Mass is weekly. And it is slightly earlier, 1:15 instead of 2:00.

St. Francis of Assisi in Norristown, where the new old Mass is said, is a beautiful church. It is a big stone church on a lot of open grounds. The inside of the church is full of religious symbols from Genesis to the Apocalypse. The stained glass windows in St. Francis church are incredible.

The Masses are said by Father Ettore (the pastor) or by Father Finn.

Mass Booklets are available that can be borrowed by anyone who does not have a Tridentine missal.


FUTURE PLANS:

1. Getting cassocks for men serving at the Tridentine Mass at St. Francis

2. Finding a choir to sing Gregorian Chant at the Mass there

3. Refreshments downstairs after the Mass

4. Possibly having our monthly meetings also downstairs after the Mass (All are welcome)

Times and Places of the Traditional Mass in the Phila. Area


OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION CHURCH
7056 Tulip Street
Phila., PA

Every Sunday
2:00 P.M.



ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH
Marshall & Buttonwood Sts.
Norristown, PA

Every Sunday
1:15 P.M.



ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH
15th & King Sts.
Wilmington, DE

2nd, 4th, (and 5th) Sundays
10:00 A.M.
Most Holy Days & Holy Thursday
7:30 P.M.

St. Francis Church

St. Francis of Assisi Church, Norristown



EVENTS NEWS:

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!

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.

The St. Anthony of Padua Chapter I.E.D.A. is open to all those in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who support the promotion of the Traditional Latin Mass, without resorting to schism to do it. Meetings are usually on the second Sunday of each month.
For more information, please call (610) 644-8319

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