Foederatio
Internationalis UNA VOCE (FIUV)
The Vancouver Traditional Mass Society (VTMS) applied for and
was accepted, as a member of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, at the
XII Statutory General Assembly held in Rome on 21/21 Oct. 1995. This means that
as of this date Canada was officially back in the Federation.
1. AIMS AND COMPOSITION OF THE FEDERATION
Article 1
Objects of the Federation
The International Federation UNA VOCE (FIUV), founded in Rome on 12th April
1966, has the following objects:
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to offer a structured link to the various associations which in their
respective territories or areas of activity pursue aims identical with or
similar to those of the UNA VOCE movement as defined below.
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to represent their common interests on an international level and with
the central authorities of the Church
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to serve as a means of communication, exchange and information between
the members of the Federation and to assist in their development
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to provide evaluations and reports on new liturgical legislation and developments
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to promote the formation of associations having the same aims in any country
or territory where such associations do not yet exist.
Article 2
Aims of the UNA VOCE movement
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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
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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 recognised and
honoured in universal liturgical life
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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)
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to safeguard and promote the use of Latin, Gregorian chant and sacred
polyphony in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church
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actively to encourage the establishment of non-territorial parishes and/or
chaplaincies in which only the liturgical books used in 1962 are employed
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to serve the Church by helping the members of the movement and, through
their apostolate, all Christifideles better to understand, and more fruitfully
to participate in, the Catholic liturgy as a sacred action.