Bishop Athanasius Schneider will be here in the north-west of England this week. Some details include:-
Thursday 25th Feb
For Clergy – Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Seminarians and Religious
FSSP at St. Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS.
6pm – Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament (with Confessions available during this time).
6:45pm – Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
7pm – Spiritual Talk on the theme of The Priest as Minister of the Truth.Â
7:45 – 8pm – Questions and Answers.
8pm – Refreshments
Saturday 27th Feb
For Everyone
ICKSP Shrine Church of Ss Peter, Paul and Philomena, 7 Atherton Steet, Wallasey, New Brighton, CH45 9LT.
12 Noon – Pontifical High Mass with Rt Rev’d Athanasius Schneider.
2pm – Social
3pm – Spiritual Talk on Marriage
Sunday 28th Feb
For Everyone
FSSP at St. Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS.
11.00am – Pontifical Low Mass with Music
12:15pm – Refreshments
1:00pm – Spiritual Talk on the theme of The Christian Faith and Martyrdom.
In 2010, we read Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s book Dominus Est! – It is the Lord! This affirmed and encouraged us with a great deal of historical material on the theme of Eucharistic piety, from key periods in Church history. Drawing from his historical research, Bishop Schneider’s book convincingly argues for a restoration of the traditional reception of Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue.
He concluded that book with the words: ”The Sacred Host is not some thing, but some One. ”He is there,” was the way St. John Mary Vianney synthesized the Eucharistic Mystery. Therefore, we are involved with nothing other than, and no one less great than, the Lord Himself: Dominus est! (It is the Lord!).”
Brief Background
Bishop Athanasius Schneider was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR in the Soviet Union. His parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine who were sent by Stalin to gulags in the Ural mountains after the Second World War. They travelled to the Kirghiz SSR after being released from the camps.
In 1973, shortly after making his First Holy Communion by the hand of Blessed Oleksa Zaryckyj, priest and martyr, he left with his family for Germany. He joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Catholic Religious Order, and was ordained a priest in 1990, earning a doctorate in Patristics, a topic he taught at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda.
On 2nd June 2006, he was ordained Bishop at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. In 2011, he was transferred to the position of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana. He is the Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of Kazakhstan. In Karaganda, formerly the centre of Soviet atheistic persecution, he managed to build a superb landmark Catholic cathedral.
It will be remembered too, that Bishop Schneider was one of the few bishops who made consistently clear and strong public defences of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony during the debacles of the recent Synods of 2014 and 2015. More recently, he has asked for people to pray that the Pope will explicitly consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in order to most faithfully fulfil Our Lady’s request at Fatima.
We highly recommend these opportunites to attend the Traditional Latin Mass and hear His Lordship speak on the hugely relevant themes of Holy Matrimony and Christian Martyrdom.
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