Ad multos annos to the Latin Mass Society!

Bishop Athanasius Schneider visited England in June to take part in the Latin Mass Society’s Faith and Culture Conference and Holy Cross Pilgrimage, both held as part of the Society’s sixtieth anniversary celebrations.

During a six-day visit coinciding with the Octave of Pentecost, His Excellency celebrated Solemn Pontifical Masses at Northampton Cathedral, St William of York in Reading, and the Shrine of St Augustine in Ramsgate. He also presided at Solemn Pontifical Vespers at the London Oratory, a service held in connection with the Faith and Culture Conference at which he spoke on The joy of our Catholic faith. Each liturgical celebration concluded with singing of the Vexilla Regis and Benediction with the relic of the True Cross which is touring England and Wales in the Holy Cross Pilgrimage.

At a dinner held in Bishop Schneider’s honour at the Rembrandt Hotel—the very place where the Latin Mass Society was founded in 1965—he praised the Society’s work in safeguarding the Church’s liturgical tradition and offered his heartfelt wishes for its continued flourishing over the next sixty years.