DAVENPORT — To offer the loving presence of Jesus’ mother amid the challenges of 2020, Una Voce Quad Cities has taken out a billboard of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the next six months. The billboard is located just north of the intersection of Brady and Locust streets.
Sixteen years ago, Sept. 25, 2004, Michael Davies passed on to his eternal reward. He was the inspiration and organizer in the founding of Una Voce America, an inspirational author and leader on behalf of our traditional liturgy for the universal Church. Let his memory and writings continue to inspire…
Please remember him in your prayers and may he requiescat in pace.
Officers and Leaders of Una Voce America
Update: The Latin Mass in America Today
A Candid Interview with Byron Smith
He’s the secretary of Una Voce America, which today supports the training of diocesan priests in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, otherwise known as the Latin Mass. In the this wide-ranging, exclusive Regina Magazine interview, Byron Smith tells the astounding story of the many people — some famous, some obscure — who have labored long and hard for more than fifty years to bring this Mass to Catholics in North America.
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A five-minute video of highlights of the Holy Sacrifice held in Southern Oregon on August 4, 2013 with Fr. Adam Kotas celebrating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxztKrVub-c
Video courtesy of Una Voce Southern Oregon
A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 27 at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in Sauk Centre with Rev. John Paul Erickson officiating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Sauk Centre. A Rosary will be prayed at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. with parish prayers held at 6 p.m. Friday evening at the funeral home.
Dennis Lee McCoy was born September 3, 1940 in Mitchell, South Dakota to Ronald and Marie (Sullivan) McCoy. He graduated from Woonsocket High School in 1958 and went on to Mankato State the following year. In 1959, he started working at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the daily newspaper in Sioux Falls, where he met his future bride, Dorothy McDonald. The couple was united in marriage on June 17, 1961 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
In 1961, they moved to Minnesota and operated the Brooten Review. Along with his brothers, Dennis started the Dairyland Peach in 1967. Together, they ran the Dairyland Peach until the early 1980’s. In 1981, he founded the Neumann Press, a classic Catholic book publishing company.
He was a former member of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in Sauk Centre. His faith was very important to him. Dennis founded the Central Minnesota Chapter of Una Voce, a group dedicated to the promotion and support of the traditional Latin Mass, in union with Rome.
Una Voce NH: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf will be offering a Solemn High Mass on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at St. Paul’s in Harvard Square (corner Bow & Arrow Sts., Cambridge, MA). Confessions and the Holy Rosary begin at 4:45pm. Mass for the Feast of St. Mark will start at 5:15pm.
This will be the first Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in Boston since the beginning of the post-Vatican II era.
Seminarians from St. John’s in Boston will be assisting at Mass: John Cassani as Deacon and Pat Fiorillo as Subdeacon.
The Boston Archdiocesan Choir school, the only Catholic boys choir school in the country, will be singing their first Extraordinary Form Mass, complete with sacred polyphony.
Deacon Cassani and Mr. Fiorillo are seminarians of the Archdiocese of Boston. Fr. Zuhlsdorf is a priest of the suburbicarian diocese of Velletri-Segni in Rome.
Following Mass at 7:15pm, Fr. Z, who writes wdtprs.com, one of the most popular Catholic blogs on the web, will deliver a lecture in DiGiovanni Hall.
Latin-English Missals will be provided.
This event is co-sponsored by Una Voce Boston College, the Harvard Latin Mass Society, and Juventutem Boston.
Thanks to Una Voce New Hampshire for this report.
The FSSP has announced their next training opportunity for priests to learn the traditioinal Latin Mass: May 13th to 17th.
The workshop includes:
A comprehensive introduction to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and its liturgical principles
• An overview of the 1962 Roman Missal and liturgical calendar
• A complete explanation and demonstration, with practical hands-on instruction, in the ceremony of Low Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal
• Tips and strategies for gaining proficiency in Latin
• An introduction to Sung Mass and Gregorian Chant
Financial assistance is available for priests in need of support.
More details can be found here.
Please make every effort to encourage priests in your diocese to participate.
To Subscribers of Una Voce America’s publication, NOTA:
We have had a number of challenges this year which have caused several delays in the publication of NOTA for 2012. We are happy to report that the Fall 2012 issue is in printing and will be mailed out soon.
New subscribers can expect to receive the appropriate number of issues beyond this year. We have also moved international (outside of North America) subscriptions to email-only delivery. The cost of surface postage per issue is more than what we receive in an individual annual subscription rate.
Thanks very much for your patience and for your continued support of our apostolate.
Mrs. Joy Lanfranchi reports from Una Voce Orange County, CA:
Mr. Bob Opelle, a longtime champion for the TLM, passed away Thursday, January 5 after a brief illness. He was in Hawaii, where he had been living with his wife for several years. He had served as a leader battling for the TLM many years ago when the fight was still new.
Una Voce America adds:
Mr. Opelle was President of the Traditional Mass Society, headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, for many years. The TMS was successor to the original Una Voce in the United States association that was founded and led by Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand. After von Hildebrand died in 1977, Bob diligently represented the U.S. at meetings of the international Una Voce Federation. The TMS produced a bimonthly newsletter that focused on raising consciousness of Catholics of their liturgical patrimony. Bob led national petition drives to awaken the Curia to the desires, and indeed the rights, of Catholics to have access to the traditional Mass. His final petition effort netted nearly 50,000 names and was placed directly into the hands of Pope John Paul II in 1994 by Bob himself.
I had the honor of meeting Bob while in Huntington, CA for the UVA leadership conference there in 2002. He very graciously took me on a private tour of the beautiful San Juan Capistrano area, culminating in a visit to the Mission there, and made sure I would have a place to sit for Mass on Sunday morning in the crowded historic chapel.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace.
Thank you, friend.
Byron Smith,
Secretary, Una Voce America
