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Bishop Athanasius Schneider: My personal way to traditional liturgy

Bishop Athanasius Schneider remembers in an interview (rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/…/bishop-schneide…) with with Piotr Falkowski for a Polish daily. his way to the Old Latin Mass. “My way to the …More
Bishop Athanasius Schneider remembers in an interview (rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/…/bishop-schneide…) with with Piotr Falkowski for a Polish daily. his way to the Old Latin Mass.
“My way to the traditional liturgy came in an organic manner, beginning with the education in the Catholic faith through my mother and my grandmothers during the persecution of the Church when I lived in the Soviet-Union. I was also educated in the faith by a holy priest, Father Janis Pawlowski, a Capuchin Priest from Latvia, who suffered also imprisonment during the persecution and was later my parish priest in Estonia, in Tartu.
In that time as a child and an adolescent, I was taught that all things, which are connected with the Holy Eucharist, have to be in an eminent way sacred and sublime. Father Pawlowski celebrated the Holy Mass always turning his face to the tabernacle.
When in 1973 my family emigrated to West Germany, we experienced a profound shock and deep sorrow, observing the new style of celebrating …More