Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostlic Letter, Summorum Pontificum,  restored the Traditional Latin Mass (which the Holy Father described as the ‘Extraordinary Form’ of the Roman Rite) to a place at the heart of the Catholic Church’s liturgical life.

It gave priests the right to celebrate, without the need to obtain special permission, this older form of the Roman Rite, which comes to us as a heritage from the first millennium, codified by Pope St. Pius V in 1570, and last revised by St. John XXIII in 1962. It also asked pastors and bishops to provide for the celebration of this Mass wherever a group of lay faithful desired it. And it envisioned the coexistence of both the Extraordinary Form and the newer Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the same parishes, as well as the establishment of personal parishes dedicated to the Extraordinary Form.

Founded in 2016, Una Voce Wyoming (UVW) supports the former Holy Father’s stated goal in issuing Summorum Pontificum, that of “coming to an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church.”

Under the primary patronage of Our Lady of Victories, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Bd. Ildefonse Schuster, and Pierre-Jean Smet, UVW aims:

  • To work as a lay movement within the Church for an organic restoration of the sacred liturgy in conformity with its nature, with the Latin tradition, and with pertinent laws, decrees, and documents of the Church;
  • To ensure that the traditional Latin Mass is maintained throughout the Diocese of Cheyenne as a recognized and honored form of Eucharistic celebration;
  • To promote the fitting public celebration of the traditional Divine Office, processions, blessings, sacraments, and sacramentals, all according to the ritual books in force in 1962;
  • To practice and promote Eucharistic adoration for the sanctification of priests and religious and for the raising up of priestly and religious vocations from this diocese;
  • To promote the learning and regular use of Latin, Gregorian chant, and sacred polyphony in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church;
  • 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, especially by distributing written materials of the highest quality and sponsoring training workshops and ongoing education.