Bishop Schneider leads three other bishops at the CIC Conference in Pennsylvania, USA in making reparation for Vatican desecration. Watch the full CIC Conference HERE. The four bishops:
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of the diocese of Astana, Kazakhstan.
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts, auxiliary of the Diocese of Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, USA.
Bishop Marian Eleganti, emeritus auxiliary of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland.
Photo credit: Michael Haynes
Act of Reparation for the Desecration of the Jubilee Year and St Peter’s Basilica by “LGBTQ+” Activists
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Mercifully look upon us poor sinners, who offer to Your Divine Majesty this act of reparation for the abomination perpetrated in the Eternal City, during this Jubilee Year, by those who, “turning the grace of our Lord God into sensuality” (Jude 4), used — alas, with the permission of the authorities of the Holy See — the Church of the Gesù, the Holy Door and St. Peter’s Basilica as a platform to proudly advocate for the legitimization of sodomy, fornication and other sins against the Sixth Commandment of Your Holy Law. They dared, moreover, to display “the appearance of godliness, yet denying its power” (2 Tim. 3:5).
Sorrowfully, we cry out to You with the words of the psalm: “O Lord, remember Your congregation, which You have possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of Your inheritance which You have redeemed: Mount Sion in which You have dwelt. Lift up our hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. And they that hate You have made their boasts, in the midst of Your solemnity. They have set up their ensigns as signs. They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name on the earth. How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke Your name for ever? Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise Your name” (Ps. 73:2-4.7.10.21).
Though poor sinners, we offer, in union with the acts of atonement of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of all the Saints and of all pious faithful on earth, the satisfaction You once made to Your Eternal Father on the Cross, and which You continue to renew daily on our altars, in reparation and atonement:
- For those who abused the Jubilee Year, the Church of the Gesù, the Holy Door, and St. Peter’s Basilica, by turning them into a platform for advocating the legitimization of sodomy, fornication, and other sins against the Sixth Commandment of Your Holy Law! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For the complicity of the authorities of the Holy See in such an abomination! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For ideological lobby groups, within and outside the Church, who advocate the legitimization of sodomy, fornication, and other sins against the Sixth Commandment of Your Holy Law! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For the brazen call by cardinals, bishops, priests, and laity to change the immutable teaching of the Catholic Church, expressed in the Catechism, so as to legitimize sodomy, fornication, and other sins against the Sixth Commandment of Your Holy Law! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For members of the clergy who, abusing their office and perverting the true aim of pastoral care, support the legitimization of sodomy, fornication, and other sins against the Sixth Commandment of Your Holy Law! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For members of the clergy who, under the pretext of pastoral accompaniment, deny people the perennial truth of Your Holy Commandments and avoid calling those who err to salutary penance, confirming them instead in error and vice, and exposing them to the danger of eternal damnation! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For members of the clergy who encourage those openly living the “LGBTQ+” lifestyle to receive Holy Communion, thereby leading them to eat and drink judgment upon themselves (cf. 1 Cor. 11:29).
- For all those who, proud and unrepentant, offend You by a lifestyle of sodomy and fornication! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For all those who denigrate the goodness and beauty of the creation of marriage, and of the two sexes—male and female—by advocating the moral and legal legitimization of same-sex unions and so-called same-sex marriage! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For all those who blaspheme You by asserting that You created same-sex attraction! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
- For members of the clergy who blaspheme Your Holy Name, Your Commandments, and the divinely instituted sacrament of marriage by imparting blessings to same-sex couples and other couples in extramarital unions! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
O Lord, we also beg You mercifully to grant Your light and the grace of conversion to our poor brothers and sisters who, blinded by error and enslaved by vice, endeavour to impose their own will on Your Holy Will, by impudently demanding that the Church change the immutable and divinely revealed truths of Your Commandments. Grant, we beseech You, that they be led back to the embrace of Your Holy Will.
O Lord, pour out Your Spirit of truth and compunction upon the Shepherds and sheep of Your pasture, so that they might fear You, walk in all Your ways and love You (cf. Deut. 10:12). May the world come to grasp, in the words and deeds of Your Church, Your liberating truth: “How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal, because it is known both with God and with men” (Wis. 4:1).
O Lord, look mercifully upon Your afflicted Church, which has been publicly humiliated through the abuse of the Jubilee Year, the Holy Door, and St. Peter’s Basilica. Graciously receive this our act of reparation, and look upon the tears of the Immaculate and Sorrowful Virgin Mary, the blood of innumerable martyrs, especially those martyred for chastity, and upon the sufferings, sighs, prayers, and acts of loving reparation of so many Catholic souls. O Lord, make Your Church shine again, Catholic, free, and chaste.
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us! Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us! Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us! Amen.
Bishop Athanasius (Anton) Schneider is the author of two books: Dominus Est – It is the Lord!, and Propter Sanctam Ecclesiam Suam (not yet available in English.)
He was born of German parents on 7 April 1961 in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR in the Soviet Union, where his family received the pastoral care of Fr. Oleksa Zaryckyj, later to become a beatified martyr for the faith. Bishop Schneider himself received his first holy communion in secret, since the practice of the faith was outlawed under the communist regime. In 1973, he left with his family for Germany.
He later joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Catholic religious order, where he was given the religious name Athanasius. He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1990. In 1997, he received a doctorate in patrology at the Augustinianum in Rome, and in 1999, he became a professor of Patristics at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda.
In June 2006, he was consecrated Bishop at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Vatican. He was then assigned to the position of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana. He is the General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of Kazakhstan and Titular Bishop of Celerina, Switzerland.